Long ago, Mike Bogue suffered a sledgehammer blow to the cranium and survived, a testament—his friends say—to his hard head.
A graduate of Jerry Jenkins’ “Your Novel Blueprint” course, Mike wrote the well-received McFarland nonfiction book Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema: 1951-1967. As this book attests, Mike has a zeal for the post-apocalyptic.
Fiction-wise, this passion broadens into science fiction, a perfect genre to explore timeless themes and timely science. Mike’s SF short stories have appeared in G-FAN, Scary Monsters Magazine, Daikaiju! 3, and Don’t Go In the Water.
In addition, Winged Publications has published A Perfect Flock, Mike’s first Christian science fiction novel. The book probes free will in its tale of technology-enhanced Christians who seem perfect in every way—but are they?
Single and retired, Mike lives with his cat Bendi in Western Arkansas.
As for Mike’s head, it remains impervious to cranial damage, a good thing since he needs it to write the multitude of science fiction projects competing for his attention.
Tuck Jameson vows to stop his brother Clay from joining The Body, a religious cult that uses nanotechnology to turn its members into Christian automatons.
But Clay disappears—and in three days, his nanotechnology conversion will be complete. Desperate to find Clay, Tuck enlists the aid of former high school mentor Adam Shimura, now a black ops agent with potentially mixed motives.
Brother Moody, the cult’s Chief Elder, mobilizes his acolytes against Tuck. Worse, a shocking prophecy ups the ante, making Tuck realize the stakes involve not only him and Clay, but all of America—and perhaps, the world.