by Didact | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Charles F. Murray- a scholar who is routinely, but in my opinion incorrectly, classified as a libertarian- wrote up a review of an interesting new book that promises to seriously shake up our understanding of race: The orthodoxy’s equivalent of the Nicene Creed...
by Didact | Apr 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Frank Herbert’s 1965 masterpiece, Dune, was quite simply the greatest science fiction novel ever. He reached heights that have never been scaled before or since. He completely rewrote the rules for science fiction and played an incredibly important role in...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Seeing as it’s been a couple of months since I last bothered posting a proper review about something, I figured it’s high time I fixed that little problem and got on with writing about some of the books and good music that I’ve enjoyed recently. Col....
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Two Very Good Things happened on January 31st, 2014: HALO: Spartan Assault was released for the Xbox 360, and Jay Allan’s latest entry into the Crimson Worlds series was finally released, after a month of delays and revisions. I have to say, I was quite...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Terms of Enlistment, the first novel in the Frontlines series by Marko Kloos, was in my opinion an excellent if slightly flawed new entry into the canon of military sci-fi. The follow-up, Lines of Departure, picks up a few months after ToE left off, with Earth...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I indicated in my review of A Desert Called Peace, Tom Kratman’s Carrera series is NOT for the liberal-minded. The original book contained no small amount of material seemingly written with the express intent of seeing how quickly a “liblepr” head...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greg Bear is an author with whom most sci-fi readers will be quite familiar. He is widely and highly regarded as one of the finest minds writing modern science fiction, and is noted for his imagination as well as his grasp of actual hard science. For my part,...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greg Bear is one of those odd sci-fi authors whose work is at once very accessible and very dense. It’s difficult to explain this unless you’ve actually read one of his books. I have read several, and I have found his books to be of decidedly varying...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mother of God! A giant moving cave with teeth! RUNNNNNN!!! I could write this review in just one sentence: “Dune is the greatest science fiction novel ever written”. It would be accurate. It would be truthful. And it wouldn’t even begin to do this...
by Didact | Dec 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while knows full well by now that I’m a big fan of Vox Day’s work. I’m very much looking forward to his next instalment in his The Arts of Dark and Light series. However, Vox’s roots as a writer are...
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