I don't know what lawyers did to David Gerrold to make him so mad at them, but the jokes persist.  And there's yet another "random story" pushed into there for comic effect...

We sort of start off with the usual.  McCarthy is an asshole.  He embarrasses a powerful person.  The people in charge secretly love it but can't condone it.  He then goes out ( Read more... )

The admittedly didactic third chapter in the War Against the Chtorr series is A Rage for Revenge, and at the beginning of the book David Gerrold writes a lengthy intro disassociating himself from the things taught in the book.

What things, you may ask?

Well, our erstwhile protagonist, Jim McCarthy, ends up with a repeated mindjob in this book.  First ( Read more... )

And let's hear it for another salvo of lawyer jokes.

Really.  I mean - I notice them more now than I had before, given the sheer number of my friends who are, in fact, you know, lawyers, but even when I first read this series I noticed there were a ton of lawyers.  It's like David Gerrold really, really hates them.

And it's not just the blatant ones ( Read more... )

A Matter for Men is the first book in David Gerrold's "War Against the Chtorr" series.

Keep that in mind.  The series has had four books so far - the last three have taken forever to come out, but it looks like they're on the road to publication (at least, more so than before).

The background for the series:  It's 21st century America.  The US came ( Read more... )

No, not the recent movie about the serial killer but the novel by Neal Stephenson about environmental espionage.

The book follows Sangamon Taylor.  He works for an environmental group called GEE.  He spends his job being a professional pain in the butt for chemical companies, mostly in embarrassing them.  The most noticeable way is to find their ( Read more... )