a description of the effects of flame-throwers (well, ok, if we are going to read about combat, then we are going to have to know what it is like);
another tribute reference to Wells, this time to The Invisible Man;
the disclosure in the Epilogue of yet another horrific SM Stirling villain, this one based on a real person who did not survive into 1922 in our timeline - we see where the series is going.
Two more children are introduced - adopted - and there is the prospect of the various daughters growing up and becoming more interactive characters in subsequent volumes.
Onward, Earthlings.
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"Roman von Ungern-Sternberg...Russian Empire's Baltic German minority"
I wonder if he ever met
"Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German[1] Nazi theorist and ideologue."
Short quotes from the respective Wikipedia articles about them.
I recently read "The Spinoza Problem" a historical novel about both Spinoza & Rosenberg. Rosenberg appears to have been bothered by Goethe, whom he considered a great German, greatly admiring Spinoza, a Jew.
Ungern is one of the characters in Victor Pelevin's book "Buddha's little finger" ("Chapaev and the Emptiness" in russian title). He is sort of god of death in this book, guarding some sort of valhalla/afterlife for warriors.
Thank you.
It's unlikely he met Rosenberg; there were a fair number of Baltic Germans, and they were from very different social classes, plus von Ungern-Sternberg spent much of his pre-1914 time in the Russian army, and the Far East.
von Ungern-Sternberg is another character you'd hesitate to invent because an editor might find him overblown and melodramatic...
I once asked the British sf writer, Bob Shaw, how he had created such an unpleasant villainess for his novel, ORBITSVILLE, and he replied that he had worked in the same office as her for five years.
Power provides the opportunity for character to show itself.
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