Science Fiction to the Rescue in WWII
I reviewed the new Heinlein biography recently, which I quite enjoyed. It’s the first of a planned two-volume project, so I am also eagerly anticipating the second, particularly since by the end of...
View ArticleBook Review: Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
In 2002, the British government agency, Military Intelligence, Section 5, also known as the Security Service, or simply MI5, advertised for a part-time historian to write an official history of the...
View ArticleCare2 Blog Weekly Roundup (05/19/12)
This was my contribution to the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia at Care2 Causes this week. I will likely have very little blogging over there through June. I’m quite busy at the...
View ArticleTuesday Links (05/29/12)
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived: An Oatmeal comic. Nikola Tesla Wasn’t God and Thomas Edison Wasn’t the Devil: The Forbes response. I wrote a response to the Forbes article about...
View ArticleTuesday Links (06/05/12)
Genre in the Mainstream: The New Yorker’s Science Fiction Issue: “In the end, when Eustace Tilley holds up his monocle to a rocketship, the analysis is awesome, readable, and makes you feel smarter....
View ArticleTuesday Links (07/31/12)
Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb: “Watching this film, there are many things to wonder (and worry) about, but one of the stranger moments is how the bomb bursts in...
View ArticleTuesday Links (10/09/12)
Pac Man Meets Art History: I’ve always had a soft spot for Dali. Wahoo and Umbrella – Filmmaker recounts nuclear test: Sometimes I’m amazed what a crazy century I was born in.
View ArticleBook Review: The King’s Last Song
In the modern-day story, emotionally-damaged survivors of the war put a human face on a national ordeal. In Jaya’s epic kingdom-building tale — what I like to think of as Shogun, the Cambodian edition...
View ArticleJames Clavell and SF
Any James Clavell or Harold Lamb fans out there? I have an essay up on AE, on the relationship between historical fiction and certain works and sub-genres with SF (alternate history is something I...
View ArticleWhy the NES Zapper is One of the Greatest Things in the History of Videogames
Nintendo wanted to draw on a broader range of human experiences. With its motion controls and sensor bar the Wii created a new sort of shared space between our living rooms and the dimension implied...
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