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Book Review: Vladimir Voinovich - Moscow 2042
•�July 29, 2018
•�1,300 Words •�13 Comments
Vladimir Voinovich (1986) - Moscow 2042 Rating: 2/5 TLDR: Good perspective on sovok-liberal Russophobia. Vladimir Voinovich died the other day. In the Anglosphere, this only seems to have been noticed by RFERL, where this Serb/Jewish literary dissident worked during his exile from the USSR in the 1980s. Like Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich opposed the Soviet regime -... Read More
Karma in Westeros
•�April 22, 2016
•�1,000 Words •�28 Comments
Note: Major spoilers through to and including the fifth ASoIaF book. This series is commonly considered to be the archetypical Crapsack World , in which life is short, nasty, and brutal, and hardly anybody "bad" ever gets their just desserts while the innocent suffer. However, if you really get to thinking about the various deaths... Read More
A Graph of GRRM
•�January 4, 2016
•�1,200 Words •�7 Comments
So we hear from the blog that is not a blog that The Winds of Winter isn't going to be finished before HBO launches its sixth season this April and decidedly outpaces events in the books. This should not have come as a surprise and here is the graph - so far as I can... Read More
Film Review: the Martian
•�November 28, 2015
•�800 Words •�47 Comments
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD RATING: 8/10. (Please note my ratings system is harsh and virtually no films get a 10). In 2011, American sci-fi giant Neal Stephenson bewailed the pessimism prevalent in the genre and called for writers to start thinking more positively about the possibilities of technology in order to inspire new generations to "get... Read More
Review of "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman
•�April 15, 2013
•�1,500 Words •�1 Comment
Black Sun Rising (Book 1 of the Coldfire Trilogy) by C.S. Friedman, published in 1991. Rating: 3/5. The Coldfire Trilogy is sometimes described as a successful fusion of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. So what better work to start reviewing on this site? I will be forthright: By far the most wondrous and intriguing element of... Read More
Review of "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler
•�April 10, 2009
•�1,900 Words •�4 Comments
"World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler, published in 2008. Rating: 3/5. [easyazon_link asin="0802144012" locale="US" new_window="default" tag="httpakarcom-20" add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" nofollow="default" popups="default"]WORLD MADE BY HAND[/easyazon_link] is a speculative fiction book about how a sociopolitical collapse may be experienced by small-town Americans. It is of a reasonable length, engaging and generally well-written, although far from... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.