Just about everyone has met someone they’ve seen in a movie or on television. Or at least they’ve got a glimpse of them. Usually, they’re not nearly as beautiful as you thought they were. There’s a…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
The Devil’s Dictum by Frederick Gero Heimbach (2015) I enjoy books that defy easy categorization, that don’t “slot in” to a genre and revisit tropes that the experienced rea…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
(My previous review of Te Kererū Book 1 – The Nest is here). Te Kererū Book 2 – Shaking the Nest is available at GumRoad “Te Kererū” is the Māori name for the native New Zeala…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
(My review of Loretta Malakie’s previous novel Love in the Age of Dispossession is here). I’ve become very interested in “second novels,” having published my own in January.…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
The Dream of the Iron Dragon (Saga of the Iron Dragon, Volume 1) by Robert Kroese The essence of a good book, a good story, is the right mix of the familiar and the surprising. Robert Heinlein was …| Sanity in The Diamond Age
(My first piece ever at that grand old group blog The Mitrailleuse, November 2014. With an intellectual background like the one below, no wonder I wrote a novel titled Sanity…) The first refe…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
(A repost of my piece at the dear departed Mitrailleuse blog almost exactly four years ago–July 16, 2016. And I now give it four stars out of five…it just turned out to be even better,…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
[Think] Like a Mind Reader by Jonathan Pritchard (2017, paperback only) A while back a smart friend and I were discussing the characteristics of a good self-help or self-improvement book. ThereR…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
Reality Scene 33 The ReHumanist Manifesto. October, 1975. For Private Circulation Only. Page 34 The Mechanism Men have not always needed to know how a thing worked for them to use it to their ad…| Sanity in The Diamond Age
