I still remember when I first stumbled into a copy of Honor Among Enemies at the base library. No, I didn’t start David Weber’s epic mega-series at the beginning. So it’s not with great sadness anymore – as this decision was made over a year ago – that I’m basically buying nothing of his anymore. I may – mayI repeat – get the Zahn prequels, but the overlapping stories of the two main current-time branches are losing me, and he did two things that really turned me off on an author I’ve otherwis…
A theme that Vox Day has been hammering lately as Apple plays stupid games with accepting an iOS Gab app, as Wikipedia, publishing, the SF world, and so forth becomes progressively more converged, is that of helping out. Every little bit helps. Even if you cannot provide assistance to a good project, you can help suffocate the beast by starving it of oxygen and resources. If all you can do is to minimize your facebook usage, do so. If you can start using Gab at gab.ai [http://gab.ai/] instead…
Following both my recent article on how fairness is not what they want [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/02/a-refreshing-breath-of-honesty-but-only.html], and on the heels of the Schlichter article [http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/02/06/the-left-hates-you-act-accordingly-n2281602] pointing out they hate us, making the rounds of the puppy-friendly SF community has been the story of yet another SF Writer Jon Del Arroz – kicked out of their circles [http://delarroz.com/?p=431], t…
Cataline Sergius critiques Rogue One [https://reactionarytimes.blogspot.com/2016/12/rogue-one-cataline-critique.html] , and this line stood out: > The film grammar, the pacing, the tone are all straight out of Chinese film epics. It is a long damn movie, one with an oppressive sense of fate and tragedy through out. You know these characters aren’t getting out of this alive because you never see or hear of them in the first trilogy. They start off as goners. The People of the Han eat that shi…
Another post [https://the-other-side-of-history.blogspot.com/2017/02/two-more-minutes-of-hate.html] I also discovered via Peter Grant’s Blog [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/02/more-about-trump-derangement-syndrome.html] . Comcast authorized paid time off (1 hour) to protest, and a contract employee decided to counter protest: > I stood with a sign that read “#RememberTheVictims” and also held a photo of a man with whom I used to do business, and was killed in the Orlando night c…