Combat Frame Data: AZX-001 Heavy Armor X

Combat Frame Data: AZX-001 Heavy Armor X

  AZX-001 Heavy Armor Dolph X    Technical Data Model number: AZX-001 Code name: Heavy Armor Dolph X Nickname: Heavy Armor X Classification: prototype heavy armor defense combat frame Manufacturer: Zeklov Corporation/Astraea Operator: SOC Transportation Ministry First deployment: CY 40 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 19.5 meters Weight: Dry weight 54 metric…
August 30, 2019
The Politics of Post-Modernism

The Politics of Post-Modernism

The Z Man presents a brilliant post connecting the dots between the Enlightenment, post-modernism, and the Left's march toward nihilist chaos. Post-modernism is the 20th century academic movement popular in philosophy, the grievance studies and the humanities. It denies the existence of a universal, stable reality, insisting everything is arbitrary…
August 29, 201926 Comments
Astounding Campbell Memory-Holing

Astounding Campbell Memory-Holing

In light of the World Con voters circling the wagons to snub my readers in 2016, this announcement from the editor of Analog is as amusing as it is predictable. H/t P. Alexander Named for Campbell, whose writing and role as editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later renamed Analog Science Fiction…
August 28, 201926 Comments
Combat Frame Data: YCF-00

Combat Frame Data: YCF-00

YCF-00 Combat Frame Type 0 Technical Data Model number: YCF-00 Code name: Combat Frame Type 0 Nickname: Type Zero Classification: prototype combat frame Manufacturer: Seed Corporation Operator: Systems Overterrestrial Coalition First deployment: CY -6 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 17.5 meters Weight: dry weight 50 metric tons, full weight…
August 27, 20193 Comments
XSeed Book 3 On Indiegogo

XSeed Book 3 On Indiegogo

The highly anticipated crowdfunding event is here! The third action-packed book in my hit mecha thriller series, Combat Frame XSeed: CY 40 Second Coming, is now live on Indiegogo. It's Not Over Genius or madman? Monster or savior? HALO mastermind Arthur Wake is missing in action. His fragile grounder alliance shatters…
August 26, 20199 Comments
CY40 Second Coming Teaser

CY40 Second Coming Teaser

Good things come in small packages, and my readers will find some big news in this brief post. The highly anticipated Indiegogo campaign for my third "Gundam meets Tom Clancy" book, Combat Frame XSeed: Cy 40 Second Coming, goes live in a matter of days! To tide you over till then,…
August 23, 20195 Comments
Something Was Watching

Something Was Watching

From time I like to take a break from chronicling Western civilization's collapse and share a story that reminds us there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in presidential politics. Contra the experts on campus and cable news, our understanding of the world is far…
August 22, 201912 Comments
Serious Internet Business

Serious Internet Business

The curious intersection of the publishing business and the Internet has forced authors to moonlight as social media mavens. This is true regardless of whether you self-publish and predates oldpub's collapse. Since every author is now a serious internet businessman, how to build a social media following has joined nuts…
August 21, 201913 Comments
Disney Cooks the Books

Disney Cooks the Books

The record revenues reported by Disney this quarter may be as much of a fiction as than the entertainment product coming out of the megacorp's studios. According to a former Disney accountant, the company has been illegally inflating its revenues for years. A former Walt Disney Co. accountant says she has…
August 20, 201929 Comments
Combat Frame Data: AZC-104

Combat Frame Data: AZC-104

  AZC-104 Grand Dolph    Technical Data Model number: AZC-104 Code name: Grand Dolph Nickname: Dolph Classification: mass production, anti-armor combat frame Manufacturer: Burnard Industries/Zeklov-Astraea Operator: Systems Overterrestrial Coalition First deployment: CY 40 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 19.2 meters, 21 meters with antenna Weight: Dry weight 48 metric tons, full…
August 19, 20194 Comments