GOP Delenda Est

GOP Delenda Est

We already knew that Conservatives couldn't conserve the little girls' room. Now, the South Dakota GOP proves they can't even conserve little boys, full stop. Legislation aimed at stopping South Dakota physicians from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16 failed to get enough support…
February 11, 20206 Comments
Return to Mel’s Hole

Return to Mel’s Hole

Art by Chris Holm Continued from our previous tale of high strangeness. In December of 1999, Mel Waters returned to the United States after two years of running a wombat rescue in Australia. He'd intended to visit friends and family for the holidays, but the government had other plans. They…
February 7, 20207 Comments
The Necessity of Editing

The Necessity of Editing

The most eye-opening part of being a professional editor has been the fascinating look it offers into other writers' creative process. There's a lot of talent out there that oldpub would never give the time of day. These authors are finding audiences thanks to newpub. At the same time, you…
February 6, 20206 Comments
Classical Blackface

Classical Blackface

Publishers Weekly announces a new joint initiative between Penguin Random House and Barnes and Noble that's sure to shape the future of publishing. A collection of classic books with new culturally diverse covers will make their debut at New York City’s largest bookstore. To kick off Black History Month, Penguin…
February 5, 202019 Comments
Combat Frame Data: XCD-002-1 XSeed Dead Drop

Combat Frame Data: XCD-002-1 XSeed Dead Drop

  XCD-002-1 Dead Drop    Technical Data Model number: XCD-002-1 Code name: XSeed Dead Drop Nickname: Dead Drop Classification: custom energy weapon optimized Sentinel use combat frame Manufacturer: Kazoku modification of Zane Dellister's design Operator: Zane Dellister First deployment: CY 2 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 19 meters…
February 4, 20202 Comments
Mel’s Hole

Mel’s Hole

Mel Waters had always flown by the seat of his pants, and in the summer of 1995 his freewheeling lifestyle was catching up to him. With his finances circling the drain and his marriage on the rocks, Mel purchased a tract of rural land west of Ellensburg,Washington where he hoped…
January 30, 202011 Comments
QAnon Unmasked

QAnon Unmasked

Ever since the national security insider known as QAnon first started disseminating his cryptic messages to legions of patriots online, web sleuths have scoured the deepest corners of the internet in search of his identity. Their efforts were repeatedly thwarted. But as history shows, the best-laid plans and most closely…
January 29, 20206 Comments
Corona-Chan

Corona-Chan

Fortune makes fools of us all. The impeachment show that everybody thought would dominate the news indefinitely has taken a back seat to the rapidly developing story of the Chinese coronavirus outbreak. Though nobody trusted the Chinese government's patently bogus infection numbers or the blue checks making vapid comparisons to…
January 28, 202011 Comments
The End of History

The End of History

One perk of being a science fiction writer is that you get to decide how the future turns out. The oligarchical Systems Overterrestrial Coalition from my mecha thriller series Combat Frame XSeed seek to make the future the end of history, as Superversive Live Stream host Benjamin Wheeler correctly observed.…
January 27, 20208 Comments
The Inverters

The Inverters

The recent news that the Anglican Communion is still notionally Christian drew some sniping from Libertarian pagans on Twitter. Readers familiar with this blog's treatment on presuppositional apologetics will know where this is going. The West is currently beset by outsiders who possess the corrosive combination of beliefs antithetical to…
January 24, 202032 Comments