Coyote Frontier by Allen Steele
The trilogy is neatly wrapped up bringing Coyote from a colony to political independence.
book also set up future books.
I highly recommend the Coyote books for anyone who enjoys hard science fiction
The trilogy is neatly wrapped up bringing Coyote from a colony to political independence.
book also set up future books.
I highly recommend the Coyote books for anyone who enjoys hard science fiction
Looking for something good to take on vacation. I generally enjoy James Rollins, Crichton and Dan Brown.
Need a page turner recommendation. Thanks.
Need a page turner recommendation. Thanks.
Have you read “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle”? It’s definitely a page turner.
LawrenceTaylor’s book “Over the Edge” is a great read. We all know he was a phenomenal player but he lived an absolutely crazy life off the field that a lot of people don't really know. He had a ton of ups and downs throughout his career and talked about all the key people that helped him along the way (Parcells,Belichick). Good book trust me, check it out and the reviews.
The Great Seige Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
Bradford spends enough time setting the stage to help you understand that the people being discussed, Christian & moslum alike, were NOT swaft as F like we are today. These guys were hardcore.
After setting the stage for a few chapters Bradford gives a blow by blow account about a critical encounter that reverberated through western history till today. ( ok German fuher Markel nurffed it, but the euros are getting better ...)
I found it particularly interesting how brutal the fighting was from the start.... all rules of chivalry were abandoned and when everyone on Malta understood it was either victory or tortuous death things got real.
Bradford spends enough time setting the stage to help you understand that the people being discussed, Christian & moslum alike, were NOT swaft as F like we are today. These guys were hardcore.
After setting the stage for a few chapters Bradford gives a blow by blow account about a critical encounter that reverberated through western history till today. ( ok German fuher Markel nurffed it, but the euros are getting better ...)
I found it particularly interesting how brutal the fighting was from the start.... all rules of chivalry were abandoned and when everyone on Malta understood it was either victory or tortuous death things got real.
Christians won!
huh that cool, i might actually read this considering I'm one of like 14 people with Maltese heritage lol
Nothing but praise for the Malta natives from Bradford & siege contemporaries
If you like those, you should try the Asia Saga by James Clavell. Brilliant historical fiction.
Spindrift by Allen Steele
OK for reals this time the Coyote trilogy is neatly wrapped up. LOL
Spindrift finishes a few subplots, BUT HUGE subplots, left unanswered in the Coyote trilogy. Really is quadlogy ( what ever the word would be )
we now know what those lights that were seen aboard the URSS Alabama in the first book & and what happened to EASS Galileo.
also a big shoutout for legal weed - LOL
4 books in and 4 to go, but really just getting started
OK for reals this time the Coyote trilogy is neatly wrapped up. LOL
Spindrift finishes a few subplots, BUT HUGE subplots, left unanswered in the Coyote trilogy. Really is quadlogy ( what ever the word would be )
we now know what those lights that were seen aboard the URSS Alabama in the first book & and what happened to EASS Galileo.
also a big shoutout for legal weed - LOL
4 books in and 4 to go, but really just getting started
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The year is 2070, and the United Republic of America, an authoritarian conservative regime constructed after the second revolution, has built its first starship: the URSS Alabama. The welcoming celebration for Captain Robert E. Lee takes a sudden turn when Lee initiates his plan to steal the Alabama.
that government failed and was replaced by socialists... who spent the government into the ground. Everyone except the political elite broke as F... Western Hemisphere Union currently running the sh1tshow in like 2300 or so
you should read Coyote... excellent read.
I try to rotate between SciFi & history
you reading fiction political books? extremely strange genre choice
that is just the background...
actual story about the colonization of another planet
and by the way the ultimate fate of the Alabama was excellent.
yes... and major villain was from McMinnville
Vanderbilt shoutout
@XO
Allen Steele spent lots of time in Northeast... yankeeland. Anyway alpha predator on Coyote is a flightless bird that are called 'boids'
I Emailed Steel one third shift at like 0400 and asked if he called them 'boids' cause that is how NYC yankees pronounce 'birds'
amazingly he Emailed me back like 15 mins later and said not no but Hell No... LOL
I Emailed Steel one third shift at like 0400 and asked if he called them 'boids' cause that is how NYC yankees pronounce 'birds'
amazingly he Emailed me back like 15 mins later and said not no but Hell No... LOL
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@XO
so I printed out my Email to Steele & his reply cause it amused me so much. stuck it in the Coyote book...
here is a summary:
me to Steele
the name 'boid' has nothing at all to do with robots or space or anything like that. You were Yankeefied while you lived up north. 'Boid' is yankee for bird. It is a most excellent play on words
Steele to me
was not a result of living outside the south but rather a more universal set of culutural influences.
the way people referred to Tweety in Loony Tunes and also the Three Stooges sometimes called birds 'boids'
as an aside he said he grew up in Oak Hill and hung out in Green Hills
I still LOL at the exchange
here is a summary:
me to Steele
the name 'boid' has nothing at all to do with robots or space or anything like that. You were Yankeefied while you lived up north. 'Boid' is yankee for bird. It is a most excellent play on words
Steele to me
was not a result of living outside the south but rather a more universal set of culutural influences.
the way people referred to Tweety in Loony Tunes and also the Three Stooges sometimes called birds 'boids'
as an aside he said he grew up in Oak Hill and hung out in Green Hills
I still LOL at the exchange
I’m working on a sci-fi novel based in the 70’s.
MLK was never killed and actually ran for president and won as a populist leftist in 1972.
I have a fantastic summary but would absolutely be banned for it.
just kidding I’m definitely not writing a novel, I promise seriously don’t ask
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