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Keep the history of Hamas in mind when you read about how terrible they are and how Israel has no choice but to eradicate it due to its implacable religious opposition to the existence of Israel. And notice that the article is twelve years old, although it reads as if it was published yesterday. Israel […]
For Our Friend Damien’s abortive SF career: Damien Walter @damiengwalter I don’t believe I can claim to belong in SF any longer. That makes me a little sad, but also excited. While I did advise Our Friend that he ought to go ahead and quit as per his declaration concerning his distaste for the true […]
Pity those poor “children” crossing the southern border: You’re going to hear plenty of people try to explain how, if a school turns such a “student” away, it’s racism. You’ve been told thousands of times that stopping illegal immigrants at the border is “hate.” You’ve been told that even calling this a problem means you’re […]
It’s certainly an unusual public position for a writers organization to take. I found this letter by an SFWA member to be vastly amusing, particularly in light of how the astonishingly inept Steven Gould was recently re-elected SFWA President: Douglas Preston is circulating a letter regarding the Amazon-Hachette dispute. In this letter, Preston finds Amazon […]
I am not a Monster Hunter International fan. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I WAS NOT a Monster Hunter International fan before this, the fifth book in the Monster Hunter series. While I stand second-to-none in my respect for their intrepid best-selling author, I found the first four books in […]
Here we go again. The neocons never learn. We have a major invasion of the southern border, so naturally Washington has concerned itself with attempting to further delay the inevitable collapse of Iraq into Sunni, Shi’ite, and Kurd states. Nearly half of the roughly 300 U.S. military advisers and special operations forces expected to go […]
SFWA’s sordid history of harboring child molesters is not, as some of its defenders would have you believe, nothing but a relic of freaky 1960s SF fandom. From the 2010 SFWA Directory: Kowal, Mary Robinette (A) Secretary of SFWA [Address 1] [Address 2] [Telephone] secretary@secretary.org [personal email] www.maryrobinettekowal.com Twitter: maryrobinette [SFWA Agent Code] Kramer, Edward […]
The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record “When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by […]
The Killing Season foreseen by Enoch Powell is coming: Angry villagers yesterday said riots could break out if police do not deal with hundreds of Roma immigrants who they claim have ruined their community. Residents of Hexthorpe, South Yorkshire, said people would take the law into their own hands unless the authorities step in to […]
I quite like David Brin’s Uplift Saga, particularly Startide Rising. It is innovative, insightful, and original. While it does betray a few hints of what would, in many later SF writers’ less-capable hands, blossom into full-blown political correctness, such strands do not detract from the story. Unlike the award-winning pinkshirts of today, Dr. Brin never […]