Good Stuff! Mike Loades on Swords and Bows

Mike Loades is an expert on medieval fighting. He brings energy and, not just bookish learning, but insights from hands-on use. I loved the five-part Weapons That Made Britain television series for which he was the host and chief consultant. And so I looked to see if there was anything else he’d done. I found he’d

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The Weaponization of Insects

This idea. Oh, my, heck. One of my first novelettes was about using insects as military grade spies. Just a bit of wetware to get control of their brains. Then mount a nano recording and transmitting device… How are you going to stop that? But wait–insects can be far more sinister. Jeffrey A. Lockwood has written Six-Legged

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