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Lay the Hate Special Audiobook Available

Lay the Hate, book 4 in the Forgotten Ruin series, is available on the Galaxy’s Edge store in a special edition ahead of the Audible release. The version available now has Christopher Ryan Grant as the main narrator, and Jeff Bosley reading the epilogue. The authors say the Audible

Timothy Zahn's Quadrail Series

I recently finished a re-read of Timothy Zahn’s Quadrail series. My first time was in 2018, and I was curious how well this mystery-like science fiction would hold up once I already knew whodunit. As it turns out, just about as well as the first time, maybe even a

Linkfest 2022-01-14: Muppet Christmas

I had originally intended this linkfest to come out at the end of 2021, but things have been busy around here! GQ: Michael Caine Loves The Muppet Christmas Carol as Much as You Do The family watched The Muppet Christmas Carol this week[3 weeks ago now], and Michael Caine’

Ed West's Asabiyyah is Free on Amazon January 9th

Ed West’s Asabiyyah is free on Amazon today. With Both Hands is a Ibn Khaldun respecter, so I recommend you get this book while you can. Other books by Ed West The Path of the Martyrs

Spengler! D&D! Psychotronic gaming!

Thanks to Stephen Smith, I came across this discussion of D&D with a dose a Spengler. Since this blog is the Internet’s foremost provider of Spengler-themed short fiction, how could I resist? The discussion is quite long, a couple of hours, but it is interesting to hear

Ice and Monsters by Peter Nealen Audiobook Review

Ice and Monsters: The Lost — Book 1 by Peter Nealen [Galaxy’s Edge store] borrows from the dark humor and fatalism of the northmen and the legends of the Irish to craft a brutal and desperate tale of survival in a frozen and mysterious world. Conor McCall, of the clan

The Long View 2008-11-29: Mumbai and the Tranquility of Order

In retrospect, I have criticized John and a lot of other people for the things they said or the courses of action they took in the years after 9/11. However, if you get yourself back in the mindset you might have had at the time, something like the 2008