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insomniac's avatar

Luckily the solar flare didn’t occur at night otherwise we’d never have uncovered this.

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Damo's avatar

How completely ingenious. And fascinating.

Would the Vikings have lasers? And ride cloned dinosaurs? No, wait, better still, horses genetically engineered to be armoured and have eight legs?

I was going to ask if the Vikings (noun) would go viking (verb), but the present denizens of the North America below the 49th seem to manage that just fine already.

Free-associating now, whatshisface (he's not worth looking it up) the (more than usually) idiot-libertarian son of Milton Friedman, you know, Lexus and the something tree guy, thought the Vikings had the perfect society: no government policing or enforcement, and all disputes settled in an annual court. Which just demonstrates his deep, deep ignorance of anything Viking. Or of anything, really.

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Pete's avatar

Alt history Viking epic? You write it, I'll buy it!

Seriously, thoroughly enjoyed Robert Kroese's The Dream of the Iron Dragon series. Had to find someone else to read while waiting for your next books JB, I read em faster than you can write them, actually no-one could write that fast, generally read them in one sitting, then read them again a year or two later.

No pressure, don't get sidetracked, want to see the rest of The Cruel Stars then more of Cady and Smith first ...

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sibeen's avatar

Dirk, shouldn't you concentrate on writing another vampire novel.

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Dirk's avatar

Last i wrote on vampires was a reaction on twitter on an episode of True Blood ;-)

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John Birmingham's avatar

Dirk Flinthart is the culprit here.

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Steve's avatar

If you’re looking to get sidetracked, how about working on fleshing out A Captain of the Gate.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Quiet you!

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

I had a blip of fan girl excitement about a Viking Amerikka, and then a blip of disappointment that you'd gone back to your current deadlines like a grown up responsible writer, but at least we're going to get more instalments of WW2.1 and Cruel Stars. I am HERE for an alternate history Viking Amerikka when your current deadlines are complete though #JustSayin'

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John Birmingham's avatar

Damn it maybe I should write that 12 book Viking epic

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

Look I'd buy it 😂

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Dirk's avatar

3.1 first JB. And I will help writing Amerikka/Westland 😇

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Dave W's avatar

If it was anything like the strength of the Carrington Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event, those poor vikings would have fried their modems too.

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