Send Up The Virtue Signal Signal
Yeah, I’m in. The game so nice, it’s already been banned by OrcaCon despite not being funded, printed, or on the market. Thus proving the point of the game in the first place. What can I say? We’re a homeschool family. A nice educational experience of a game like...
The White Arrow Review
Got a review up over at Castalia House today. Head on over and check it out. ...
The Generational Sweet Spot
You can’t really blame Marvel for trying to build a new line-up of superheroes to replace the old cohort. Everyone loves Nick Fury and Cap and Tony Peteyand , but they’ve suffered through fifty full years of stories. They are also deeply tied to thier origins on the battlefields...
The Smell of Desperation
It isn’t working and they know it. It’s gotten so bad out there that you’re even seeing NormiCons calling for Americans to turn their backs on the foreign movies churned out by Hollywood. They’re calling for more films by conservative film-makers for conservative movie goers. Likewise with Marvel comics,...
Mutants Versus Mankind
Look upon the works of the Futurians ye mighty, and despair. While looking up links for further reading on how smoking post-Pulp sci-fi gave America’s literary scene cancer, I came across this stunning admission that the Campbellian era laid the foundations for the current dismal state of mainstream publishing....
The Locusts Are At It Again
John W. Campbell, we barely knew ye. Mark your calendars, the Hugos themselves are now shortlisted for the next struggle session. And pretty soon after that, flush toilets. Less than two weeks after the latest parody version of the once-esteemed Hugo Awards, the always tedious Analog Magazine has joined...
Wild Stars IV – Get Kicking
Michael Tierney is one of the brighter stars in the constellation of Cirsova authors. The dreamtime fight for survival of his “Shark Fighter” story in issue #2 demonstrated to me that the magazine had a lot more to offer than just blasters, space knights, and weird tentacles. Over the...
The Boys: More of the Same
What if the supervillains won, and then hid behind a front-facing good-guy façade? That could be an interesting premise for a TV show*. Particularly so given the ongoing revelations about the private peccadillo’s and past-times of the real world’s elites. We live in a time when the panopticon allows the...
Better Writing for a Better Tomorrow
It turns out that rebuilding an sf/f publishing civilization from the ruins left behind by the Boomer generation requires a lot of effort on a lot of different fronts. The one that we upstarts in the publishing world seek to rebuild is a complex civilization, and carving our own pale...
Pup Kult Stephenson
Is it just me, or did this feel a lot like a Stephenson novel? It features the weird future of Snowcrash and the abrupt lurch of an ending of… Well, pretty much every novel Stephenson ever wrote. Not a complaint. Just an observation. Nick Cole’s first-person spycraft novels typically feature...