With my schedule, it can take years to get back to a series. And this case, I was a bit lost, as I didn’t entirely remember how The Cloud Roads had ended. So, yeah, start this series at the beginning.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I got this at the same time as the two Enterprise Romulan War novels, but it was written noticeably before those. Those were done in 2009-11, after Star Trek: Enterprise was off the air and a lot more had been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I will take Robinson at his word that there’s been no single work focused exclusively on the battle of Quatre Bras before in English. It seems unlikely that there’s nothing, but with the long shadow of Waterloo, it’s all too[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of the Romulan War series is a lot more fragmented than the first half. Surprisingly, given the original ‘fifth season’ nature of the idea, only a small part of the book continues with 2156, where part one left[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I actually like Star Trek: Enterprise. It had its problems, and plenty of problem episodes, and I’m not a fan of the Expanse story. But whenever the series dealt with the Vulcans and Andorians (especially), the series was at its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with getting an idea of the origins of civilization is that no one that far back had yet started writing anything down. But, there are still clues we can gather in the absence of records. David Anthony tries[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Hussey’s study of the Waterloo campaign starts with both armies struggling to deal with the aftermath of the large battles of June 16th. It starts with chapter 31, which shows how much this considered one study[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By this point in the TNG novel series, we’re up to about fourth season, and the line is settling down into some actual competence. (The next one, #18, is one of the few TNG novels I truly recommend, thank you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Hussey’s two volumes are on the the Waterloo campaign as a whole, with this one stopping two days before with the twin battles of Ligne and Quarte Bras. It goes after everything, starting with peace process of 1814. He[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ursula Vernon discovered while writing this that she had opinions about Narnia. I can’t blame her there. It also shows directly in the novel, as our ten-year-old protagonist, Summer, has also read the novels and is uncomfortably aware of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
