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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! Book Review

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow Palgrave MacMillan, 2014 241 pages ISBN 978-1-137-27853-1 I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. As part of my Lenten penance this year, I am choosing to work through

The Long View: The Gray Havens

The Gray Havens Table of Contents An Explanation A Disclaimer (1) The Downfall of Rivendell (2) Weathertop (3) Bree (4) The Old Forest (5) Buckland (6) The Conquered Shire (7) The Prefect of Bag End (8) North & West (9) The Tower Hills (10) The End of the World An

The Dream of the Iron Dragon Book Review

by Robert Kroese Kindle edition, 338 pages St. Culain Press, January 8, 2018 ASIN: B078WLB2CR I received this book [Amazon link] for free from the author, Robert Kroese, in exchange for a review. I'm a sucker for the premise of this series: stranded spacemen teach Vikings to build

The Long View 2006-02-24: Future Teeth; The Golden Mosque; The Two Wicked Cities

John Reilly mentions William S. Lind in this post, because Lind repeatedly predicted defeat for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. John predicted victory, and some kind of friendly democratic government in both countries. What actually happened is somewhere in-between. Lind's predictions of defeat were too dire,

The Long View: The Years of Rice and Salt

This book review is the source of one of my favorite cocktail party theories: a number of seemingly well-established sciences are built upon an n of 1. In a grand sense, geology and biology fall into this category, since the big theories like plate tectonics and evolution depend on one

Conquistador Book Review

by S. M. Stirling Roc Books, 2003 ISBN 0-451-45908-3 This book continues the tradition that Stirling never writes sequels to the books of his I like best. Ah well. I especially like the acknowledgments to this volume: To Jerry Pournelle, for help and assistance; Giovanni Spinella and Mario Panzanelli, for

The Long View: The Domination

I consider Stirling one of my favorite authors, but I could never get into this one. The premise is pretty interesting, it was the execution that put me off. The Draka society is truly horrible, and described in detail, but also this series of novels, like the Island in the