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Tag: Science Fiction

Fireside Friday, April 22, 2022

Fireside this week! We're in the last few weeks of the semester, but semesters tend to 'crescendo' rather than 'wind down' so there has been a lot going on. I'll probably be posting a gap week for next week (Friday, April 29) because I'll be at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History … Continue reading Fireside Friday, April 22, 2022 →

Bret Devereaux Fireside 284 Comments April 22, 2022 12 Minutes

Miscellanea: Reflections on the Sands of Dune (2021)

Since I finally got out to see Dune (2021), I wanted to take a chance to share some of my reflections on it and this week was a good time because I had nowhere near enough time otherwise to get the next Fortifications post ready. So first I want to give my own reaction to … Continue reading Miscellanea: Reflections on the Sands of Dune (2021) →

Bret Devereaux Miscellanea 187 Comments November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 12 Minutes

Fireside Friday: January 1, 2021

Happy New Year! Good riddance 2020! Fireside this week. Next week, we'll be finishing up our look at the Dothraki of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones by looking at how they are shown to fight and comparing that to the fighting patterns of actual historical horse-borne nomads. Of course, it's … Continue reading Fireside Friday: January 1, 2021 →

Bret Devereaux Fireside 269 Comments January 1, 2021April 16, 2021 16 Minutes

Fireside Friday: August 14th, 2020

Hey folks! Fireside this week - sorry for those of you who were waiting patiently for the last post on cereal farming. I had hoped to have it ready to go, but the start of fall semester teaching has pushed that off until next week. Those who pay less attention to higher education news may … Continue reading Fireside Friday: August 14th, 2020 →

Bret Devereaux Fireside 110 Comments August 14, 2020April 16, 2021 14 Minutes

Fireside Friday: July 17th, 2020

Hey folks! Fireside this week; musing on a rather silly topic: the practicality of planetary invasions in a science fiction setting. I am working currently on (among other things) getting the "How They Made It" post series started up; those will be a set of post-series detailing how pre-modern societies made all of the stuff … Continue reading Fireside Friday: July 17th, 2020 →

Bret Devereaux Fireside 158 Comments July 17, 2020April 16, 2021 13 Minutes

Miscellanea: The Latest Jedi

The following is a somewhat polished (but not very polished!), consolidated version of my response to watching The Last Jedi and the problems I had with it. The core of this was something I wrote on social media back in January, 2018; note that since this was originally intended for a small group of friends … Continue reading Miscellanea: The Latest Jedi →

Bret Devereaux Miscellanea 53 Comments December 29, 2019 41 Minutes

Collections: Where Does My Main Battery Go?

This week, we look at the positioning of main gun batteries and see what the Battlestar Galactica could use to learn from the USS South Carolina (BB-26).

Bret Devereaux Collections 64 Comments November 29, 2019December 1, 2019 18 Minutes

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