My sincere apologies to everyone who was, er, participating in this bookclub. With recent job changes and the holidays and some other things it sort of fell off the face of the earth. I’m...
When I published my fantasy piece in the Atlantic it was linked (reproduced?) by Richard Dawkins’ site and a number of the atheists in the commentariat had scathing things to say about fantasy literature....
Don’t worry, no spoilers in this review. I just finished R. Scott Bakker’s novel The White Luck Warrior (Available at Amazon) a couple days ago. It’s the second book in his Aspect-Emperor trilogy and the fifth...
Riffing off of my Atlantic piece, fantasy author R. Scott Bakker writes: According to common wisdom, genre fiction is culturally cyclical: It ebbs and flows in popularity as time alternately burns out various tropes...
I’m a little more than half way through the second book of Steven Erikson’s sprawling Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series. And I must say, Erikson takes epic fantasy to a whole new...
R. Scott Bakker’s debut trilogy, The Prince of Nothing, is one of the best fantasy trilogies I’ve read in a long time. Despite it being a bit slow at times, and despite some of its...
“Every time you hear some version of the imperative “Believe!” cringe and fear for the future. It is the clearest symptom that we live in a culture of wilful delusion–one that actively encourages billions...
How did I never hear of this book before? R. Scott Bakker’s first novel and the first in The Prince of Nothing series is, for lack of a better word, tremendous. I’m only about...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y Nature polled 1600 American scientists and 75 per…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25' I am completely not sure about how much the Pro-Palestine faction in the West really cares about t…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Well, lemme tell ya, the whole "cutting remark hiding behind superficial affirmation of membership i… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I mean define secular. I went to Hebrew school until I graduated from high school, my family belonge… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I'm guessing you didn't grow up in the synagogue but were fairly secular? I ask because, as someone… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25https://x.com/Billbrowder/status/1905340984801853675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwt…
on Signal Controversy Over Houthi Strikes DeepensI agree it was legal and I even agree it wasn't a great look which is kind of the Clintons in a nuts…
on Opening Day at the Church of BaseballForgot to add that this would effectively mean that the Sox play without a DH all year, right :-p on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I always wonder when celebrities do this type of stuff is whether it is out of true belief, a hope t…
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