The Hobbit Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Fine, we’ll be your evil empire.

How to Read Like an Orc (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 29th, 2019

Fictional worlds are serious business

There and Back Again (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, August 26th, 2019

Was the Soviet Union the model for Mordor?

The Abuses of Enchantment (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Tolkien has been accused of many things, but subtlety is not among them.

The Fellowship of the Wrong (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, August 19th, 2019

Perhaps the Eye of Sauron is a bit too “on the nose”?

Evil Empire: Love It or Leave It (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 15th, 2019

To some Russian audiences, the villains start looking uncomfortably…Russian.

Sith Lords of the World, Unite! (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, August 12th, 2019

The very last people who can determine what is universal bout such stories is the Anglo-Saxon audience.

Creatures of Light and Darkness (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Nothing says “Evil Empire” like the Eye of Sauron.

Sauron Does Moscow (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, August 5th, 2019

A Russian art group decided to crown the Moscow International Business Center with the All-Seeing Eye of Sauron

Born This Way (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 1st, 2019

For the rich Russians, it’s not just genes; it’s genealogy.

Aristocrats from Outer Space (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 29th, 2019

An Ayn Rand hero from outer space

Moving Beyond Money (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 25th, 2019

The hero of Billionaire does not see money as the immediate solution to all problems.

Istanbul, Not Constantinople (Turkish Gambit 12)

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, July 24th, 2019

The Turkish Gambit was first published in 1998, the year before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

The Man Who Has Everything (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 22nd, 2019

These novels include: transparent alien artifact hunters, a lost tribe of yeti, and a cryogenically frozen Adolf Hitler maintained by a colony of cloned Valkyries on a secret Antarctic base

We Need a (Rich) Hero (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 18th, 2019

The rich Russian as citizen and patriot was becoming thinkable.

Rich Man’s Burden (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 15th, 2019

Where was the New Russian supposed to find a conscience?

Loving the Leviathan (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 11th, 2019

The State is the Leviathan; the New Russian is somewhere between a piranha and a guppy.

Articles of Incorporation (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 8th, 2019

If the New Russians/oligarchs are not responsible when things go bad, who is?

The New Russian in the Rearview Mirror (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019

What could be more Nineties than that?

Bad Taste, Revisited (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 1st, 2019

Тhe New Russian resembles the American stereotypes of lottery winners

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The Hobbit Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations)

How to Read Like an Orc (Russia’s Alien Nations)

There and Back Again (Russia’s Alien Nations)

The Abuses of Enchantment (Russia’s Alien Nations)

The Fellowship of the Wrong (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Evil Empire: Love It or Leave It (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Sith Lords of the World, Unite! (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Creatures of Light and Darkness (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Sauron Does Moscow (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Born This Way (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Aristocrats from Outer Space (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Moving Beyond Money (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Istanbul, Not Constantinople (Turkish Gambit 12)

The Man Who Has Everything (Russia’s Alien Nations)

We Need a (Rich) Hero (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Rich Man’s Burden (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Loving the Leviathan (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Articles of Incorporation (Russia’s Alien Nations)

The New Russian in the Rearview Mirror (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Bad Taste, Revisited (Russia’s Alien Nations)