Vox recently asked why aren’t people buying e-books [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-arent-you-buying-books.html]? Of course, the ilk reply. Me, personally, I actually buy a LOT, though the handful of books that would make it on my limited shelf space these days I will get in paperback, with a stronger preference for philosophy, history, and technical material there. I enjoy the feel of physical books, but the lack of space and the sheer convenience of nor carding several small paper br…
All posts in science fiction
Cataline Sergius throws himself on the grenade to watch the new version of the Handmaid’s Tale [https://reactionarytimes.blogspot.com/2017/04/live-blogging-handmaids-tale.html] . I raise a glass to his sacrifice, so that the rest of us don’t have to. > A Handmaid’s Tale was cobbled together out of random bits of 1984 and Revolt in 2100 back in 1985, by noted crackpot and winner of the Extreme Canadian Award, Margret Atwood. As I indicated the setting is stolen. As is the plot and subtext. T…
On Saturday the Frisky Pagan reviewed a Hugo-nominated story calledOur Talons can Crush Galaxies, by Brook Bolander. He was not kind [https://friskypagan.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/reading-the-hugos-our-talons/]. I had no intention of reading it for myself to see if he was fair. First, the quotes he provides already make my skin crawl. No, I’m not kidding. I’m used to some grade-A solipsism and narcissism out of feminists, but rarely do I read things that, if the person writing them were in the…
Over at Seagull Rising [https://seagullrising.blogspot.com/2017/04/cora-lyin.html] Jon Mollison discusses Cora Buhlert and her lack of awareness of what she refers to. Cora B in bold…. > > *Does anybody else find the idea of a rabid puppy taking inspiration from Jonathan Livingston Seagull of all things as funny as I do? Of course she thinks it’s funny. She doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the story of a seagull whose unwillingness to conform to the dem…
Hey, my apologies for referencing a disco song, but as much as I like Yngwie Malmsteen, I won’t subject you to “Now Your Ships Are Burned.” Anyway, Jon Del Arroz writes on blacklists [http://delarroz.com/?p=856&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=gplus], the need to make others aware of them, and more importantly , the need to, as Vox would put it, to develop alternate platforms. More to the point, to forge forth and not look back. > It all comes down to blackballing again. And here’s where I call…