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In an effort to build up the fan community for those who love Sad Puppy, Rabid Puppy, and Puppy-related works, I’ve started the Puppy of the Month Book Club.  This new blog will select one book a month from either of the official Puppy Hugo lists, or at least...

Each of the last two year’s of Hugo Awards have seen more ink spilled across the dinosaur media than in any ten years previous, combined.  All of this attention was garnered not for the quality of the works presented at the Hugos, and not as a small part of...

WorldCon, for the third year in a row, delivered a powerful message to a significant portion of the sci-fi/fantasy fandom.  In honor of their now openly admitted role of driving fans from the genre and consumers from the market, I propose a slight modification to the Hugo Award logo. ...

Time Magazine, that lumbering dinosaur of the old media, is not happy that the alt-right mammals are running around their ankles, eating their eggs, and is ready and waiting for the sweet meteor of death.  Good. Oh, Pepe, you shortcut to humor, is there any postyou can’t improve? Time Magazine called...

Back in the glory days of my gaming career, when six hour sessions of D&D were a regular occurrence, and not a rare celebration, the story that developed was as much a surprise to the DM as it was to the players. Sure, the DM had read or written...

Good old Vox posted a group shot of WorldCon attendees for The Current Year.  Some comment wag suggested that it looked like any other shot of 40+ people.  The scientist in me took that as a challenge, picked up the gauntlet, and ran to the internet to run a little...

A few weeks back a copy of Decision Games’ Khyber Rifles found its way into my shopping cart.  Listening to too many episodes of Wargames to Go will do that to a wargamer.  Between that and regular does of Wargaming Wednesday over at the Castalia House blog, my hankering...

Can you imagine trying to fight a war with Loyal Oppositionist and Vichy Republican John Podhoretz on your side? Every time you poked your head above the trenches, you’d have to check the area behind your own lines, look left, look right, and then only after assuring yourself that Podhoretz isn’t around,...

Is it strange to include a number of posts about a non-writing hobby on a blog founded specifically to track one’s progress in pursuing writing as a paid hobby?  Fine, I contain multiples, there’s your literary reference for the day, now let’s get to the good stuff. It’s been...

In a recent post, I stated that Schuyler Hernstrom’s “Images of the Goddess” is better than Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth”.  That might be controversial.  It wasn’t stated lightly, nor simply as click-bait.  Let me expound on it a bit. Jack Vance is a great author.  He does an outstanding job suffusing...