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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-15: Memed into Reality

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-15: Memed into Reality

We'll begin this week with the book chapter I wrote on Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and some of the very interesting commentary that developed in it's wake. Foundation by Isaac AsimovFoundation is a book that I haven’t read until now. Given what I do

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Foundation is a book that I haven't read until now. Given what I do at With Both Hands, it is good that I have read it, as I can now see that many other books I've read were responses to Foundation in the Great Conversation. If

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

Time manages to get away from me these days, but I submitted a book review for publication in a magazine and I wrote another one for Starship Grifters this week, so let's keep things rolling with a selection of the Internet's finest links. This interview with

Starship Grifters Book Review

Starship Grifters Book Review

This is a funny, funny book. It is loveably absurd and ridiculously extravagant. I had this book sitting in my TBR pile for years, but it was just the thing when I finally picked it up. Starship Grifters is a Mad Magazine style parody wrapped around a nugget of another

Rise from your Gwave

Rise from your Gwave

It is the Sega Genesis version that had the slightly clipped opening lines, rather than the arcade cabinet that I remember from my youth. But I definitely fed more than few quarters into machine that looks like this.

The Sphere

The Sphere

The new music venue in Las Vegas called The Sphere [although not Crichton's Sphere, a good deal on Amazon right now] was described by one of my Twitter mutuals as "the opposite of a sensory deprivation tank". In the subset of humanity described as having Sensory

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-20: Folk Americana

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-20: Folk Americana

Over the Garden Wall is akin to Dante's Divine Comedy, but told through natively American imagery. I'll be showing this to my kids tonight. Friend of the blog Alexander Palacio has written several excellent threads on the Lord of the Rings, which you can find through