Category Archives: Books, Stories, etc

While my opponents fellate the Satan of special interests, I go down on Reform’s compassionate angel. My fellow Americans, as you know, my foreign policy can be summed up in five words: “Iludium-236 Explosive Space Modulator.” Critics are calling me … Continue reading →

The title of Stephenson’s vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to Quicksilver (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasion as they follow the glorious and exceedingly complex parallel stories of Jack Shaftoe, amiable criminal … Continue reading →

Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May … Continue reading →

THEY ate lunch in a Mexican place called Dirty Is God. Chevette didn’t remember it from before, but places changed names on the bridge. They changed size and shape too. You’d get these strange mergers, a hair place and an … Continue reading →

This excellent first novel by James Blinn depicts the anxieties and sarcastic observations of a Navy petty officer aboard an aircraft carrier heading toward the Persian Gulf in 1991.

Since Zinger’s a pretty forgiving editor, I’ve decided to post part I of a short story series that I’ve begun. I’d initially submitted this to Modern Drunkard Magazine in hopes that I’d finally see something of mine in print, but, … Continue reading →

For those who didn’t know, Evil_Bastard is an author with a technical sales support day job. Past stories from him have included a unique method of time travel and a class struggle with unlikely protagonists. Let’s offer him up some … Continue reading →

We’ve all heard the stories about Polish Cavalry vainly charging Panzers in the 1939 Nazi invasion — a more esoteric fact is that, about two decades earlier, it was Polish armor, provided by the French, that helped route the Bolshevik … Continue reading →

Same guy who wrote Down and Out in Magic Kingdom has put up the majority of his collection of short stories called A place so foreign. Go check ’em out.