Second Initiative Science Fiction

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack. Periodically posting essays, interviews, and reviews.

Survive and Thrive in the Coming Crisis

Re-weirding horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Exploring the movies, fiction, comic books and writing techniques that exemplify the fantastic. Welcome readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators, anyone in love with swords, fangs and lasers.

Essays, updates and arguments from an eyewitness to a new dark age, with thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice and human rights alive.

Avid reader of mostly all genres. Posts about books I’ve read by favourite authors and new ones, and of new books and new writers I haven’t yet read.

Independent, citizen-funded journalism

Counterspell Group, LLC. Bringing you groundbreaking content on everything that matters most, from politics to religion, from ethics to philosophy, and all of it relevant, actionable, and necessary.

We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.

Unbeatable ebook deals, handpicked recommendations, and updates from your favorite authors.