Sunday, February 1, 2026

Crysknife, Mesozoic (2026)

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(Full disclosure: I know these guys and have sent reviews directly to them previously. This time I told them I'd post it on my blog, s...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Mars Clay Findings Are GOOD: The Great Filter Could Be Behind Us

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NASA has announced that Curiosity and Perseverance have found the strongest-yet evidence of life on Mars: vivianite and greigite. On Ear...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Review of Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History

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Spoilers included. I had heard of this book years ago: a not quite alternate history of late medieval Europe. Its strong points come dow...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Achieving The Impossible: Making Golf Cool

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My friend (the one with the metal golf cart) is a son of a bitch and meets more certified metal gods while golfing than I ever have backstag...
Monday, October 23, 2023

The Dispossessed by Le Guin

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In fiction, people write about things that interest them. This is a trivial observation, but there's more to it than that. Why make up...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Why Are UAPs Associated With Naval Aviation?

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We're more likely to find artifacts from technology-using aliens - self-reproducing (von Neumann) probes - rather than the aliens themse...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Why Dune is Unique: Three Reasons, and Some Questions

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(Contains novel spoilers, Lynch movie spoilers, but not Villeneuve movie spoilers.) Dune has a lot of very loyal readers who rightly under...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Review of Three Body Problem

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Warning: spoilers. The Good Western readers will inevitably learn a lot about the Cultural Revolution period and the attitudes abou...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

We Are Definitely in a Simulation; Also the Simulation Argument is Poorly-Defined With Many Unjustified Assumptions

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Periodically I re-write an argument about both the relevance of the simulation argument, as well as its poorly defined nature. This leads t...