2017 Dragon Award Winners

2017 Dragon Award Winners

Dear Kairos readers, it's my pleasure to present YOUR 2017 Dragon Award recipients! Best Science Fiction Novel Babylon’s Ashes, by James S.A. Corey Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal) Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge, by Larry Correia and John Ringo Best Young Adult / Middle-Grade Novel The Hammer of Thor, by Rick…
September 4, 201730 Comments
Simpsons Fall

The Fall of the Simpsons

Super Eyepatch Wolf charts the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of perennial TV fixture The Simpsons. The video proves an objective decline in the quality of the series, explains what made it work in the early years, and reveals how the creative team dropped the ball. Required viewing for anyone…
August 30, 201717 Comments
Appeasement Fails

Appeasement Fails

Following Dragon Con's reversal of their initial policy not to allow authors to withdraw from the Dragon Awards ballot, an SF SJW demonstrates the futility of DC's attempt at appeasement. If any Dragon Con organizers are reading this, please read Greg's words closely. Remember: this comment was posted after the award…
August 29, 201772 Comments
Orwell Was 4 Years off

Orwell Was 4 Years off

Over at the Castalia House blog, a reader poses this pivotal question: Follow-up question. Several articles said the Hugo Awards have been a SocJus Safe Space for three decades and a little. So did the Hugo Awards go down hill in 1980? CH blog editor and Appendix N author Jeffro Johnson…
August 15, 20173 Comments
Razörfist on the YouTube Blacklist

Razörfist on the YouTube Blacklist

Razörfist, the double Hugo-nominated video blogger whose eloquence is rivaled only by his vulgarity, has conducted an experiment to test the criteria according to which YouTube's algorithm demonetizes videos. The results, documented below, are revelatory. The current censorship epidemic across social media platforms highlights a perennial deficiency of conservatives. They're…
August 14, 20175 Comments
A Conservative Play

A Conservative Play

The Dragon Awards saga continues taking unexpected twists and turns as Dragon Con first refuses; then allows, authors to withdraw from the ballot. Dragon Con's decision drew comment from a number of prominent critics in the #PulpRev movement. Here's Castalia House blog editor Jeffro Johnson: Anybody that has ever run a…
August 11, 20177 Comments
A True Culture Warrior

A True Culture Warrior

The SF SJWs have responded to The Secret Kings' nomination for this year's Best Science Fiction Novel Dragon Award with a familiar Narrative. SJWs always double down. Last year, they tried to DISQUALIFY Souldancer's Dragon win after the fact based on its number of Amazon reviews. Now they're trying to preemptively…
August 7, 201743 Comments
PulpRev Reactions

PulpRev Reactions

Cirsova offers a warning to the #PulpRev in response to the reader feedback I posted pertaining to the Superversive and Pulp Revolution movements. To me, the biggest difference between the two movements is that the Superversive movement is defined by its pursuit of the ideal of “superversive” while the Pulp…
August 2, 20179 Comments
Superversive vs. PulpRev

Superversive vs. PulpRev

This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting a few of my readers for dinner and lively conversation. We talked for hours on a wide range of subjects, which as you'd expect of SFF fans getting some personal time with an author whose work they enjoy, included several hot…
July 31, 201724 Comments
Moral Cowards

Moral Cowards

My recent exchange with a British Twitter user in the wake of the Charlie Gard decision provides a case study in the moral cowardice of those who preen about their support for using the state to strip parents of their rights. As the record shows, it didn't take long for…
July 28, 201717 Comments