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For this #nerdy9th  let us give thanks to Ryan Dancey for the Open Game License . You can't stop the signal.* *someone shoot me for quoting Firefly. http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html

Repost for kirin robinson and #nerdy9th . Originally shared by Casey G. Whenever someone complains about Star Wars, or comic books, or just about anything nerdy. Go Binkley on their ass.

David Drake's Hammers Slammers #nerdy9th   Vietnam vets write the best military sci-fi. Period. Maybe we'll get a new batch of Iraq or Afghanistan vets who are better sci-fi writers than mostly peacetime vets who write rah-rah America explosion porn (I'm looking at you, James Ringo.) Anyway, David Drake is one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever, and the greatest military sci-fi writer of all time.  Hammer's Slammers are a mercenary army that fields hover tanks, combat cars, and infantry mounted on personal hover skimmers. They will kick your ass. I'm such a nerd about this series that I can't stand art that doesn't accurately depict the tanks and other gear. I picked this picture from the Mongoose Traveller Slammers supplement. It's very accurate. The series is almost 40 years old and nothing he wrote about is anachronistic in any way. It's amazing. Way ahead of it's time with the tech.  But the best thing about the series is the realistic depi...

I'm going to do this #nerdy9th  thing Curt Thompson started. I'm a nerd about the usual crap. Star Wars, D&D, yeah, yeah, you know the drill. Forget all that for now, I'm going to talk about the greatest bromance in literary history, the Aubrey and Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. This is the series that the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is based on. I loved the movie so much I decided to read the entire series a few years ago, and they became my favorite series ever. The series is set during the Napoleonic wars and our main characters are Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, doctor, natural philosopher, revolutionary, master spy, deadly duellist with sword or pistol, drug addict, and terrible klutz . These two unlikely BFFs share a love of music and a hatred of Napoleon. They are usually, but not always, found aboard the HMS Surprise, a frigate. These two are one of the great duos of fiction, out Kirk and Spocking ...