Uncle Iroh
I wrote my review of The Last Airbender before I had kids. Since then, I did in fact show my kids this show, and they loved it. And I still do too.
Benjamin Espen
The Turquoise Serpent
Alexander Palacio's The Turquoise Serpent is R. E. Howard's Conan transposed into a demon-haunted pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and it is awesome. I imagine a certain fraction of my audience will know exactly what that means without elaboration, but for the rest of you let's dive
The Long View 2009-02-27
John J. Reilly was an attorney, a writer, and very well-read. He did like to opine on science, although in my years of knowing him and my subsequent years of going through his writing, he never struck me as a man who approached the world in a primarily quantitative way.
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-15: Memed into Reality
We'll begin this week with the book chapter I wrote on Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and some of the very interesting commentary that developed in it's wake.
Foundation by Isaac AsimovFoundation is a book that I haven’t read until now. Given what I do
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation is a book that I haven't read until now. Given what I do at With Both Hands, it is good that I have read it, as I can now see that many other books I've read were responses to Foundation in the Great Conversation. If
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton
Time manages to get away from me these days, but I submitted a book review for publication in a magazine and I wrote another one for Starship Grifters this week, so let's keep things rolling with a selection of the Internet's finest links.
This interview with
Starship Grifters Book Review
This is a funny, funny book. It is loveably absurd and ridiculously extravagant. I had this book sitting in my TBR pile for years, but it was just the thing when I finally picked it up. Starship Grifters is a Mad Magazine style parody wrapped around a nugget of another