Her Dark Passion, by James Swallow

[burntcopper]

Reading Redcoats by Richard Holmes. Immensely detailed, lots of first person entries and snippets, but it's a severe slog. Got to about the halfway point, but sadly getting more convinced that what I'm probably going to do this time around is the the 1920s Upstairs Downstairs fic and refer back to this the next time I do a nano set in this world that has, er, more of a concrete plot. So in the meantime, going to finish this, watch Gosford Park again, look up transport details and valeting in the 1920s, and stuff about lifeboats and shipwrecks. taraljc, prepare to be harassed for obscure details.

Pubmeet, there was the usual geeking, general sneering at SGU, happy squee sounds about the recent Big Bang Theory eps, the fun and big plot holes that is Flash Forward, and laughing our heads off at the cover to Jim's new Trek novel. The cover is fucking hysterical; it looks like a Mills and Boon. Considering Jim is a specialist in robots, big actions sequences and military geekery, we have no idea what the publishers were thinking.

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[taraljc.livejournal.com]

prepare to be harassed for obscure details.

You know I'm up for it. And I've new books! One of my neighbours has Not In Front of the Servants: Domestic service in England 1850-1939 by Dawes, but I'm hoping to steal it back soon....

ETA: have you seen The Legend on 1900?

[jmswallow.livejournal.com]

Her Dark Passion

Actually, someone did that already:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek:_Dark_Passions

we have no idea what the publishers were thinking.

Me neither.