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Its Reapin' Time

Reaper, book 10 of Will Wight’s Cradle series is up for pre-order on Amazon. As is his usual practice, Will is making the first six volumes of this series available for free on Amazon Kindle until 10/23. If you haven’t picked up this series, why not check

Linkfest 2021-10-15: The Limits of Chaos

DarwinCatholic: War, Mobilization, and the Nation State Friend of the blog DarwinCatholic looks at a concept we discuss here often, the capacity of the nation state to mobilize and organize its people for grand proejcts. DarwinCatholic: Soldier Cultures, Warrior Cultures In a follow-up to the above, DarwinCatholic looks at the

The Cold Equations

Dominic Cummings re-posted a link to his 2017 discussion of systems engineering as applied to politics, and since it touches on just about every theme I like to discuss here at With Both Hands, I thought it would be worth exploring in some detail. Systems engineering is something you could

With the Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling

“With the Night Mail” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling [Amazon link] originally published in 1905, and then edited and expanded into the 1909 version reviewed here. It is in a way just barely a story, a telling of an eventful airship crossing of the Atlantic in the midst

BasedCon Book Sale

Some authors I follow started a new conference this year, and there is a big sale going on because of it right now. Friend of the blog Han Schantz organizes these sales a few times each year. Here are some selections from the sale that I have reviewed, and free

Lay the Hate: Forgotten Ruin Book 4 Review

Lay the Hate is the fourth book in the Forgotten Ruin book series, Jason Anspach and Nick Cole’s prose poem to the Rangers and D&D. [Amazon link] In book four, the Rangers decide to get into the domain-level game, Talker has an urban adventure, and the best

Linkfest 2021-09-10: The Suck Button

The illustrations in this week’s linkfest are from Robert McCall (1919 - 2010), NASA’s visual historian and Arizona resident. I had seen this Far Side cartoon when I was a kid, and it seemed funny at the time. Little did I realize that it had a real story