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Forgotten Ruin and Eucatastrophe

I like writing book reviews, although in one way I do find the form a bit limiting. For the most part, book reviews are written to entice people to read a book they have not read, and hence it is considered bad form to give away everything in the book

Forgotten Ruin by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Audiobook Review

Forgotten Ruin [Amazon link], the new audiobook by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, narrated by Christopher Ryan Grant, is described by the authors as Tolkien meets Shock + Awe. I would describe it as a wonderful mashup of all of my favorite things in dudelit, the masculine adventure fiction that spans

Linkfest 2020-12-18: Shannon Edition

“Bit Player:” desecrating the memory of Claude Shannon Scott Locklin has a bit to say about the legacy of Claude Shannon in his characteristically dyspeptic way. I have never ceased to be amazed by the fundamental inventiveness of the 1930s. The transformation of America, and then the world, in the

The Long View 2007-12-21: Alternative Futures; Bombadil; New Greenhouse Model; Huckabee & Political Physics

There is a great deal of 2007 political controversy in this post by John J. Reilly that doesn’t matter much anymore, but his passing aside on Tom Bombadil reminded me of a series of tweets by Misha Burnett earlier this month. While it isn’t true that Tolkien invented

The Long View 2007-12-19: Tradition; Kenosis; CBC on Neuhaus; Laws of Nature; Hobbits

John makes an off-hand comment here that helps to illustrate why it was so hard to figure what my taste in fiction was: In principle, The Lord of the Rings is the sequel to The Hobbit. Tolkien's publishers thought they had commissioned another nice little children's

The Long View: The Gray Havens

The Gray Havens Table of Contents An Explanation A Disclaimer (1) The Downfall of Rivendell (2) Weathertop (3) Bree (4) The Old Forest (5) Buckland (6) The Conquered Shire (7) The Prefect of Bag End (8) North & West (9) The Tower Hills (10) The End of the World An

Linkfest 2017-06-09

* How the gearheads at Pixar made Cars 3 more realistic than you might think I love the movie Cars, and I am very excited about Cars 3, which looks less like a cashing-in on the initial success of the first movie sequel [you gotta pay for studios somehow] and more