The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Desert, The Aliens, and Unanswered Questions

— by Wombat-socho Most of you are probably unfamiliar with the National Fantasy Fan Federation, which has been around literally since the dawn of SF fandom. I myself thought it had died off, but evidently it is very much alive, and hard up enough for members and volunteer staff that they made me head of […]

A Couple Of Very Nice People

— by Wombat-socho I’m not sure when I first became aware of Tim Powers. It’s entirely possible that it wasn’t until he was Guest of Honor at Arcana, a small dark fantasy/horror convention in St. Paul that I can’t recommend highly enough. Anyhow, Mr. Powers was Guest of Honor for Arcana 34 back in 2004, […]

Our Supreme Dark Lord’s New Book,
And Other Stories

— by Wombat-socho By now, everyone who’s been paying attention to GamerGate (happy first anniversary!) or the Sad Puppies movement with regard to the Hugos should be familiar with, or at least recognize the name of, Vox Day, Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil League of Evil. I doubt that anyone since George W. Bush […]

Godless Commies: The Critical Theory Cult and The Devil’s Pleasure Palace

  “The greatest difference in the universe . . . is the difference between nothing and something, between an infinity of darkness and a single point of light. . . . It is the difference between atheism and God.” — Michael Walsh, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of […]

Immolation for the Hugos

— by Wombat-socho Took me a while to get around to this post, what with all the balls in the air I have going at the moment; hell, I haven’t even been able to get an In The Mailbox post out consistently during the weekdays for Lord knows how long now. Well, one thing at […]

Hugo Awards and Other Stuff

— compiled by Wombat-socho The deadline for voting on the 2015 Hugo Awards was midnight on Friday, and I got my votes in. The CHORFs and their allies tried to get in some last-minute shots, notably the Grauniad, only to be met with derision and an excellent fisking by the International Lord of Hate.* Also […]

Off The Shelf

— compiled by Wombat-socho Could have sworn I did a book post last week, but apparently I was wrong. This fortnight’s haul from the library includes a couple of regrettable graphic novels, one of the Laundry novels by Charles Stross, a nice debut novel by Finnish author Hannu Rajaniemi, and the definitive Churchill bio by […]

Off The Shelf

— compiled by Wombat-socho Been a while since the last book post, for which I apologize; for obvious reasons, I’ve been trying to avoid picking up new books, and I didn’t get around to picking up a card for the local library system for a couple weeks after I got here. Now that I’ve done […]

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