Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Full-time Army POG. CW4. Sci-fi writing. Has won some awards.
Colbert getting the pink slip is just the canary in the entertainment coal mine. Corporate TV is running out of patience, as well as money. And none of these late-nite guys can hold a candle to Carson, nor Letterman, nor even Arsenio Hall; when they were firing on all cylinders.…
I go viral several times a week here yet my account is in some kind of algorithmic black hole. Until I see any reason to post my sweet sweet Dumpster Fires on this site, you'll have to make your way to YouTube. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtube.com/watch?v=C725SI…
Larry's influence on my writing has been immense. Going all the way back to 1992, when I picked up my mass-market copies of both N-Space and Playgrounds of the Mind. Those were the two volumes which inspired me to become a pro Hard SF storyteller.
On sale tomorrow and Saturday. Writers Cantina '25. West Valley City, UT. Be there, or be a muggle.
Listening to Mike Benz talk to the Triggernometry guys about the CIA . . . I don't think I could have written a more convoluted, absurdist, Rube Goldberg intelligence apparatus story. Even if I'd wanted to. It cannot be believed. And yet, truth often is stranger than fiction.
I still owe this gentleman a cover blurb! He's been very patient with me. Better than I deserve. 😄
Eleven days until the war begins... PREORDER IS UP! And if i could ask awesome fans and supporters like @DavidJohnButler @WiseguyThreeOne @TempusMalleo to make noise about it, you guys rock. amazon.com/gp/product/B0F…
Entirely plausible. Russiagate was never about Russia, it was about sussing out other angles of incrimination and attack. But when those turned out to be nothingburgers, the (D)s were stuck with Russiagate. And had to double and triple down. Because they were already much too…
I always suspected the Russia hoax to be a fishing expedition. Remember Ken Star? He was supposed to be investigating Whitewater, one of those all-too-common land deals in politics that was shady, but not technically illegal. Found nothing incriminating about Whitewater but…
This is tacked up in a hallway on the first floor of my building at Fort Douglas. The reason our government is so hosed, is too many elected, appointed, and hired people don't take this seriously. This isn't a code, to them. It's the punchline of a joke.
Saying it yet again for the umpteenth iteration: the U.S. military needs to shitcan 95% of its awards, which are almost all participation trophies of one kind or another. Eliminate the massive and ridiculous boards of ribbons weighing down guys' jackets and shirts. There should…
Gonna lay some serious heresy on y'all. I was neither a Sabbath nor an Ozzy fan.
Part of the fun of releasing the new collection: teasers for work published in other places. Filling the otherwise blank facing pages (left-hand side).
And the ultra-long geological record indicates that CO2 has been as much as 5x its current level in the very-distant past, but the Earth during this time was only slightly warmer than it is now. Just much more wet. As in, monsoon wet. Almost everywhere. And the plants had a…
Fact: droughts were worse at preindustrial levels of CO2... "here we show that central Europe has experienced much longer and severe droughts during the Spörer Minimum (~AD 1400–1480) and Dalton Minimum (~AD 1770–1840), than the ones observed during the 21st century."…
Re-poasting. Yes, Cantina is Fri-Sat. Please come see us! Pros talking the craft, and also the biz.
