February Books 3) God's War, by Kameron Hurley
I still feel like I'm coughing my lungs out, but I struggled into work both yesterday and today, so I guess I am well enough to start catching up on book-blogging... Anyway, God's War is the first of this year's BSFA nominees for Best Novel that I have read. I'm taking the approach of reading them in increasing order of pagecount, which nicely
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Speaking as a lowly historian, my rule of thumb is; you can have all out total mobilisation war for about five years, or you can do thirty years of low level strife with the occasional flare up or a pattern of summer campaigns. What you can't do is all out total mobilisation war for a generation before your people rise up and kick you out (although often the replacements aren't very good at disengagement).
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