Grow or Die

Grow or Die

Where does food come from? If you said "Wal-Mart", you're probably beyond help and can stop reading now. Go in peace and spend the remainder of your days in whatever fashion seems best to you. If you said "from a farm" or, even better, "my back yard", I have the…
August 9, 20167 Comments
Geek Gab Episode 63: Suicide Squad

Geek Gab Episode 63: Suicide Squad

This week on Geek Gab, we give mini-reviews of Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond before moving on to the main event: a full review of the new DC Universe movie Suicide Squad. Did Warner Bros. learn the right lessons from the critical failure of Batman v. Superman? Or for that matter…
August 8, 20166 Comments
Gaming with Souldancers

Gaming with Souldancers

My good friend and prolific gaming blogger Ian Hagan has done a fabulous job of putting together a Souldancer template for OSR/AD&D:  Through the darkness of future's past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds... "Fire... walk with me." - David Lynch They are the hollow ones,…
August 5, 20165 Comments
Breitbart Reports on My Shadowban

Breitbart Reports on My Shadowban

Breitbart's Allum Bokhari reports on Twitter's ongoing shadowban of my account: There have been widespread reports that Brian Niemeier, a Hugo Award-nominated sci-fi author, has been “shadowbanned” on Twitter, with his tweets no longer appearing in peoples’ notifications or feeds. According to Niemeier, his followers are reporting that “they aren’t…
August 3, 20163 Comments
Unpersoned by Twitter’s Deep Shadowban

Unpersoned by Twitter’s Deep Shadowban

Having written before about Twitter's nasty penchant for censoring and outright banning users who deviate from the company's rigid left wing ideology, I fully expected the Twitter thought police to come for me. Milo Yiannopoulos warned as much. I just didn't expect them this soon. Late Friday afternoon: friends on…
August 1, 201624 Comments
Sad Puppies’ Kate Paulk Reviews all Hugo Award Nominees

Sad Puppies’ Kate Paulk Reviews all Hugo Award Nominees

With five days of Hugo Award voting left, Sad Puppies IV leader Kate "The Impaler" Paulk concludes her reviews of works in every nominated category. The Campbells being the last category on the list, it just so happens that Kate's final series of reviews includes my eligible novel Nethereal. I…
July 28, 20163 Comments
Over the Target

Over the Target

Denizens of Reddit's deepest bowels have taken umbrage at my observation that Hollywood is now a propaganda machine. You heard it here first ladies: your existence in popular media is propaganda. Even though TFA became one of the highest grossing movies of all time and was pretty much universally well-liked,…
July 26, 2016
Podcast Roundup: Catholic Geek Gab

Podcast Roundup: Catholic Geek Gab

My weekend turned out to be a podcasating marathon. All told, I spent two and half hours in geekish conversation. Now you can enjoy the results! First up, I went on Catholic Geeks, hosted by author Declan Finn. He gave me the whole show to myself, so we covered a…
July 25, 2016
I’ll Be on Catholic Geeks Tonight

I’ll Be on Catholic Geeks Tonight

Heads up! I'll be joining Honor at Stake author Declan Finn on the Catholic Geeks show tonight at 7:00 PM Easter/6:00 PM Central. Join us for what's sure to be a lively discussion of the Hugos, the publishing industry, and general Catholic geekery. @BrianNiemeier
July 24, 2016
Twitter Bans Milo. Rabid Puppies Release Ballot

Twitter Bans Milo. Rabid Puppies Release Ballot

Milo Banned Twitter's ongoing animosity toward Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has now culminated in Twitter permanently banning him from their social network service. The company claimed that the reason for Milo's ban was his alleged incitement of a sexist/racist tweetmob. As we've come to expect by now, the allegations…
July 20, 20164 Comments