A House With All the Children Gone

A House With All the Children Gone

Lately my mind has been wandering back to my first days of high school. The change from summer to fall often makes me nostalgic, and the feeling has been more vivid than usual this time. Perhaps this oncoming season bears a special resemblance to that long-vanished fall of my freshman…
#ZoeBodyCount Sparks #GamerGate 2?

#ZoeBodyCount Sparks #GamerGate 2?

The man in the picture above was accused of sexual assault by conniving Jezebel Zoe Quinn. Are the allegations true? We'll never know because he's dead now. Game developer Alec Holowka killed himself on Saturday morning. His suicide followed his public drumming out of the industry as a result of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…