John C Wright just posted: > It appears that, unbeknownst to me, SWAN KNIGHT’S SON is up for the Planetary Award. If you maintain a blog, you can vote. I just finished *Swan Knight’s Son*, the first of the Moth and Cobweb books, and absolutely love it. It is easily as poetic and vivid as anything of his I’ve read. If anything, it has the deepest contrasts without pushing to extremes. For all that I love the Metachronopolis or Night Lands stories, they are about finding light in the darkness.…
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There are a few of Heinlein’s later, post Starship Troopers works that I still sortof like. To a lesser extent these include Friday for the Whelan cover (and an OK story), and Number of the Beast convincing me to give John Carter and the Lensmen a try. Outside of that, the only two post-Troopers works worthy of shelf space are Orphans of the Sky – technically written earlier and “fixed up” – and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress]. The last…
Helton Strom isn’t having a good day. Or week for that matter. A teacher who can’t get the job he wants as pilot (even managing to break the simulator while testing), he decides to take a break to help out his sister, he then has his citizenship and job stripped from him, and is left adrift with nothing to do. To make matters worse, the ship has been hijacked by pirates, and he, and the passengers, have been stranded on a desert planet, to be used as slaves. Little did he know things were alre…
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…
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…