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Linkfest 2023-01-06: Disrupting the Atlatl

This week’s linkfest is an illustration of my contention that Twitter can be the best tool for learning new things we currently have, if you use it right. Vulpine Outlaw: The Coming of the Bow Although a party pooper insists this isn’t true. With Both Hands: A Man

Linkfest 2022-11-25: Lost Cities

Cracked: The Real Time The USSR Tried To Visit A Magical City It wasn’t just the Nazis who were obsessed with the strategic implications of the occult. 19FortyFive: Read H. P. Lovecraft To Understand War Weirdness, then, is about presence—the presence of something freaky and possibly otherworldly in

Post-Roman City of Medieval Europe

The state of the short genre fiction market

Via friends of the blog Cirsova and SFFaudio, a historical point of reference for the short fiction market, another piece of the puzzle of why the book market is what it is right now. Weird Tales was usually a monthly, and if we adjust for population growth, 50k a month

The Evolution of the Knight

Thomas Feichtmeir on Twitter shows the development of the armor worn in Europe.

Linkfest 2022-07-29: Bacchanal

Antigone Journal: Drinking with the Ancients The always interesting Antigone Journal looks at the drinking practices of the classical Greeks and Romans. ISI: The Perils of Re-Enchantment The materialist philosophy that dominated the twentieth century is evaporating, but what is rushing to fill the void is not uncomplicated Christian faith,

Uller Uprising Book Review

Everytime I read a book by H. Beam Piper, I’m sorry I slept on it for so long. Uller Uprising is a tightly plotted tale inspired by, but not a retelling of, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. And it has a introduction of some of the hardest science I