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White Knighting for Campbell

The Unz Review shows how the Right all too often rushes to enshrine earlier Leftist subversion simply because it precedes current Leftist subversion. This time, the subject of misguided right wing hagiography is John W. Campbell, Jr. Alec Nevala-Lee, an Asian-American science fiction writer, has here written something remarkable: an intentionally…

April 2, 201912 Comments

The Curse of Fandom

There are those who describe the fandom phenomenon as the circuses part of the bread and circuses of our age. That's not entirely accurate. Ancient Roman plebs didn't worship the gladiators sent out to distract them from their empire's fall. In the crumbling American Empire, geek culture has been deployed…

March 29, 201921 Comments

Sci-Fidolatry

Hollywood atheists spent the 70s, 80s, and 90s preaching a counter-gospel through movies and TV shows that went like this: "Religion has been holding humanity back. We'll usher in a bright, sexy utopia of pure reason once we free ourselves of bronze age superstition." You couldn't pick up a DAW…

March 8, 20196 Comments

The Amazon Age

Pulp Archivist takes to Twitter to ask: Oldpub is dead. The Amazon age is truly upon us. How do publishers make money? You might say, "by selling books," and you'd be wrong. Books aren't commodities like TVs and toothpaste. They're pure information. Nobody buys just one book, and eBooks have…

March 4, 201916 Comments

Metal Fiction: #AGundam4Us

Image by Shoji Kawamori It is my sincere honor to welcome Metal Fiction into the growing ranks of #AGundam4Us. Here I reproduce Brent's call to arms in full. I fell in love with mecha back in the 80s: Transformers, Mighty Orbots, Challenge of the GoBots, Robotech, Voltron, BattleTech… I watched/read/played…

November 26, 20182 Comments

Galaxy Ascendant

Author Yakov Merkin announces the exciting Indiegogo campaign for the third installment in his galaxy-spanning sci-fi series, Galaxy Ascendant. Do you miss the days when grand, epic sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Mass Effect were good? Do you want grand-scope, creative, action-packed, and FUN space opera fiction? Then come…

November 2, 20184 Comments

The Army Will Make Mecha Real

Previously I reported that the Russians are developing real-life bipedal combat mechs not unlike AT-STs from Star Wars. Now, the US Army is getting in on the act, only they're going bigger. Think AT-ATs. The U.S. Army is looking to finally replace their M1 Abrams battle tank as rival nations…

October 12, 20189 Comments

We Must Not Allow a Mech Gap

Reader D.J. Schreffler has alerted me that the Russians recently unveiled the world's first combat walker at the Army-2018 expo near Moscow. The bipedal mech, which bears more than a passing resemblance to ED-209, was exhibited by Kalashnikov. We're not dealing with a bunch of weebs messing around in their…

August 23, 201824 Comments

SFF Death Report Greatly Exaggerated

Longtime readers may remember when I posted this graph: That image made the rounds and caused a bit of a stir in certain indie quarters a couple years back. Most of us sensed that the market for science fiction books had drastically shrunk since the good old days. A lot…

July 25, 201816 Comments

Second XSeed Preview

By reader demand, I proudly present a tantalizing follow up to the previous sneak preview of my upcoming mecha/Mil-SF series Combat Frame XSeed. “The institute is entrusted with caring for the most extreme cases—those who exhibit disorders not seen in the colonies since before the Collapse.” The doctor’s pedantic…

June 13, 20187 Comments