With Both Hands

Sign in Subscribe

Books

Linkfest 2022-06-24: The End of the Hoplite

A great Twitter thread on how innovations in military doctrine amongst the Greeks changed the world. West Hunter: Flerov’s Gambit Georgy Flerov was a young nuclear physicist in the Soviet Union who ( in 1943) sent a letter to Stalin advocating an atomic bomb project. It is not clear that

Dune Book Review

After years of talking about Dune and its sequels by Frank Herbert, I’ve come to appreciate why the book is good enough to come back to again and again. The last time I read Frank Herbert’s Dune was about a decade ago, and I’ve spent that time

Legionnaire, the book that launched Galaxy's Edge, is free on Amazon

I bought Legionnaire on a Black Friday deal in 2017, and I never looked back. In the last five years, I’ve reviewed 28 books set in the Galaxy’s Edge universe, and that isn’t even the full list that is currently available. If you want to know what

The Well at World's End by William Morris

Sometimes, I read books so you don’t have to. The Well at World’s End really is a seminal work, but it is also a slog of a book that I wouldn’t recommend to someone reading for fun. But it is a fascinating story, and the prototype of

First four St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. books on sale

Declan Finn’s St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. series has one of the best portraits of a genuinely holy man I have seen in fiction. In my review of Hell Spawn I said: This book made me want to go to confession. Tommy Nolan lives in a world where

Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System

Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same

Last Contact: Galaxy's Edge Book 15

Last Contact is where everything in Season Two of Galaxy’s Edge comes together. There is something here for just about every flavor of fan I’ve seen so far, and you can see the pieces being setup for a real banger in the next book. In Remains, we got