{"id":339,"date":"2010-07-27T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/07\/27\/stuff-received-72610\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:39","slug":"stuff-received-72610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/07\/27\/stuff-received-72610\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff received 7\/26\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Hh-KfiXUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wolf-Age-James-Enge\/dp\/161614243X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1280188519&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Wolf Age<\/span><\/a> by James Enge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Spear-age, sword-age:<br \/>\nshields are shattered.<br \/>\nWind-age, wolf-age:<br \/>\nbefore the world founders<br \/>\nno man will show mercy to another.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Wuruyaaria: city of werewolves, whose raiders range over the dying northlands, capturing human beings for slaves or meat. Wuruyaaria: where a lone immortal maker wages a secret war against the Strange Gods of the Coranians. Wuruyaaria: a democracy where some are more equal than others, and a faction of outcast werewolves is determined to change the balance of power in a long, bloody election year.<\/p>\n<p>Their plans are laid; the challenges known; the risks accepted. But all schemes will shatter in the clash between two threats few had foreseen and none had fully understood: a monster from the north on a mission to poison the world, and a stranger from the south named Morlock Ambrosius.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51id0RaZS8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Operation-Endgame-Zach-Galifianakis\/dp\/B003IB0FRG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=dvd&amp;amp;qid=1280188648&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Operation: Endgame<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A battle ensues among groups of government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iz00Tw0dL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/After-America-John-Birmingham\/dp\/0345502914\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1280188791&amp;amp;sr=8-1-catcorr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">After America<\/span><\/a> by John Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation\u2014and the battle for New York City has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy\u2014whoever they are\u2014controls Manhattan\u2019s concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family.<\/p>\n<p>The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier\u2019s choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it?<\/p>\n<p>From the geopolitics of post-American dominance to the fallout of Israel\u2019s nuclear strike, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">After America<\/span> provides a gripping, intelligent, and harrowing chronicle of a world in the maw of chaos\u2014and lives lived in the dangerous dawn of a strange new future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. The Wolf Age by James Enge Promo copy: &quot;Spear-age, sword-age: shields are shattered. 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