What A Lovely Day
GamerGate hit the world at a time when my participation on sociable media was at an ebb. With kids, a new house, and a host of other excuses, I was at best a sideline supporter. The big events like Operation: Disrepectful Nod blew right by me, in all likelihood...
The Ideological Conquest of Science Fiction Literature
A must watch over-view that explains the ongoing revolution in science-fiction. Much of this is old hat for the PulpRev crowd, but it offers a nice, concise explanation and fills in a few gaps for the newcomers....
Forbidden Thoughts
Per Vox Popoli:You are not supposed to read this book. You are not supposed to think about reading this book. In fact, just plain thinking at all is unacceptable. You have been warned… From hilarious to horrifying to dangerously insightful, a selection of stories that must not be told,...
Kansai Cowboy
One of my Twitterbros has been publishing a serialized novel, one week at a time, over on Medium.com. M. T. White’s Kansai Cowboy tells the tale of an older Texas Ranger sucked into a crime investigations that hits too close to home. White has a knack for writing mid-size...
More Concrete Writing Advice
Today’s writing advice comes from the department of “you should have learned this in high school, but didn’t.” Jesse Abraham Lucas isn’t just the advice giving sort. Instead of opining that somebody should start a website for the #PulpRev, he went out and did it. The final form of this new...
High Quality Writing Advice
Most writing advice strikes me as the coloring on a tropical frog – it’s bright and obvious and tells you to stay away from the poison. You would think that those who write for a living would be better at writing advice, but typically I make note of the advice-giver’s...
Appendix N: The Generation Gaps
The recent series of posts over at Vox Popoli relating to the sins of the Baby Boomers and GenXers set my mind wandering down strange paths. That the true giants Burroughs, Howard, Moore, and E.E. Doc Smith were forgotten and the fraudulent three – pervy Heinlein, snowjob Asimov, and pedo...
More on “Escaping infinity”
On Wednesday, I posted a review of Richard Paolinelli’s Escaping Infinity, in which I lamented the inclusion of an extended post-script that felt like a separate story in its own right. After giving this book more thought, I have to revise my opinion of it. The #PulpRev channel has been...
Salon Admits Jeffro Was Right
Jeffro’s detractors have called him a crackpot conspiracy theorist for daring to point out the concerted effort by major publishing houses filthy with secular midwits and tedious intersectionalists to commandeer the ship of science-fiction and steer it away from the open waters of action, adventure and heroism and onto...
Escaping Infinity
At its core, Richard Paolinelli’s Escaping Infinity, presents a Twilight Zonestyle mystery of a strange hotel that appears in many times and places, and that once you check in, you can’t check out. The guests at this hotel become so taken by the perfect luxury of the place that they...