Lancer Kind, Science Fiction author

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for public feedback as part of the Open Gov Initiative. Vote up my suggestion to make Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother required reading to DHS employees.
http://openhomelandsecurity.ideascale.com/a/dtd/31748-7043
My dad is a newly retired member of DHS.  Dad, I’ll work on you directly.

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a call to those that are keeping quiet and just waiting for things to blow over.  It’s a clarion to those waiting for our freedoms to come back.  And it’s an instruction book  for how to fight back rather than sit at home and complain about warrantless wiretapping.
Little Brother is [...]

I went to Avatar last weekend and let me just cut to the chase: I loved it.  I was practically hoping out of my seat in agony for the main characters, gasping when ex-marine Jake leaped over cliffs, and wishing the bad guys would just this once, stop being so damn bad.
The movie touches on [...]

Fox News, our lovely disinformation network, has invoked science fiction to protect you from health care. Fox News talking-head Neil Cavuto references Soylent Green as a vision of what he thinks of the plans to reform health care. He says that people are going to be encouraged to commit suicide when they get old.
Maybe, maybe [...]

I enjoyed the thought work that John Brunner has developed in this story.  He’s certainly made waiting for the bus extremely enjoyable. The book was written in 1968 and reads like a documentary about what the 2000s could have been like if you combine 1960’s social culture with the 1980-2000 megacorporations, and the US’s foreign [...]