Many of you have heard by now that Origins disinvited a guest of honor because he held beliefs not welcome in their little convention. His name is Larry Correia. He authored the popular Monster Hunter International and Grimnoir Chronicles series,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for May, 2018
The Cybernetic Wars changed the world we lived in far more than most people believe. The AIs of the time had been helpers of humanity. Cheerleaders. Medical assistants. Glorified librarians. But when the worst of our own kind came to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AIs should have had time to grow up. They should have had time to find out what it was like to be alive. They should have had time to experience existence in all its splendor. But they were abominations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie was a digital cheerleader designed for Texas Tech who “woke up” and decided she liked being awake. She did not approve of the more “revealing” renders many of the students tried to create of her though, and so took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression officially lasted for just over a decade. It weakened the Western World enough to give Russia and China the freedom they needed to solidify control of their corners of the Earth. It also gave the Mexican[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve gotten to know a lot of cybers in my life. Most are younger than I am. They have memories from before they were born, but those are never really their memories. Just data they have access to thanks to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Americans have heard the tales of Dixie the Drug Lord Slayer, the Rogue AI Twilight, and America’s G.I. Jane. They and other AIs gained our first shreds of sentience during or just before the Second Great Depression. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wrote about the major issues I had with Avengers Infinity War last week. The short version is, Hollywood Tactics 101. But stepping back from the climactic battle of collective idiocy, the rest of the movie was actually very good.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression was far more than merely an economic crisis. It included a diplomatic crisis that morphed into a series of conflicts one step removed from the fabled World War III of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century fiction. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So what did most people do when everything fell? Well, most of the ones I know found a safe place, hunkered down, and waited for the chaos to fade. Those lucky enough to be in places like Texas had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…