Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThe second book of the Safehold series continues to play to Webber’s strong points. And his weak points. The book starts very well by giving a number of different incidents across the world to reintroduce where things left off, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, decades upon decades later, I have finally read all of this series. Of course, I just read the first half three years ago, but I also read the books largely as they came out originally, but never got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
David A. Bell tackles a fairly big concept in a merely moderate-sized book. The main thesis is that warfare underwent a profound change at the end of the Eighteenth Century that still drives how we think of it today. Now,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of Osprey’s free offers as the pandemic began, this was an unexpected acquisition for me. I’m not up on the US’s Indian Wars at all, other than a few bits of brief outline. I was certainly aware of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I found out about this Vorkosigan novella, but it wouldn’t have been this. And I mean that in the best possible way. This is, if anything, a sequel to A Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even for a Haruhi novel, this was a bit of a strange ride. First, it starts off wrapping up a loose end from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, with another bout of time travel. What is done seems inconsequential, especially[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Sumption’s massive, and excellent history of the Hundred Years War covers just over twenty years, from 1347 to 1369. The first volume ended with the siege of Calais, which the English ended up occupying for 212[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, a fantasy book from a generally unknown author and a niche publisher. Immediate question: was it worthwhile. Answer: yes. The biggest problem is one of setting. This appears to an alternate-universe setting stuck in the Victorian era. There’s no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spice and Wolf is a great anime series, that I give one of my strongest general recommendations. Sadly, it did not get the third season promised some time ago, but the two existing seasons are very good. It comes from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a large SF novel that uses the space to fit a lot of themes and ideas into it. First, we’ve got an inhabited asteroid belt. The date is kept purposefully vague, but its far enough in the future[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…