Books by Jonathon Barbera

An ordinary individual is caught unaware in a world manipulated by demons and influenced by mind-altering pills. There''s more to it than meets the first impression, but the progress through to the solution will have to be incrementally established with the help of a magical fairy.Not wanting any pills at first, but acquiring them through unexpected circumstances, the temptation is too great to resist. The occasional indulgence gradually leads to habitual use. The curiosity to receive direct knowledge of the forbidden becomes overwhelming and the mystery is challenged. Only when the key to the prison holding the magical fairy queen is found can the answer finally be revealed.Originally designed as a means for hypnotic trance victims to overcome past brainwashing, the strange pills enable the individual to improve personal decision-making by unlocking the obsessive mental loops. Even the imagination is capable of imagining the idea of the imagination. A book is a pill ingested through the faculty of sight and not to be taken orally.

The Gentle Empire and the insectoid hive mind are metaphors for the division and factionalism found in modern society and culture. From 1740 through 2144, the Gentle Empire drops its repetitive payloads of new technological wonders and corresponding propaganda values.Television takes center stage for a time and then it's replaced with robots and holographic projections. Finally, virtual reality makes actual reality obsolete! The competing alien empires will have to make the ultimate sacrifice and succeed against the odds even though both sides are so equally matched. Who will win? It truly could go either way.Will agents Zippity and Zappity succeed with their propaganda mission to win over the Earth or will they be thwarted by the insectoid hive mind?(This is the third volume in the Media Armageddon trilogy that began with Gorgeous Robot Flesh and The Next Paradigm for Human Living. The events in this volume occur simultaneously with the events of the previous two volumes. The three volumes can be read in any order.)

What if everything you've ever been told about the world around you and your role in it was a lie? What are they trying to keep you from knowing? What are they trying to stop you from remembering? How have they shut down ordinary awareness in favor of zombie-robot awareness? What one truth do they not want you to believe?Now it is time for this literary and philosophical oracle to open eyes, clearly. The fictional character and star propaganda technician, Sunshine Overcast, attempts to do the unlikely by stripping away the half-truths and carefully removing the false and insidious choices. If the truth could set you free, then perhaps a paradigm can provide a map to the literal key. A paradigm isn't a truth as much as it is an abstract metaphor for truth.The Next Paradigm for Human Living depicts a very near future that is inevitable and assured. The people of the past saw themselves and their place in the world as one way, but now the people of the present can choose to see themselves in a whole new light. The decision is ultimately given to the reader to make. Good luck.

Can a product be packaged and marketed in such an extremely appealing way that it becomes almost impossible to resist? And when the consumers purchase this product, will there be any concern if the buyers then use the product excessively and to the point of neglecting their other responsibilities? If such an entertainment product was so attractive as to be practically addictive, will the product manufacturers be held accountable or will the buyer beware?I had intended to depict the labor situation in the world today. However, as the work progressed, it became less about supply and demand. Instead, it became transformed into a degraded novel about the sexual obsession of a small number of people for robots. It has become synchronous erotica for robot fetishists and futuristic technology ne'er-do-wells.The nature of this work is speculative fiction. For Gorgeous Robot Flesh, I have set aside questions such as "Why are we here?" or "Where is consciousness located?" in favor of other questions like "What should we be doing now that we find ourselves here?" and "How can the largest number of people be directed through mass media alone?" The possible answers are sometimes startling to behold!