From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 00:29:03 MDT
On Monday, April 10, 2000 11:11 AM Michael S. Lorrey mike@datamann.com
wrote:
> What were the titles John? I just re-read _Unintended Consequences_(John
Ross), as
> well as _Gateway to Tyranny_(Zelman), and _Gates of Fire_(Pressfield). I
recommend
> all to anyone on the list. The first is a rather large novel about the gun
culture
> in america, the second is a documentation of the translation Senator
Thomas Dodd
> did of the Reichsgeletsblatt when he wrote the Gun Control Act of 1968,
and the
> third is a historical novel about the battle between the Spartans and the
Persians
> at Thermopylae.
Michael,
If you're interested in fiction taking place in Ancient Greece, have you
checked out the works of Mary Renault? I liked her _The Mask of Apollo_ and
_The Last of the Wine_. I've yet to make it through any of her other
novels.
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
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