Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis is a good book… but also one that’s hard to get into. This is a fantasy that’s more than nonstandard enough to need guideposts, and they’re a bit slow in coming. Also, while the plot is technically running from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a crusading force moving into hostile lands, castles were essential for the Teutonic Order’s survival in Prussia. Undeveloped and swampy, there was only a limited amount of stone available, which all went to building foundations. Naturally, early castles were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, lets just start with the fact that this far from the most engaging book I’ve read. It is by no means poorly-written, and it is well organized and presented. But, I’m no hurry to go through it all again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This volume is a little different than most Osprey Campaign books, because it’s really about more than one campaign. In some senses it’s even about more than one war. But only in fairly limited senses. Mostly, this is about one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At about 1,300 words, this is a short-short. So there’s not a lot of room for anything here. Writing wise, it’s pretty good, but I wonder if there’s a bunch of unclosed italic tag errors in the manuscript. There’s some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It does seem like every well-written Expanse novel comes with a problem of its own. This time, the problem is physics instead of plot structure. So, there’s now a new, alien made, structure in the outer solar system (maybe 21[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ada Palmer’s title doesn’t cover everything that’s in this book. In fact, what the book covers is probably too large for any one title, and it is to her credit that it isn’t too large for any one book. First[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve read a good number of history books over the years, and I thought I’d take the time to list my recommendations of some of the best of the best I’ve come across, with links to my fuller reviews. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thucydides’ classic account of the Peloponnesian War(s) hits one of its dramatic moments (of many) with the siege of Sphacteria. It gets a lot of attention in his history, and William Shepherd spends a lot of time quoting it in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While the story as a whole is well put together, you can see how things are being introduced as they are thought up. This was originally a single short story/novella, and then the rest was done a couple years later,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…