Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOne of Osprey’s free offers as the pandemic began, this was an unexpected acquisition for me. I’m not up on the US’s Indian Wars at all, other than a few bits of brief outline. I was certainly aware of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I found out about this Vorkosigan novella, but it wouldn’t have been this. And I mean that in the best possible way. This is, if anything, a sequel to A Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even for a Haruhi novel, this was a bit of a strange ride. First, it starts off wrapping up a loose end from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, with another bout of time travel. What is done seems inconsequential, especially[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Sumption’s massive, and excellent history of the Hundred Years War covers just over twenty years, from 1347 to 1369. The first volume ended with the siege of Calais, which the English ended up occupying for 212[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, a fantasy book from a generally unknown author and a niche publisher. Immediate question: was it worthwhile. Answer: yes. The biggest problem is one of setting. This appears to an alternate-universe setting stuck in the Victorian era. There’s no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m a little surprised at my copy of Goodwin’s book. While it is twenty years old now, by this point publishers were generally aware of the problems of using paper that was too acidic, and using largely acid-free paper. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spice and Wolf is a great anime series, that I give one of my strongest general recommendations. Sadly, it did not get the third season promised some time ago, but the two existing seasons are very good. It comes from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a large SF novel that uses the space to fit a lot of themes and ideas into it. First, we’ve got an inhabited asteroid belt. The date is kept purposefully vague, but its far enough in the future[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a popular history of the first half of the Napoleonic Era written during 1941. The author’s introduction is interesting, as his main purpose is to remind the British public that they’ve fought a Europe united under a hostile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found the first couple episodes of the Konosuba anime pretty rough going before it turned into a truly funny series. And that problem is present here in the original novel too. The main problem is Kazuma and Aqua as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…