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The great military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is a household name among students of military science, and not only that–his seminal work Vom Krieg (On War) is also very well known among fiction writers who include war as a subject matter within their stories. One of the most important principled he outlined in his book [...]

The knight, or rather the mounted man-at-arms, has always been a controversial figure in medieval military history. It began with the traditional view of the lance-armed knight on a large horse charging his way through every obstacle1). In the latter half of the 20th century this was challenged by a revisionist opinion stating that castles [...]

Perhaps the greatest thing about the technology which brought us the DVD is the nostalgic trend to re-release classic movies and even television series from the past. Recently I stumbled across both volumes of one of my favorite television shows– Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel — starring Robert Colbert and sixties pop idol James Darrin. [...]

Speculative poetry, as a sub-genre, suffers from many of the same ills as contemporary poetry, i.e., there is a lot of bad poetry being written (I have certainly generated my share of it!) That is why I am particularly pleased to tell you about Illumen, published by Sam’s Dot Publishing, PO Box 782, Cedar Rapids, [...]

Canadian power-trio and progressive rock scions Rush are entering their forth decade as recording and performance artists. During their career they’ve made a lot of music with science fiction and fantasy themes, including such extended works as The Fountain of Lamneth and The Necromancer, Xanadu, Cygnus X-1 and the follow-up Hemispheres, or songs like "The [...]

October 12, 2006 marked the premier of season three for one of the most incredible series ever produced for television (regardless of genre) — the Sci-Fi Channel’s original production of Battlestar Gallactica. Okay, it isn’t exactly original; it is based on the short-lived series (one season) of the same name from 1978, starring Lorne Greene. [...]

This book takes place in an alternate universe, much like ours, except that almost every human is lycanthropic. However, if you’re born headfirst instead of feetfirst and get a tiny bit of brain damage at the wrong time, you’ll end up crippled, unable to morph at all. From that moment on, your life will never [...]

The academic community of military historians has long recognized that pitched battles were not the dominant factor in warfare before the rise of battle-focused Napoleonic doctrines at the end of the 18th century. Instead, wars before the Napoleonic era (and even later outside Europe) were dominated by indirect confrontations through raiding, posturing, and diplomatic bluffs, [...]