Book Review: The Year of the French (rerun)
The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan St Patrick’s day gives me a good hook for re-posting this review, in the hope of inspiring a few more people to read this superb book. Ralph Peters calls it...
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(Today marks the 59th anniversary of the announcement of the IBM System/360 series) Buy the book: Father, Son, & Co When Tom Watson Jr was 10 years old, his father came home and proudly announced...
View ArticleBook Review: Year of Consent–Rerun with Additional Commentary
I reviewed this book in 2021. Published in 1954, it is set in the then-future year of 1990–a time when though the United States is still nominally a democracy, the real power lies with the social...
View ArticleThe Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility
This month marks the 61st anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world dangerously close to thermonuclear war. Reflecting on this crisis seems particularly appropriate in our...
View ArticleBook Review: Theft of Fire, by Devon Eriksen
Marcus Warnoc operates a spacegoing freighter, assembled by his father and himself out of whatever parts they can afford. He is surviving financially only by the skin of his teeth, and has out of...
View ArticleBook Review: The Year of the French (rerun)
The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan St Patrick’s day gives me a good hook for re-posting this review, in the hope of inspiring a few more people to read this superb book. Ralph Peters calls it...
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