Cataline had recently reposted to his blog [http://reactionarytimes.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-pill-review-expanse.html] on the TV series The Expanse. For the record, despite having read books 1-3, skipping 4 for some reason I don’t remember, and then reading book 5, I have no intent to read further, nor could I make it past Eros station going full “puke zombie”. A good chunk of the reason why lies in the fact that despite doing a very,very pretty job of the space battles, they managed to get th…
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John Ringo’s sheer volume of output is legendary. Also the fact that an idea jumps into his head, and the next thing anyone knows, there’s another book series waiting to be edited. The last is pretty much the story of how John Ringo ended up writing a series of books set in Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter universe. I’d reviewed the first book previously [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/08/monster-hunter-memoirs-grunge-or-las.html]. The third and final book in the series – Monster Hunter Memoirs:…
The Dream of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic [https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Iron-Dragon-Alternate-History-ebook/dp/B078WLB2CR] is the the type of “alternate history” that’s been around since Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” – a man of our time goes to the past, and starts changing things. Like Flint’s “1632” series, and Stirling’s Nantucket series, it’s not just one man. Like Weber’s Apocalypse Troll, you can throw out the “from our time” aspect. Our protag…
I mentioned that one of the tests [https://thelastredoubt.com/triplanetary/] – all solitaire – I ran to try out the game and rules was a three-ship setup of the solar system “grand tour” scenario. One of the ships started on Ganymede, and a photo I’d included showed the course. Here’s an explanation of the course. In retrospect, i](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/06/triplanetary-course-final.jpg) Above is the overall course from the beginning through turn 13, as the corvette begins to make spee…
The usual art post may slide into Tuesday as I got a bit distracted. I finally received my copy of the third edition of Triplanetary, brought back to life by Steve Jackson Games via a kickstarter project. Unlike the designers edition of OGRE, they’d learned their lessons and didn’t suffer from a year delay which the previous project had due to its near-catastrophic success. The game has a long history [https://infogalactic.com/info/Triplanetary] – and is one of the first games designed by Marc…