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PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon.SOCIALISM - CLOGGIE
Socialism. My name is Martin Wisse and I'm a card carrying socialist, being a member of the Dutch Socialist Party. I became a member in late 2001, because I had become so frustrated with what was happening in the world and in Holland: the march of neoglobalism, the curtailing of civil liberties in the wake of september 11, the socalled "War against Terror" and the SP was the only national KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
GLOBALHEAD - BRUCE STERLING - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Globalhead Bruce Sterling 339 pages published in 1992 Good science fiction doesn’t predict the future; it allows the future to recognise itself in it. Globalhead is drenched in the zeitgeist of Post-Reagan America, yet occasionally there’s a glimpse of the far flung future of 2021 to be recognised. AIDS virus based RNA wonderdrugs as
PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon.SOCIALISM - CLOGGIE
Socialism. My name is Martin Wisse and I'm a card carrying socialist, being a member of the Dutch Socialist Party. I became a member in late 2001, because I had become so frustrated with what was happening in the world and in Holland: the march of neoglobalism, the curtailing of civil liberties in the wake of september 11, the socalled "War against Terror" and the SP was the only national KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
SCIENCE FICTION AWARDS Arthur C. Clarke Award winners. The Arthur C. Clarke award is awarded each year for best new sf novel published in the UK the previous year. It's funded by a grant from Arthur C. Clarke, administered by the science fiction foundation, of which Clarke is a patron, the BSFA andthe
KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the mostJUST CASUAL SLAVERY
This raises so many questions. “Tians” are Infinite Dendogram‘s “generic” (sic) term for NPCs, which for some reason are given human intelligence and personalities, which is, erm.If you kill a tian in the game, isn’t that murder? Do the tians know they are in a game? What happens once the game’s no longer profitable and the servers are turned off, wouldn’t that be genocide?WISE WORDS
It’s early morning and we’re in Hinoharu train station on the outskirts of Hokuto City –west of Tokyo, south east of Nagano–, with only bird song audible. As a train arrives, we move out from the station and see how rural the setting already is. Light classical music starts playing as we move away through the town towards a small nondescript apartment building at the out-most edge of CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. WHAT I'M ACTUALLY WATCHING THIS SEASON Eizouken! Best series of the season, made with a love for animation that made me fall in love with anime myself all those years ago. Justlook at that video.
CITY OF THE CHASCH
City of the Chasch Jack Vance 172 pages published in 1968. When I first started to discover science fiction (longer ago than I care to recall) Jack Vance was one of the more popular writers to be translated into Dutch and the local library therefore had a shitloadof his books.
THE SORDID HISTORY BEHIND DIEGO GARCIA The sordid history behind Diego Garcia. Published on July 13, 2003. Diego Garcia is an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean, part of the Chagos Archipelago, home to one of the most important US military overseas bases, from which e.g. B-52 bombing missions were launched against Afghanistan and Iraq. Diego Garcia is not an US possessionthough
KITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Wise Words: Books: My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. GLOBALHEAD - BRUCE STERLING - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Globalhead Bruce Sterling 339 pages published in 1992 Good science fiction doesn’t predict the future; it allows the future to recognise itself in it. Globalhead is drenched in the zeitgeist of Post-Reagan America, yet occasionally there’s a glimpse of the far flung future of 2021 to be recognised. AIDS virus based RNA wonderdrugs as
KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “Doc THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
“I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Wise Words: Books: My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. GLOBALHEAD - BRUCE STERLING - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Globalhead Bruce Sterling 339 pages published in 1992 Good science fiction doesn’t predict the future; it allows the future to recognise itself in it. Globalhead is drenched in the zeitgeist of Post-Reagan America, yet occasionally there’s a glimpse of the far flung future of 2021 to be recognised. AIDS virus based RNA wonderdrugs as
KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “Doc THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
“I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the mostWISE WORDS
It’s early morning and we’re in Hinoharu train station on the outskirts of Hokuto City –west of Tokyo, south east of Nagano–, with only bird song audible. As a train arrives, we move out from the station and see how rural the setting already is. Light classical music starts playing as we move away through the town towards a small nondescript apartment building at the out-most edge of THAT LILO & STICH DISCOURSE: RACISM WRAPPED UP IN 'WOKE Somebody having a real normal one about Lilo & Stitch: . Now while this may read like tumblresque pseudowokeness, it turns out the writer is a rightwing creep who wants to keep children in cages.But it gets worse. In a follow-up post their friend describes how the movie isn’t Hawaiian enough because it doesn’t engage with the anti-white racism supposedly rife in Hawaii: SHIELD HERO IS TRASH, BUT NOT FUN TRASH Shield Hero is trash, but not fun trash — first impressions. Rising of the Shield Hero is yet another “virgin nerd gets transported to a fantasy world in order to save it while creating a harem for himself”, but with one difference: it’s much creepier than usual. Sure, other isekai series come with dodgy attitudes towards women and CAROLE & TUESDAY: BEAUTIFUL LIKE A RAINBOW To talk about Carole and Tuesday we first need to talk about Cyndi Lauper, and this song which the first episode is named after in particular: (And judging by a certain prominent anituber’s ignorance on display during his preview, it is sorely needed to talk about her.) So Cyndi Lauper. Started out in the eightiesEUROPE AFTER ROME
Europe after Rome Julia M. H. Smith 384 pages including index published in 2005 To be honest I only took this book out of the library because there was little else in the way of good history books that day. Europe after Rome was a bit of a safe choice, on a subjectI’d already
€ŒTHEY WHO ARE IN THE HIGHEST PLACES, AND HAVE THE MOST This is the sort of story being pushed into the background by the media free for all that’s the MPs expenses scandal; normally it’d cause public outrage. CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: FANDOM AND MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Last year, in a post about that year’s harassment scandal at Wiscon Natalie Luhrs wrote: I’ve also seen a handful of posts about how, at science fiction conventions, women will work together to let each other know who the serial harassers and creepers are. I find this extremely interesting because I have never been warnedKITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like. CHURCH NEWS: BLACK TEENAGER HANGED AT WHITE OHIO The Cleveland Plain Dealer: Murder or suicide: Black youth’s death newly probed Racially motivated foul play alleged in mother’s suit Saturday, May 05, 2007 GLOBALHEAD - BRUCE STERLING - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Globalhead Bruce Sterling 339 pages published in 1992 Good science fiction doesn’t predict the future; it allows the future to recognise itself in it. Globalhead is drenched in the zeitgeist of Post-Reagan America, yet occasionally there’s a glimpse of the far flung future of 2021 to be recognised. AIDS virus based RNA wonderdrugs as
CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Wise Words: Books: My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the mostTROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
“I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life. GLOBALHEAD - BRUCE STERLING - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Globalhead Bruce Sterling 339 pages published in 1992 Good science fiction doesn’t predict the future; it allows the future to recognise itself in it. Globalhead is drenched in the zeitgeist of Post-Reagan America, yet occasionally there’s a glimpse of the far flung future of 2021 to be recognised. AIDS virus based RNA wonderdrugs as
CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Wise Words: Books: My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the mostTROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
“I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Wise Words: Books: My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. AZUR LANE: 'A HORNIER KANCOLLE" That’s how Azur Lane was introduced to me when I started playing it in September 2018 and they were not wrong: . What with the anime version of it having finished recently, I thought it was a good time to talk about why I like it. I realise a “hornier KanColle” doesn’t mean anything to most of y’all, so let’s explain a little bit of backstory.WYRD SISTERS
Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 331 pages published in 1988 The wind howled. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills. The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which gods CAROLE & TUESDAY: BEAUTIFUL LIKE A RAINBOW To talk about Carole and Tuesday we first need to talk about Cyndi Lauper, and this song which the first episode is named after in particular: (And judging by a certain prominent anituber’s ignorance on display during his preview, it is sorely needed to talk about her.) So Cyndi Lauper. Started out in the eighties SHIELD HERO IS TRASH, BUT NOT FUN TRASH Shield Hero is trash, but not fun trash — first impressions. Rising of the Shield Hero is yet another “virgin nerd gets transported to a fantasy world in order to save it while creating a harem for himself”, but with one difference: it’s much creepier than usual. Sure, other isekai series come with dodgy attitudes towards women and RAMMSTEIN: FASCIST, OR SECRET SOCIALISTS (BUT WHO CARES Rammstein: fascist, or secret socialists (but who cares?) As Roy Edrose has shown time and again, to analyse and judge any artwork soley on its political merits is a fool’s game, as he dissects yet another hapless rightwing culture warrior failing to understand why the latest Hollywood blockbuster is not best viewed as a potentialliberal
CHURCH NEWS: BLACK TEENAGER HANGED AT WHITE OHIO The Cleveland Plain Dealer: Murder or suicide: Black youth’s death newly probed Racially motivated foul play alleged in mother’s suit Saturday, May 05, 2007SOCIALISM - CLOGGIE
Socialism. My name is Martin Wisse and I'm a card carrying socialist, being a member of the Dutch Socialist Party. I became a member in late 2001, because I had become so frustrated with what was happening in the world and in Holland: the march of neoglobalism, the curtailing of civil liberties in the wake of september 11, the socalled "War against Terror" and the SP was the only national PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. CAROLE & TUESDAY: BEAUTIFUL LIKE A RAINBOW To talk about Carole and Tuesday we first need to talk about Cyndi Lauper, and this song which the first episode is named after in particular: (And judging by a certain prominent anituber’s ignorance on display during his preview, it is sorely needed to talk about her.) So Cyndi Lauper. Started out in the eighties THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
SOCIALISM - CLOGGIE
Socialism. My name is Martin Wisse and I'm a card carrying socialist, being a member of the Dutch Socialist Party. I became a member in late 2001, because I had become so frustrated with what was happening in the world and in Holland: the march of neoglobalism, the curtailing of civil liberties in the wake of september 11, the socalled "War against Terror" and the SP was the only national PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. KOIKIMO & HIGEHIRO: ADULT MEN CHASING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IS In Koi To Yobu Ni Wa Kimochi Warui, it is the pureness of the school girl protagonist that makes the adult co-lead want to pursue her: . Amakusa Ryo is a womaniser who one day leaves the apartment of his latest one night stand without breakfast. He gets dizzy trying to walk down the stairs towards the subway and is saved from falling by Arima Ichika, who also ends up giving him her lunch. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. CAROLE & TUESDAY: BEAUTIFUL LIKE A RAINBOW To talk about Carole and Tuesday we first need to talk about Cyndi Lauper, and this song which the first episode is named after in particular: (And judging by a certain prominent anituber’s ignorance on display during his preview, it is sorely needed to talk about her.) So Cyndi Lauper. Started out in the eighties THAT BREENDOGGLE: MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK That Breendoggle: much, much worse than you think. As we learned earlier, fandom basically covered up for the child abuser Walter Breen (and his enabler, Marion Zimmer Bradley) for fifty years until he got caught and convicted. Even when Stephen Goldin put up the court documents documenting his abuse and MZB’s enabling, this was largelyignored.
SOCIALISM - CLOGGIE
Socialism. My name is Martin Wisse and I'm a card carrying socialist, being a member of the Dutch Socialist Party. I became a member in late 2001, because I had become so frustrated with what was happening in the world and in Holland: the march of neoglobalism, the curtailing of civil liberties in the wake of september 11, the socalled "War against Terror" and the SP was the only national SCIENCE FICTION AWARDS Arthur C. Clarke Award winners. The Arthur C. Clarke award is awarded each year for best new sf novel published in the UK the previous year. It's funded by a grant from Arthur C. Clarke, administered by the science fiction foundation, of which Clarke is a patron, the BSFA andthe
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the mostWISE WORDS
It’s early morning and we’re in Hinoharu train station on the outskirts of Hokuto City –west of Tokyo, south east of Nagano–, with only bird song audible. As a train arrives, we move out from the station and see how rural the setting already is. Light classical music starts playing as we move away through the town towards a small nondescript apartment building at the out-most edge of CAROLE & TUESDAY: BEAUTIFUL LIKE A RAINBOW To talk about Carole and Tuesday we first need to talk about Cyndi Lauper, and this song which the first episode is named after in particular: (And judging by a certain prominent anituber’s ignorance on display during his preview, it is sorely needed to talk about her.) So Cyndi Lauper. Started out in the eighties THE SORDID HISTORY BEHIND DIEGO GARCIA The sordid history behind Diego Garcia. Published on July 13, 2003. Diego Garcia is an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean, part of the Chagos Archipelago, home to one of the most important US military overseas bases, from which e.g. B-52 bombing missions were launched against Afghanistan and Iraq. Diego Garcia is not an US possessionthough
“I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.KITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts.TROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “DocCLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts.TROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “DocCLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronWONDERFUL LIFE
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 347 pages, including index published in 1989 Most of Stephen Jay Gould's books are collections of his columns for Natural History but every now and again he writes a book on a specific subject. In the case of Wonderful Life, he takes the amazing Burgess Shale fossils as his subject, using the story of their discovery and the 1970ties reevaluation of their CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections.JUST CASUAL SLAVERY
This raises so many questions. “Tians” are Infinite Dendogram‘s “generic” (sic) term for NPCs, which for some reason are given human intelligence and personalities, which is, erm.If you kill a tian in the game, isn’t that murder? Do the tians know they are in a game? What happens once the game’s no longer profitable and the servers are turned off, wouldn’t that be genocide? SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most IVAN'S WAR - CATHERINE MERRIDALE - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Ivan’s War Catherine Merridale 396 pages including index published in 2005 Though things have improved a lot since the end of the Cold War, the Eastern Front is still underrepresented in western histories of World War II. Quite naturally British and American historians have focused mostly on their own countries’ experiences in the war but CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance Lois McMaster Bujold 573 pages published in 2012. It was only a last minute impulse that made me grab Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance from my bookshelves when I went to visit my parents last Friday, but the end result was that I started reading it when I’d arrived and finished it the same night, at 2:30 AM. Some novels just grab you like that and Bujold is moreKITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like. “I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts.TROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “DocCLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts.TROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “DocCLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronWONDERFUL LIFE
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 347 pages, including index published in 1989 Most of Stephen Jay Gould's books are collections of his columns for Natural History but every now and again he writes a book on a specific subject. In the case of Wonderful Life, he takes the amazing Burgess Shale fossils as his subject, using the story of their discovery and the 1970ties reevaluation of their CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections.JUST CASUAL SLAVERY
This raises so many questions. “Tians” are Infinite Dendogram‘s “generic” (sic) term for NPCs, which for some reason are given human intelligence and personalities, which is, erm.If you kill a tian in the game, isn’t that murder? Do the tians know they are in a game? What happens once the game’s no longer profitable and the servers are turned off, wouldn’t that be genocide? SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most IVAN'S WAR - CATHERINE MERRIDALE - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Ivan’s War Catherine Merridale 396 pages including index published in 2005 Though things have improved a lot since the end of the Cold War, the Eastern Front is still underrepresented in western histories of World War II. Quite naturally British and American historians have focused mostly on their own countries’ experiences in the war but CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance Lois McMaster Bujold 573 pages published in 2012. It was only a last minute impulse that made me grab Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance from my bookshelves when I went to visit my parents last Friday, but the end result was that I started reading it when I’d arrived and finished it the same night, at 2:30 AM. Some novels just grab you like that and Bujold is moreKITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like. “I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “Doc FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronTROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The Iron PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts.TROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “DocCLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronWONDERFUL LIFE
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 347 pages, including index published in 1989 Most of Stephen Jay Gould's books are collections of his columns for Natural History but every now and again he writes a book on a specific subject. In the case of Wonderful Life, he takes the amazing Burgess Shale fossils as his subject, using the story of their discovery and the 1970ties reevaluation of their CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections.JUST CASUAL SLAVERY
This raises so many questions. “Tians” are Infinite Dendogram‘s “generic” (sic) term for NPCs, which for some reason are given human intelligence and personalities, which is, erm.If you kill a tian in the game, isn’t that murder? Do the tians know they are in a game? What happens once the game’s no longer profitable and the servers are turned off, wouldn’t that be genocide? SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most IVAN'S WAR - CATHERINE MERRIDALE - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Ivan’s War Catherine Merridale 396 pages including index published in 2005 Though things have improved a lot since the end of the Cold War, the Eastern Front is still underrepresented in western histories of World War II. Quite naturally British and American historians have focused mostly on their own countries’ experiences in the war but CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance Lois McMaster Bujold 573 pages published in 2012. It was only a last minute impulse that made me grab Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance from my bookshelves when I went to visit my parents last Friday, but the end result was that I started reading it when I’d arrived and finished it the same night, at 2:30 AM. Some novels just grab you like that and Bujold is moreKITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like. “I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “Doc FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronTROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
TWIN STAR EXORCISTS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS ROMANCE THING Twin Star Exorcists‘ Rokuro Enmado is your typical battle shounen protagonist: hot blooded and stupid with at first glance nothing good about him, which doesn’t stop him confessing to semi-strangers regularly only to be shot down just as regularly.Only his crazy shark like teeth set him apart from dozens of other bland, brown haired protagonists with tragic pasts. PROG GOLD | …BESTRIDING THE US, UK, HOLLAND AND EUROPE Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story that went around, and let’s be clear, that’s the story that will be believed, because those with more power always get to dictate which version of events becomes cannon. FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND Fugue for a Darkening Island Christopher Priest 125 pages published in 1972 There are certain protocols you have to take into account as a reviewer when discussing the books of a new, young writer. Protocols that are still in effect when the author has aged more than forty years since the first publication of his CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: III THE DOOR INTO The Door into SummerRobert A. Heinlein copyright 1957 291 pages III: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein. A note about cover art: the edition I am reading has really awful art. CLOGGIE: SCIENCE FICTION: JAMES NICOLL'S MILLENNIAL REVIEWS Millennial reviews. When James Nicoll, long time poster to rec.arts.sf.written and a Canadian bookseller, started suffering from readers block he found the usual methods of breaking it didn't work. LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES: A FAMILIAR FASCISM Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty fascist in its assumptions and in the story it wants to tell. It’s a familiar sort of fascism, one that can be found in an unbroken line in science fiction, from David Weber and Tom Kratman Via Tom Clancy back to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle by way of Heinlein all the way back to E. E. “Doc FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronTROY AND HOMER
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz Kevin Windle (translator) 342 pages including index published in 2004. My first encounters with Troy, Homer and The Illiad came through one of those ubiquitous Time-Life books on Classical Greece and more memorably, through the serialisation of an adaptation of both the Illiad and the Odyssey in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly comic that ran in the CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XXXV FIRST First Citizen Thomas T. Thomas Baen Books, 1987 373 pages XXXV: First Citizen - Thomas T. Thomas. Synopsis: The rise of James Corbin to power during the fall of the American Republic, with strong parallels to the rise of Julius Caesar.CLOGGIE: MAIN INDEX
Cloggie. My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhatof an obsession.
FICTION: SCIENCE FICTION 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 2001 The IronWONDERFUL LIFE
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 347 pages, including index published in 1989 Most of Stephen Jay Gould's books are collections of his columns for Natural History but every now and again he writes a book on a specific subject. In the case of Wonderful Life, he takes the amazing Burgess Shale fossils as his subject, using the story of their discovery and the 1970ties reevaluation of their CLOGGIE :: ESSEFF :: MILLENNIAL REVIEWS: XII THE TOMORROW The Tomorrow File Lawrence Sanders Berkley, 1975, 551 pages Previous: Systemic shock Next: The Byworlder . XII: The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders. Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nicholas Bennington Flair, as detailed in three sections.JUST CASUAL SLAVERY
This raises so many questions. “Tians” are Infinite Dendogram‘s “generic” (sic) term for NPCs, which for some reason are given human intelligence and personalities, which is, erm.If you kill a tian in the game, isn’t that murder? Do the tians know they are in a game? What happens once the game’s no longer profitable and the servers are turned off, wouldn’t that be genocide? SOMETIMES THE CRINGE IS NECESSARY The clip is from episode four of Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun. Tomozaki-kun is your stereotypical anime loser, only good at playing a thinly disguised Super Smash Brothers, to the point that he’s Japan’s number one player. When he meets up in real life with Japan’s second best player, he’s surprised to discover she’s Hinami Aoi, the most IVAN'S WAR - CATHERINE MERRIDALE - MARTIN'S BOOKLOG Ivan’s War Catherine Merridale 396 pages including index published in 2005 Though things have improved a lot since the end of the Cold War, the Eastern Front is still underrepresented in western histories of World War II. Quite naturally British and American historians have focused mostly on their own countries’ experiences in the war but CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance Lois McMaster Bujold 573 pages published in 2012. It was only a last minute impulse that made me grab Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance from my bookshelves when I went to visit my parents last Friday, but the end result was that I started reading it when I’d arrived and finished it the same night, at 2:30 AM. Some novels just grab you like that and Bujold is moreKITTY JAILBAIT
Kitty jailbait. This post by Sigrid Ellis, about Chris Claremont, the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, hiding in hindsight pretty blatant lesbian flirting from the Comics Code Authority and telling Rogue you think you might be gay is adorable in its dorkiness: I re-read this scene over and over again. I knew, now, in 1992, what this looked like. “I AM MY CHILD’S MOM” In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child’s mother pleads for her son’s life. Cloggie: Martin Wisse's website Home of way too many half-assed blogs.CLOGGIE
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My own personal weblog. Heavy on politics, but hopefully also filled with other interesting stuff. I've been keeping a booklog since January 2001 when I realised that for the life of me I couldn't remember what I had read two months ago. It has since become somewhat of an obsession.Linkse Gedachten
Progressive Gold
My Dutch language weblog, which focuses on local politics. This blog I run together with Palau, focusing on US/UK/Dutch politics enlightened by sniffs of culture, fashion, science andsquids.
afp alt.fan.pratchettScience fiction
afp has existed since 1992 and I've been involved since 1998/99. It's a friendly, geeky interesting newsgroup, that has long since broadened its focus to other things beside the works of TerryPratchett.
I've always read science fiction and this section of the website reflects my interest in it. I've put up some reviews I did of science fiction available via Project Gutenberg, as well as most of the millennium themed reviews James Nicoll did for rasfw. Webpage created September 1994, last updated 26-02-2007.Details
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