Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Flash of Steel Wargame [space] Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerGill’s third book has Wagram and Znaim as the subtitle, and these battles are indeed important to the volume. However, we finally get a proper recounting of events elsewhere (other than Italy, which was covered previously, though the sequel to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of the Fire Bearers trilogy expands the world, and the scope of the plot, with the book jumping up a hundred pages in length to compensate. The first volume left off in a bit of a quiet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Marc Morris returns to Dark Ages England with a ‘prequel’ of sorts to The Norman Conquest. This time, he tackles the entire period from Saxons and others legendarily being invited to help defend Britain to the end of Anglo-Saxon rule[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I suppose a handy useful fact to get out of the way is that “Clay” is the name of the main character. So, this isn’t a god made of clay, but rather Clay’s god. Past that, this is the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book two of John Gill’s continues straight on from the first volume, with the Austrian army in strategic disarray after Eggmühl and covers up to the end of the Battle of Aspern-Essling on May 22, 1809. Unlike the previous book,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first thing I found out reading this is that I should read Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter. I think I remember a friend enthusing about it at the time, but that recommendation has been lost to mists of time. Ursula[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know what you’re thinking. And no, the book isn’t about that. This isn’t a conspiracy of Arthurian legend. In this case, “Merlin” is an office title in an alternate-universe Britain (The Isles of Blest), and the conspiracy centers around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julian the Apostate is known for his disastrous defeat by the Sassanids in 363. d’Amato and Frediani go back six years to show Julian’s very successful campaign in Gaul. This is a typical Osprey Campaign book with its conventional format,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third book of Sumption’s history of The Hundred Years War continues the excellent job of the first two. This one is less “sexy” than the others as none of the famous battles fall in the thirty year period of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is impossible to overstate how important this series was to me during the ’80s. If you want to understand teenage me, Star Trek, Robotech, Elfquest, and role playing games are essential knowledge. I recently picked up the Dark Horse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…