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 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Doubtless some (if not most) of you have already seen The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by now. I saw it a couple of nights ago. Judged in isolation, I suppose it was a decent enough movie- at least 30 minutes too long, somewhat pretentious, a bit too far up...
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...
by Didact | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve written repeatedly about my belief that Islam is ascendant over the (nominally- and barely at that) Christian West. I’ve also written at some length about the way in which the West could win the Long War. All of my arguments and ideas are predicated...
by Didact | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Another quarter, another entry into Jay Allen’s outstanding Crimson Worlds series. In his last book, humanity had (just barely) stopped the onslaught of the First Imperium’s robotic warriors, at horrific cost, on the three worlds that constituted The...
by Didact | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
[Note: This isn’t the sort of book I normally review, but it IS Halfbreed’s work, of which I think quite highly, and this book was actually worth reading. Nonetheless I would say that this isn’t the sort of thing you want popping up on your PC at...
by Didact | Dec 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Victor Davis Hanson is, hands down, my favourite contemporary popular historian. I’ve been reading his columns for years, and his books are almost always thought-provoking, interesting, and well-written. With this book, VDH returns to his roots as a classical...
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