Bruce Taylor

Resurrection Engines is an anthology of Steampunk and Alternate Timeline 'retellings' and 'reimagining's' of classic fiction tales (Edgar Allen Poe, Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology, Moby Dick, Charles Dickens, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, etc) from some of today's finest Steampunk writers.

Touching Silence explores the presence of stillness as both the source of all form and the space in which all form dissolves. Drawing from Zen, Reiki Ryōhō, and reflections on physics and cosmology, it opens a path toward understanding how energy, matter, and awareness shape the unfolding of life itself. At its essence, this book invites the reader to return to the immediacy of being, to the subtle rhythm of breath and sensation before thought divides experience. Within this awareness, healing begins to reveal itself not through belief or method, but through recognition: the same creative energy that forms the stars flows through the human body and mind. Rooted in years of direct study and practice in Japan, Touching Silence draws from the mountain temples and trails of Mt. Hiei and Mt. Kurama, the historical birthplaces of Zen and Reiki Ryōhō. These traditions continue to inform and deepen the author's own meditative path, which has unfolded across decades and more than ten thousand hours of devoted practice. From sitting in practice with the monks on Mt. Hiei to walking the paths of Kurama and the surrounding mountains, the work reflects a life immersed in silence, energy, and the contemplative inquiry that unites them, yet finds its deepest truth in the solitude of personal practice where insight ripens quietly over time. Both Zen and Reiki Ryōhō reveal that healing is not separate from realization. One moves through the body and breath, the other through stillness and direct awareness, yet both point toward the same unbroken reality, the recognition that life's vitality and its quiet emptiness arise together as a single expression of consciousness. Bridging ancient insight with modern understanding, the book also reflects on parallels between spiritual practice and cosmology: the birth of the universe, the vibration of particles at the quantum level, and the way time and space arise within awareness. Through this union of science and spirit, it becomes clear that healing is not a separate act, but the natural intelligence of life returning to balance. Grounded, contemplative, and deeply experiential, Touching Silence offers a way of seeing in which suffering loosens, energy flows freely, and the boundaries between self and cosmos dissolve into quiet understanding. Touch the silence within, and what was forgotten may reveal it was there all along.

Engineers have applied science to land people on the moon, design the cars we drive, and cram the power of a 20th-century supercomputer into the phones we carry. But what can happen when engineering’s systemic problem-solving skills are applied to improving the sustainability of business?This book stands on the shoulders of sustainability engineering insights to supplement business, engineering, and environmental curricula with tools necessary to effectively and efficiently improve the sustainability of organizations. Cutting through the clutter of terminology and approaches, this book uses case studies to outline a proven path to profitably secure “net zero” for facilities and their supply chains. And rather than stopping at the uninspiring target of “doing no harm,” it further empowers businesses and other organizations to create additional economic, environmental, and social benefits.This book:Offers numerous case studies from the Space Shuttle through the world’s first carbon neutral major food company to appropriate technology for safe water in developing countries to illustrate how to reduce environmental footprints while increasing profit margin and business valueExplores redemptive entrepreneurship through the lens of the author’s founding of an award-winning engineering firmPresents strategies to strengthen the curricula of engineering, business, accounting, and procurement programs by uncovering significant sources of untapped value in conventional teaching

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" in a broad array of styles until finally realizing what he was doing was not only writing in a style later known as Magic Realism but blending it with Science Fiction and discovering how well the two modes of expression complemented each other. These stories, coming from a particular creative time also reflect the themes of the nature of love, how we become the person we were meant to be, and always the journey into the midnight-of the soul."Remarkable clarity and insight."-Brian Herbert, co-author, the Dune series."A very gifted, short fiction writer."-Jeff VanderMeer, author, The Southern Reach Trilogy"As rich and poetic as Bradbury at his finest."-William F. Nolan, author, Logan's Run"The Transformational figure for science fiction."-Elton Elliott, former editor of Science Fiction Review

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With these stories, written and published from 2010 on, writer Bruce Taylor, also known as "Mr. Magic Realism," takes you on nineteen strange and different journeys of imagination. From relatively straight-forward science fiction ("Darwin's Revenge") to the unclassifiable and surrealistic horror of "Dream Beast II"-from totally wacky humor to wonderful blendings of Magic Realism and Science Fiction, nineteen stories to take you to Elsewhere, Elsewhen. And when you return? Perhaps you come back with a smile, a different view of the world or perhaps a deeper appreciation of just how strange and wonderful the universe truly is."A writer of imagination and insight."-Terry Brooks, author of The Sword of Shannara"The transformational figure for science fiction."-Elton Elliott, former editor of The Science Fiction Review"A very gifted short story fiction writer."-Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation"As rich and poetic as Bradbury at his finest."-William F. Nolan, author of Logan's Run

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 respect and homage to the two writers who have influenced him the most: Franz Kafka and-Ray Bradbury.

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 writer of imagination and insight"-Terry Brooks

This book presents an alternative view of healing that combines esoteric knowledge of the human experience with ancient healing wisdom to provide a way for everyone to become their own self-healer.The book describes a model of the healing arts in which physical and mental ailments are seen as messengers to be heard rather than things to be cured. Essentially, your ailments are indicators that you have barriers inside yourself to your being able to experience life from the essence of who you really are. The process of becoming a self-healer involves learning how to hear those messages and then removing the underlying barriers. In summary, disease arises in a person when there are blockages in their energy body. Those blockages are created by their barriers to Love (fears, beliefs, desires, and emotional traumas). The book describes a way to find and remove those barriers to Love so that the energetic blockages are released and the body can then heal itself.Others can guide you through this healing process but only you can actually remove the barriers inside you. You have to become your own self-healer.

Another excellent exploration of What It's All About, by Mr. Magical Realism. With footnotes.*So, what's it all about, this book that's about What It's All About? It's about Edward, and Infinity, and well, as noted in footnote 66, The term "growing up" seems to have the connotation of some sort of existence that has the sense of a final arrival point. God, how many times is that question asked in school: "What are you going to be when you grow up?" As though somehow what you are right then isn't valid. To answer such a question with a statement like, "I'm going to be what I am now: a human being," would bring from people very curious, if not frightened looks. Only when one's identity is linked to a role does one have "validity" or self-worth. Edward was constantly either baffled or amused by this question of what one was going to be when one grew up. It's like wondering what a crow, or dog, or willow tree is going to be when they "grow up." It's as though we are asked to be anything else other than what we are--as if what we are already, simply is not good enough. So that, "growing up" occurs at the point when you have finally become something other than what you really are. Strange, strange indeed. __________*Lots of footnotes.****I mean, lots of footnotes.******Even footnotes to footnotes. And hyperlinks.

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 and his next award-winning projects, he meets his waiter, a nervous lad by the name of-Anslenot.Also included in this book is the novella, 13 MILES TO PARADISE. The Garnett family, on their way to Paradise, a world famous picnic-hiking area at Mt. Rainier in Washington State--well, all was going along just fine until the family got stuck behind a Winnebago trailer. Though no one is saying much to each other, in their heads, they are saying a LOT. Magic realism anybody? Originally published in an anthology titled ALEMBICAL, edited by Lawrence M. Schoen and Arthur Dorrance with work by Jay Lake, James Van Pelt and Ray Vuckcevich, the collection received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.Completing the book are twenty other stories, some of which have been previously published."Bruce Taylor has earned the title of 'Mr. Magic Realism' by dint of producing works that are fascinating, insightful, and downright fun to read. His fiction will make you think . . . And smile."-Ben Bova"a very gifted short fiction writer"-Jeff VanderMeer"Writes like Bradbury at his finest"-William F. Nolan"(Bruce) is the transformational figure for science fiction"-Elton Elliott, former editor of the Science Fiction Review"A writer of imagination and insight, Bruce Taylor delivers a collection of stories that amazes and intrigues."-Terry Brooks

You thought Kafka's Uncle ended with Anslenot climbing into the coal bucket to ascend into the regions beyond the ice? You really thought the story ended there? Oh, no- Anslenot is back and the story continues in the regions beyond the ice which turn out, alas, to be bleak and cold indeed . . . and with him once more, his friend/confidant/tormentor, the tarantula. Together, they explore these frozen lands and encounter denizens such as the Media Bird, a praying mantis by the name, of course, of Jonny Mantis, the Little White-Haired Girl, the Blizzard Beast among many others. But ultimately, they discover the solace-of Kafka. Also included is the story, Dusk's Mirror and how, through the eyes of children, we come to discover, once again, just how magical reality truly is. And 23 short stories, some previously published, round out this collection. "A very gifted short story writer."-Jeff VanderMeer "Bruce Taylor has earned the title of "Mr. Magic Realism" by dint of producing works that are fascinating, insightful, and downright fun to read. His fiction will make you think . . . And smile."-Ben Bova "The transformational figure for science fiction."-Elton Elliott, former editor, "The Science Fiction Review" "As rich and poetic as Bradbury at his best."-William F. Nolan, author of Logan's Run "a very gifted short fiction writer" -Jeff VanderMeer "A writer of imagination and insight, Bruce Taylor delivers a collection of stories that amazes and intrigues." -Terry Brooks

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 Herbert, New York Times best-selling author

An alternate universe? A different dimension? The "id" of America? Meet Anslenot and his tormentor/confident, a giant tarantula, as they wander through a blasted, desecrated landscape of broken ideals and shattered hopes. In this place, nothing is right. The Militant Lambs fight with the Opposition and no one knows whose side who is on. Add to that Martians... Venusians... Elvis.... To top it off, Anslenot is hounded by his dysfunctional family and upbringing...and legendary surrealist Franz Kafka makes Anslenot his honorary uncle. Nightmarish, strange, bizarre--the way things are to be? Or the way things--really are?Also included in this collection is the novella The Humphrey Bogart Blues, a sympathetic look at Marilyn Monroe, who had she just been able to hook up with the Martians......and twenty-eight additional stories, previously published as well as some unpublished, testify to the breadth and scope of writing of, as one editor has stated, one of the top writers of Magic Realism.Praise for KAFKA'S UNCLE"It's important to realize that Bruce's stories are not strange; the world is, and he's separated himself from it in order to show us new realities, with remarkable clarity and insight. I am one of his admirers, and I am not alone.-Brian Herbert, New York Times best-selling author, and co-author with Kevin J. Anderson of the Dune series"Bruce Taylor's writing is always unexpected, even extraordinary. He certainly earns his title of 'Mr. Magic Realism.'"-Kevin J. Anderson, author of Scattered Suns, Dune novels, and other New York Times best-sellersBruce Taylor has earned the title of "Mr. Magic Realism" by dint of producing works that are fascinating, insightful, and downright fun to read. His fiction will make you think...and smile.-Ben Bova