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Forget Nothing II Audiobook Review

Forget Nothing: Part II might seem like just another boot camp story. And on the surface, it is. But nothing at Galaxy’s Edge is as it first appears, and this story is no different. This isn’t even the first time we have had a boot camp story in

Linkfest 2022-01-28: St. Thomas

Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. Enjoy a pint, and chase off your vices with a burning brand. This Twitter thread contains an info dump on the P2 Masonic Lodge, an absolutely fascinating and true conspiracy. UnHerd: Are You A Basic Conservative? Ed West makes an interesting

Linkfest 2020-10-16: Castle of Otranto Edition

Linkfest 2020-10-16: Castle of Otranto Edition

The Gothic in Sword & Sorcery This is a nice overview of Gothic novels and how they have influenced what we now call fantasy. Gothic novels were an incredibly broad group, containing books in a range from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (Amazon link) [the progenitor of the woman with

Red Heroin by Wade Curtis (Jerry Pournelle) Book Review

In Red Heroin [Amazon affiliate link], a thrilling tale of espionage set in late Sixties Seattle, engineer Paul Crane finds himself sucked into a plot involving drug smuggling, student activists, fast cars, and hot women. This was Jerry Pournelle’s first novel, and it is a remarkable start to a

Overlook by Jon Mollison Book Review

Overlook [Silver Empire affiliate link] is another entry in the Heroes Unleashed universe, this time we get a spy novel in world of superheroes. Joe Smith, a man whose name is not the only forgettable thing about him, quietly supports himself as a penetration tester, hired by companies to test

Through the Nether Book Review

What is it that makes good men willing to see the world burn? To see justice done, tho the heavens may fall? The recent Joker movie directed and written by Todd Philips could described as a character study in what makes a hopeless loser willing to do so. Soren Voss,

The Long View 2006-11-10: The Morning of the Day Before

I hadn’t known [or had forgotten] that John J. Reilly was among the Catholics who find the logic of Humane Vitae less than airtight. He was also among the much smaller group who thinks the doctrine is correct, it just needs to be explained a bit better. The Morning