Started a new book yesterday. Ian Tregillis' "Bitter Seeds". An alt history novel series. So far, so good!
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Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship
by Akira Yoshimura
by Akira Yoshimura
I haven’t read this. Was sunk at Midway? (googling)
Have you read In Harms Way by Doug Stanton?
I also started it. Recommend it to people who are interested in the 'Death Row' conversation.
Contemplating starting a read of Richard A. Clarke's fictional "The Scorpion's Gate", which someone had given me a few years ago and I never quite got to, but this weekend's stacking up like a housebound gig thanks to incoming snow, so now could be the time. Sometimes with writers who have lived through sorting out some of the in-real-time history that they write about later in novels, I have difficulty separating what I know of their politics from what they're writing about. So we'll see how this goes. One or two people said not to expect for instance a David Ignatius turn of phrase from this book. I'm going to keep an open mind for at least 50 pages.
Started a reread of Robert Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children". Been about 25 years or more since I last read it and I am enjoying it just as much as the first time I read it!
Sunk at Leyte Gulf IIRC. Her sister Yamato was sunk during the Battle of Okinawa when sent on a foolish one-way mission to beach herself and be used as a shore battery.
Then to be rebuilt as a Space Battleship centuries later being bizarrely intact.
In reality the wrecks of both were found and in a mess.
Possibly not.
Sequels to well-loved, and highly regarded trilogies are rarely as brilliant as the original trilogy was.
Just finished The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein. First read, it’s not great, but I enjoyed it. Written in first person, easy reading, but reads more like a documentary. The author puts much effort into describing the Moon Colony, how it functions, it’s social order, which includes plural marriage by necessity, multiple husbands and wives in single family clusters. A most interesting aspect of the story is a computer who achieves self awareness and a catapult which is used to send goods from the Moon to the Earth, oh and there is a revolution. 