Dark Lotus Books entry from Substack
Back in the day, IOW when I was a raw kid of 20, I took a short break from college and decided to attempt to write a novel. In six weeks through a mist of cigarette smoke and a concoction of caffeine and canned chili, I cranked out a science fiction story of 80,000 words.
The first few pages were not bad, I thought and I still think, which was good news since I had never written any fiction before that in my short life. I called it Maalstrom, deliberately misspelling maelstrom while imparting the same meaning of that word. I think I stumbled on a Dutch spelling. Whatever. And as I wrote, my love of words began to spill onto the ancient manual typewriter faster and faster and with ever more of a sense of musicality as I discovered that words do not just have meaning but are mellifluous and ring like musical bells.
Since then I have lived my life floating on a sea of script with insane perorations emerging as from a dark forest in various tongues: twisted English, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and French as I rampaged my way through college seizing upon each of these masterful means of expression.
Much of these manifold means seeped into my next work, the sequel to Maalstrom, which I wrote ten years later between other degrees, entitled The Selk King, 120,000 words.
Both of these books centered on the life of one Flores of the Turlicum, a warrior on an alien planet circling twin suns, engaged in life or death struggles in a harsh medieval world, much like a certain Greek warrior before the walls of Troy. And like Odysseus, in the sequel, Flores sets out across a turbulent ocean with bizarre aberrant life forms passing overhead, guiding as it were his ship and crew to a pyramid near the pole of the strange planet, a pyramid built around a solid black pillar in air, its hard stone carved with intricate ebony sculptures informing, or warning, penitents or assailants, of what the city in the clouds atop the pyramid of carbon holds in wait for those who would penetrate the mysteries of Heaven.
Readers of Maalstrom and The Selk King encountered a number of relics of an advanced civilization and were left wondering How could these exist in a purely medieval society that has no knowledge of firearms or motors?
My latest novel answers this question. I recently completed ‘Temple of the Double Sun’, my 10th novel, which is the Prequel (now Book 1 of the Maalstrom Series) to Maalstrom (now Book 2) and The Selk King ( now Book 3). Published by TWB Press, ‘Temple’ tells the story of one Milo-Psi 2, a shy ecologist who is one of 200 colonists from Earth who have been sent on a one-way voyage by the infallible Chaldeans to the newly discovered planet Maalstrom.
‘OUR NEW HOME’… For readers of Maalstrom and The Selk King who were wondering how it all started and why there are occasional remnants of a prior technical society, the novel Temple of the Double Sun answers those questions.
MORE NEWS. Book 4 is now out: SWORDS OF THE DOUBLE SUN. Perhaps the most masculine book ever written. You won’t understand that until you read it.
Just Woo is Marginalised?
The Vanishing White Male Writer
SFWA / Worldcon Banning White Male authors
Click here for Jon Del Arroz’s active take on the spread of the Woke Plague in sci-fi publishing
Who Needs Woo?
I have decided as an experiment to remove all payment systems from Equus due to being more trouble than they are worth, especially in view of the fact that all Equus books are listed for sale on Amazon n Ingram. So why should I keep bothering to maintain the Woo installations? They are unnecessary n just make this site vulnerable to bots that seek out Woo plugins.
Whoever wants to buy an Equus book will have to go to Amazon and buy them there.
Skills from former times that youth would do well to acquire
Skills I have that people born after 1990 may not have:
Thinking n studying before embracing an opinion.
Memorization techniques.
Longhand.
Shorthand.
Typing.
Reading at least one foreign language – n I don’t mean Spanish.
Reading a book a week.
Reading from an actual paper book instead of a screen (I can tear them, write in them, even drop them in water n they’re still good).
Being patient, not reacting with anger when not happy with events.
Being polite to cops.
Acknowledging the existence of Other People n their rights n feelings.
Repairing my own car.
Repairing my own computer.
Paying with cash n making change.
Able to tell time from an analog clock (that’s the round ones)
Knowing how to dress in something besides black bloc.
Knowing my gender based on fact, not feeling.
Speaking in terms besides meaningless slogans derived from media n Professors of Outrage.
Knowing vocabulary words more than 2 syllables in length.
Able to speak at length without ever saying ‘like’, ‘racism’, or ‘Trump’.
Not needing AI to help me write anything or sign my name.
Able to comprehend abbreviations such as ‘n’ for ‘and’.
And yes, taking paper notes with actual pens n pencils.
Dispute on X Post Over Easter
Very amusing for the flamers out there: I recently posted a simple short post on X on Easter day to the effect that Easter was a pagan holiday usurped by Christians. Seemed a simple statement of fact to me, easily proven by ancient documents n authorities on myth n religion.
However, a few Christians (here Xers for short) decided to take offense at my minor observation n launch a flame war against Equus. Nothing better to do with their time, I suppose. Last count on that post: 49,000 views; 18 likes (mostly pagans I’m sure); 8 shares; n 66 comments (mostly Xers I presume). Suddenly it appears Equus is dinner table conversation in a number of homes. I was even accused of being a supporter of Kamala n AOC! Altho I have a delete sign on a picture of Kamala on the back of my car, n I campaigned for Trump, n I have repeatedly called for the conviction of AOC for immigration fraud n her deportation. It seems critics on X don’t bother investigating anyone before they hurl accusations n leap to conclusions.
But then I didn’t expect any different. The evidence for Xers usurping pagan holidays–after slaughtering 1000s of pagans n destroying 100s of pagan temples n defacing their statues n burning their libraries in a 4th century Jihad–is massive enough to fill libraries. These facts won’t be accepted from me, of course, so no point in trying.
Still, as they say: any publicity is good publicity so long as they spell your name right. And Equus just got more exposure than a dozen paid ads. Keep up the good work, Xers!
Commentary On Today’s Publishers – Feminists Seize Publishing, by Harold Covington
This is a partial reprint for editorial and review purposes of H. Covington’s article. It is dated but still highly relevant to today’s publishing. Read the full article here:
https://heretical.com/miscella/cpublish.html
Feminists Seize PublishingHarold Covington |
I have a couple of interesting personal observations to indicate which vicious little minority seems to be winning the culture wars within the left-wing elitist establishment, at least since the Clintons took power.
As some of you know, I also write fiction, and as a kind of hobby I try to market it, mostly to collect and analyze the rejection slips. Needless to say, all my stuff is far too politically incorrect to be published, but some of the responses are suggestive and revealing. The Jews, of course, maintain overall business and financial control of the world publishing industry through the five or six major conglomerates, but what I begin to find fascinating is the editorial aspect of it, where The Agenda is most visible.
My Civil War murder mystery novel has, of course, always been rejected, usually with great frankness by editors who admit that they cannot publish a book with a Confederate hero. (Perhaps significantly, they always say that they cannot publish a pro-Southern book, not that they will not.) But lately it seems as if the radical feminists have taken over the editorial boards of most publishers. The determination to publish or not has moved away from race to an author’s politically correct (or otherwise) treatment of his female fictional characters.
One of the most immediately obvious results of this situation is something that has been noted by a number of literary reviewers and scholars, and that is the virtually total collapse, over the past fifteen years, of science fiction as a literary genre. Most ‘science fiction’ nowadays, as a quick trip down the aisles of your local Waldenbooks or Barnes and Noble looking at the covers will confirm, is actually ‘science fantasy’ involving mythical lands of dragons, elves, magic, and of course all kinds of fetching liberated female characters, witches or space princesses or Xena the Warrior Maiden types who spend the whole book doing down assorted evil males who want to dominate them and make them have babies or some such. (A good example is the last female captain of the Enterprise in the Star Trek series; White males have virtually disappeared from Star Trek since its inception 30 years ago.)
[There is lots more to read in this highly relevant article. Read the rest here on the marvelous Heretical.com website:}
Don’t Use Stripe – Anti-white, Anti-male, Very Very Woke
Communication from Odysee. Many pro-American sites have been placed on a blacklist of payment processors, unable to locate a single one that will service them. This is what monopoly looks like as most payment processors are actually owned by a very few globalist banks.
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Dear Odysee Stripe User,
Payment processing services are currently inactive. Stripe had previously assured us that they understood our situation, confirmed our account was in good standing, and said they would continue to support us during our transition away from their platform. Despite this, they abruptly terminated our account without any prior notice. This sudden action appears to be the result of the same kind of coordinated brigading that started this entire fiasco, and we were given no opportunity to respond or appeal. We are continuing to develop an alternative payment solution and sincerely appreciate your ongoing support during this transition.
For content creators with members-only content, any subscribers who were active as of today will retain access. If you’d like to change this at any point, you can update your uploads directly on Odysee or reach out to us for help. For users with Odysee Premium, your benefits will remain active.
We hope to share an updated timeline with you all in the coming days for a temporary payment solution that matches Stripe’s features and gets you back to business quickly, all while we work toward the longer term solution we told you about.
Sincerely,
The Odysee Team
Temple of the Double Sun published
My latest sci-fi novel, Temple of the Double Sun is now published by the noted sci-fi publisher TWB Press. I was first uncertain whether to call it a Prequel to the book Maalstrom, like The Selk King is the sequel. But at TWB’s suggestion I decided it was simpler just to call Temple “Book 1” and relabeling Maalstrom as “Book 2” and The Selk King “Book 3”.
CLICK HERE FOR A KILLER VIDEO BY TWB PRESS FOR TEMPLE OF THE DOUBLE SUN!
This novel tells the story of the original colonists fleeing from an Earth in collapse as they land on the virgin uninhabited planet Maalstrom with instructions to colonize the planet, each of 24 men having seven wives, for a total of 192 colonists plus 8 eunuch engineers. Kind of like Dr. Strangelove. For readers of Maalstrom and The Selk King who were wondering how it all started and why there are occasional remnants of a prior technical society, the novel Temple of the Double Sun will answer all your questions.
The Genociding of the American Male
A sad tale to post today. Reflecting on my past and the past of other men who are now my age as I recall them from the days of our youth, it is quite strange n amazing to me to see how many came to bad ends.
- drug addiction
- alcoholism
- dropping out
- poverty
- chronic unemployment
- divorce
- loneliness
- insanity
- suicide
This is the tale of many of my erstwhile comrades whom I grew up with–all men–who seemed to have such bright futures when we were kids.
One obtained a college degree, became a lawyer then a meth addict n died in his 40s. Another completed most of a college degree, dropped out to take a good job when the economy was good, but was then laid off, fell into alcohol and died of exposure on the local version of Skid Row in his 30s. Another got a degree from an Ivy League college and got a good job, but somehow fell into heavy drug use, divorced, n died by his own hand at the age of 60. A good guy, brilliant. Two more fried their brains with drugs while still teenagers, never attended college, n now survive on government support.
One did okay, we touched base just the other day after many years of having drifted apart, tho still mired in poverty after all these years. Another divorced but just remarried, after all these years, at the tender age of 70! Several brothers were thrown into the job market without college because their parents divorced. One just died of chronic poverty at the age of 69 with no access to health care. A second, who had a brilliant mind, spent his life stocking 7-11’s. At least he married n his marriage is holding. A third became a pastor, not married. The other two scrape by as best they can with chronic unemployment. None of them have children because a single man with a working class job can no longer afford children in modern America.
Several more I knew were attempted suicides, one went insane partly due to chronic marijuana use n was committed. Another was smug n unfriendly to me; when his marriage fell apart he suddenly started calling me as if we were old friends, loneliness in his voice, just wanting someone to talk to. Yet another fell into drugs as a teenager when his parents divorced n he never recovered. Alcohol, pot, n who knows what else ran his life until he too was committed into a chronic drug abuse shelter, never having completed high school, his health wrecked. I once let him live with me and loaned him money so he could find a job. I came back later and found he had broken back into my apartment and was passed out on the floor having spent the money on booze, pot, cigarettes, and girlie mags. I had to send him packing.
Later on, as a lawyer I encountered many such men. I found a guy in a wheelchair living behind a MacDonalds. He had been homeless n broke his pelvis in a bicycle accident. I managed to get him registered with Social Security n helped him get into a Ramada Inn. Then he disappeared. Even the desk clerks claimed not to know where he went. Could he have died at the change in climate n the clerks did not want to advertise the fact? I guess I’ll never know. I also met a guy living in a storage unit in a building, not telling the clerks that he was sleeping in his unit every night.
Question: why is there no organization that can assist young men in the transition to adult life with potential useful guidance BEFORE they fall into drugs n alcohol? Before they make commitments like marriage n children before they are ready? Why are there no services for men while there are large numbers of service organizations for women? What does a man do when he is young, ignorant, naive, confused, uninformed, is faced with huge tasks n responsibilities but has no one to offer friendship or a word of advice? Why are there so many lonely single men who took the bad advice that the single life without family is the way to go and that if you reach your thirties, it’s time to marry.
Throughout history every society ever identified had a male-only society that was designed to help young men learn how to become men, societies that were intended for all men, not just a few cultists or backpackers, n which provided friends n socialization for mature men. The U.S. is the only society known to history that has NO male-only societies for normal men, all such societies having been banished or compromised by America’s pathological feminism that brands all masculinity as ‘toxic’. The result is plain for all to see: among American men an epidemic of drugs, alcohol, dropping out of school, poverty, unemployment, divorce, loneliness, insanity, n suicide. And for some, even gangs.
Maybe the Equus Order can help fill the need to help guide men past these shoals n hidden reefs that lie in wait especially for men who may have internalized the lie that masculinity is toxic, that men must never ask each other for help, that men need no friends.
Sci-fi Fiction Before Fact on EVs
Reading about today’s Electric Vehicles causing some drivers to become imprisoned inside when the electrical system fails is already familiar to me conceptually.
From my novel JIHAD BUBBA, which I wrote back in 2020:
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Bubba sighed. He popped the clutch [on his gas-driven jeep].
As he resumed driving, more Januses [EVs] crossed his path—in fact, were unavoidable wherever he drove. Several times he had to down-clutch to prevent collision with Januses reversing direction, turning in circles and tangling traffic, or stuck going back and forth all day in the same spot, some jumping up and down in failed attempts to become airborne. Speeding, crawling, customer occupants locked inside swearing at their phones and at the gods, to no avail.
In other words, a typical day.
Yet another Janus peeled out of traffic and carved endless circles, forcing Bubba to drive carefully around as its passenger managed to force open the door and escape. . .
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Youtube video of a Waymo circling with a passenger trapped inside, except I call them Januses instead of Waymos.
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