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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-27: The Other Place
David V. Stewart looks at why we are attracted to certain kind of place in our fantasies.
DefianceBook reviews and literary criticism of adventure stories, along with an archive of John J. Reilly’s The Long ViewWith Both HandsBenjamin EspenSGT. THORAn all-new series set in world of Forgotten RuinGalaxy's Edge:
The care and feeding of Zebean wildlife
Fixing Herbert's Mistake
I came across this article yesterday about how there is an opportunity with Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two to "fix" Herbert's mistake. That was a bold enough statement to give me an opportunity to explore what Frank Herbert was doing with Dune.
The way Paul was built up in the
They say you can't hear a picture
Don't threaten me with a good time
Defiance
How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?
In my on-going series that looks into the numbers of the book market, here are some sales numbers on Pulitzer Prize winning books from Mal Warwick:
* “The 2014 general nonfiction winner, Tom’s River by Dan Fagin, went from 10 copies [before the prize announcement] to 162 copies sold (6,
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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-19: Bully
Towards a Christian Vitalism | Christian WinterA Response to John EhrettAmerican ReformerChristian Winter
A Muscular Christianity for a new millennium
Nuclear power helps bring down electricity prices by 75% in FinlandCountry expects wind to be its largest energy source by 2027The NationalJohn Benny
Finland is a little less populous than Arizona,
With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park
I recently re-read Jurassic Park for the first time in decades. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton's books, and the movies based on them. I read every book of his that I could find. After a while, I drifted away, looking for variety in my
A flash of inspiration
Klein organizations
In a Weekly Digest in April, I posted a link to Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity. In my head, I implicitly linked this to Burton Klein's classification of firms:
Type 1: “Happy warrior rationality” is associated with ideological outbreeding and is commonly employed in making fast history.
Type 2:
Hacking Galileo Book Review
Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology.
This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built