by Didact | Jul 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I originally did not want to read this book. The book was marketed, quite clearly, as a way of answering the question of whether women could actually fight effectively, in combat, and do the job as well as if not better than men can. Personally, I have experienced...
by Didact | Jul 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Vox Day has been going on for a couple of years now about the fact that the quality of George R. R. Martin’s writing in his A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series has been in decline ever since he released A Storm of Swords. Having read all of...
by Didact | Jun 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you’ve been reading sci-fi and fantasy for a long time, eventually you will find that most books in the genre tend to follow predictable, straightforward patterns. For instance, with typical left-wing far-future sci-fi, one standard trope that is quite often...
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
Let’s conduct a thought experiment for a moment. Suppose you were to take the best riffs and lyrics and themes from great old-school 80s metal and hard-rock bands like: IRON MAIDEN JUDAS PRIEST W.A.S.P. MOTORHEAD SURVIVOR HELLOWEEN ACCEPT SAXON JOURNEY MANOWAR...
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,...
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