The Smallest Minority

So you saw Larry, and you didn't immediately kidnap him and lock him in your basement with a typewriter and refuse to let him out until MHI 2 was finished?

Way to go Kevin. Way to go.

MH2 IS finished. Baen has it, they just need to print and ship it.

Used to run into him at gun shows once in a while. Nice guy.

MH2 IS finished. Baen has it, they just need to print and ship it.
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That's the best news I've heard in weeks.

Now that the important stuff is out of the way, who is "the guy with the Hooters wife" the Other Mr. Brown references on his blog from the dinner get together? Remember, pictures, or it didn't happen ... :)

Well, NOW I'm jealous of you.

*grumble* *grumble*

Stupid work.

*stomps off*

Britt: I can make it better. Not only is MHI:2 done, but so is another book (starting yet another at-least-trilogy) set in a completely different universe, and they're both really good.

Great news perlhaqr! Now if David Weber can just reclaim his series from the Trotskyite....

The new John Ringo looks great too, although I was hoping for another mainline Posleen War story. Not sure that I like the new baddies, if only because I don't see how exactly humanity is going to beat an alien race that is both intelligent and more technically advanced then us. Kind of seems like he dug himself into a hole.

I just read the whole "Dies the Fire" series. I thought it was good, but your mileage may vary.

That's great that you got to spend time with them, and good news MH2 is done :-) I hope Larry will get to the East Coast one of these days...

I just read the whole "Dies the Fire" series.

I don't think that one's done yet . . .

I don't think that one's done yet . . .

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Well yeah. The various people of Montival haven't had the knock down drag out fight with the CUT. I meant the whole thing to date. It's kind of LOTR-ish at this point. Free peoples of the West vs the slavering horde of the East. Mackenzies as the elves, Bearkillers as Rohan, PPA playing Gondor. I'm kind of worried about the magic hypnotist stuff the CUT can do. I don't like magic or fantasy as a rule. Aside from the huge bit of handwaving that is the whole "Change" thing, the rest of the series feels real.

I'm still waiting for the other alternate universe story to pick back up again. It was left open-ended.

And I agree - the "Dies the Fire" universe is fun to read.

I'm still waiting for the other alternate universe story to pick back up again. It was left open-ended.
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Is that the Nantucket one?

I thought the "Peshawar Lancers" 'Post Meteor Strike' earth was Stirling's best alternate universe so far. Does not require quite the suspension of the laws of physics that the "Dies the Fire" universe books do.

They do make a fairly nice counterargument to people indulging in magical thinking about what the world would be like without guns, though.

The Nantucket books are better, and an interesting historical counterfactual, but the "Event" that gets them to the past still reeks too much of magic for my tastes in SF.

I understood it to read that the Nantucket event and the Dies the Fire event are the same event, just opposite sides of the universe split.

Nantucket went back in time and "Dies" lost modern tech.

I can't do the Dies The Fire books.

Once I cracked it open, I realized that it was every SCA geek's wet dream fantasy come true: "Oh boy, a neckbeard will become the sign of a true silverback that it should have been all along!"

Matthew: Yeah, but the effects were wildly different, for the course of the stories, and so I have considered them different universes.

YMMV, and either way, well, I read them, but I'm not planning on doing it again...

Still waiting for more Nantucket stories. More Peshawar Lancers would be awesome as well.

I'm just waiting.

Both have mentioned you on their respective blogs, but John couldn't remember your name.

Once I cracked it open, I realized that it was every SCA geek's wet dream fantasy come true: "Oh boy, a neckbeard will become the sign of a true silverback that it should have been all along!"

Tam, it is snark of that caliber that will have a NEST team digging through the flowerbeds at Roseholme.

Kevin,

It was great to meet you too. Even if I don't remember all the names. And, surprise surprise, I am now trying to put together a group for one of Larry's training sessions. So who knows, I might be carrying next time we meet. If not, I'll know a lot more than I do now. Dinner was great! Thanks for making me feel so welcome.