Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAdrienne 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…
The final volume of Kate Elliot’s Crown of Stars series has a lot of work to do. The cast has grown enormous, multiple threats are coming at the main characters from completely different sources, and the political situation is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It often seems to me like Sicily doesn’t get a lot of attention, now or in the ancient world, even though it’s a very prominent land-mass that dominates the middle of the Mediterranean. This is more an accident of our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In origin, this is half a book. Each volume of the Crown of Stars series was longer than the last, and here at the end it finally got too long to put under one cover. It’s also hard to figure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…