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About Joshua Todd James
JOSHUA TODD JAMES is an author, screenwriter, martial artist, and father of two very active boys in New York City. He created the sci-fi serial THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, which includes the novels SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN A BOX, and DOMO-ARIGATO, MISTER ROBOTO.
A proud member of WGAE, his screenplay credits include POUND OF FLESH, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, among others. He's also published two free ebooks of monologues for actors, BUILT FOR ABUSE I (for men) and BUILT FOR ABUSE II (for women). He's also made most of his short plays royalty-free for amateur production in THE JOSHUA JAMES PROJECT. Please help spread the news by leaving reviews—every review matters.
Joshua loves ice-cold tea, cool summer breezes, and hot Brazilian Jiujitsu, though not necessarily in that order.
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They face uncertainty, however, as the city government preps to sweep up all undocumented synthetics in the city proper and make plans to escape the city and run to Canada, a safe haven for synthetic people such as they.
Jacob uncovers a lead that will bring him to the man Sylvia named as the key to freeing Companions, a certain Larkin Finn, but before he can act on that the detective in pursuit of him, Abigail Moore, shows up.
As does serial killer Munson Tolliver.
Jacob finds himself faced with a choice... abandon his newfound family to pursue Munson, or help them escape as the city of New York prepares to gather up all undocumented synthetics.
The choice he makes will ultimately define who, and what, he is.
For fans of The Minority Report and I, Robot, volume 3 in THE COMPANION CHRONICLES
FREEDOM RUN
A novel by Joshua Todd James
I, ROBOT meets SPARTACUS in this Sci-Fi Thriller.
“Doing noir as sci-fi is a real challenge and this ambitious book pulls it off!” - David Gerrold, Hugo & Nebula award-winning author of The Martian Child, Hella, & The Man Who Folded Himself
Jacob Kind is a synthetic Companion. Designed in a lab and sold, commercially, to be whomever his Primary (owner) wishes him to be, just like other synthetic Companions created as he was.Jacob loves his "mother," Sylvia Kind, who believes Jacob is more than synthetic, that he has the potential to be as human as any other being... and she's dedicated to proving that to society as large. Jacob loves humanity, confusing as it can be for him, but more than anything, he's devoted to his mother.
In Volume 1, SOME ANIMALS, when Sylvia is murdered by a masked killer and Jacob is blamed for the crime, he escapes and goes on the run to find her killer, determined to bring that man to justice.
He has but one guiding light... serve and protect humanity at all costs.
In Volume 2, MINORITY OF ONE, Jacob finds himself in South Bend, passing for human as he searches for his mother's murderer, Munson Tolliver, only to get trapped in a raging protest against synthetics. Befriending a young mother working the streets, Jacob is drawn into violence he did not know he was capable of and must fight or lose his newfound friends.
In Volume 3, FREEDOM RUN, Jacob's search for Munson takes him to New York City, where he is adopted by a group of runaway synthetics who work in Central Park and dream of making a run for freedom in Canada. Just as he is about to help them escape, Munson Tolliver shows up to thwart their plans.
Jacob must choose between vengeance or helping his friends...
THE COMPANION CHRONICLES is a Sci-Fi thriller, it's MINORITY REPORT meets THE FUGITIVE, pure visionary excitement in book form.
“Some Animals is an exciting and propulsive sci-fi thriller. Don’t miss it!” - Kai Yu Wu, writer/producer (THE FLASH, CARNIVAL ROW, HANNIBAL)
Right up until Jacob interrupts a masked man murdering his adoring owner Sylvia in their home and is blamed for the vicious crime. The police believe he's the culprit, Companion company executives want him returned for reprogramming to prevent a PR nightmare, but Jacob only wishes to bring Sylvia's killer to justice. Which he is going to have to do on his own.
So now Jacob is on the run.
After her killer, and toward justice, with but one guiding light that his mother left him.
Serve and protect humanity, at all costs.
Without losing his own.
For fans of MINORITY REPORT, THE MURDERBOT DIARIES and I, ROBOT, volume one in a new thrilling series.
SOME ANIMALS
A Sci-Fi Thriller by Joshua Todd James
Synthetic Companion Jacob Kind is on the run from the police and searching for Munson Tolliver, the man who murdered his adopted mother, Sylvia. Tolliver was an infamous serial killer who fascinated the nation... and who was supposed to be dead at the time of Sylvia's death.
Clearly, he is not dead. Nor does anyone believe Jacob that Tolliver is still alive.
As a result, Jacob heads to the site of Munson's first public killing to search for clues in Tolliver's past that will help Jacob locate him.
Jacob also has to learn how to pass as human, which gives him a unique insight into humanity, especially once Jacob finds himself embroiled in a very public, very violent protest against the use of synthetics, one that has pitted the city against itself.
Against his will, Jacob is drawn to a pair of women, Claire, an advocate for synthetic rights, and Companion-hating Candis, a desperate woman working the streets to provide for her young daughter, Bethany.
It leads to a brutal confrontation that threatens to change Jacob forever.
For fans of MINORITY REPORT & I, ROBOT...
By Joshua Todd James
Volume 5 of The Companion Chronicles.
"Joshua James' work is bold, intelligent and subversive. Read it. Then find a way to make it happen on stage. American theater is clogged with the paltry visions of the privileged class, which assure us that the world we live in does not need immediate and radical change. James' work pulls the plug on sentimentality and comfort on stage. His work is at times dark, disturbing, but always arresting and shot through with a fine sense of humour." - Obie-award winning playwright Naomi Wallace
"Joshua James' work is bold, intelligent and subversive. Read it. Then find a way to make it happen on stage. American theater is clogged with the paltry visions of the privileged class, which assure us that the world we live in does not need immediate and radical change. James' work pulls the plug on sentimentality and comfort on stage. His work is at times dark, disturbing, but always arresting and shot through with a fine sense of humour." - Obie-award winning playwright Naomi Wallace
That’s right, you can produce these plays, royalty-free, if the right circumstances are met.
Included in this collection are the favorites ALL THE RAGE, A GAY THING, AMBIVALENT, SOMETHING SITUATION, THE BEAUTIFUL ONE and the Off-Broadway premiering EXTREME EUGENE, among many others.
RUNNING IN PLACE: A budding relationship blossoms between a time-worn waitress, Bonnie, and a much younger man, Trevor, who wriggles his way into her hopes, dreams and emotions despite her best efforts to resist him. They both find themselves carried along by life and love to a destination neither they nor all their friends would have ever predicted.
OLD DOG: A comic tale of a hot-tempered love affair between Hank and Bea, two feisty, set-in-their-ways-by-God Adults with a lot of mileage behind them and lots of rough road up ahead. An examination of small-town love after a certain age, OLD DOG celebrates the pure joy of never being too old to kiss, cuddle or get into a bar brawl.
ROYALTY-FREE for amateur and educational production!
2 Damaged people, 1 Loaded Gun.
A savage, witty drama about two people who don’t want to die alone but find staying alive around other people intolerable. A battle of will, wit and emotion, 2 Very Dangerous People Sharing 1 Small Space is what happens when two suicidal people meet and fall in love.
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