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NPR Running a poll on the top Sci Fi books

NPR wants to know its listeners' favorite scifi books, so there is a poll on their website created from listener nominations. Lots of good books are on the list. You could just take the list and work your way through it if you needed something to read. All my

The Four Archetypes of the Masculine

The Art of Manliness has a series starting that is inspired by the book, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. I am looking forward to this. Of the two great forefathers of modern psychology, I find Carl Jung more interesting than Sigmund Freud, although both

Follow-up to SURPRISE IS AN EVENT THAT OCCURS IN THE MIND OF AN ENEMY COMMANDER

A while back I had a post on the quote: surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander This week, Jerry Pournelle wrote in to tell me: Message: The maxim that surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander comes

She book review

She book review

She A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard World's Popular Classics, Art-Type Edition An interesting book indeed. This book, along with King Solomon's Mines, established the universe in which seemingly every subsequent adventure story would be set. Everything you need is here, the Victorian era,

Last Call optioned

After reading Last Call, it took some of the fun out of poker. And I will never touch a Tarot card.

Gene Wolfe's Tribute to Tolkien

Gene Wolfe is an author whose books I have never read, although I know of him through other authors I enjoy. Here is his tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien. There is one very real sense in which the Dark Ages were the brightest of times, and it is this:

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