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Five Million Watts Again

I first read Five Million Watts [Amazon link] almost exactly a year ago, but I didn’t review it until February of 2020. With the scientific assistance of Hans Schantz [Amazon link], Fenton Wood takes the electronic geekery up to 11 in the second volume of the Yankee Republic series.

Hopi Tales of Destruction collected by Ekkehart Malotki Book Review

HopI Tales of Destruction [Amazon link] is a collection of legends narrated by Michael Lomatuway’ma, Lorena Lomatuway’ma, and Sidney Namingha Jr, and translated by Ekkehart Malotki. As you might guess from the title, each story features some dramatic act of devastation. Malotki has also provided helpful commentary before

Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves Again

I just wrapped up a re-read of Fenton Wood’s Pirates of the Electromagnetic Republic [Amazon link]. It was just as good as the first time, and maybe even more so. One of the things I enjoy so much about Fenton Wood’s series is the little tidbits of facts

Fenton Wood's Yankee Republic

Fenton Wood says that the omnibus print edition of his Yankee Republic series [Amazon link] should be out to backers by February, so I’ll be re-reading all five individual volumes, and filling in the reviews I haven’t done yet. Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves reminds me of my

Gideon Ira in Castle Bloodghast: Deus Vult Wastelanders Book 4 Review

Gideon Ira in Castle Bloodghast [Amazon link] is the fourth volume in the Deus Vult Wastelanders series, but the third featuring Gideon Ira. The basic structure of the Gideon Ira books I have read are all similar: Gideon receives a mission from God, and proceeds to shoot, smash, or chop

The Emperor Ponders Dense Descriptions

Emperor Norton has written a follow-up on generating dense descriptions, and it is well worth the wait. I talked about thick descriptions in one of my posts on this subject, but Norton is here talking about dense descriptions, where every word is pregnant with meaning. Norton uses Robert E. Howard

John J. Reilly on Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace

John J. Reilly’s review of Joe Haldeman’s Forever Peace [Amazon link] contains a remarkable digression on the economics of abundance. John wrote it twenty two years ago, and if anything it only gets better with age. Read it for yourself. Then there is the economics of abundance. In