“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Book Review: Dominatus by D.W. Ulsterman

For some reason my review of Roosh’s book proved incredibly interesting, so much so that over a thousand people bombarded this place in the space of 24 hours. Don’t ask me why, I just write this stuff. Anyway, being the incorrigible bookworm that I...

Book Review: The Wardog’s Coin by Vox Day

(It so happens that the inside cover of this pair of short stories has one of the usual “Praise for A Throne of Bones” things in it, and that section references my review of that book. That was my first internet-published book review, of any kind, so I...

Book Review: Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos

(Note: just after I finished reading this book, Vox Day posted his own review of it. I did not read his review before writing mine, in order to avoid bias, but his review brings up a bunch of points that mine does not, and like everything else Vox writes is absolutely...

Book Review: HALO: Silentium by Greg Bear

When it was revealed that Greg Bear would be writing a trilogy of HALO books detailing the history and culture of the Forerunner empire, which holds such an enduring place within the canon of the HALO series, I was deeply sceptical. I had tried reading his...

Music Review: Straight Out of Hell by HELLOWEEN

Power metal is a much-maligned sub-genre of heavy metal; it’s known for being ridiculously over-the-top, full of swords-and-sorcery themes, and cheesier than a Swiss fondue. This is unfortunate, because the progenitors of the genre are true innovators, legends...

The “Joys” of London

Charlie Bushmeister from The Single Dude’s Guide took a trip to London and was rather underwhelmed: On my last trip to London I had a small apartment off of Brick Lane, in the Shoreditch neighborhood, which is Ground Zero for London hipsterism. Arriving by...