Archive for the ‘Monday Book Pick’ Category
Monday, June 1st, 2009
The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling
A fine example of the alternate history sub-genre of Science Fiction. The change in history occurred in 1878, when a series of asteroid strikes caused a “nuclear winter” effect. As a new Ice Age quickly over ran Europe, the British Empire relocated their seat of power to Imperial India. It’s a “rousing good adventure”, complete with Airships and large, steam powered mechanical Difference Engine type computing devices.
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Tags: Alternate History, Monday Book Pick, S.M. Stirling, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
A Memorial Day special Monday Book Pick. If you have seen the series and haven’t read the book, do so. There is a lot of detail that didn’t make it to the screen. This book follows Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from their initial training to the unit’s deactivation in November 1945. The Normande landings on D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and more.
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Tags: 101st Airborne, book, Memorial Day, Monday Book Pick, US Army, US Military
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Semper Mars: Book One of the Heritage Trilogy by Ian Douglas
Ian Douglas is one of the many pen names of William Keith, Jr. He has multiple best selling series under multiple pen names. He cut his teeth on SciFi back in the late 1970s, along with his late brother Andrew, working on the classic SciFi RPG, Traveller.
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Tags: book, Military Science Fiction, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Princess of Wands by John Ringo
A slightly different hero than the genre usally sees in this modern day horror/adventure tale by NY Times best selling author John Ringo.
Barbara Everett is a Christian soccer mom from the southeastern United States. Who just happens to an expert in martial arts and combat shooting. Which comes in handy when Lovecraftian evil comes a calling on her quiet vacation spot. This book is actually a collection of several stories, including one that takes place mostly at a SciFi/Fantasy con. A lot of industry inside baseball in that one, which makes it way cool.
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Tags: Baen Books, book, horror, John Ringo, Lovecraft, Martial Arts, Monday Book Pick, SciFi/Fantasy
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
The Mote in God’s Eye by Dr. Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
One of the classics of modern SciFi, vetted by the Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein prior to publishng. A brilliant first contact novel set in the Second Empire of Man.
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Tags: book, Larry Niven, Military Science Fiction, Pournelle, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Psychoshop, by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny finished a manuscript that Bester didn’t complete before his death. The result is an interesting blend of the two writer’s styles complete with really well written fight scenes (Zelazny was an Aikido instructor for years).
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Two sources of images for Tax Day Tea Party signs, MarshBaby & Simon Jester.
For those of you who are not SciFi fans, Simon Jester is reference to Robert Heinlein’s classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which was the Monday Book pick on January 26, 2009.
2018 update: Both the sites referenced are no longer valid.
Tags: Politics, Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction, SciFi, Simon Jester, Tax Day, Tax Protest, Tea Party
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Uller Uprising, by the late H. Beam Piper
A brillian SciFi telling of the Sepoy Rebellion. Set early in Piper’s Future History series timeline, this is a solid bit of adventure/Military Science Fiction. For you Military SciFi fans, there is character, only mentioned once, named “Major Falkenberg” of Falkenberg’s Rifles.
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Tags: book, H. Beam Piper, Military Science Fiction, Science Fiction
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce and Laura C. Schlessinger
Tammy Bruce is a classic Liberal, not a leftist. A very important distinction these days. Unlike the far left extremists that have hijacked the democrat party, Classic Liberals are defenders of Free Speech.
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Tags: book, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Politics
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