Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerMy copy of this book is enhanced by an interesting preface, where Brian Sanderson talks about the particular challenges of writing this book. Apparently, he’d been writing various books for a while, finishing them, moving on to the next book.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third part of The History of Middle Earth is much rougher going for me, as it mostly a couple of very long poems, which I never do so well with. It does gain interest for a couple bits of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the same length as the other New Frontiers books, but it feels just a bit meatier, and more than just a longer episode. Also, the subplots feel more natural to the overall plot this time. There’s still odd[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the description, this is a through examination of one particular speech Abraham Lincoln gave at the start of his second career in politics. That’s actually a very incomplete description. This book is much more about all the history surrounding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of Mating Flight picks up slightly after the first book ended. Trest was conquered at the end of the previous book, and there’s plenty of problems as they don’t realize it yet. Related problems are actually something of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite the title, this isn’t focused on Radetzky. (But it is a great take off of Johann Strauss’ celebration of the campaign.) At the start of 1848, revolution swept through Paris—again. And this time, much of the rest of Europe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stephen Douglas was a very able speaker and politician on what turned out to be the losing side of history, is mostly remembered for being Abraham Lincoln’s foil (or more properly, the other way around). Enough so, that basic history[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this book up mostly for the reproductions of a series of sketches of the California Missions. In 1856 they were already largely abandoned, and would soon decay into a ruined state (and by the text, this had already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, with the title and subtitle, my original thought that this would be a look at draconic culture where power politics flows around and through the aspects of mating, and you know, not getting killed in the world. I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is an expansive history of about sixty years, across a fair amount of space. It’s also a fairly limited history, largely confined to what “white people” were doing. This is, in large part, man-vs-nature history, with strange people coming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…