Review: Take the Star Road (The Maxwell Saga) book 1

Review: Take the Star Road (The Maxwell Saga) book 1

While I’ve long seen him around the Mad Genius Club [https://madgeniusclub.com/] environs and have enjoyed the posts at his own site, I had not read anything of Peter Grant’s until the western Brings the Lightning, and Take the Star Road is, after all this time, only the second book of his I’ve read. Steve Maxwell is an orphan, born on a deeply socialist earth that is in danger, due to most of the smarter and more driven (K-selected?) people leaving for other colonies, of becoming a backwater.…

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A Better "Stranger" Thing

A Better "Stranger" Thing

While Stranger Things has accumulated accolades, and I sortof enjoyed it, it was mostly because it didn’t completely suck or immerse itself in liberal preachiness. So if you want something even Stranger, and laugh-out-loud funny, maybe check out this freewheeling story of an inter-dimensional insurance agent [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1522642145/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1522642145&linkCode=as2&tag=thscphsh-20&linkId=d187bdbea332dff5a00ad97b75b0c556] , by…

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Asimov and the Tyranny of the Smart Kids

Asimov and the Tyranny of the Smart Kids

Several posts recently, at Castalia [http://www.castaliahouse.com/cosmic-knights/] and elsewhere, have dug into why Isaac Asimov is a petty, poisonous, jealous, snake. A lot of it centers around a quote in the forward to the third book in a fantasy series that his name plastered on the front. Once you start digging, the jealousy and hatred are pretty obvious, as well as the utter irrationality at work. For those, go read the original Castalia article on Cosmic Knights [http://www.castaliahouse.…

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Fuck That Noise

Fuck That Noise

I commented on “Selective Memory” over at Wasteland and Sky [https://wastelandandsky.blogspot.com/2017/01/selective-memory-appendix-n-post.html] , and decided to repost it here. First, an excerpt: > Then I got to college and read a pile of the most hateful stories you could ever thumb through. Two in particular made me give up entirely. They were called Generals Die in Bed and Catcher in the Rye, and they were considered classics. If you’ve ever read them you have my condolences. > Suffice to…

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The Futurians

The Futurians

Daddy Warpig is posting on the scum who called themselves Futurians [http://www.castaliahouse.com/when-futurians-ruled-the-earth/] at Castalia house. This jumped out at me: > The Silver Age threw away heroics and heroism, the Bronze Age threw away decency and morality, the Iron Age forged tiny cages for people’s imaginations, and the Clay Age finger painted with their own poo, for there was nothing else to throw away. Of the “big three” who’d been considered such the last few decades, I have no…

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