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  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    I gather thats what you intended. However, again at the risk of sexism, men are usually more concrete minded. One can't treat a carabao like a cat, or vice versa. "Do precisely this now" works much better, usually, than "think...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    OK, Just bought your first "Red" book. Purely a bit of consumer feedback - The Kindle price at $8.99 is rather high vs the market for this genre - a very great deal out there these days in Mil SF...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    To put it bluntly, you probably need to got to where the war freaks are. I am, to a degree, but the hardcore isn't here. I'm just a passing pigeon, not native to this place. You want the guys who...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    "This is why we’re here. " But is this your core market ? It may not be. That's an important question. When trying to sell something you have to know the consumer you are equipped to serve. Then you make...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    There is a promotions budget ? Do they still have that ? I though the thing now was to pull a Hugh Howey and self-promote. The talking is to readers, not to editors. There are also other publishers that would...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    Well, there you go Demarquis. Except this may not actually be a fight. Or require a fight. A lot of all this is just a lack of communication or miscommunication. Best thing to do is target your desired market and...
  • Commented on Chilling Effects
    A non-intuitive suggestion - Look for a publisher that tends to cater to the market you want - for mil-SF, Baen. Have you tried Baen ? Or more extreme, a publisher who is an ace at generating publicity like Castalia,...
  • Commented on Aftermath
    What you guys should think about is decentralizing and devolving, as in the US or German systems - well, more the US system really, but you should have a look at the Germans, they have some good ideas. Let the...
  • Commented on Who Got Fantasy in My Science Fiction?
    Telepathy = Soundless, textless and invisible interpersonal communication = Advanced BCI (brain computer interface) + Bluetooth or Wifi There are some very interesting things going on with BCI. Some are even practical now. http://www.gtec.at/ I guess at some point someone...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    Raccoons are common in San Francisco. And skunks of course. And possums. In the heart of the city. They are in my garden every night in the spring and summer. In parts we have coyotes. In the East Bay hills...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    Er, our host did invoke the religious question, as in desiring an explanation on a certain point. So there it is, as anyone in my camp (broadly speaking) would give. Information gladly given. If anyone here wants to throw Christians...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    As implied, the official Christian/Catholic point of view has been controversial for 2000 years, from far more directions than have been mentioned. Some of these disputes can be found even in the Epistles. Far better men, on all sides, have...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    In re Genesis, one has to define "veracity". I will not answer for Biblical literalists, as that is not part of my religious tradition. The Catholic perspective is that the Bible should be read intelligently. Genesis, for instance, is rich...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    Well, I make no judgements about your capacity for understanding. All I know for sure is that mine is very limited. My main point though is that the ability, or lack of it, to understand Gods purpose or his creation,...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    Catholic, not creationist, though probably to the right of John C. Wright. We do have a thing for Devils advocates. I don't have the talent to advocate for the Devil, or knock down saints, but I will stick up for...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Yes, quite. When I was a kid, in Vizcaya, too many years ago, our favorite show on the tele was the bullfight highlights, and our hero was El Cordobes. Sad to see it also has become political....
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    The poster above has hinted at the core of this issue. Social, political and economic strains are increasing in the US, nearly to the point of complete social separation. That SF fandom is mixed up in this is to be...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Yes, just opening an account is near-impossible. Consider the trouble of owning even part of a business established outside the US. It just becomes nonsense. Sell out (and deal with years of paperwork even for that) or become an expat...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    A digression, but - Homeschooling in the US is massive, in the millions. Its not just fundamentalist/evangelical Christians either. If you have some experience of the quality and programs of many US public schools (government schools for you British) its...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    To be clear, it is perfectly honorable to be a tax expat. The laws regarding international assets and income are often ridiculous. As I said before, this is becoming increasingly common. The fact that US laws are such that living...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    The reason why he's foreign based is no mystery at all. US IRS is brutal about foreign assets and income. Way more brutal than the Euros are. Lots of Euro banks have a huge beef with the IRS. If I...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Going back to the original subject of Castalia, my point was that they do seem to have interesting connections, and important friends, but from my reading its certainly not a Euro-rightist thing at all. Also note they have a US...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    The OODA business can be argued against from all sorts of directions, and has been. Lind is still influential though. I keep an open mind. The people who control stuff and control the guns (guess the median political leanings of...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    This matter of personality interests me. I'm not just speaking of theorists on military strategy, but even there we aren't speaking of "how to kill other people", but also "how to keep our own people from getting killed". And its...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    And, coming to the quality of opinions, and keeping open minds, if a man is judged to be a source of good advice on matters of national destiny, as strategic writers tend to be, this seems to indicate that they...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Yes, that Lind. The Wiki article doesn't do justice to his professional work, or his influence. Leaving aside purely rhetorical matters, real policies and real decisions are heavily influenced by people like Lind, Creveld et. al., in their professional capacities....
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    As for Kratman, leaving literature aside (de gustibus, etc.), he is no lightweight either, from a professional military point of view. He has a rather good essay taking issue with Lind/Boyd. He's got a book in him on military theory...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    Castalia has Martin Van Creveld and William Lind, both extremely influential military historians and theorists. You will find both on the professional required reading lists of all the US Armed services, at one time or another. Creveld's "Supplying War" is...
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