Two more books came by mail this weekend.<\/p>\n
The first, from the Science Fiction Book Club<\/a>—The Bloody Crown of Conan<\/i>, the second volume in Del Rey’s new collection of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories.<\/p>\n The second, from Mad Norwegian Press<\/a>—Warlords of Utopia<\/i><\/a>, Lance Parkin’s contribution to the Faction Paradox<\/i><\/a> universe.<\/p>\n I’ve only glanced at The Bloody Crown<\/i>, but I’ve read half of Warlords<\/i> already.<\/p>\n Warlords<\/i> has been an interesting read–timelines where Rome never fell battling timelines where Nazi Germany conquered the Earth. If you liked Sliders<\/i>, this might be the book for you.<\/p>\n In other book news, the Waldenbooks near my house is closing up on Christmas Eve. Oh, the pain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two more books came by mail this weekend. The first, from the Science Fiction Book Club—The Bloody Crown of Conan, the second volume in Del Rey’s new collection of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories. The second, from Mad Norwegian Press—Warlords of Utopia, Lance Parkin’s contribution to the Faction Paradox universe. I’ve only glancedContinue reading “Talking Books”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[790,4101],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-faction-paradox","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}