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sWell, This is Awkward… Short Reviews Will Return Next Week!
Friday , 17, May 2019 Uncategorized 1 CommentThis week had me slammed, but we promise that next week, we’ll have a review up for Emmett McDowell’s Sword of Fire!
World War 2 had shown that small infantry units could do more with increased firepower. The German Sturmgewehr 44 pointed the direction to the future with select fire capability and a less powerful cartridge. The bolt action rifle still had some life in it. The first Arab-Israeli War fought in 1948 mainly with bolt action […]
You can now preorder David the Good’s latest in the Good Guide to Gardening series, Free Plants for Everyone, from Amazon. Do you want to grow apples from seed? Or learn to graft? Or germinate seeds from that awesome old honey locust tree in your Grandpa’s backyard? In Free Plants for Everyone, you will learn tried and […]
Fantasy and Adventure New Releases, 11 May 2019
Saturday , 11, May 2019 Just Released Leave a commentDragons, dragon knights, time travelers and vigilante soldiers rampage through this week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure. Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight – Kentaro Miura and Makoto Fukami The first Berserk novel, conceived by series creator Kentaro Miura and written by Makoto Fukami, novelist and screenwriter for the Berserk anime, Psycho-Pass and Resident Evil: Vendetta. The Flame Dragon […]
Short Reviews – Let The Ants Try, by Frederik Pohl (as James MacCreigh)
Friday , 10, May 2019 Uncategorized 1 CommentLet The Ants Try by Frederik Pohl (as James MacCreigh) appeared in the Winter 1949 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. A man’s first enemy is his family—for he sees them first—but he sides with them against the families across the way. And still his neighbors are allies against the […]
Medieval Studies is the critical study of Europe’s self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevitably, Left-wing academics want to introduce gender studies and race theory to the field—and punish those who refuse to conform. When one University of Chicago professor dared to publicly celebrate the Christian identity of the Middle Ages, […]
Sensor Sweep: Heir to the Empire, Fletcher Pratt, Ki Khanga, Jack Williamson, 1990s Comic Books
Monday , 6, May 2019 Sensor Sweep 7 CommentsCinema (Kairos): An anonymous commenter on yesterday’s post asks who should have been cast in a hypothetical 1993 film adaptation of Heir to the Empire. The hour when such a film could have been made has long since passed, but wistful speculation on what might have been is all Star Wars fans have left. Without further ado, here […]
World War 2 started on September 1, 1939 with the infantrymen of the initial belligerents using the same rifles used a generation before in World War 1. The biggest difference was the use of a new generation of light machine guns – Bren guns, MG-34s etc. The submachine gun did have an impact, and everyone […]
Irma wishes to be the perfect girl: chaste, feminine, and generous. But when a giant monster stomps through her hometown, her plans crumbled right along with the stores and apartments. In the chaos of acrid smoke and panicked civilians, the private military company Shadow Heart snatched her friend out of the crowd and took her […]
Science Fiction New Releases: 4 May 2019
Saturday , 4, May 2019 Just Released, Uncategorized 2 CommentsMecha madness descends once more in this week’s roundup of science fiction releases, with sky-jumping mercenaries, tokusatsu heroines, and covert bodyguards all donning heavy metal. Meanwhile, a young radio engineer tries to talk to the stars and pulp hero Eric John Stark tries to stop a barbarian invasion on Mars. Deathangel (The Four Horsemen: Omega […]
Short Reviews will return next week with James MacCreigh’s Let The Ants Try! You guys know how much I love Leigh Brackett and think that everyone really ought to be reading her. So much so that I dropped some hefty coin in creating an all-new, fully illustrated edition of her Eric John Stark Planet Stories. […]