Prior to WWII, the US had a marginal presence overseas. We now have over 800 military bases in 70 countries around the globe — more than any nation in history — including 174 in Germany, […]
Month: June 2020
(Art) The Fairy Illustration of Ed Binkley
American artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has been featured numerous time in Spectrum, the annual anthology of the best in fantastic art. I got the chance to go to the Spectrum con in Kansas City […]
(Fiction) Anything Other Than a Spy
T Minus: 051 Days 21 Hours 03 Minutes 43 Seconds That was odd. The door was already open. Dr. Amarta Zabora removed the key to her office and pushed the door with her […]
(Art) The Cyber-Wraiths of Filip Bazarewski
Polish artist digital artist Filip Bazarewski has a talent for distorted or missing faces. His work runs the gamut of fantastic art from high fantasy to cyberpunk. Find more by the artist on his ArtStation […]
(Curiosity) How to Make an EMP Weapon
It’s not hard. It’s not as easy as, say, baking a cake, nor even as easy as assembling IKEA furniture, but it’s definitely closer to those than to making a nuclear bomb. No exotic materials […]
(Fiction) The Bleeder
The bus pulled onto the shoulder to report the bleeder on the side of the highway. At some point, a car had clipped the man’s leg, which was bent awkwardly to one side. His hands […]
(Art) The Human Mysteries of Boris Pelcer
It’s hard to imagine another artist capturing the dark contradictions of the individual any better than Boris Pelcer. His wounded, brooding figures are as much in pain as they are the cause of it. If, […]
(Art) The Dream Wraiths of Maria Zolotukhina
The works of Russian artist Maria Zolotukhina hover at the twilight of consciousness. Her darkly dramatic paintings depict unsettling dreamlike scenes with classical motifs — portraiture, still life, landscape, religious icon — and are full […]
Past Participles: History & Secession
People read passages from the Federalist papers in school, or an ancient treatise on Stoicism or whatever, and it informs their sense of how things were in the past, forgetting (or worse, never realizing) that […]
