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Warship Wednesday–Carrier Doctrine #1
Interesting thing I discovered about carrier doctrine in writing the Usurper’s War series in general, but definitely with regards to Against the Tide Imperial: The three main carrier navies in our timeline did things very, very differently. The USN basically went all in on “every carrier throws a haymaker.” This was shown both in early task…
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2019 in Review
Man. It seems like just yesterday I was celebrating the imminent release of Those In Peril and preparing to go to Life, The Universe, and Everything (LTUE) Symposium in Utah. Next thing I know, 2019 is in the rearview mirror, the Phases of Mars series is complete, and Against The Tide Imperial is…well, still not…
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Audiobook News, "Surly" Edition
To Slip the Surly Bonds is now available on audiobook here!
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Warship Wednesday–Death of a Prince
It is my intent to do a 2019 Year In Review blog post at some point before the end of the month. Until then, feel free to read some in-depth analysis of the Prince of Wales‘ loss. Much like reading an autopsy report will tell you quite a bit about how the human body fails, this…
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Review of Midway (2019 Film)
I’ve been plugging away on Against the Tide Imperial most of November for Nano. I was amidst the Kido Butai engaging four of the Royal Navy’s carriers in the Indian Ocean when my memory jogged: I never reviewed Midway despite intending to right after seeing it. This, folks, is called “Nano-brain,” in which other tasks seem to fall…
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Some people need no introduction…
”Those in Peril presents some intriguing concepts by reshuffling naval history’s deck of cards. The US and Royal navies on opposite sides in World War I, and contending along our east coast 10 years later. Then the U.S. allied with Japan in “The Oahu Pact” during the next world war. Along the way we see…
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Now It Can Be Told
So for about two months now, I’ve been having to sit on the line up for Trouble In The Wind. Behold, the magnificence of the headliners… If someone had told me when this whole indie thing got started, “Hey, you know someday you’re going to be editing an alternate history anthology with S.M. Stirling in it?”,…
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It's Time to Get A Little Surly!
To Slip the Surly Bonds has gone live on Amazon. This was a long time coming, but all the hard work has paid off. There’s an exclusive Taylor Anderson short story in here, a whole bunch of award-winning authors, a story from your humble narrator involving P-38s on Guadalcanal…yeah, it’s worth the price of admission.…
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EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!
Sometimes old videos make a person look at things in different ways: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09DckvwFrXY&w=560&h=315] While I haven’t gotten there yet, this video does make me think differently about jet combat in the Usurper’s War universe. Without giving away spoilers, there will be a pseudo-Cold War in the aftermath of the in universe World War…
