Diving Into Obscurity: The Fantasy Masterworks of Poul Anderson
Why 1953 was the greatest year for modern fantasy literature.
Books
Maree’s Book Review: Godzone’s Enemies
If you’ve been watching the recent turmoil within the Greens and Te Pāti Māori and Labour, Loudon’s book invites you to look more closely at the people behind the politicians, who and what motivates them – and to draw your own conclusions.
Thoughts on the Untold Stories
The Ardern luvvies will not want you to read this book. They’d rather not see their Saint Jacinda portrayed in any unflattering light – misogynists! On the other hand, Ardern’s harshest critics may feel Cohen didn’t go far enough.
Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
Diving Into Obscurity: Clifford Simak’s ‘City’
How a remarkable 1952 novel anticipated both the many-worlds hypothesis and the question of consciousness.
On C S Lewis
If all NZ children could – and would – read the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia... it would be hard to say we have a literacy crisis.
Who Are (Or Were?) the Woke?
The promised ‘racial reckoning’ was mostly elite white liberals trying to amass more power, Musa al-Gharbi’s new book reveals.
The Mental Health Industry One Stop Shop
“Unshrunk” serves as a powerful educational text for anyone scratching their head as to why, with all the psychiatric services and medications at our fingertips, we in the West are struggling more than ever before with mental health.
The Dame’s Book Rewrites History
She remains totally oblivious to (or uncaring about) the damage her policies and draconian Covid rules did.
Indie Publishing Is Fuelling a Literary Renaissance
The big publishing houses are dying: good riddance.
Why Do We Politicise Science?
Notice how language drifts. No one ever talks about ‘The Politics’. But we do talk about ‘The Science’.
How Britain’s Libraries Became Trans Indoctrination Hubs
The Arts Council England continues to fund them with taxpayer’s money, no questions asked.