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The Neolithic Flex

Yesterday was two yeas since we saw the the tribal neolithic way of war on full display, reaching for us out of the brutal and horrific past. And now we see our own left gleefully fall into it and thinking it’s an amazing flex that will give them everything they want.

To explain, for those who aren’t aware of what the neolithic way of war: for almost (or more than) a century anthropologists, more out of wishful thinking and ideology than anything else, maintained that there was no war bef...

Triple Point Day At Amazon!

I swear I’m working on a post as we speak. This day is already at least two weeks long. It started with calling the doctor about stupid insurance tricks relating to a med, then calling the pharmacy about another med, then–

So, while I’m working on the other post, remember it’s triple point day for the rest of the day at Amazon, and I have some books you should buy. And new Clanker songs at the end. Odd ones. I mean, I made the poor thing say “Half Crossibling.” Pity it.

Of course, first, ...

It’s All Out!

No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly)

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

On a lost colony world, mad geneticists thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphrodite. They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
Now technology indistinguishable from magic courses through the veins of the inhabitants, making their barbaric civilization survivable—and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson, Envoy of the Star Emp...

For The Sake Of Women

What is now, unbelievably, 15 years, maybe 20 years ago, I had reached my limit with science fiction and fantasy I could find on shelves. Oh, not my favorites, which included most Baen authors as well as people like Terry Pratchett were fine, but you have to understand I read very fast. (I still read fast, but thanks to two concussions and resultant eye issues, not that fast.)

I couldn’t even tell you why I was tired of it, though if you’d asked I’d have told you I was tired of “women ...

Your Nightly Clanker Songs

I really don’t mean to make a nightly thing of this, but since it’s two days in a row, well….

After the week I’ve had it should surprise no one that I’m singing the blues (Right?)

This next one, Strains of Earth, you’ve heard before, but the video was so bad it BOTHERED me.

I mean, one thing is rendered guys singing, but these rendered guys looked like prats, and I kept wanting to non-metaphorically render them, which is very mean… But there it is. So I did the current vid...

It’s All In The Memes

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Ask Not Why the Caged Clanker Still Sings

What do I mean sings? Well, I can animate it, but unfortunately not attach sounds….

However, these videos do have songs.

This first one, for those who read the e-arcs or who are waiting for Volume 3 of No Man’s Land, this Erradian Lullaby features prominently in a very emotional scene in it. Therefore I thought it should be shown off.

The next one doesn’t appear in the book, and obviously it’s not an ERRADIAN song (though arranged differently it could be.) I was just th...

Don’t Drink Their Ink

Lately I keep hearing things like “England is lost” and “Europe is lost” and–

Keeping in mind that they were never like us — NEVER — and that their system will always be closer to socialism, because it started from monarchy and it’s easy to convert from “subject” to “the happy citizen of Brutopia.”

I actually can’t watch their news when I visit because my head breaks, and then I start screaming at the TV, and then Dan has to grab my arm so I don’t throw shoes through the screen. It’s ...

This is not a post

I’m sorry, guys, I had a post started, but my brain has been hijacked by dealing with the unbelievable stupid of foreign bureaucracy.

In the aftermath of dealing with mom’s estate the Portuguese government has decided that I HAVE to be a dual citizen, even though I’m no way a dual citizen.

To wit, I followed the procedure at my naturalization ceremony, of mailing back my passport with a letter renouncing citizenship. I don’t know of any other procedure to do this.

Also so far as I ...

This, That And The Other

I spent the day going over the copyedits for No Man’s Land 3 which shouldn’t be so incredibly tiring.

This is by way of being, basically a state of the writer post. I still haven’t managed to do any real writing since mom died, and…. well…. sometimes I even come up blank on blogs. (See today.)

So I thought I’d share with you another of the …. snippets from Elly.

For those who haven’t read No Man’s Land (if you’re waiting for the omnibus, it will be electronic only and probably onl...