Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition A fun read. I often got criticized for being too “exacting” and in-depth” on my firearms descriptions in my short stories by other published writers. This is the opposite end of the spectrum…writers who did not take any time to understand the subtle nuances of the firearms…
Category: Literary Corner
The Men That Don’t Fit In
The Men That Don’t Fit In By Robert W. Service There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And…
Book Review: Contact Trace By F.C. Fox
American society and government collapse. A group of oligarchs, known as the Inner Circle, orchestrate a massive depopulation after consolidating all resources under their private control. Can two small groups of survivors come together to secure a future for themselves and their posterity? Find out in FC Fox’s highly anticipated novel, Contact Trace. It’s…
Writing Update
I planned to have the finale (Part III) of The Partisan Ledger out early last week sometime but as you all know this Texas Winter Storm came through and caused some problems! Sorry for the delay, I know a lot of you really enjoyed the story and are anxious to see how it ends! If…
12 Military Novels That Need to be Adapted into Movies or TV Series
12 Military Movies and TV Shows That We Desperately Need Right Now Off the top of my head I would also add: Outlaw Platoon, Roughneck Nine-One, The Lion’s Gate and Not a Good Day to Die. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
In Memoriam: John Le Carré, 1931-2020
John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 One of the greatest Cold War Espionage writers of our time has left us. Nobody could touch this man in terms of style and originality. He practically invented the Cold War Spy Novel in part because he actually served in the British Foreign…
From Fahrenheit 451 to Cancel Culture: Bradbury Predicted People Would Demand Tyranny
From Fahrenheit 451 to Cancel Culture: Bradbury Predicted People Would Demand Tyranny It floors me how so many of the classics, some written over 100 years ago absolutely NAILED it in predicting the current debacle of modern society. “Custodians of our Peace of Mind” could be the new party slogan for the Silicon Valley…
10 Obscure “Must Read” Military History Books
The British Way in Counter-insurgency, 1945-1967 by David French Westmoreland’s War by Gregg Daddis The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam by Andrew Bacevich Quartered Safe Out Here by George Macdonald Fraser The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan The Counterinsurgency Era by Douglas Blaufarb Modern Warfare: A Study of Men, Weapons…
Military History Book’s Worth A Damn: Pumpkinflowers
Matti Friedman, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story (Algonquin Books, 2016). Iraq veterans finally have their book; a manuscript that really deals with the whole of the Iraq experience. After over a decade at war in Iraq, we now have the best first-person account, not only of fighting against the insurgency, but also what it felt like to come…
American History: Slavery LIES Matter; Roots Mini-Series Re-Made for the BLM Era
This is a great example of how Civil War and Southern Slavery History has been manipulated more than other period of American History. Seek out the truth Folks, Don’t Believe the Status Quo. -SF Critics would say it’s fitting: a misrepresented miniseries remake partially inspired by a Machiavellian movement.The latter is Black Lives Matter,…