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You can buy The Rogue of Sevado now in e-book (paperback coming soon, just waiting on the cover from my graphic artist).

I’m not sure I can say exactly WHY it took so long, but I know I can’t blame anyone but me. I wrote about half of it during NaNoWriMo in November 2019(!), so it really should have been done a long time ago. I could blame the Covid shutdown, but other than any psychological depres

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Years ago, I started the first book in this series, Quicksilver, but only got about 1/4 through it and gave up. But I love Neal Stephenson's other, more sci-fi, books, and having read just about all of them except the Baroque Cycle and The Mongoliad, ...more
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“There was no question of the United States winning this fight. It was just a question of how much of Brazil would be flattened in the process.”
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“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

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