Because You Can Never Have Too Much Cirsova
It’s that time of year again! Time to subscribe to one of the best short fiction magazines on the market today. Cirsova once again is offering digital subscriptions to the two issues slated for release in 2018. At $10 each for the print copies, this is an incredible bargain for what...
Stop Supporting Your Enemies
Yesterday Brian Niemeier dropped an epic post about Fifth Columnists that is well worth taking the time to read. Zeroing in on the most important bit: Don’t GIVE money to people who hate you. Don’t give MONEY to people who hate you. Don’t give money to people who HATE you....
Planetary Defense Awards – 2017 Ballot
January means that it’s time to start thinking about awards season. And when it comes to sci-fi, the hot new award on the block is the Planetary Awards. This year, I’m going to go with “The Last American” for the short category. Schuyler Hernstrom’s poignant and rambunctious kitchen-sink adventure complete...
The Backlog – Fat and Happy
The year of our Lord 2017 was a banner year for the #PulpRev crowd. In addition to picking up a lot of new talent, and a lot of established talent, the Bad Kids Table in the sci-fi cafeteria produced more great content than one man could possibly read. After...
Happy Swaggy New Year!
Happy New Year, readers mine! Take a gander over there on the right sidebar and you’ll see a place to enter your email to sign up for my newsletter. It’s a short and infrequent affair, but it’s the best place to keep up with what I’ve been writing and...
Magic: The Smattering
The CCG can die in a cold fire so far as I’m concerned. I’ve never forgiven it for stealing the limelight of tabletop gaming away from RPGs in the early 1990s. Which means that I’ve been following the Convergence of Magic: The Gathering with a morbidity similar to that...
True Detective – Too True to be Good [Spoiler Review]
HBO gave me a bad case of Lovecraftian blue-balls. “True Detective” is a frustrating show. It flirts with greatness, but can’t lift itself out of the mire of post modernism until it’s too late to be saved. The slow investigation into the death of one nameless hooker spirals outward –...
True Detective – Purdy Gud [Non-Spoiler Review]
Heard a lot about HBO’s “True Detective” over the years, and over the past week finally had a chance to give it a whirl. It’s a slow-burn detective story about two anti-heroic cops who stop a serial killer. It’s…good? McConaughey and Harrelson turn in the sort of excellent dramatic...
13 Hours: More Like This, Please
Watching a film is a rare occurrence for me these days. Not just because finding a film that appeals to me is a rare occurrence, although that is a factor, but more because of my limited time. Which is not to say that I don’t enjoy movies, I just...
The Unbearable Lightness of Empty Shells
Reading through Tales of the Once and Future King, a collection of Arthurian stories published by Superversives Press, it’s striking how these stories of knightly honor are inseparable from their Christian roots. Even when the action takes place in a strange steampunk fantasy world, the specter of the Holy Ghost looms over...