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City of Light Book Review

City of Light by Will Wight Hidden Gnome Publishing (April 9, 2014) 394 pages ASIN: B00JL6JMR6 In City of Light, Will Wight finishes what he started. I admire his focus, there are clearly more stories in this world that can be told. But Simon has completed the hero's

The Crimson Vault Book Review

The Crimson Vault by Will Wight Hidden Gnome Publishing (August 27, 2013) 386 pages ASIN: B00EV12PH0 The Crimson Vault starts with the same scene that initiates Simon's hero's journey in House of Blades, from the point of view of one of the other participants. If anything,

Soulminder Book Review

Soulminder by Timothy Zahn Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (September 23, 2014) 334 pages ASIN B07B675RVC For Dr. Adrian Sommer, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy—and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved

Turning Point: Galaxy's Edge #7 Book Review

Turning Point: Galaxy's Edge #7 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 374 pages Published February 23th 2018 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B079NGCX1T Turning Point is an ugly book. It is ugly, because war is ugly. And this is warre, war to the knife. Firebombs,

Imperator: Galaxy's Edge Book Review

My heart is broken. Broken for the good man Goth Sullus once was. Back when I wrote up Galactic Outlaws, I left a long comment on Jon Mollison's response to me saying that I thought Sullus was once a man of honor too. It turns out that was

The Long View: The New Absolutes

This twenty-year old essay is topical this week, with the defenestration of James Damore from Google. I've said several times that the cultural Left won the culture war in the United States, at least insofar as they hold more power to impose their ideas than the Right at

The Long View 2005-05-02: Human Mice; Roe Misapprehension; Gödel versus Immanence

I remember being struck by this story when it came out. If your human-mice hybrids start acting too human, the obvious solution is to just kill them all! Human Mice; Roe Misapprehension; Gödel versus Immanence No, deranged scientists are not trying to create human-mouse hybrids that have squeaky voices and