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  • Still slogging through "Spitfire: The History". Getting very near to the final variants, I think. I'm ignoring the lists of every serial number of Spitfire produced, most with notes of where they served and their final fate.

    Read "Breed To Come" by C.J. Cherryh while I was traveling. Older book by an SF master, about a post-Human Earth and several of the various forms of life that inhabit it. I won't spoil the reveal, but the cover kind of does some of that.

    I also read Mercedes Lackey's "Arrows of the Queen", about the Heralds of Valdemar. She is another master-level author of mass-market fantasy. This is a decent coming-of-age-with-a-special-magic-talent story, not quite a "the chosen one" story, set in the familiar world of Valdemar. Familiar, at least, to Lackey's fans. The heroine is a horse-girl, and the Heralds are Extra Special Horse People whose Companions (like horses, but much smarter and magical to boot) choose them. It feels a bit of a Mary Sue in places, but is still an enjoyable read. Some elements are pretty progressive for the mid-80s when it was written, as well.

    Hopefully I'll finish the Spitfire book soon...
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
    One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
    The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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    • Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
      I am now reading a collection of short stories: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman.
      If ever there was an apropos title for one of his books, these days....
      PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

      There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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      • Quoth Pixilated View Post
        *snip*

        I'm also halfway through "Timetrap" by David Dvorkin, which is just *meh* as far as I'm concerned.
        Well, my original opinion of this book was definitely *meh* and I'm not sure I'd change that ... but I'm close to the end and THAT was a twist I didn't see coming!

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        • Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post

          If ever there was an apropos title for one of his books, these days....
          I know, right??

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          • Star Trek: Ship of the Line, by Diane Carey - set between Generations and First Contact, with flashbacks to the episode Cause and Effect. It's a pretty good background and romp through the backstory for Kelsey Grammar Morgan Bateson, who I always thought was criminally limited to the single episode.
            Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
            They want us to read minds, I want read/write.

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            • Just re-read the Monster Hunter series by Larry Corriea. Major factual error: “Contrary to the Lone Ranger, silver bullets really suck compared to good old-fashioned lead. Silver’s too hard, and it doesn’t fully engage the rifling. It’s lighter than lead, so you get really lightweight projectiles with lousy accuracy.”

              Burp. If and only if you are still shooting pure lead with black powder.

              Silver is 92.55% as dense as pure lead. If the jacket volume is more than ~10% the solid silver will be heavier.

              They are using 7.62x51 NATO, .45 ACP & .50 BMG, which are typically jacketed in copper, brass or *steel*, not bare lead.
              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
              Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
              Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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