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October 15, 2012

The Sword

I was surprised to find, when visiting the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, that they had the sword of a most extraordinary person there….

October 14, 2012

‘Throne of Blood’

I had the pleasure, well, theoretical pleasure since I took it up only because I thought it would go well with the present recovery…

October 6, 2012

Of Tyrants and Dictators

I generally abhor the misuse of any term which has a specific meaning, and recently it has come up in discussion that one was…

October 5, 2012

Review: Hannibal, Nic Fields

I’ve recently come to read two of the Osprey Command series books (first on the Admiral, Yamamoto Isoroku, and now the Carthaginian general, Hannibal…

October 4, 2012

K.u.k. (cont.)

As promised, I will now expand on that thoroughly unhelpful post from yesterday that more had the intention of forcing me to write more…

October 2, 2012

On Reviewing Books

I find that my idea of reviewing a book has changed quite a bit from what it was some time ago. Namely, when before…

September 30, 2012

On this Section

I have found, unfortunately, that my activity on this special side of my blogs has been well less than what I expected. Thereby, I…

September 26, 2012

‘The Sword of Shannara’, T. Brooks

“We build too many walls to be completely honest with ourselves.” I was quite honestly disappointed by this book because I thought it might…

September 25, 2012

‘The Heart of Matter’, E. Currie

“She thought it was the east, actually, but now she thought of it, she wasn’t sure that the sun rose in the east here….

September 22, 2012

‘Into the Black’, E. Currie

“It’s what we do.” When speaking of science fiction, the usual names that come to my mind would be Clarke and Asimov. With some…

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Author: krikson