Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerIn 91 BC, the Roman Republic found itself fighting a not-quite civil war, when a large part of Rome’s allies and conquered peoples in Italy rebelled and tried to bring down the Roman Republic. Cataclysm 90 BC is about this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my interests for some time has been getting a better idea of just what happened after Alexander the Great’s death. Often that time period ends up ignored or summarized until Rome comes on the scene. So a book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“T. Kingfisher” is a pseudonym for Ursula Vernon’s more ‘grown up’ books, but The Seventh Bride is really more Young Adult in my eyes. Certainly, the level of writing is still in that area (that’s not bad, the book just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Adrienne Mayor starts with, intelligently, expanding the normal contemporary definition of ‘chemical and biological’ weapons to include pretty much anything that causes biological harm, such as poisons, noxious chemicals, and beyond, to the use of animals, heated sand, and other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Barbara Tuchman was a journalist before becoming a history author, and despite The March of Folly being a book about certain historical incidents, it is more a work of journalism than history. It is an investigation into the process by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second half of Jeff Champion’s history of Syracuse picks up right where the the first left off: The death of Dionysius the Elder and the ascension of his son, Dionysius the Younger as Tyrant of Syracuse. He uses this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with reviewing this is that I don’t know where to start…. Digger is one of those rare things from the world of webcomics: A small project that bloomed into a larger story, and then came in for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To a certain extent, I’ve always wondered why Guns, Germs, and Steel caused such a huge splash. The main premise boils down to ‘differences in geography cause differences in societies and their history’, which belongs to the club of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know of Barbara Hambly for her various epic fantasy stories, so a historical murder mystery was a bit of a surprise for me. As a historical story, it’s great. It’s obvious that Hambly spent a lot of time and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Basques is by an author who has impressed me in the past, and was also a chance to look at The Peoples of Europe series. The book (and presumably others in the series) is a little under 300 pages[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…