Book review: Futurelove by Summer Devon

If you can't tell by the title already, Futurelove is another Ellora's Cave special. As stories go, however, it was a lot better than the execrable Nyssa's Guardian. It's a time-travel story (which I normally loathe) and it rips its story straight out of the 1960s TV show, Time Tunnel.

At its core, the idea is simple: in 2300, time travel becomes possible, if energy-intensive. Human beings have been co-opted into a kind of hive-mind, and once in a while an operative is sent back in time because... actually, it's never quite clear why people are sent back in time, other than that they've been told by historical events that that's what they're supposed to do. Anyway, despite everyone being on a Brave New World/THX-1138 regimen of drugs to keep them sterile and emotionally uniform, there's a rebellion afoot to shut down time travel and "free the past."

( Not a regrettable waste of time. )

Still, as a thin tissue around which to wrap woman-as-aggressor love scenes, it works reasonably well, and the writing isn't nearly as embarrassingly full of clank and clatter as the last example.

Now a Democrat wants us dead, too!

Normally, we associate religious moonbat motivation with Republican candidates (as in the case of South Dakota's Bill Napoli, who basically said that the only exception he could think of to his state's abortion ban was the Sodomized Religious Virgin Exception).

But now news comes from Ohio that a Democrat running for the Senate has stated that he would like to see the death penalty imposed for "practicing homosexuals" and that anyone teaching evolutionary biology "has no rights" and no expectation to protection of any kind from the law.

I can't tell if this is just an everpresent fringe of American ridiculousness magnified by the panopticon oversight of the blogosphere or an unusual spasm of wingnuttery brought on by the emboldened and now desperate to hold on to their overreach conservative movement.