About

Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha is the website for me:  author Kent Wayne.  The site name comes from the subject material in my early pieces of writing.

Three works are featured.  The first one is a series called Echo, a science fiction dystopia where a disillusioned warrior pushes his craft to its bloody limits, then attempts to break through into a realm of world-bending mastery.  I’ve finished this four-volume series, and I’ve also posted some free sample chapters, click here to start reading.

To buy Echo Volume 1:  Approaching Shatter on Amazon click here:  Buy Echo

The second book is a high school adventure, full of profanity, psychedelics, and interdimensional shenanigans.  Here’s the link for the book on Amazon:  Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl.   Sample chapters are available here:  Sample Chapters for Kor’Thank:  Barbarian Valley Girl

I’m working on a YA fantasy called the Unbound Realm, a three-volume series.  I’ve finished books one and two, and I’m working on the third.  Here’s a link to volume 1:  A Door into Evermoor  and here’s a link to volume 2:  Weapons of Old  Here are some sample chapters:  Sample Chapters for the Unbound Realm.

Thanks for your interest!  If you’re a writer, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing!  Best way to reach me is by DMing me on Facebook.  However, I have noticed some DMs getting filtered out by Facebook messenger, so if I don’t respond, just comment on my wall.  I’ll take it down, DM you, and address your concerns.  Sorry to all those who never got a response; I wasn’t trying to be rude!  🙂

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  1. Hi!
    I want to say ‘thank you, very …much’. It’s a pleasure for me because I feel like being ‘heard’ by someone when I saw that my post had been visited (especially liked). I hope your work on writing is well, and you are also in good condition, healthy, and happy ^^

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  5. Thanks for Liking my recent post about mystery writer recommendations. Do we have any current authors in common whom we both enjoy? How about your favorite main characters?

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      • Not familiar with Robin Hobb. Will have to check him/her out. I certainly am familiar with King. I even wrote him a fan letter once and received a reply. It was just after Maine had won the NCAA collegiate hockey championship. I congratulated him knowing he was a big Black Bear fan. I have read a number of the lesser known King novels. My favorite is one called the Langoliers. It was rather poorly made into a full length movie. But the book has an interesting premise. If you haven’t read it, you might want to check it out.

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      • I love the Langoliers! If I remember correctly, it was a long short story (is that an oxymoron?) in a collection of four stories. Yeah, I remember the movie. Wasn’t great, but that’s usually the case with his books-turned-movies, except for some home runs like Shawshank. Robin Hobb wrote the Assassin’s Apprentice, which made a big impression on me as a kid. The sequel, Royal Assassin, is even better, but the third falls a little short. Her other books are all right.

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      • I remember a doctor from St. Elsewhere, David Morse, played the pilot and Bronson Pinchot played a really looney passenger whose character was pretty much created specifically for the movie. You are correct. The Langoliers was part of a 4 part, “short” story anthology entitled “Four Past Midnight”.

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      • I remember now! I also remember thinking it was one of the few times Stephen King used an established badass (the sas guy) as a hero. Usually, he spends a lot of time with everyday folks that become extraordinary in extraordinary circumstances (aside from the Gunslinger, of course)

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  6. Since Sci-Fi seems to be a big interest for you, did you happen to see that my favorite TV series of all time is “Fringe”? After a slow start in their first year, trying to figure out if they were an X-Files wanna be, the final four seasons were just great. My wife and I love Anna Torv. We also believe that the character of Walter is one of the great ones in TV. John Noble did wonderful work.

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  10. Thanks for liking my short story Abagail’s Zoo. Your site looks like what I aspire to build in the future. Your stories look unique and I will definitely be checking them out. I shared your site.

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  13. It took me forever to figure out where/how to leave a comment and engage. I immediately got sidetracked. I just wanted to reach out and say Thank You for the support. Simple as it may be….it means the world!

    Thank You!

    -jerale-

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  16. You came to my site and gave the first like to my poetry, it made my day. I finally got the time to sit down and look at your stuff and love what I see. You are queued up for my next book to read. I can’t wait to read this book. Have a great day.

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  17. Hi! Was gonna send you a message on Facebook but then I remembered I domt use Facebook

    Anyways
    Thank you for liking my posts as few as they are, It keeps me motivated to actually start writing and not just thinking about the world

    🙂

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    • I’m happy to support! Thinking about the world can definitely be a time-trap, but I wouldn’t beat myself up if it happens–sometimes we writers need to let our brains marinate a bit before cooking up a story

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  18. Hey Kent (DirtySciFiBuddha),

    I did send you a private message on FB, but remembered you said to write on your wall if you hadn’t answered. I was looking to see if I could get some advice and suggestions on how to go about starting an e-book.

    I’m not sure if it’s easier to talk on FB, but please let me know what works best for you. I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions you have. Thank you so much for your time.

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  20. Thanks for the like and support. I’m not writing scifi (at the moment) but I’m intrigued by all of your projects. If you ever get to write (or have written) linked short stories, no matter the genre, drop me a line. I have an index site for that and several Goodreads lists! 🙂

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  22. Hey, thanks for reading my posts! As a new blogger it really tickles my serotonin receptors to see my stuff reaching other people 🙂 I’ve been having fun clicking around here.

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  25. Hi! I just wanted to stop by to say Thanks for liking my (every single?) posts on my website. I’m by no means a professional like you, but I would like to be one day, and while this blog currently just serves as a way for myself to track process and share some of my writing, it means a great deal when people, or anyone really, actually looks at it.
    So, thank you – I appreciate it a lot.

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  28. I love your tagline! A somewhat grunty, very much overthinker myself, it makes me laugh every time I stop by here. I appreciate your humor!

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  30. Thank you for the like on my recent post! Much appreciated! I browsed through your blog – your’s is a genre that has never really interested me, be here I am, subscribed! I love your word “absurdical!!” Your About piece was very interesting. I have great respect for you. 🙏

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  31. Hey! Thanks so much for liking my site and reading along with my “The Magnus Archives” horror anthology fanfic. I put a lot of work into it, and you’re currently my only reader. I’ve already bought the first Echo book and I can’t wait to get into it!

    Also DirtySciFiBuddah is goated name 🔥🔥🔥

    Thanks again

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    • Thanks for reading Echo, I hope it entertains! Horror is something I’d got a few ideas for, pretty cool that you’re already writing it! I can only technically claim credit for dirtyscifibuddha–it just kind of downloaded into my head, lol!

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  36. Thanks for reading one of my poems (about the Greensboro Massacre, written with a bit of sarcasm) and for subscribing. I’m subscribed to you, and may even read a book or two. You’ve gotten over 2,000 thoughts on your thoughts! Wow – I get excited when I get one or two!

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  37. Hey, want to thank you for being my most faithful follower over years and multiple hiatuses (sp?) and also mention I grabbed your free books a couple days ago and started reading! Enjoy the writing and the ideas a lot so far; am quite ashamed it took me so long.

    Also, your thoughts on an infinitely branching multiverse containing every possible configuration of stuff resonate a lot, and one of my ideas of Evernost, the fantastical faerie-type place I’m always writing about, is that it’s basically that. One thing I wrestle with writing it is how to get a sense of meaning or goodness out of infinite permutations of everything (would there be some push or movement in universes that are basically hell or clouds of hydrogen to become…not that? Or maybe at least the good universes do the timeless equivalent of multiplying more than the bad ones? Or are our notions of good and bad so subjective as to be meaningless, and the hydrogen-only universes are the equivalent of minimalist art? Hell is obviously harder to justify…)

    In any event, here’s to self-publishing! Wish me luck in my early adventures with it.

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    • The answer to meaning within infinity is implicit in the manifestation of individuality–the very fact that individuals manifest with basic needs (breathing, sleep, etc.) gives basic meaning to survival. The fact that genetics and nurture shape higher and more abstract desires gives inherent meaning to our dreams and hopes. From a purely nondual perspective, yes, all is equally meaningful and meaningless, so in order to transcend limitation (if you perceive everything everywhere all at once, there’s nothing to become, nowhere to go, nothing to get excited about, etc. etc.), linearity and individuality must be included, so that progress and experience can be a part of existence and thus transcend the nondual limitations in its native state of nonduality. That’s just my take on it, hope it helps! And good luck with self-publishing!!

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  40. Hi!

    Just passing by to say that I appreciate your present and your support on my wordpress. Such a positive force on the internet! Thank you. hope one day, I get to create such a rich body of work,

    Best

    Muna from Muna’s Miraj

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  41. Hey I wanted to say thanks. It really means a lot that you read my first chapter. I know not a lot of people will read my book when I (eventually) get it out, mostly because it’s a borrowed world from a game past it’s prime. Any tips you can share?

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  42. Hey there! Just dropping in to say thank you for reading some of my posts. Though our genres are quite different, it’s encouraging to see a like from a familiar blogger every so often. Best of luck with your writing and thank you for being so supportive of so many new writers in this community!

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  48. Thanks for liking posts and checking in on my blog. Never forget Unicorns Rule! Also find the handle DirtySciFiiBuddha intriguing! Keep on keeping on and I do check in on your stuff…just the first time I decided to comment…wildly out of context, but that’s how I roll!

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  49. Hello! Thank you so much for liking my posts especially since I am a new blogger. I appreciate you. Congratulations on your many achievements!

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