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Saturday, January 10, 2004

Locus Tallies SF Books of the Year Here's Locus' tally of SF books from various best of the year sites. They say they'll have longer reading lists shortly, but it's a safe bet all these books will be there. Dan Simmons' Ililum was on the most lists; I liked the book, but didn't find it among his best books. 11:53:31 AM  Permalink  comment []

Parameters.  Ralph Peters:  "The New Warrior Class."  The soldiers of the United States Army are brilliantly prepared to defeat other soldiers. Unfortunately, the enemies we are likely to face through the rest of this decade and beyond will not be "soldiers," with the disciplined modernity that term conveys in Euro-America, but "warriors"--erratic primitives of shifting allegiance, habituated to violence, with no stake in civil order. Unlike soldiers, warriors do not play by our rules, do not respect treaties, and do not obey orders they do not like. Warriors have always been around, but with the rise of professional soldieries their importance was eclipsed. Now, thanks to a unique confluence of breaking empire, overcultivated Western consciences, and a worldwide cultural crisis, the warrior is back, as brutal as ever and distinctly better-armed. [John Robb's Weblog] 11:12:57 AM  Permalink  comment []

Dean as Hitler. Hmm. This Free Republic thread has a photoshoped image of... [Daily Kos] 10:19:59 AM  Permalink  comment []

The Commissar Vanishes. The falsification of photographs in Stalin's Russia. Great exhibit. Via The Ministry of Propaganda. [The Cartoonist] 10:16:00 AM  Permalink  comment []

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