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Get all Seven Cradle Books by Will Wight Free

Will Wight announced that he is giving away the first seven volumes of Cradle free on Amazon from October 5 - 7. If you haven’t tried this series before, this is a good opportunity to get into it. Take a look at my review of Unsouled to whet your

A lucky find and an unexpected vistor

I was recently asked by Aaron Irber on Twitter if I was going to review Alternate Routes by Tim Powers. Thanks to a lucky find at my favorite used bookstore, the answer is now definitely yes! It also happens that recently someone with a San Bernardino IP address went through

LinkFest 2020-10-02

Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait A fascinating look at Albrecht Dürer’s slightly scandalous self-portrait. ASTEROIDS: BY THE NUMBERS A detailed look at Asteroids by RETROGAME DECONSTRUCTION ZONE. Asteroids was meant to be something of a physics simulator, but with interesting adaptions to make the

Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers Book Review

Dinner at Deviant’s Palace [Amazon link] is a bit unusual for a Tim Powers’ book, a post-apocalyptic adventure rather than a secret history. In my own mind, it has been overshadowed a bit by The Anubis Gates [Amazon link], possibly Powers’ most famous novel, released two years earlier. Yet,

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George Weigel has himself experienced a firestorm of criticism for writing an article in First Things concluding that President Truman deciding to use nuclear weapons in an attempt to accelerate the end of the war was the least worst option. Both Weigel and those who have defended him stand accused

The Long View 2008-01-14: Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans

Apparently the comfy chair did not dissuade Damian Thompson from his muckraking ways. Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans Many persons hold President Bush in light esteem, but few actually identify him with Antichrist or his precursors. Nonetheless, that is the gist

LinkFest 2020-09-25

Welcome back to LinkFest, my weekly look at interesting things I’ve read, as well as retrospectives on my two main projects here, With Both Hands and The Long View re-posting project. Theodore Roosevelt and the Case for a Popular Constitution TR is a common subject here at With Both