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Dracula by Bram Stoker Book Review

I find it entirely appropriate to put up my review of Bram Stoker’s justly famous Dracula on the Feast of All Saints, November 1st. Like all of the best horror, Dracula is about how the unconquerable power of God works itself out in our broken and sinful world through

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Book Review

Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man is a book I have owned for a long long time. [Amazon link] However, this should be a fun review as it has been more than twenty years since I last picked up this collection, and much has changed in my own life in

A host of ebook deals

If you keep your eyes open, you can find good deals on ebooks in the Amazon Kindle store, especially collections that offer a lot of value. David Feintuch’s Seafort Saga is a series I got into because John J. Reilly reviewed the whole bunch in 1997, a 1950s ish

Its Reapin' Time

Reaper, book 10 of Will Wight’s Cradle series is up for pre-order on Amazon. As is his usual practice, Will is making the first six volumes of this series available for free on Amazon Kindle until 10/23. If you haven’t picked up this series, why not check

Linkfest 2021-10-15: The Limits of Chaos

DarwinCatholic: War, Mobilization, and the Nation State Friend of the blog DarwinCatholic looks at a concept we discuss here often, the capacity of the nation state to mobilize and organize its people for grand proejcts. DarwinCatholic: Soldier Cultures, Warrior Cultures In a follow-up to the above, DarwinCatholic looks at the

The Cold Equations

Dominic Cummings re-posted a link to his 2017 discussion of systems engineering as applied to politics, and since it touches on just about every theme I like to discuss here at With Both Hands, I thought it would be worth exploring in some detail. Systems engineering is something you could

With the Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling

“With the Night Mail” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling [Amazon link] originally published in 1905, and then edited and expanded into the 1909 version reviewed here. It is in a way just barely a story, a telling of an eventful airship crossing of the Atlantic in the midst