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mngwinn

Gwinn in MN

I live in Minnesota and Like things

Currently reading

Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib
David J. Schwartz
DIY Cocktails: A Simple Guide to Creating Your Own Signature Drinks
Marcia Simmons;Jonas Halpren
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova

Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change

Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling If you like a certain kind of old school speculative fiction in the Niven/Pournelle/etc. vein, full of Mary Sues and leaden dialogue and lots of ideas, this is probably great. I've realized I'm done with that. If the idea of SCA members, pagan covens and manly outdoorsmen surviving in a world where all of our modern conveniences suddenly stop working sounds awesome, maybe this is for you.I'm sure it doesn't help that I tried to read this right after World War Z, an infinitely better version of a future that's completely messed up.I did not finish this. Not even close.