Been reading the 163x Grantville alternate history series again, mostly because I wanted to. 1636: The Kremlin Games (authors Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett) is a reasonably standalone novel in that series, and pretty engrossing. Russia’s always an interesting locale to put a speculative fiction story, not least because the place seems half-fantastic to Western readers anyway.
And so, adieu to The Day of the Triffids.
This is the Advanced Reader’s Copy of 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught, of course. I know some people don’t like those, but I can live with the occasional grammatical error and glitch in exchange for getting the book early – so I’m going to keep mentioning these when they come out and that’s just the way it is, folks. Alas, alack.
Also alas, alack: haven’t had a chance to read it yet. Combination of kid’s homework, roast chicken cooking, and the usual… usual. You’d think that I’d figure out by now that the best anodyne is work…
…for your ARC drops today. Ring of Fire IV, a book short stories in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series, and a new Leary-Mundy book from David Drake. It’s like the publisher knew that February was pure Hell on Earth for me. Or that I’m still going to be white-knuckling March.
Hey, I like alternate history and 1635: The Eastern Front
And so farewell, Red State Uprising: How to Take Back America
Moe Lane
Another one on the can’t-wait list: Torch of Freedom
So, it being Sunday, we replace the previous sequel (Imager’s Challenge: The Second Book of the Imager Portfolio
This was never said by Andrew Jackson – although if he had ever had cause to, it would certainly fit his personality:
“Besides, it doesn’t matter. The thing that separates our party from – whatever you want to call that pack of scoundrels who don’t agree on much of anything except they want power – is this, before it’s anything else. You figure out what you think the republic needs. First. Then you figure out how to get enough people to vote for you. What you don’t do – ever – is go at it the other way. Leave that to the Henry Clays of the world.”
– Eric Flint, 1824: The Arkansas War
A paragraph that needs to be burned in various and sundry people’s retinas, methinks.
Crossposted to RedState.
