A Commonplace Book

This is a well made and nicely proportioned training sword, eminently suitable for the purpose. The slim specialized blade broadening consp...

On some sallets the chinstraps have survived, and there are images showing chin straps or laces on kettle hats in the Morgan Bible and on ...

Original world building is one of the virtues of The Goblin Emperor . The elvish government is one facet of this. A key example is the Coraz...

Another objection to Ken Burnside's The Hot Equations is that he spends a lot of time on the performance of electric propulsion (at cur...

Pastiche has been described as a work that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. It follows, then that f...

Ken Burnside makes a brave attempt to discuss the actual implications of thermodynamics in space warfare. It is on the 2015 Hugo ballot for...

Just finished The Goblin Emperor. The 2015 Hugo novel category is going to be just fine. There’s at least one novel with likable and sympat...

I haven't read all of them yet, but in the short fiction Hugo categories dominated by puppies , most of the nominees don't seem to b...

In his aptly titled blog post Rant: Sad Puppies vs. Anti-Puppies, as the Kilostreisands Pile Up , Jeff Duntemann argues My conclusion is ...

Back when I was in High School, in the early 1970s, I loved Keith Laumer's Bolo stories about gigantic cybertanks. I later designed a wa...