Inside GMT 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!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThe final volume of Sumption’s history of the Hundred Years War does exactly what one would expect. Another eight-hundred pages on a bit more than twenty years of history. It’s excellent stuff as always, but I do feel like it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, the electronic version of this book is in better shape than the previous. That had obviously been properly proofread, but there were still some major formatting problems with scene breaks and the like. Well, not even that’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As with other Ailette de Bodard stories I have read, this is a largely character-focused story with unfamiliar signposts. In this case, we have three different stories going on at the same time, but they’re all focused on the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit surprising as an ‘Elite’ book in Osprey’s line, but it is certainly worth the extra pages over a regular Men-At-Arms book. I am also happy to see post-Roman Gaul and Britain considered together, especially as this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So of course I come to the “first” of the Epona books last. Admittedly, it was the third one written (out of four), so I’m not completely out of order, just mostly. Not that it really matters, since while they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started listening to podcasts at just the right time: There was a minor explosion of good historical subjects going on. This was largely due to Mike Duncan, and his History of Rome podcast. Not that you can tell by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So far as I know, Carl Sandburg is hardly known today, though my edition of this set starts with a recounting of a speech he was invited to make before Congress. Generally, he was a poet, but became so fascinated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This latest book of the Chicks in Chainmail anthology series (with an 11-year gap between the last two, the next one is due in 2026) holds to the same general theme and sense of humor. It leads off with Jody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadly, the first impression of this book has to be that it lost Larry Elmore as a cover artist, and this one just doesn’t measure up to the previous covers in the series. But, the important part, the stories, are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently picked up the package deal of three of the Chicks in Chainmail anthologies on Kindle. I’m disappointed that the first two haven’t gone electronic. The general idea is fantasy stories featuring women warriors saving males in distress. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…