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Neither can I but plot summary per le Wik is certainly Manichaean enough to be Mormon fanfic. "The main character of the stories surround Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society, is fated to become the heroic savior of the Land, an...

Not having read the Thomas Covenant (isn't that the fantasy retelling of the Joseph Smith story?) I can't say one way or another, but being an arse does not make one debased either. Nice ==/== Good

Oh for sure. That one is so useful for triggering fluffy bunnies with, as the society described is basically Space Athens but they can’t help themselves to argue ad hitlerium against it. And perhaps ‘Glory Road’ with its anti democratic authoritarian setup. But those are rather exceptions to...

Eh, I wouldn’t call classical liberal, bourgeoisie conservatism stuff like Weber’s Space Britain ‘based’, which is also my qualm about the Poul Anderson, H Beam Piper, Robert Heinlein, and MZ Williams works mentioned up thread. But sure if that’s your thing. They’re all good stories for sure...

Agreed sir. Good call. Also to be considered is the spin off collaborative story series 'War World'. Also of course we shouldn't forget Jerry Pournelle's 'There Will be War' series, or his efforts with his frequent collaborator Larry Niven, especially 'Lucifer's Hammer'. And David Drake's...

Criticism of Capitalism is a big business that earns the Capitalists millions of dollars. We have to remember that very little of what Capitalism does is sell people things that they need to solve particular problems. Most of what they do is sell people on stories about themselves and the...

Japan remains (much like Germany and Italy) an occupied country. The degree to which anyone can just say what they honestly think is rather curtailed. Much easier to file off the serial numbers, bury the dog, and set it all in space in the remote far future. But I'd argue there's a reason it...

Because fundamentally the Japanese are a *Conquered People* who have adopted the dreams of their conquerors, the liberal democratic Atlantic Empire. And the fundamental dream of the Whig imagination is the 'Federation of the World'. Those who follow the left-hand path will always seek to...

So I generally agree with many of your criticisms of the Anime, which I am given to understand are somewhat ameliorated in the novel (which I haven’t found time to read). But we have in the Rheinhard story and character a sort of de Maistre-Ian critique of the decadent state of the Ancien...

Ok, I am going to mount a defense of Lovecraft (and Derlerth), one that that is perhaps a little idiosyncratic, but one hopes that the intent comes through. Lovecraft’s horror is at it most basic, a horror at a demystified, desacralized, deracinated modernity, where nothing is holy, nothing has...

Warhammer is based for the same reason Watchmen is based, accidentally; lefty authors attempting to make straw men of the right accidentally create things that real people actually like. Both Empire and the Old World and the Imperium of 40k are supposed to be Whig Historical, Black Legend...