Notable Reviews:

"The Silver Screen is a wonderful read!

The speculative hook here is that Wyatt, the main character, can pass through the screen in an old movie theater and pass through the screens of other old movie theaters--think "screen-to-screen portals."

But the story intrigue only begins there. Wyatt seems to have aged slower than he should have, he has lived quite an adventurous life as a wartime photographer, and Emma--the other POV characters--begins to believe something is off.

As time and setting got distorted and even seemed to crumble, I thought of John Ford's fiction, the hard-to-categorize kinds of fiction published by Small Beer Press, and some of Stephen King's strange-but-not-horror stories.

The Silver Screen goes really deep emotionally and thematically as well--I don't want to say too much because I don't want to give anything away. Bass's writing goes down as smooth like King's, too. A great read!"

--The Tsar of Taste

 "I recently came across The Silver Screen, and what struck me immediately wasn’t just the surreal journeying or the cinematic allure it was the emotional architecture beneath it. This isn’t only a story about a crumbling theater or a mystical gateway to forgotten worlds; it’s a meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile thread between imagination and reality when the heart refuses to let go of its past."

--Saundra E. Mitchell

"I stepped into The Silver Screen, and it feels less like a novel and more like walking into an abandoned theater where the projector still hums memory, grief, magic, and reality flickering together.

A widower clinging to a crumbling cinema. Portals through forgotten theaters around the world. A rescue that shifts everything. A mind unraveling as the connections collapse. That’s not just speculative fiction, that's literary imagination with emotional weight.

And the premise alone? A man traveling through cinema screens to other lost theaters? That’s the kind of concept readers highlight and say, “Why isn’t everyone talking about this?”'

--Emmily Osborne