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The Restoration, or Viva la Upcoming Glorioso Revolucion!

Supposedly it was Mark Twain who said: “History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes.” I think of the English Restoration of 1660: after...

Yes, We are at War

The premise of my 2013 book “The Great Game” was a 2020 financial attack by China and Russia that almost succeeds in splitting up the US...

Are You Not Entertained, or What Is the Purpose of the Novel?

When you Google “purpose of a novel,” the first returned item is the definition from a college’s curriculum: “to entertain and to give...

Is Eleos an Offensive Book?

This post has been prompted by an angry reaction from one of the Eleos readers: a religious person who was upset by Eleos’ portrayal of...

The Counterpoint Trilogy – Five Years Later

The Great Game, the first book in The Counterpoint Trilogy, came out in December of 2013. It was set in 2022. I tried to set the story...