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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Book Review: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
The first chapter of the book was wonderful. I mean, it did absolutely nothing to prepare you for the rest of the book, it triggered some things, but its haunting historical truth and the human madness dancing across the pages … Continue reading
Book Review: The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
You remember the capitalism from the 1950s? No? Me neither. I’ve heard loving stories of a by-gone era, but I was born in the eighties and the capitalism I grew up with was the kind that meant morality is only … Continue reading
Valhalla
Slothing through the field, our swords meet, I stab the guy, his buddy eyes me, but it’s like, “Why?”, you know? Whatever, he’s dead. I don’t care. I doubt he does either. It’s like, yeah I get it we’re at … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A Saga of Sorts, battle, comrades, Egil, hel, mead, one death is as good as another, ragnarok, slaughter, swords, tit for tat, valhalla, vikings, war
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Book Review: Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll mention it again just for the sake of posterity: Murakami and I do not agree on the fundamentals of writing. He creates yamato-e paintings. Giving you the tangible as he deems necessary as well … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged alcohol, cats, disassociative females, food, Haruki Murakami, Japanese Literature, jazz, literary fiction, Magical Realism, Men Without Women, surrealism, Yamato-e
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Book Review: The Fourth Transformation by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel
Words are confusing. Between pleonasms, epizeuxis, and tautology it is a marvel we accomplish as much as we do as a species. This very same confusion must be what led Robert Scoble to diagnose himself as a futurist when, I’m … Continue reading
Commander Syndrome
Until they are gone, until they are dead I can no more rest my eyes and smile myself to dream than a drunk can will himself to sobriety. I am bound by their lust for a future that sees me … Continue reading
Book Review: The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson
You want to know how to get me to hate you? Tell me about how shitty science fiction is at predicting the future and then smugly espousing just how much more right you are than anyone else. At that point, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Arrogance on such a scale as to render me incapable of anything but the most base and primal urge to scream, Artificial Intelligence, Emulated Humans, Emulations, futurism, hate, Hubris, nonsense, philsophy, Robin Hanson, Robots, Technology, The Age of Em
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Book Review: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
‘No one reads Arthur Clarke for his characters; you read it for his ideas.’ This is the mantra I keep hearing with a lot of the big three in sci-fi. I can get behind that provided the ideas are big … Continue reading
Book Review: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
*Insert Overly-Emphatic Political Treatise Here* See what I mean? No? That’s fine. I’m not here to change your mind. Hell, I’m barely here at all. Life has me scared and I’ve pretty much taken to books, booze, and checking and … Continue reading
A Land of Rum and Writing 