Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

SURE ARE. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ONES AT LEAST:  Masks Are Coming Off!

The physical ones? Nowhere near fast enough for a useless placebo crossed with a religious symbol of a religion I don’t believe.

FROM BECKY R. JONES:  Night Mage.

After fighting a demon in the middle of Philadelphia, Zoe O’Brien wants nothing more than to return to her normal, if stress-filled, life as an assistant professor of history at Summerfield College. But she’s an Elemental mage and that means when there’s potential magical trouble on campus, the squirrels come to her.

Who or what is the dark presence moving around campus? Why is it here and what does it want? Zoe struggles to come to terms with her mage powers and the leadership role her colleagues have given her. Complicating everything are all the papers that have to be graded, classes that need to be prepped, and most importantly, cats that require attention. Oh, yeah. She might actually have a boyfriend as well.

THE LEFT IS PROCRUSTES ALL THE WAY DOWN:  The Procrustean Bed.

EUROPE IN GENERAL:  I think France may be lost.

The US might save itself, but while we’re busy the world is going down hard.

THIS IS THE LEFT’S EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING:  CNN Clowns: Of Browning And Grievances.

For instance, when I didn’t like academic, Marxist SF I got told that’s because I didn’t like women, immigrants and minorities writing science fiction.  For the left this makes sense, because you can’t possibly disagree with them, so it must be that you’re scared of women, minorities and immigrants. Sigh.

MEANWHILE INDIE AUTHORS WORK WITHOUT A NET, AND FOR YOUR BUCK: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

I know. I am one. I am fortunate to have built a fandom over years in traditional publishing. Most of the people I link in my Sunday promo posts haven’t. So, I do what I can for them.

THOSE “TRUE” ARTISTS ARE A LOT LIKE “TRUE”  WRITERS:  DAILY ART FIX: Soap For True Artists.

And to quote Heinlein’s character Wyoming Knott in Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, I want to yell at them “Oh, you rockheads. You deserve to starve.”

Of course, most of them don’t. To quote Heinlein in another book “Artists supported by the government are whores. Incompetent ones.”  But you know, they don’t seem to care.

OUR INSTITUTIONS NEED A MASSIVE BITCHSLAPPING:  The US Navy falls to virtue signaling.

Either they remember they’re Americans, or we’ll have to remind them.

THE BIAS OF NORMALCY CAN KILL YOU:  Yom HaShoah and the importance of recognizing when the rules of the game have changed.

Not just the conviction that “it can’t happen here.” There is also the deep in-built certainty that tomorrow will be more or less like today, and the worst that can happen within relatively safe bounds. Even while everything is shifting against you. From Pompeii to Nazi Germany, from Alexander’s conquests to Communist Russia, the normalcy bias has killed more human beings than any other factor in history.