Author: Naomi Novik Pages: 384 Year Published: 2006
While the premise of His Majesty's Dragon is rather simple: what if dragons were used as an "air force," during the Napoleonic Wars, Naomi's Novik's execution of the concept is wonderfully entertaining.
The story begins with the capture of a dragon ...
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Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 287 Year Published: 2006
A father and son travel down from the mountains, all their possessions in an old shopping cart, desperately attempting to make it to warmer climates before winter comes and all of this in a post-apocalyptic America covered in the ...
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Author: Jo Walton Pages: 336 Year Published: 2006
When the body of Sir James Thirkie is discovered at Farthing, the ancestral estate of Lord Eversley, Scotland Yard dispatches Inspector Peter Carmichael to investigate and find out who killed the architect of England's "Peace With Honour," ending its ...
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Author: S.M. Stirling Pages: 496 Year Published: 2004
What would happen if gunpowder suddenly didn't work? How about explosive combustion in any form? Failure in electronics and electrical transmission, or steam power?
Technology would revert back to before the end of the Middle Ages, which is the core ...
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