“Always a godfather,” Gore Vidal regretted at a christening, “never a god.” Alas yes, he was mortal.  With him dies not only the last major writer of the World War II generation, but America’s last public intellectual. He wrote best-selling novels, he wrote brilliant essays, he wrote movies and television, he wrote Broadway plays.  He […]

Brig of War, aka The Raider, is now live at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. Please download and enjoy.  They are DRM-free, as are all my reissued ebooks. It was fascinating revisiting this book, which I haven’t read since I last corrected the proofs.  It was almost like discovering the writing of a stranger.  […]

What you’re looking at here is apparently the world’s first printed firearm.  It may look a little odd, but that’s because it’s the receiver for an AR15 semiautomatic assault weapon with a pistol barrel attached. The receiver and its various components were created on a 3D printer.  The barrel is actual metal: you still needs […]

Right, here’s an alternate version of the Brig of War cover. The main objections to Version the First were the green and orange type— the orange in particular, I’m guessing— and the various highlights and shadows I added to the typeface. The green and orange were the same shades used in the art— I was […]