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My list of reliably entertaining fiction authors has become too short, so I've been spending a lot of time lately poking through the Amazon Prime discount bin trying to find new authors to read. Lately, I'm looking for military sci-fi or space opera. After a batch of disappointing starts -- some books are free to read from Amazon for a reason -- I decided to check out a … [Read more...] about A Libertarian Meets the Honorverse

Kate Burkholder is an authoritarian bitch. Kate Burkholder is also a fictional character. This is a problem for me.I enjoy police procedural mysteries -- the crime scene, the forensics, the autopsy, interrogations, politics, history, secrets -- but all these years of blogging about libertarian issues and the criminal justice system have made it hard to maintain the willing … [Read more...] about Kate Burkholder Is an Authoritarian Bitch

The nice folks at the Reason Foundation sent me a free review copy of Jesse Walker's The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory all the way back in September of last year. At the time I was churning through my close reading of Radley Balko's Warrior Cop, so it took me a month or so to get around to reading Walker's book. And after reading it, I really didn't have much … [Read more...] about The United States of Paranoia – Review

When I don't have any new novels from my favorite major authors, I like to browse the cheap e-books at Amazon to try to find new authors. Many of them turn out to be unappealing -- not so much because they are badly written but because, like most indie art, they have a somewhat narrow appeal. Of course, when that narrow appeal is aimed straight at me, it's like digging a random … [Read more...] about The Forensic Geology Series – Review

There's a meme of sorts going around, the rules to which are: "List 10 books that have stayed with you. Don't take more than a few minutes; don't think too hard. They don't have to be great works, just the ones that have touched you." The rules don't specify fiction, but that's how most people seem to interpret it.Here's my list:The Mote In God's Eye. Larry Niven and … [Read more...] about 10 Books, More Or Less