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He's still bloody boring.

Having just staggered back from the pub, I'm rather pissed, but to be honest I think it a singleton.

I wouldn't say so. A literary game, rather.

Wit, inventiveness, imagery. Moorcock at his best.

Not for many years. I seem to remember I liked it a lot, thinking it a homage to Mervyn Peake.

The real "prize" would be to have never encountered Baxter's rather stodgy books in the first place. Short stories? For starters there's NO LONGER TOUCH THE EARTH and BRIGANTIA'S ANGELS.

Sounds like Robert Heinlein. TIME FOR THE STARS was it? Because of time dilation effect one twin is a very old man when the other returns, two or three years older. Sound familiar?

It's OK but it's not the first AH by a century.

Mikey- you're quite right. Thoughtless of me. Diamond- I'm afraid in my opinion CHUNG KUO gradually fell apart. The opening premise was great. A Chinese dominated Earth where history had been falsified to give the impression that the Chinese had been running things since the second century...

AMAZON is full of shit. As of Jan 17th (on Martin's personal website) he's got 1300 pages in final draft, another 100 in draft, but some chapters unwritten. So work out for yourself when it will be published. On past experience, I don't think it will be out this year. As for the books...

Er... where are you talking about? I assume you mean Rome. Or is it Southe America, Australasia, North America, or what?

Deerborn- Dr Syn was the hero of DR SYN, a novel by Russell Thorndyke, with about six inferior prequels, set in Romney Marsh which is actually next to the English Channel. Dr Syn is secretly a smuggler (the part was played by George Arliss in the '30s and Patrick McGoohan in the '60s and the...

Bluenote- I'm staggered that you don't seem the realise the enormity of what you've done. You're trashing a work of scholarship which you haven't even seen on the basis of a couple of reviews in AMAZON which support your point of view and ignore the favourable reviews. If I did anything of the...

As usual, the point seems to be missed that if Germany declares a benign neutrality, Roosevelt would be forced to abandon any large scale aid to Britian. All the Roosevelt haters would have a field day otherwise. "We need all the materiel for our own men," "why are we fighting for the British...

I've always believed (and it's a subject I've thought about for many years) that without a German declaration of war America would never have intervened in Europe.

Another one which has been done to death. In my own bit of work (which I must get back to) Hitler offers "all help short of war" to the US. Roosevelt cuts his losses and abandons Britain. Britain is gradually strangled by the U Boats. The Churchill Govt falls after the Prime Minister...

MBN- I wasn't going to bother answering, it strikes me as futile, but since I've got the choice of answering or going out into the backgarden and repairing the wall, I'll answer. 1. This is a side issue, but I'm rather angered by your comments about Russell Weigley. Professor Weigley (who...

To me the campaign in Alexandria was part and parcel of Caesar's behaviour in the last five years of his life. As I've argued before, he'd always relied on verve, luck, improvisation, but this was becoming more and more marked, along with arrogance and willfullness- which is why I think he...

Unlikely. You miss the point that it was Caesar's generosity which so galled his opponents. His patrician arrogance in not taking their heads struck his enemies as the ultimate form of contempt and condescension. It's hard to see anyway how he could have been more generous than IOTL.

Someone remarked if St Francis of Assisi had had Stilwell's job he would have been remembered as Vinegar Frank. Stilwell probably did it as well as anyone could have.