Showing posts with label Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Review: CSS Appomattox

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CSS Appomattox by Chris Stoesen Amidst the slaughter of the American Civil War, recognition of the South by both France and Great Brit...
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Sunday, 15 March 2015

The Eterna Files

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What Ho! chaps,  how you toodling? One has been busier than a Pathan ambushing a column of Guides of late can't say too much, Mum's ...
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Sunday, 28 December 2014

Lord Coxswain: The Man, The Myth, The Muttonchops

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Lord Coxswain is a mysogonistic xenophobe of the great-white-hunter-who-shoots-everything trope and is thus hailed as 'undoubtedly Ear...
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Friday, 18 July 2014

The Queen's Martian Rifles

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Just finished this little known book by M.E. Brines, delivered to me by Amazon this week and which delivers a cracking good yarn.   The ...
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Steampunk Soldiers

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Just found this upcoming title on pre-order on Amazon. Looks like it might be worth the wait until November, just in time for one's Chr...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

In the shade of the Ishtar Trees

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...A Tale of the First Venus War A fan of this humble blog, J.P. emailed me a week or two ago and asked if I would be interested in read...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Leviathan series

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I've just finished Scott Westerfield's series of steampunk books: Leviathan , Behemoth and Goliath, and most enjoyable they were t...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

The chronicles of Isambard Smith

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Last year I spied the first novel by Toby Frost and decided I would take it, and the rest of the series, away with me on my expeditions...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Pax Britannia: A few more to Crow about

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Its been a bit hard to update the blog of late, but that doesn't mean a chap has been slacking off on his VSF reading- Nossir it does n...
Saturday, 11 May 2013

Human Nature: Redux

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The third book in the Pax Britannia series, Human Nature sees a couple of characters from previous penny dreadfuls pop up once more as dan...
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Saturday, 27 April 2013

Leviathan Rising: Redux

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They say worse things happen at sea, and they do indeed for dandy adventurer and servant of the throne Ulysses Quicksilver as he (and his...
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Monday, 15 April 2013

Unnatural History: Redux

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Some time ago that splendid chap Mssr Blease posted his thoughts on this fantastical tale http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/pax-...
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Sunday, 7 April 2013

Angel of the Revolution

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Written in 1893, and now 120 years old, this book is a classic period piece of  'invasion literature' which I really enjoyed.  In ...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

A Visit to the Moon

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A Visit to the Moon is another VSF classic by George Griffith and available for free download here: http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Reminiscences of a Volunteer

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A free pdf download of George Chesney's classic tale is available at Book Depository here: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Battle-Do...
Thursday, 27 September 2012

Custer's Last Jump

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Aero Squadrons and dirigibles during the American Civil War, biplane and mono wing fighters transferred to Cherokee and Sioux Indians, the U...
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Sunday, 19 August 2012

Space Captain Smith, by Toby Frost

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Just saw this book reviewed online - hadn't heard of it before but sounds like something I'll be looking out for: http://bookswit...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012

An American "Flashman"?

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We shall see! SCOUNDREL! The Secret Memoirs of General James Wilkinson In the humorous, iconoclastic tradition of George MacDonald Fra...
Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Tsarist Aquanefs

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I borrowed a book from the library this week: "Submarines of the Tsarist Navy: A Pictorial History", Edited by Spassky and Semyo...
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Sunday, 19 June 2011

A Bit Of Quicksilver For A Few Pennies....

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Hullo Chaps! Interesting thing for you wallahs who spend all their hours on their Babbage Engines instead of out hunting grouse, three of th...