![]() ![]() Gabriel draws upon ancient texts, including those from Livy, Polybius, Diodorus, Silius Italicus, and others, as primary sources and examines all additional material available to the modern scholar in French, German, English, and Italian. The Roman imperium was being born, and it was Scipio who had sired it. And yet, paradoxically, Scipio's victories in Spain and Africa enabled Rome to consolidate its hold over Italy and become the dominant power in the western Mediterranean, virtually ensuring a later confrontation with the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms to the east as well as the empire's expansion into North Africa and the Levant. ![]() Gabriel establishes Scipio's rightful place in military history as the greater of the two generals.īefore Scipio, few Romans would have dreamed of empire, and Scipio himself would have regarded such an ambition as a danger to his beloved republic. In this scholarly and heretofore unmatched military biography of the distinguished Roman soldier, Richard A. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second Punic War and was the central military figure of his time. ![]() Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. The World often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. ![]()
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Novels of the Others comes the award-winning Black Jewels trilogy- Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness-together in one volume for the first time!Īnne Bishop's critically-acclaimed Black Jewels Trilogy is the saga of one young woman's destiny played out against the backdrop of three powerful realms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beautiful, handsome, swoon-worthy Prince Elian. But, in a lot of ways, her actions subtly speak otherwise.Īnd then there’s Prince Elian. Lira, the siren called “The Prince’s Bane,” begins the book as a prickly, practically-heartless and hate-filled automaton. It’s the way these characters act, not who they are or even what they say, that show us who they truly are and why they’re fit to be in places of power. It’s very emotionally real, touching on the main characters’ shortcomings, fears, and sacrifices. 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While other iterations are generally sad or upbeat, the best word to describe To Kill a Kingdom is severe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You were not a doctor by any means–at least not one privy to the knowledge of exactly how your mate’s body had been injured since his fall from Caesar’s Legion.Īt a genetic level, it was usually safe to assume that everyone was affected in some shape by latent radiation in the world, but assumption had led to the idea that Joshua or, hell, even you would have some sort of difficulty in having children, if only because of the lives the two of you had led up to that point–who knows what sorts of wounds had been ones to decrease your fertility, mess with your heat cycles, render one if not both of you completely infertile?īut you were so very, very happy to be wrong in that underlying pessimism. ![]() Read more about the Omegaverse AU is and how I write it here!Īs it turns out, getting pregnant was actually a lot easier than you had expected it to be–at least with a mate like Joshua Graham. 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Alain de Botton suggests a 'religion for atheists' - call it Atheism 2.0 - that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our. – and create new businesses designed to address our emotional needs.įor too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing lots of peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. ![]() – get more out of art, architecture and music – overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy Blending deep respect with total impiety, Alain (a non-believer himself) proposes that we should look to religions for insights into, among other concerns, how to: ![]() Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religions, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from them – because they’re packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really wish that Queen Anna had lived her life as described in this novel. This just drags mostly from overly descriptive narrative of palaces, staff, horses, dresses, banquets, etc. This was extremely detailed and reads almost more like a biography enhanced with dialogue. Will he accuse Anna of adultery as he did Queen Anne Boleyn, and send her to the scaffold? Or will he divorce her and send her home in disgrace?"- … ( more) Even as Henry begins to warm to his new wife and share her bed, his attention is captivated by one of her maids-of-honor. ![]() What follows is the fascinating story of an awkward royal union that somehow had to be terminated. Some think her attractive, but Henry knows he can never love her. ![]() ![]() Entranced by the lovely image, Henry is bitterly surprised when Anna arrives in England and he sees her in the flesh. Henry commissions her portrait from his court painter, who depicts her from the most flattering perspective. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. "Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it was a hit with teenagers across the country. Hinton’s novel, which describes in gritty detail the ongoing gang warfare between the lower-class Greasers and the well-to-do Socials, didn’t have much to do with romance or horses, unless you count her protagonist, the 14-year-old Greaser Ponyboy Curtis. “In the fiction they write, romance is still the most popular theme, with a horse-and-the-girl-who-loved-it coming in a close second.” “The authors of books for teen-agers are still 15 years behind the times,” she wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times. Most of the literature handed down for high school students to read had, in Hinton’s estimation, nothing to do with the lived experiences of teenagers in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hinton published The Outsiders in 1967, a novel she began writing at age 15 and sold at 17, the idea of a teenager writing fiction for her peers was a novelty. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are all duly destroyed, with the assistance of a steam-powered dirigible Airship whose introduction augurs the Steampunk of a few years later. They are Mutant descendants of a single Sumatran rat – alluding to Sherlock Holmes's famous aside to Dr Watson about "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared" – and have hypnotized normal rats to attack in unison, as though they were dancing. After hundreds of human lives are lost, the giant rats at the heart of this attack on civilization are discovered. ![]() Most of his novels are Young Adult historical tales of sf interest is Rattus Rex ( 1978), set in an 1860s London plagued by a sudden infestation of strangely well-disciplined rats (for As Above So Below and Urban Fantasy see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below). (1940- ) UK archival librarian, playwright and author, in Scotland from 1969. ![]() ![]() ![]() Movies & TV: I’m slowly getting back into regular movie outings. ![]() His science fiction is mind-blowing – try Use of Weapons. I also read Raw Spirit, Iain Banks’ nonfiction book about whisky and Scotland, part memoir and part travelogue. Cherryh’s Downbelow Station, a true space-opera classic. Something in my brain really did get unstuck. (In the past, 6-7 a year has been my average.) (Stats: three of those eight have sold, two more are on submission, and the newest three still need revised before they go out.) I feel like I hit the ground running after New Zealand. Three more in the last couple of weeks – that makes eight since December, which is a lot for me. Work right now involves prepping to fulfill the Kickstarter rewards (that’s my summer sorted, I guess!), and also – more short stories. ![]() It’s a thing that I think separates aspiring writers from published writers, and good writers from great. This month’s Lesson: The first of what will probably be a couple of posts on voice, which is one of those evergreen topics. My Kickstarter project, WATER FIRE FAE, is less than a week from the finish line, and I’m really happy with how it’s going! We’re almost 300% funded and reached the second stretch goal, which means the collection will now include notes about the background of each story! You only have a few more days to get on board! Reminder that this is cross posted from my Patreon site! ![]() |