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Janissaries Book Review

by Jerry Pournelle 335 pages;$5.95 This is the first book of a trilogy. Jerry Pournelle is working on a fourth, but it has not yet been finished. This is a fun book. The concept does border on the ridiculous, but the payoff comes in the form of useful

Falkenberg's Legion (The Prince) Book Review

The Mercenary, by Jerry Pournelle (1977) Pocket Books, New York West of Honor, by Jerry Pournelle (1978 Pocket Books, New York Prince of Mercenaries, by Jerry Pournelle (1989) Pocket Books, New York Go Tell the Spartans, by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling (1991) Pocket Books, New York Prince of

New Kenshin Coming

Will sends along the tip that a new Kenshin anime is in production. No details yet about story, but I will keep a look out for more information. To whet your appetite, here is a trailer for a new PSP Kenshin game:

Tim Powers' New Novel

From the Works of Tim Powers blog: In the winter of 1862, London veterinarian John Crawford learns that his interlude with a prostitute seven years earlier has produced a daughter. The now-reformed ex-prostitute, Adelaide McKee, has recently learned that their lost daughter is still alive—but that the girl'

How to get a real education

Via John D Cook, Scott Adams has a hilarious article in the WSJ about what kind of tertiary education we should be providing. I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers

Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander

Someone came by today looking for the quote, "surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander." It wasn't anywhere on this site, but I came across this quote in Jerry Pournelle's Prince of Mercenaries, pg 299 in the Baen

The Concrete Universal in Literature

James Chastek at Just Thomism writes on the concrete universals we find in literature [poetry as Aristotle would say]. There is a real likeness to the sort of perfection of knowledge that is most manifest in the experiment. Just as we can get an insight into all forces by seeing