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 BootsThis one… is a bit of an odd duck. It’s generally an alternate-history story featuring J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the same time, it’s more of a fictionalized biography of him, especially as the alternate part of history is largely minimized.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alan Taylor admits straight-up in the introduction that he took a very expansive view of the subject of the first volume of Penguin’s History of the United States series. Geographically, he looks at all of North America, rather than just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a close look at about fifteen years that changed much of the structures of Europe in a popular history format. In a way, it is “Here I Stand the book”, though it only covers a fraction of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With any good story, it can be hard to manage to make the things that made it work function just as well again. That is, “sequelitis”. With a fresh start, you can do something different, but with a sequel, you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is part one of a massive four-volume history of the Hundred Years War. As such, it spends a good amount of time setting the stage, and covers through Crecy and the siege of Callais. The first chapter is an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve enjoyed Honsinger’s Man of War series as a fairly typical energetic military-SF series borrowing from the Age of Sail literary series. My main disappointment with the series is that it halts at a dramatic moment, and the sequel series[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As ever, Osprey has produced another good book looking outside of the usual Anglophone center of western Europe. The general focus in this volume is the Russian response to the Mongol conquest. There’s the usual pair of decent maps showing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lord Cochrane is one of the primary inspirations for the various literary Age-of-Sail sea captains, that have been a tradition since the early Nineteenth Century. As such, you’d expect that he’d be well known. But at the same time he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long ago, my Dad recommended the novel Sword at Sunset to me. Before I ever got around to it, I found out that it was part of a series of novels Rosemary Sutcliff wrote about Roman and post-Roman Britain. So,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this up when there was a Kindle sale on Thomas Costain books a bit ago. I hadn’t been aware of him writing a series on Canada, and it turns out the reason is he didn’t. This is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…