A friend of mine makes the excellent point that Star Wars is not for adults, but for kids. And that's fine [https://barbarianbookclub.com/2019/12/10/star-wars-its-for-kids/]. > Sadly, like a lot of things from the past, I should have let this movie live fondly in my memories. It’s a good movie, if you ignore the CGI vandalism Lucas vomited onto his own work, but it’s a movie made for 12-year old boys and I’m a 36-year old father. The acting, the plot, it’s rather cringe. In my mind’s eye I rem…
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Courtesy of a Mewe post by Larry Correia [https://mewe.com/profile/56c8ccd65b424a0c79c1d4b3] - looks like, in addition to being one of the few SF writers who can write "literary" in the same general neighborhood as Gene Wolfe and unlike many literary wannabes, tell a story, Dan Simmons has some balls. Of course, vile 770 took him to task for it [http://archive.is/tNELI]. What did he write? Yeah, he said rude things about a child being used as a human shield to hector and shame adults. Recall -…
John C Wright recently reviewed The Hidden Truth [http://www.scifiwright.com/2019/09/book-review-the-hidden-truth-by-hans-schantz/] by Hans Schantz, describing it as "part alternate history, part coming-of-age story, and part techno-thriller, peppered with wry observations about the nature of people, politics and power as seen through the eyes of a youth learning a hard lesson about the evils men hide." He is entirely correct. I found the first book engaging enough to go ahead and buy the sec…
First of all, posting has been sparse, and not up to what I promised. I'm fixing that. First - Nick Cole reposts and expands his hit blog post on how CTRL-ALT-REVOLT was banned by his publisher [https://www.nickcolebooks.com/the-ctrl-alt-revolt-controversy/], despite being a successful and well-selling author. On a related note, Larry Correia is on mewe after being banned from facebook again [http://monsterhunternation.com/2019/08/19/facebook-gulag-day-3-book-bomb-tomorrow-mewe-is-nicer-than-e…
Cataline makes an excellent observation I think, with the caveat that, quite obviously, GoT/ASoIaF is set in a fantasy universe. Game of Thrones is horror [https://darkherald.net/2019/05/22/game-of-thrones-is-not-fantasy/], and that's pretty much what George knows how to write. > I remember skimming back and forth in the first two books of the series (the only ones I read, I grant you), trying to find a battle scene and there just isn’t one. What you get are people describing the the aftermath…