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  • Conquest By Concept – Samples: Chapters 1-3

     
    Conquest By Concept – A Novel About the Culture War
    Free Samples of chapters 1-3 are here.
    Book Description:  Wars are fought in the mind, not just on the battlefield. John Gilbert loves Angie, his far-left Antifa girlfriend. Then …

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  • The Vast and the Spurious – 25 Problems for Feminism

    Samples from The Vast and the Spurious: 25 Problems for Feminism

    The Vast and the Spurious is a book about the gender war between men and women. Feminism has set the agenda but it faces a backlash. Some dismiss this …

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  • A Dream of Fecunda

    This is a chapter from the new book, The Vast and the Spurious. A full description of the book is here http://bit.ly/VastAmAu (Australia) and here http://bit.ly/VastAmazonUS  (USA).
    A Dream of Fecunda

    How long have we had feminism? It seems like …

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  • The Vast and the Spurious – chapter one

    This is the first chapter of the book.
    The Vast and the Spurious – Chapter One
    This book discusses twenty-five problems with feminism. One of the main problems is you’re not allowed to criticise it in the first place. As …

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  • Marla Okadigbo

    This is part one of the story “Marla Okadigbo,” from the ebook, The Tightarse Tuesday Book Club. Available here on Amazon http://bit.ly/TightarseTuesdayBookClub-US  and on Amazon Australia  http://bit.ly/TightarseTuesdayBookClub 
    Marla Okadigbo 
    The author, Winkler Jones, woke up one day to find his website had vanished. …

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  • Dr Who as Propaganda

    When Dr Who began in 1963, it was meant as an educational TV show for children to learn about history. In 2018, it is again meant as an educational TV show, this time to teach children about progressive social values. …

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  • Eleven

     

    An obsessed St George fan is haunted by the past in this odd tale. “Eleven” is one of ten stories from The Tightarse Tuesday Book Club ebook. Available here for $4.99 http://bit.ly/TightarseTuesdayBookClub 

     

     
    ELEVEN
    I
    Graeme Hillman had just …

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  • Want Fries With That? Modern Pop as McDonalds

     

    As a guitar teacher, I get to hear quite a few modern pop songs.  I’ve noticed most of them share a number of traits:

    Very simple chord patterns, repeated through the whole song, often in both the verse and …

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  • People Who Don’t Read Fiction

     

    Every so often I meet people who don’t read fiction. They’re proud of it too, in the way other people are proud of not drinking or gambling. But why? Today I’m going to try to understand the strange mentality …

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  • The Mirror Test

    There’s always one kid who goes too far, isn’t there. For a couple of years now, celebrities have been competing with each other to show how much they hate Donald Trump. Well, we finally have a winner. Comedian Kathy Griffin …

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  • Big Bang Theory Disproves God

    In the late 19th century, the theory of evolution made people doubt the existence of God. For me in 2017, it’s not evolution but the Big Bang Theory. No, not the scientific concept of the origin of the universe, the …

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  • The Wisdom of Solomon and Clapton

     

    There seems to be one idea a few religions have in common – that physical life isn’t much good. Apparently when you get really advanced, you realise all the pleasures of physical life are unsatisfying and not worth much …

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  • Welcome to HellHow Could They Drink the Poison?

    How Could They Drink the Poison? How Could They Not?

    There’s a giveaway for my book Cultown on Good Reads. To coincide, I’ll briefly revisit a famous cult from the past.

    I’ve been reading a lot about Jonestown, the settlement …

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  • So Hard to Say Goodbye

    (If you’ve never loved a pet, this story will mean nothing to you. If you have, you’ll understand. Names have been changed to protect privacy.)

    I knew the grief was coming. I knew what to expect. It still took me …

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  • How To Earn $990 An Hour For Doing FA

    I recently applied for permission to quote two Slayer song lyrics in my novel, Cultown. I went through a copyright agency who said there’d be a minimum fee of $495 per song to process my request. At two songs, the …

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Reviews

‘Exposes not just the cultishness of religion, but of science too. This is the best novel yet written on the trouble between science and religion.’
J. Williams, Fuse.

‘I read it straight through in a weekend and finished it feeling invigorated and informed. A joy to read.’
Louise Brindle-Smith, HPST.

‘A very unusual and most entertaining book… shows an acuteness of perception and expression that is rare.’
Dagmar Lenzbruk, Universal Review.

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Vortex Winder

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The Ephemeral and the Eternal

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Trade Winds

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Elijinx

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Moonlight Tiger

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In Nihilum

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Evil But Not Vile

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Z Club

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High and Mighty

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Black Phoenix

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