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Sharing another super positive review of my MilSF novel Bad Dog, which stands in illustrious company with the likes of Kameron Hurley.

I'm Back

Been going through a bit of a life roll after coming down with shingles, which meant I ran out of 'spoons' to do anything other than the bare essentials to make it through each day. It is what it is.

So, the pic above is my new computer, an earlyish birthday present from my beloved.

My old MacMini is still going strong, but oh so slow, but it's good enough to become my writing computer. Susan is going to set it up for me so I can run it on here monitor at her desk. This is all part of a plan to separate my work from the general demand of being connected in today's modern world.

Obviously, I'm behind on everything. Posting the summary of what I read last year. Talking about my progress with the next story (progress has been made), which makes me happy.

Catch you all later.

Walking Robots with Wheels

This demo of the Unitree B2-W came up on YouTubewith the shot of the guy sitting astride the robot, and I thought wow! Why wow? Well, because there's a set of discussions that center around the usefulness of mecha.

These evolve around things like ground pressure, height and volume of vehicle that walks, and why oh why would you have walking mechs with wheels? It's that last discussion I'm addressing, with a shout out to my friend Roger who isn't convinced why you'd have legs if you've got wheels.

Mecha are specialized platforms. They'll be used where terrain makes the deployment of conventional wheeled or track vehicles difficult or impossible. There role will be to act as armoured support for infantry.

Think how gun Portée's were used by the SAS during WW2.

I'd had that thought too when when I was thinking out a plausible way for the introduction of purpose built mecha. They would start as field expedient platforms developed from exoskeletons that become big enough that you change from wearing the armour to a suit that's driven instead.

I'm thinking useful in urban environments wrecked by war, or traversing steep terrain where deploying anything other than  infantry is a real slog.

So, that's all for now. I've been remiss in posting stuff due to health issues, made worse by starting the new year with shingles.

Catch you all on the bounce.