Beelzebub's library

Monsters Throughout history, we have had monsters. First, they were demons and spirits that came in the dark and plagued you with nightmares and brought bad luck to your harvest. Those spirits turned into gods, which people worshiped because they did not understand and considered extremely powerful. With each spreading culture, monsters popped up. Why? Because they are an expression of fear. Fear for the future. Fear of the past. Fear of death, Fear of pain, and one of the most relevant in this day and age, the fear of losing one’s individuality. We will always have these fears, even if we create a paradise, anxiety will remain a consistent reminder of our own humanity. We are mere bodies, easily destroyed by a number of unavoidable circumstances. We face fear every day. As long as we have fear we will need monsters. To assign what fear to what monster would be rather pointless as each person sees something different. For a monster is a piece of art. The majority of monste...

Novel: Sci-Fi.  This review contains spoilers.  Our story starts off innocently enough, with an optimistic man named Joseph Swartz in the late forties strolling down a Chicago street. His fate is quite a tragic one, as moments later he steps over a doll and gets sent tens of thousands of years into the future. Interestingly enough, the book doesn’t really dwell on the fact that he loses his wife and three children in this manner. Later on, he laments over it, but it can’t have been mentioned more than one or twice. After much deliberation, he begins to understand this new world. As it turns out, a great catastrophe since his day has not only caused Earth to become infertile but also for earthlings to be treated as lesser humans.  The Galactic Empire treats earthlings as less-than-humans and they don’t allow them to leave the planet Ior ship goods and products of the planet) because they believe that everyone born of earth carries toxic radiation....