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I just read Zero Cool by John Lange. Lange is actually Michael Crichton under an early pseudonym. This was okay. Crichton seems like he's going for a Hitchcockian North by Northwest flavor with a regular guy protagonist vacationing in Spain and caught up in an inscrutable war between rival...

Quote: I had a similar experience reading Stirling's Conquistador a couple of years ago. I couldn't finish it because it was so long and yet so little was happening with the plot and the characters. I like his ideas but the actual writing was disappointing. I just read The High Crusade...

The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. This is marketed as a fantasy novel but it's more like historical fiction based on Xenophon's Anabasis with a sci-fi overlay. The "Greeks" are humans but it's implied that they're not native to the planet on which they live, and the "Persians" are a race of...