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Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 17, 2020 in ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

Teaser

A very provisional, first draft of chapter one of The Martian Princess (working title!), Part 5 of Isle of Dogs, or put another way, Volume 3 of DRIFT. Part One of Isle...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 10, 2020 in Fiction, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir, The Last Bender, The Man Who Can't Die | 0 comments

ISLE OF DOGS

A NOTE TO THE READER: Isle of Dogs is Volume Two of Drift, a multivolume saga set in a world that was first described in the novel The Man Who Can’t Die...

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 19, 2018 in ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 4 comments

BABYLON SIPPAR, LIBRARIAN

Once the distinction between real and imagined history had been introduced, they began to spend their free time in the library of the Winter Palace. It was overseen by...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 26, 2018 in ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

Isle of Dogs Chapter One

CHAPTER ONE SARGON 4 IS BORN COLD SPRING, NEW YORK, 2500AD On the day of his clone’s birth, Sargon 3, Ruler of New York, was out riding and didn’t reach...

Posted by jonfrankel on Mar 17, 2017 in ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE

A chapter from Isle of Dogs, the work in progress that consumes all the oxygen around here: The dorm room had two bunks. Phaedra had the top one, and it was just big...

Posted by jonfrankel on Feb 12, 2017 in ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

LETTERS

FROM MY BOOK IN PROGRESS, ISLE OF DOGS The first letter came unexpectedly. He had never received one before. They each had a mailbox for communications from the school...

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About Jon Frankel

Jon Frankel is a poet and novelist, the author of Gaha: Babes of the Abyss, (Whiskey Tit Press, 2014) and, writing as Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank (Manic D. Press, 1993). Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir set in the same world as GAHA: Babes of the Abyss. All are published in part or in full on this web site. You'll also find reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. Frankel lives in upstate New York with his family and works as a library supervisor.