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WBH Digest 2023-09-29: Songs From the Stars

Sometimes things just come together. For this With Both Hands Digest, we have an extensive set of reflections occasioned by Norman Spinrad's alternative history novel The Iron Dream. Ian Nol: The Iron Dream Viewed from the Right Norman Spinrad was the prototype of today's very online Left: Norman Spinrad is,

It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This

The best one sentence review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that I ever saw is that is successfully recapitulates the feeling of a child finding a stick and setting off into the woods for an adventure.

Short controlled bursts

And don't forget the sound.

Federation by H. Beam Piper

Federation is a collection of five of H. Beam Piper's short stories, curated and re-published by John F. Carr in an Ace Paperback edition in 1981. The book leads off with a preface by Jerry Pournelle, who knew Piper through science fiction fandom before Piper's suicide. Carr has an illuminating

Truly, this was a righteous man

It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle. Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-09-08: BasedCon Book Sale

Today's update will be focused on the BasedCon Book Sale run by Hans G. Schantz. This sale is the first to feature one of John J. Reilly's books, Spengler's Future. Lots of authors I have reviewed are a part of the sale, so I'll list out some of my favorites,

Fortresses that Augur only Destruction

Honeybees are of course domesticated, but the taint of evil is detectable in wasps.

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-09-02: On Track

Things continue to be extremely busy for me, but I've done two new book reviews since the last digest. And of course the usual panoply of interesting links. Learning that the "Arthurian Wasteland" of the legends was real reshapes your entire view of the mid 6th century in Britain. pic.

Gruesome Futures Book Review

Gruesome Futures is the fourth of Jon Weichsel's Tales to Make You Vomit. Weichsel clearly believes in truth in advertising, as the title and cover are an honest description of what you will find inside. If anything, this cover is a little tamer than some of the previous installments, while

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Matthew and Jason have returned to Earth, escaped the Great Sorcerer King, killed the woman who tricked them and destroyed a building in the process. Now what? Gemini Drifter, the second book in JD Cowan's Gemini Man series, presents our protagonists with more freedom than the last. In Gemini Warrior,

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-08-12: Book of the New Sun

Okay, maybe even every two weeks is a little much right now. The Book of the New Sun is the Dark Souls of BooksGene Wolfe and Dark Souls are both difficult and engrossing. In demanding rereading and replaying, they resist the passivity of consumer culture.C.W. HowellC.W. Howell

It's Technical

Mitsubishi could challenge Toyota on their dominance in the light assault vehicle market. Source

The Wise of Heart Book Review

He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the wind: and the foole shall be servant to the wise of heart. Proverbs 11:29 Hans G. Schantz's The Wise of Heart is a bold foray into one of the most controversial topics in contemporary America: transgenderism. It is an inherently

The system is very efficient

Every so often very online Catholics will get twisted around the axle by some Dominican or Thomist insisting that animals do not go to heaven because they don't have an immortal soul, but I've always regarded the anger about this assertion as a category mistake, as any good Dominican would