Ed West's Asabiyyah is Free on Amazon January 9th
Ed West’s Asabiyyah is free on Amazon today. With Both Hands is a Ibn Khaldun respecter, so I recommend you get this book while you can.
Other books by Ed West
The Path of the Martyrs
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Spengler! D&D! Psychotronic gaming!
Thanks to Stephen Smith, I came across this discussion of D&D with a dose a Spengler. Since this blog is the Internet’s foremost provider of Spengler-themed short fiction, how could I resist?
The discussion is quite long, a couple of hours, but it is interesting to hear
Ice and Monsters by Peter Nealen Audiobook Review
Ice and Monsters: The Lost — Book 1 by Peter Nealen [Galaxy’s Edge store] borrows from the dark humor and fatalism of the northmen and the legends of the Irish to craft a brutal and desperate tale of survival in a frozen and mysterious world.
Conor McCall, of the clan
The Long View 2008-11-29: Mumbai and the Tranquility of Order
In retrospect, I have criticized John and a lot of other people for the things they said or the courses of action they took in the years after 9/11. However, if you get yourself back in the mindset you might have had at the time, something like the 2008
Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett
Happy New Year to all the readers of With Both Hands! I thought I’d start off this year with a classic work, Black Amazon of Mars. You can get a free Kindle version, but there is also an illustrated edition put out by Cirsova. [Amazon links]
Even though this
Pulp stories and character death
On Twitter, Astonishing Hero asked an excellent question about how in a lot of pulpy adventure stories the hero always beats the bad guy and gets the girl, and then interestingly contrasted it with preferred RPG play style. There was lots of great discussion over on Twitter, but the part
Forgotten Ruin and Eucatastrophe
I like writing book reviews, although in one way I do find the form a bit limiting. For the most part, book reviews are written to entice people to read a book they have not read, and hence it is considered bad form to give away everything in the book