The career of the legendary British battlecruiser is vividly recounted from its commissioning to its tragic end in this naval history.The HMS Hood was the glory of the Royal Navy. In The End of Glory, historian Bruce Taylor combines in-depth research and thrilling narrative to tell its story. For twenty years Hood symbolized the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire. Yet in 1941, it was destroyed in seconds by the batt...

" A wonderfully illustrated biography" of one of history's greatest warships whose sinking "signaled the end of the surety that Britannia ruled the waves" ( War History Online).Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the HMS Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and color illustrations, is the story of her ...

With an introduction by New York Times best-selling author Brian Herbert.Bruce Taylor's father wanted to be a writer but couldn't handle the rejection. How much support could he give to his son, Bruce, who wanted to be a writer? How do you identify with someone -- a father for example -- who doesn't want you to identify with them? This is the story of Bruce Taylor's struggles to own his power and identity -- as a writer."An extraordinary work of discovery."--Brian He...

1000 stories written? Close to a third of those published? Yes. It's what happens when talent, joy and enthusiasm all combine: how can you not write? Paint? Be creative? In this new collection, Bruce Taylor (AKA _Mr. Magic Realism_), shows us the happy marriage he has enjoyed with his creativity as he sought to write what he loved to read, reading what he sought to write. Though many of these stories are longer than usual, they range from the more traditional ("The Gift Beyond Gifts") to t...

How does Kafka's Uncle and Kafka's Uncle: The Unfortunate Sequel begin? Here, for the first time, the terrible secret is revealed! In the not too distant future, we find Brusjavik Taylorskavich, state-sanctioned, self-proclaimed, "whore-writer" for the Corporate States of America, at a table, waiting to order a meal at the Bay Cafe', overlooking the wonderfully flooded streets of Seattle as a result of the melting of the useless polar caps. As he contemplates his writer-celebrity status an...

For more than 40 years, fantasist Bruce Taylor has been entertaining readers all over the world with his masterful blend of surrealism and magic realism. Now these stories—published in such respected venues as New Dimensions, Twilight Zone, and Pulphouse—have been reprinted in a special Twentieth Anniversary Edition of The Final Trick of Funnyman and Other Stories. From the vaguely sinister adventures of Mr. M. to the "Bradburyesque" boyhood exploits of Edward, Taylor's tales showcase an i...

We all have our Mountains of the Night.Writer Bruce Taylor hikes though a treacherous landscape of chronic illness and family dysfunction--his own Mountains of the Night.Persevering against great odds, he nonetheless summits those peaks and to his astonishment, discovers a landscape of forgiveness, courage and joy.

This collection of previously unpublished stories, from the mid-eighties through the nineties and including recent work, presents examples of the thousand-plus stories written during that time. Since Bruce had a job (working as a therapist on an in-patient psychiatric unit which he found fascinating), he was energized after working to write whatever he felt like writing, sometimes for five to six hours straight while not having to worry about paying the electric bill. The result was work t...

The stories in this collection, all unpublished until now, are a testament to the impact of great writing. From the strange and surreal/magic realist writings of Kafka to the brilliant joy of Bradbury's imagination unleashed, writer Bruce Taylor learned well from these masters of expression. And with time, began to blend these seeming dissonant voices into his own work, at once strange and different, yet beautiful and haunting. His only hope is that with these stories, he has paid due resp...

A surrealistic/magic realist nightmare that lasts eight hours and involves this person "you" and the dream incarnations of his cat, Alleymanderous, by turns tormentor but ultimately guru, taking you on a painful but necessary dreamride to the midnight of your soul.Included also are 31 stories, other "magical realities" from the writer whom Elton Elliott, former editor of The Science Fiction Review, has called " . . . the transformational figure for science fiction.""A write...

These stories from "Mr. Magical Realism" represent a wide variety of style and content, but most of them are explorations of self-expression that fit the definition of surrealism, and later, magic realism and then a blending of magic realist writing techniques and perspective with the three main branches of Imaginative Literature, science fiction, horror and fantasy. That being said, not all these stories in this collection are of magic realist persuasion; several are science fiction, or s...

For over forty years, Bruce Taylor has been writing stories that defy categorization. Since Bruce had a job working on an in-patient, locked psychiatric floor, he did not have to be concerned about writing to make a living. Indeed how he _made_ his living gave him a wealth of fascinating psychological theory and concepts that literally fed his creativity. Writing for the sheer joy and exuberance of creative expression, his work explored, examined, exhumed the proverbial "human condition" i...