I was very aware of the gravity of the subject of this book as I dove into it, but that did not damper my amazement and astonishment of just what these brave men did on that Christmas night back in 1776 to literally save this burgeoning and embryonic nation from being a permanent English colony. I h...
The first 2/3 of this book should probably have been titled "Path To Pearl Harbor", as it requires the reader to take a much more patient approach to the events of December 7, 1941. Once this patience is mastered, the reader is then treated to a very personal set of events that describe the actions ...
In America, we are completely dependent upon electronics. They run our cars, our phones, our houses, and more. But what if something came along and destroyed all that!? What if our enemies send an EMP our way? We would be completely lost! One Second After deals with the after affects of an EMP and i...
So apparently this is one of the best apocalyptic novels ever, at least according to large swathes of the Interwebs.Personally, I don't see it. The plot is interesting and the research is excellent, but the writing itself is execrable. I have expectations of professional novelists. These include bei...
The writing is an improvement over the first book, but not by much. When I saw it was a Tor/Forge book I was optimistic, but the editor must have read this in his sleep, because I can't see any excuse for the kind of basic English errors in this book.Characters still flat, still can't bring myself t...
I usually like books like One Second After, where the book is all premise, and the story follows all the steps that follow from that premise. Seveneves was one -- what would happen if the moon blew up? -- and The Martian was another, and One Second After asks what would happen if an EMP (electromagn...
Quite a slow book, following on from Rally Cry, as the Yankees who were transported through a wormhole to a Stargate style world of different races from different times face off against a different horde and try to build alliances.This time, they try to expand from the Rus area (mediaeval Russians, ...
An American Civil War unit finds itself transported to a strange new world following a storm in the Bermuda Triangle.They discover something out of the middle ages, with feudal barons and a zealous church.Their new ways start to take hold in the population, to the upset of the church, but there is a...
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