I just realized that I hadn’t posted anything about S.M. Stirling’s The Protector’s War, which is the sequel to Dies the Fire. I won’t try to summarize it at this late date; I’d only get it wrong, which would be embarassing. But I liked it, and had fewer qualms about it than its predecessor, and I’m looking forward to the next book, A Meeting In Corvallis, which is just out in paperback.

Digging a little deeper, I find I’ve also neglected to speak of Against the Tide of Years and On the Oceans of Eternity, which are the follow-on books to Island in the Sea of Time. I liked those, too, and would buy them again. As before, I won’t try to say much about them months after having read them…but the series is worth finishing, which is really what you wanted to know, right? Of the two, I’m enjoying the Dies the Fire books a little more, though.

(As you might have guessed, I’m tidying up my study. I’ve got six months or more of books to put away. Just because I wasn’t posting doesn’t mean I wasn’t reading.)