Archive for June, 2007

40 Days and 40 Nights, by Matthew Chapman

Friday, June 15th, 2007

An interesting, but only mildly so, account of an attempt by a school board to put Intelligent Design on the science curriculum. 

Oh, hey, guess what

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

We’ve gone live today. Let’s see what starts to trickle in.

Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I liked this one. But then, I’ve always been a sucker for idealistic over-the-top pessimistic policy wonk fiction. The main character, Cassandra Devine, modestly proposes on her blog that baby boomers be given hefty tax incentives to “gracefully transition” at age 65. Intended as an outrageous proposal to spur debate about the awesome bankruptcy of […]

Other Times Than Peace, by David Drake

Monday, June 4th, 2007

This is a collection of short fiction by David Drake. Perhaps it was just me, but I found some of them more accessible than others.  I had a hard time following nearly all of the “bug” style stories that featured any sort of monster creatures. I just couldn’t picture them.

Von Neumans War, by John Ringo

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

I imagine that Ringo is pretty upset that there is a scifi authors workin group that helps the us government plan how to fight future wars. He is probably muttering sullenly to himself in his underground bunker as he polishes whatever firearm is his weapon of choice. Anyway, Ringo is probably a bad choice for […]

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