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The Grait God Pan

I've somehow missed this book, but it turns out to be an influence on both H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. This version is in John Reilly's Snapscript. Contents I THE EXPERIMNT II MR. CLARKES MEMWARS III THE SITY OV REZERECSIONS IV THE DISCUVRY IN PAUL

The Long View: Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages

Ignore doomsday at your peril. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages by Eugen Weber Harvard University Press, 2000 294 pages, US$16.95 (Paperback) ISBN 0-674-00395-0 The University of Toronto asked Eugen Weber, the noted emeritus professor of modern European history at UCLA, to give the 1999

Linkfest 2017-05-26

* At LAX's new private terminal, the rich are pampered while normal people suffer Gavin de Becker, who became famous because of Oprah, has expanded his celebrity security business to a whole terminal at LAX. de Becker is the kind of guy who strikes me as a secret crimethinker,

The Long View 2005-01-21: Fire in the Minds of Men

John Reilly here puts his unique gloss on President George W. Bush's second inaugural address. A lot of sober commentators at the time were surprised by its tone, which was utopian and revolutionary. John wasn't, because W was articulating something that has a long history in

The Long View 2005-01-18: Murder, Integralism, & Neuroscience

It is prudent to discount anything "proved" with fMRI. Murder, Integralism, & Neuroscience I rarely follow crime news, so I paid no particular attention to the headlines I saw at the end of last week about the slaughter of the Armanious family here in Jersey City. Only yesterday

The Long View 2005-01-14: Simple Taxes, Simple Spelling, NGOs & Evil Robots

John noted in this blog post that Google's ad policies were inadvertently standardizing spelling. Google search does much the same thing. If you really wanted to change spelling, maybe that would be the way to do it? Simple Taxes, Simple Spelling, NGOs & Evil Robots Now that even

The Long View: The Domination

I consider Stirling one of my favorite authors, but I could never get into this one. The premise is pretty interesting, it was the execution that put me off. The Draka society is truly horrible, and described in detail, but also this series of novels, like the Island in the