Author: Adam Lee

Earlier this week, I posted about the “Sad Puppies’” reactionary campaign to hijack the Hugos. I have an addendum to that: two nominated authors, Annie Bellet and Marko Kloos, have announced that they’re withdrawing their works from consideration. Both Bellet and Kloos were part of the Sad Puppies’ slate, although neither sought out that support.…

The National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon is almost here again! If you’ve got a few dollars to spare and want to help strike down barriers to choice, please donate to my wife Elizabeth and her team, At Your Cervix. • The construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea is being blockaded by protesters who…

Atlas Shrugged, part III, chapter I And now, we embark on the third and final part of Atlas Shrugged. When we left off at the conclusion of Part II, it was on a cliffhanger: Dagny’s plane was spiraling down for a crash landing, plummeting into a mysterious valley that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Part…

The Hugos, one of the most prestigious awards for sci-fi and fantasy writing, have been hijacked. After several years in which the awardees had become increasingly diverse, reflecting the broader reach and appeal of SF/F, readers discovered that this year’s nominees were dominated by a ballot-stuffing campaign organized by a right-wing faction that calls itself,…

There’s nothing like the feeling of being beaten to the punch. I uploaded the final edits late last week, linked all the publication pages together, and got ready to make this announcement… and then someone went and figured out the URL and bought a copy before I’d even put this post up. Clever, whoever you…

Atlas Shrugged Part II: The Strike In most things, the producers of Atlas Shrugged Part II were unwilling to deviate in the slightest from the book. They followed the text as slavishly as possible, keeping everything that screen-time and budget constraints would allow. But there are a few places where they chose to make changes,…

Via this interview on Vox, I came across an intriguing blog by a writer who goes by the unlikely appellation of Mr. Money Mustache. MMM, as I’ll call him for short, argues that an ordinary person can save enough to retire after as little as ten years of full-time work, without winning the lottery or…

Last month, Indiana’s Republican-dominated legislature passed, and Gov. Mike Pence signed, an intensely controversial “religious freedom” bill very similar to the one that almost passed in Arizona last year. It was based on the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but with several crucial differences, especially the fact that it allowed for-profit businesses to assert a…

I previously used this space to feature Quiet Company, an ex-Christian rock band from Texas. They’ve just released a new album, Transgressor, that’s a bit more polished and less emotionally raw, but I think every bit as good as their last: