Kal Spriggs

Tag: war

  • Wile E. Coyote

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    Robert Heinlein wrote a few times about the “Crazy Years” which he plotted pretty much where we are now.   He didn’t go into much detail, besides off-hand mentions of the general collapse of nations and civilization and all the things that go with it: war, famine, riots, looting, you know, all that stuff that…

  • Skidding Sideways on the Ice

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    Now on my Wednesday morning commute, we had what they call a “blizzard”.  You know, whiteout conditions and lots of this fluffy white stuff everywhere. (25 inches of it at my place, with drifts over four feet in height) More or less in the middle of this commute, I watched several vehicles driving sideways down…

  • Author’s Toolbag: Gaming Part Three

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    In Part One I talked about a general overview of what gaming provides a writer, while in Part Two I went into a bit more detail about how roleplaying games can help a writer develop his plots, characters, and worlds. Here in Part Three, I’ll talk a bit about how wargaming can help you craft…

  • Review: Desert Strike by Leo Champion

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    Leo Champion’s Desert Strike is a book.  Okay, review done.  No, seriously, it’s a book.  And it’s got things in it.  Go read it. In all seriousness, there’s a lot going on in Desert Strike.  We see war on a global scale, with a Chamberlain-esque government determined to avoid it, a hyper-violent enemy determined to…

  • Book Review: A Call to Arms by David Weber and Timothy Zahn

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    While A Call to Duty was something of an introduction to a time before the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a major power, A Call To Arms takes the time to show the reader just how messed up things are.  Politicians spend more time trying to manipulate the system for their own game than they…

  • Book Review: A Call to Duty by David Weber and Timothy Zahn

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    I first read David Weber and Timothy Zahn’s A Call to Duty last year.  I’ve long been a fan of both authors and I purchased the eARC (Advanced Reader Copy) from Baen’s eBooks without hesitation. I’ll say right off that the book is every bit as fantastic as I had hoped.  The characters are fantastic, the…

  • The Prodigal Emperor is Now Live!

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    The Prodigal Emperor is now available from Amazon and will be coming soon to Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Itunes.  The Prodigal Emperor is the third book of the Shadow Space Chronicles and concludes the story arc of Lucius Giovanni’s battle to save Nova Roma from the Chxor Empire. Baron Lucius Giovanni has done the…

  • Wrath of the Usurper Audiobook Live

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    The audio book for Wrath of the Usurper is now live!  It is available on Itunes, Amazon, and Audible.com.  Links are below.  As with Echo of the High Kings, Eric G. Dove is the narrator.  He did a fantastic job once again and if audio books are your thing, then you should check it out!…

  • The Prodigal Emperor Paperback Available Now!

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    Due to a lot of hard work by my editor and my cover artist, The Prodigal Emperor is now available as a paperback.  The ebook version will still be released on Saturday, 19 June, but you can pick up a paperback copy of The Prodigal Emperor today from Amazon! It should also be available over…

  • The Prodigal Emperor, Snippet Three

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    Here’s the third snippet from The Prodigal Emperor.  It seems that Alanis Giovanni is in a bit of trouble… Faraday System United Colonies December 1, 2403 Alanis used a word that the daughter of the nobility and the sister to a head of state probably shouldn’t use in public. Unfortunately, it didn’t have any effect…