Cheeseburger Brown

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Cheeseburger Brown is a Canadian author of science-fiction novels and short stories that share common characters and settings connecting plots across a span of time from the Pleistocene epoch to several thousand years into the future. The hallmark of Brown's work is a blending of complex scientific or sociological themes with wry, often dark, humor.

Brown first made a splash with his free blog-novellette The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster, a first-person account of the Star Wars saga from the point of view of Darth Vader. Both comedic and touching, this unauthorized derivative work was circulated widely by Internet users in the months leading up to the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and excerpts were featured on an episode of the G4 Network's Attack of the Show! and in the premiere issue of Australia's Cosmos Magazine.[1]

Brown's first full-length novel is Simon of Space which was originally serialized via a weblog for free reading in the autumn of 2005, and was subsequently picked up for print distribution by American publisher Ephemera Bound[2] in 2006. The hardcover edition was released on February 14, 2008.

Above all, Brown is very prolific. New original stories and novellas are serialized through Brown's weblog in short chapters posted every week. These works are available to read for free, and collected approximately annually into print anthologies. The most recent anthology is Sensible Flying Shoes (2007), available through Lulu.com with illustrations by the author.

Brown has also created two illustrated storybooks, 17 Drawings (detailing a day in the life of the author) and Goodbye to Kitty (concerning the loss of a family pet). Other works include The Bikes of New York, Hot Buttered Something and The Trimester Reports.

The origin of the author's pseudonym, Cheeseburger Brown, is a source of speculation.

[edit] Recurring Characters

A listing of characters appearing in more than one work.

  • Dr. Drago Tesla Zoran - a mathematician
  • Sky Mississauga - an armless, legless private detective
  • Nestor Simonithrat Fell - a gentleman-about-the-galaxy
  • Justine "Sandy" Schalen - a vigilante
  • Jeremiah Fifth - a Zorannic robot
  • Felix Eighth/First -a Zorannic robot
  • Lorenzo - a night-club proprietor
  • Aglakti, a.k.a. "Cherry Nuk-Nuk" - the world's most famous Inuit pop singer
  • Paramjit Pakaresh - a computer science researcher
  • Santa Claus - a jolly, bearded do-gooder
  • Lallo the Long - a tenacious cave-man
  • Timothy "Redacted" - a destroyer of worlds
  • Dalia "Something" - a surly teenage runaway
  • Slimfast Metamucil - a branding bum
  • Mike Zhang Cuthbertson - a precocious kid who has many adventures and eventually makes a significant impact in the military
  • Sarah Bleeton - childhood friend and eventual wife of Mike Cuthbertson
  • Jordon Cottle - a childhood friend of Mike Zhang Cuthbertson
  • Tabitha Cottle (nee ?) - a childhood friend of Mike Zhang Cuthbertson
  • Kate & Jules Cuthbertson - Mike's parents
  • Bianca Cuthertson - Mike's black sister
  • India Cuthbertson - Mike's white sister
  • "Papa Rock" Yves LeRoche - a truck driver
  • Shah of Anwar - a financier of the "future" projects
  • Bahram Siraj -the "prince" of Anwar
  • Tennyson Smith -an agent of the British secret service

[edit] References

  1. ^ Comos Magazine Archives 2005.
  2. ^ Ephemera Bound Publishing.

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