Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the Year of the Wood Dragon. As I am an Earth Rooster, this is potentially an auspicious year for me.
Reading
I’m still feeling some post-Dostoevsky reading stress, so I have been hitting the big stack of short fiction. A couple of issues of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, some Patreon short stories, and the like. I also have a great many short novels and novellas which have been gathering dust on my shelves for some years now. So I am working my way through them, and enjoying the process. It’s nice to be able to both start and finish reading a work in the same month.
At the moment the book in front of me is Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages. I picked this up at ConFusion in maybe 2016, and am finally reading it.
Writing
Not much to speak of. This year has been busy to the point of distraction.
Subject: Genius Loci, Reincarnation
Setting: Lost City
Genre: War
Interesting Links
- Oxford Bibliographies – A huge collection of bibliographies on a wide variety of topics, sub-topics, and sub-sub-topics. Something in here for almost everyone. Free basic tier and more advanced access for a fee.
- “The Concept of Just War and Outlines of the Just War Theory in International Relations“, Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic, Naked Capitalism
- “Very Ordinary Men: Elon Musk and the court biographer“, Sam Kriss, The Point – a deliciously pointed takedown of Walter Isaacson, who writes fawning biographies of people like Elon Musk.