Man-Like Machines represents the artistic work of George Dalphin & Joe Foster, often in collaboration with other artists. They have been producing artwork in various forms together since the turn of the century, including movies, novels, music, and games.
George Dalphin's newest novel
ATHENS,
or,
The Athenians
The dawn of Democracy. The childhood of Sokrates. An epic true story of the awakening of the human heart and mind.
George Dalphin's third novel is "ATHENS, or, The Athenians", and this is Book One: The Age of Bronze.
In the golden age of Athens, as democracy takes its first uncertain steps, a remarkable cast of characters shapes the future of human thought, living their everyday lives.
Young Perikles, scion of a noble family, dreams of a city ruled by wisdom rather than wealth, while the hero Themistokles, who once saved Greece from Persian invasion, finds his power and influence tested by changing times. In the streets below the Acropolis, a curious boy named Sokrates begins asking questions that will resonate through centuries, while young Euripides struggles to find his voice as a playwright in the shadow of theatrical giants Aischylos and Sophokles.
Beyond Athens' walls, Sparta watches its rival's rise with growing unease. Within the warrior state's palace, the formidable queen-mother Gorgo maneuvers to maintain Spartan traditions against forces that threaten to tear her society apart. As these two vastly different Greek powers assess each other across the peninsula, the future of their civilizations hangs in the balance.
From the agora to the theater, from the heights of power to the margins of society, here is Athens in all its glory and contradiction - a city where justice and beauty compete with violence and ambition, where tradition clashes with progress, and where gods still walk the earth. Through the lives of politicians and philosophers, priests and playwrights, soldiers and slaves, experience the birth of democracy and the dawn of Western thought.
The first book of an epic series chronicling the myriad minds of Golden Age of Athens through the lifetime of Sokrates, ATHENS weaves history and imagination into a tapestry as rich and complex as the city itself. In a world where politics, art, philosophy and religion are inseparable, every choice shapes not just a city, but the future of human thought.
Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer
Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer is the harrowing and hilarious tale of a regular guy who stumbles across an ancient tome of Atlantean necromancy and decides to make full use of his new powers for good, despite the world's increasingly negative reaction to his expanding army of skeletal minions.
On his way home from being broken up with by his girlfriend Anna for the nth time, mild-mannered, unemployed janitor Bob Wacszowski stumbles into an underground chamber where he finds a huge leathery codex of ancient death magic.
After he and his best friend Tony use it to animate and command a graveyard full of skeletons, Bob becomes determined to use the magic to make a living for himself, while also proving to Anna that he can be a force for good in the world.
Unfortunately, Bob lives in the heartland of America, and despite his assurances of goodwill he finds much difficulty convincing his countrymen that he is not the Antichrist and that it is not the End Times.
Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer tackles a range of topics from contemporary American politics and culture to religion and metaphysics, with an irreverent tongue-in-skull.
Bob Wacszowski, Necromancer is to be the first in a series.
Thirsty & Drowning
In George Dalphin's first novel "Thirsty & Drowning", written in 2004, Jonathon Esmereldero, 40-year-old ex-punk family man fresh from a failed suicide, and his middle daughter Marie, 16-years-old, precocious and wanderlustful, both become dissatisfied with their place in status-quo society and flee their family life, undergoing synchronous odysseys of nearly magical-realist fabulousness and misery.
Man-Like Machines represents the artistic work of George Dalphin & Joe Foster, often in collaboration with other artists. They have been producing artwork in various forms together since the turn of the Century, including movies, novels, music, and more. Recently, this has included a lot of experimentation with the new AI image-generators.