Pournelle is one of my personal heroes. While I might argue that Dan Simmons or Gene Wolfe are better prose stylists, that Larry or Ringo can capture me with the chaotic rush of their stories and their wonderful characters, or that Wright can floor me with the scope of his vision and the direct poetry of his words, I keep coming back to Pournelle. His editorship of There Will be War [https://infogalactic.com/info/There_Will_be_War_(series)]that I stumbled into while in middle school, was a turni…
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Nick Cole’s post [http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2017/01/11/platform-you-need-one/] has certainly struck a chord. To add to the list of those commenting on it (after Vox Day, and others) is now Brian Niemeier [http://www.brianniemeier.com/], author of the Soul Cycle trilogy. > I’ve certainly taken Nick’s platform-building advice to heart. Let’s test it by seeing how many copies of my book this post sells. Oh, yeah, if you haven’t [started the series yet](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZBD…
I joked in my 2016/2017 post that the “dark secret” of this blog was that it’s as much for me to develop a set of habits, to do something every day, making it a priority, as it is about anything else. Providing at least some useful insights or interesting info is how I hope to get and keep an audience, but without putting up posts, I can’t put up good posts either. So buried in Nick Cole’s recent post on platforms [http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2017/01/11/platform-you-need-one/], was this: > He…
I have not finished Forbidden Thoughts yet, [https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Thoughts-Milo-Yiannopoulos-ebook/dp/B01N5LU9C4/] so a review will have to wait. Overall I’m enjoying it so far but some of the complaints noted by several people are, IMO, valid criticisms… certainly a couple stories preach with a 4×4 that did not have to. That said, the intro, by Milo, was brilliant. And in that, the following leapt out at me: > “SJWs produce terrible work SJWs are fantastic at complaining, but terr…
I really, reallycannot find much to add to this epic takedown of modern pop music [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-modern-pop-music-rapes-your-ears.html] by the Didact. So, of course, I’ll endeavor to try anyway. It’s not just music that’s getting (provably, in complexity of lyric, melody, and melodic structures within a song) stupider – and please dotake the time to watch the Paul Joseph Watson video in that posting – it’s our reading entertainment as well. A long time ago, on…