This blog has been active for five years and now has close to a thousand posts. It’s been a joy to make. And it’s unironically and seriously helped change my view of literature as a whole. When I started the blog, my view of fiction and cheap thriller fiction in general was narrow and (unknowingly) distorted. Now I can see a much clearer picture.
So to all who’ve read and commented on this blog, thank you.
Command Modern Operations has finally been officially updated to run as a 64 bit program instead of the 32 bit one it was previously. The list of changes and additions in this mega-update can be seen here. It’s quite the big leap!
Fuldapocalypse wishes you a happy Fourth of July!
I’m delighted to review The Seventh Secret, a book whose entire plot can be summarized as, “Hitler LIVED!” on SLP.
It’s Memorial Day, in honor of the over 1 million American military fatalities since the nation’s founding. At least three quarters were in the ACW and World War II.
Unfortunately, my work on All Union’s successor has been slowed due to two factors, one unpleasant and one very pleasant. The unpleasant reason is that it’s been getting hot and, worse, allergies are in full blast. The pleasant reason is that I just got an excellent new computer, so that’s been occupying a lot of my time.
While I still want to do Soldiers of the Void, my original planned direct successor, I’ve found my creative muse leading towards a less militarized, more political thriller that I’ve called A Period of Cheating. The driver of that plot is nuclear arms control negotiations, and I’m already having a lot of fun.
Today happens to be my birthday.
After months of work and preparation, I’m delighted to say that All Union is now out in both electronic and paperback versions. It’s an alternate history novel about a world where the Soviet-ahem, Sovereign (totally not Communist or anti-Western, we swear!) Union remains a superpower and the dawn of high-tech war was in Romania and not Kuwait. It’s, as the subtitle says, a novel of love (seriously and unironically), war, and mystery, as everyone from a “Generallismus” to a New Jersey clerk to a Kyrgyz nurse makes their way through this different but similar world.
It and particularly the style in the second half is the kind of book I’ve wanted to write ever since I’ve started Fuldapocalypse. And now I’ve done it. Writing this was incredibly joyful and satisfying, and I hope reading it is as well.
Nuclear War Simulator, a detailed simulation of nuclear war (obviously 😀 ) on any scale from “one missile” to “one destroyed world”, of any type from “meticulously placed real units and real locations” to “hypothetical custom clashes between two countries that never historically developed nukes at all” is now out.
It can be gotten here.
All Union, my alternate history novel project, is coming along very, very nicely. The first volume (yes, it’s grown big and ambitious enough to require multiple volumes) should hopefully release sometime in the spring. I’m very excited.
I’ve long since wanted to write a book like the one I’m making now, and I’m finally doing so. And yes, I’m doing things that the snarker me would have slammed several years ago. Oh well.
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