I’m seeing a distinct lack of posts by my “well corporations are free to do whatever they want. Muh corporations!” from my Libertardian friends — or perhaps it’s because I have less Libertards following me than I used to.

It’s pretty amazing how quickly these multi-national corporations jumped from “Made In America” as brands like the NBA or Disney seek to censor their people, change their products, all to bend over for China.

When they see a market of billions vs. a market of a few hundred million, these corporations will ALWAYS choose to squash freedom down to the individual level. They will always choose the evil human rights violating over their true market if it’s perceived there can be some sort of gain there.

They’re bought and sold. And communists learned the game over the last decades — buying the corporations and getting a foothold to bend it to their will is a much better plan to destroy capitalism than ranting about it.

This is why corporations are evil. This is why they should NOT have rights like human beings do. And this is why you should be supporting independent entertainment that isn’t mass produced garbage drawn up by a board, and not these big brands.

Or you can be like LeBron James.

The choice is yours.

If you haven’t caught up on my new series, read Justified, the beginning of my Nano Templar series. I never equivocate on my values, because I don’t report to anyone who dangles a purse string.

Superstar Short Story Writer Lou Antonelli stopped by the blog to let people know about a new science fiction short fiction outlet, Sirius Science Fiction: 

Lou Antonelli is a Texas-based author who in the real world owns and operates his local newspaper, The Clarksville Times in Red River County, Texas. He’s been a journalist for 40 years, which probably explains why he is so prolific at the short story length of fiction. His first professional sale was Gardener Dozois’ last acceptance at Asimov’s Science Fiction in 2005.

He’s had 126 short stories published in 16 years, and has been a finalist for both the Hugo and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His only novel so far, Another Girl, Another Planet, was a finalist for the Dragon Award in Alternate History in 2017.

Lou says the always tight short fiction market has become almost non-existent if you were a Sad Puppy, such as he was in 2015. Earlier this year he decided to do something about it, and he started his own online short fiction venue last spring.

Sirius Science Fiction (get it – Sirius, the Dog Star, puppies?) kicked off with five fine original stories in May, and then went on hiatus for the summer. It’s started again this fall and each week publishes an original story online.

The guidelines state:

“In a time when mainstream speculative fiction has been overrun by political correctness and identity politics, we offer a venue free of pretension and ideological litmus tests. We read the story free of preconceptions, and we do not ask for a biography from an author until and unless their story is accepted.”

Antonelli elaborates:

“Years ago, editors read and accepted stories without any consideration of the author’s religion and/or politics. That’s not the case today. If an editor at a major publisher today gets a submission from an unfamiliar name, they Google it, and if they can tell the person isn’t a standard sanctimonious social justice warrior, the story isn’t considered. Mainstream science fiction has been completely converged by the Left.

“Of course, this politicized crap is boring and redundant to read, and it’s driving readers away into other genres. I felt just opening the slush pile free of preconceptions would allow the traditional creative “sense of wonder” stories to naturally rise to the top, and I was right. The stories I have received are varied, well-written and enjoyable

“There’s a lot of good short fiction not being published because of blackballing and blacklisting.  It’s not such a serious problem for me, because I’m a self-employed small businessman. I don’t need the money. But it’s heartbreaking for other authors. I decided to do a little something about it.”

Antonelli can only afford to pay $25 per story – which he is taking from his own pocket – with a maximum length of 4,000 words, but’s already published some quality, entertaining fiction. You can visit Sirius Science Fiction web site at https://siriussciencefiction.blogspot.com/

I hope you’ll check it out to read and submit. And don’t forget to grab Justified: Saga Of The NanoTemplar. The full trilogy completes on November 1, so you’ll want to catch up!

We’re reaching the end of the indiegogo portion of the campaign, which we ran short for 14 days.

The book is 100% done, getting ready for print so will be out to you very soon.

Get in now. Only 5 hours left as of this writing. There will be a short indemand period for people who read in the morning.

This is the best indie superhero comic out there, and each volume only gets better than the last. Catch up!

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I know I beat this drum all the time, but culture wins because of a system where corporations have you attached to brands so you constantly talk about them.

When you talk about them, the discussion goes viral, it’s FREE MARKETING for the corporation.

Doesn’t matter if you loved something. Doesn’t matter if you hate something. At the end of the day the big establishment corps comprised of people who hate you and want to bend over to China for a bigger market get money — and you lose! They will continue to overproduce brand content that is tired, uninspired, and “isn’t for you” as they’ll say when you complain.

It’s like Kanye says: “Everybody gonna say something / I’d be worried if they say nothing.”

Smart brand managers understand this and get people talking about projects whatever the cost. If it’s outrage — great. They don’t care, as long as it gets discussed.

But what happens when a book is just good and indie and not overly-political in nature, not something to be outraged about? It dies on the vine. Because people don’t just discuss story content anymore. People never bring up the new properties which will compete. It’s always going back to the old and tired.

Joker movie which everyone’s talking about was originally written under a completely different name, had nothing to do with The Joker. The director couldn’t even get the film made. And then they changed the names to be Batman related and everyone drank it up like a bunch of thirsty hoes.

Our culture is THAT stupid right now.

And it’s on you to change it. Start talking about whatever you like, and make it a regular habit. Alt-Hero, Cyberfrog, Flying Sparks, I don’t care. Change the discussion to change the culture.

I’ve got 3 days left on my Flying Sparks campaign, and due to a bunch of youtubers who purposefully try to hold the book down and bully people who actively promote it, I can’t get any discussion going about the book — even though reviews are THROUGH THE ROOF. The intimidation campaign on indie books has to stop. And it’ll do so if more folk talk about it and move the needle.

Everyone who reads it says it’s the best indie superhero comic ever made. Go tell your friends about it! And back it yourself if you haven’t already.

OAN Host Jack Posobiec will be joining us on the lunch stream today. This is one of our biggest guests so I hope everyone will try to be there.

Here’s the link to my channel. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss this stuff. 

And reminder that Sanctified is out. Catch up on my #1 Bestselling Nano Templar series today! 

Unlike the coward NBA, Trey and Matt from South Park don’t seem to be playing the game with China. Their content got banned and they left a snarky response to China’s censorship:

Watch the full episode – https://t.co/oktKSJdI9i@THR article – https://t.co/nXrtmnwCJB pic.twitter.com/Xj5a1yE2eL

— South Park (@SouthPark) October 7, 2019

It reminds me why South Park really is, oddly, the only pure thing left on television and the only show worth watching.

These guys don’t give two fucks what anyone thinks of them, and they’ll say what they want. It’s odd that these guys who dropped acid and put on dresses to the MTV awards 20 years ago are our cultural revolutionary heroes today, but here we are.

I guess I know the one show I’ll be watching this season.

If you want some fiction that doesn’t cuck out because someone threatens them, read Justified, Saga of the Nano Templar. This is the real deal you’ve been waiting for in sci-fi. Two books in the series out and the third dropping November 1! Read now.

I’ll be on Ethan Ralph’s Killstream tonight. I’ll be on around 7:30 PST.

The Link is here.

It’s been an interesting 24 hours watching the NBA deal with a series of tweets encouraging democracy in China.

The league scrambled and went full court press over the Houston Rockets’ owner standing up to China’s corruption — as the country then retaliated by cancelling NBA games there and making threats I’m sure to the broadcasts of games.

China is a bully. They don’t want any information out there on them. They are the ones trying to force “social credit scores” on people to shut down dissent or opinions.

And think about it from this perspective, as we’ve got another counterpoint:

Steve Kerr has no comment on NBA’s China issues. He comments on every Trump tweet and can’t support democracy in China? What a complete and total coward. pic.twitter.com/Fr4FJIaOW0

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 8, 2019

Steve Kerr, the coach, targets half of Americans every time he tweets. The NBA applauds this. Why? Because they don’t give a fig about you or your viewership.

They’ll care about a foreign interest like China before you.

I’m sure if someone tweeted about Obama or Black Lives Matter negatively, they’d chastise the coach/owner/player and probably suspend or fine them.

No matter what, these corporations would prefer you were dead.

And they get away with it because they know, like chumps you’ll tune in and watch anyway.

The NBA is just an example. It’s not just sports. It’s Marvel Comics. It’s Disney Star Wars. It’s Netflix. It’s all of these entertainment services you gleefully pay for because of nostalgia brands that are trying to erase you, your opinions, your life, in the name of social justice.

When’s enough enough? When will you wake up and care about culture that doesn’t hate you? Start discussing those? Change the discussion, change the culture.

Check out my new book, Sanctified, now. I’m actively working toward real change. Are you?

In about one of the craziest acts of censorship I’ve seen this year, the Leading Israeli Voice In Science Fiction, Yakov Merkin, had his Amazon ad pulled for his book because it has a gun on the cover.

Look at the message her received:

Now how many sci-fi or action book covers have characters with guns pointing in random directions? You have to be kidding me, not to mention these are clearly futuristic sci-fi guns and not even modern ones. I’ve seen books with Captain Kirk in the same pose for certain, so it seems odd that they’d single out Yakov…

…until you look into him and you realize that he’s a right-wing author who hangs around other right-wing authors. If you look at the also boughts, Yakov’s books are within the conservative sphere of SF and it’s clear why Amazon decided to target his book so he wouldn’t be allowed to advertise.

The worst part is, there’s nothing he can do. No appeals. No way for him to change the image on the advertisement (they force you to use the book cover) and so he’s left without means to advertise.

Naturally, we can help him out.

He’s got the series up on Kickstarter right now if you’d like for the new books.

And second, his books are on Amazon here.

Support Yakov’s right to bear arms on his covers today! We can’t let Amazon take away pictures of guns. So absurd.

Last night I watched an interview with Dan Slott (Marvel Writer) that went over his Spider-Man run in depth, which Marvel had him on for about 10 years.

I stopped reading after J. Michael Straczynski departed the book, reading a little here and there just because I couldn’t drop the habit for awhile, but I found it wasn’t for me and quickly ignored what was going on in that realm.

The interview was meant to garner sympathy mostly because of the way the fans reacted to his stories, and this is why I find it interesting and worth discussing today, because it harkens back to everything I say about these companies and why they cannot tell a good story in the modern age.

He stated it was always the intention to bring everything right back to the iconic version before he departed the book.

No matter what the change, no matter how drastic, no matter what the concept, Marvel and DC will ALWAYS DO THIS.

They are IP farms for movies first and foremost and they’re not here to actually develop characters, build a new world, they’re here to push everything right back to the same at the end of the arc.

And that’s why they can do these amateur hour “what if?” stories, where Slott admits that when he sat down he was trying to think of what hadn’t already been done with Spdier-Man and “what if… what if..”  which is why his and almost every Marvel book these days reads like something out of those pages and not something that should be done in the main universe.

Because they’ll always bring it right back.

And it incentivizes them to go and do the most absurd gimmicky things possible to get you outraged on the internet to talk about it, because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter, they just need that quick sales nut which will come from the controversy.

It’s dead. There is nothing to these IPs. These characters don’t matter just because they have a brand name you liked when you were a kid.

I gotta keep beating that drum because it hasn’t set in for so many folk yet. But it’s time to move on. There’s no potential for real storytelling here.

And that’s why I started the alternative, and have been busting on Flying Sparks for about a year, with 10 issues under my belt and more on the way. I’m building a real universe with real developments, real change, real story. I hope you’ll break the habit just because something has a brand name by Disney, and join me instead.

Back Flying Sparks today and get real storytelling from a #1 bestselling author.