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The Dreams Of The Past

When I first came to the US as an exchange student, during an otherwise unexceptionable trip into Pennsylvania I saw a sign on an hill side that shocked me to my core.

The sign said “US out of the UN. UN out of the US.”

You guys truly can’t imagine how much this shocked me. In Europe, growing up, it was all the UN this and the UN that, and the UN keeps us safe from another world war, and Unicef and Uni whatever.

I didn’t realize it, but I was living in a time capsule, or rather, a p...

In The Name Of Freedom

Flag of Britannia on High — the Star Empire.

No Man’s Land (all three volumes) is up for pre-order.

And I suppose because I’m me, and I write what I write, you’ll ask yourselves: But is this a libertarian system of government in these worlds? Or perhaps a revolution against a tyrannical system?

Well — squirms — no. No, it’s not. Though it is, in one case, a liberty-inclined system.

Look, I remember people getting very upset at me over Witchfinder, because a libertarian shouldn’t wr...

No Scapegoats

First let me lay two things out before I even start the post.

1- I’m not a feminist, not in the sense of reacting to insults on “feminism”. Did I ever call myself that? I don’t know. If I did it was in my early teens before I realized it was just a flavor of Marxism dressed in a pretty skirt and bows.

2- There is right now, in the US, a movement among the right, which for the purpose of this post is defined as “to the right of Lenin” that if it continues will fashion it into the Left’...

When The Memes Hit Your Eye

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The Man Who Sold The Moon — Reading the Future of the Past

For those of you who just dropped (possibly on your head!) in here, this is what I’m doing and why.

Sorry to take so long between these posts, but mmm. Yeah. It’s been weird out here, with a bunch of traveling around and being sick and stuff. If you want to see the previous posts, search “future of the past” in the search bar.

Also, add to “why did this take so long” that this is an Heinlein title. From the time I moved to the US and could secure all of Heinlein’s works (the juveniles...

Spin

Okay, I’m going to need all of you to do me a favor, okay?

Learn when you’re being spun, and stop spinning.

This is absolutely essential if you’re going to survive this presidency. Oh, not because Trump is doing it — though he’s gotten better at doing spinning of his own — but because it’s all the left has done, and boy do they do it 24/7.

I first realized this is not just the left, but it’s in everything, when I wrote the article yesterday about for Mad Genius Club about owning eb...

Canadian Non-Healthcare a Guest Post By the Balloonatic

Canadian Non-Healthcare a Guest Post By the Balloonatic

A recent medical issue in my family brought the problems with Canadian healthcare to my attention again. My younger brother let us know in April that his wife had an appointment with a cardiologist. She has been having issues for years because one of her valves is opening the wrong way so blood going through is moving away from her heart instead of to her heart. On a positive note, she is now scheduled for open heart surgery at the e...

Tumbling

*ANNOUNCEMENT: I forgot to put this in yesterday evening’s post: If you have a blog and occasionally do reviews, or if you review for a professional venue, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com and I’ll send you the link to download the e-arc. Needless to say no obligation of a review. Also, for the record, soliciting reviews and help promoting, because frankly I suck at the marketing thing.)

My finally getting the books up for pre-order yesterday is not an isolated event in term...

E Arcs Have Happened

For those of you who aren’t old Baen fans (or fans of Baen for a long time) I suppose I should explain what e-arcs are.

So in the days when the mammoths roamed the Earth — 30 years ago or so — the main mode of publicizing an upcoming work was the ARC, aka the Advanced Reading copy. whenever a publishing house had a hot — or lukewarm, or cold. The difference was in the number of ARCs printed — book to push, they would print a bunch of these.

They were distinguished by having cardboard ...

The 48 Hour Rule

I’ve spent the weekend (and honestly the end of last week) under a rock with the manuscript for NML (the earc for volume 1 is out, btw. Post about this later.) so I’m not writing about Tulsi’s revelations on Friday.

For a recap here. And if you’re X-less, here.

I read them again this morning, and one thing jumps out at me: the use of the word “Treason”. As Charlie Martin has explained on X this has a very specific meaning in US constitutional terms: It means cooperating (Aiding and ab...