Dramatic Irony for Elfgames
I've been spending the past little while visiting my girlfriend, and on the plane ride back I started reading the book Conquistador, by S.M. Stirling. This isn't a book review, mostly because I'm not done with it and my thoughts so far are "I grew up on Stirling's books, this is a Stirling book, so it feels like a lovely homecoming for me." What I initially found interesting was how much it cuts to the chase . The best way to describe Stirling's work is "What if Michael Crichton was an anthropologist?" Personally I'd recommend The Sky People , where the US and Soviet Union colonize a Venus full of cavemen and dinosaurs, as a good starting point. Conquistador is a book where in 1946, a former Army soldier discovers a portal to an alternate timeline where Europeans never colonized the Americas. In 2009, a Fish and Wildlife officer starts uncovering just what exactly has happened and is happening over there. None of that's a spoiler-...
