to continue to reread Poul Anderson's A Stone In Heaven;
to begin to read SM Stirling's The Golden Princess, which has arrived.
At the end of Anderson's Dominic Flandry series, both Flandry and his daughter are still alive whereas, after ten volumes of Stirling's on-going Emberverse series, Mike Havel has died in combat, his son, Rudi Mackenzie, has died in combat and Rudi's daughter, Orlaith, has succeeded to the throne of Montival. What happens next? The blurb hints. Wider alliances and conflicts are developing. The Emberverse becomes a bigger and badder place.
Tonight also Montalbano solved a particularly unsavoury case. What's not to like?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Lord Bear, Protector Norman, King Artos, and other leaders are dying in combat in the Emberverse series. Iow, kings are again personally commanding armies as they had not done for centuries. I think Frederick the Great of Prussia was the last major Western leader (aside from Napoleon) to personally command armies. After them, armies and wars simply became too LARGE and widespread for such hands on leadership to be practical. Professional soldiers and General Staffs had to do most of the actual commanding and planning. Heads of state had to retire to the background and become largely policy makers and deciders.
Sean
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