Ancient

[close] The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is given to themes of: engaging politics, sprawling battles, drugs(errr .. mead) and debauchery. If authors like Robyn Young, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield resonate with you, this group is designed for you. If you are bursting in your seams to discuss their books, please do come in. AUTHORS welcome as READERS ONLY. Limited opportunity for self promotion exists in A&M! No romantic melodrama books please. Want to gush about this great Victorian-era romance novel you've discovered and had been smitten with? Not the right group for you. We encourage freedom of opinion on books and authors in this group. As long as the opinion is respectful and harmless and breaks no Group rules. Don't feel you can't be honest about a book or author. No matter how popular the book or author is. Our Group Motto, courtesy of George S. Patton, is: If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

[close] I feel there is the need for a forum where we can discuss literature. Not just rate books and say how much we like them, but anything to do with literature, great authors, periods, social context, styles, influences, movements. If all the words tumbled from a famous tome, And could be carefully reassembled in the fullness of time, Who would be the best person to be sure, If the new work in hand was literature? (By Goodreads Author Amelia Stark) A united minority is stronger than a divided majority. (Quotation by Goodreads Author Adriano Bulla)

[close] For people who like reading about travel in the old days. Any old days. Historical travel lit. Classics and the obscure. Real books and Ebooks.

[close] we know they're here - and many witness reports don't sound too good. yet we have people proclaiming the universal goodness of all aliens - despite the fact they can often be seen in the context of having their own military. some might say we deserve bad aliens and that the bad stuff happens to us because we are bad inside in some way ..apologists try to write bad aliens off as fabrications of the 1950's military black ops - yet the historic record shows bad aliens and underground bases going back to the days of scuti ardenti or flying shields. there are plenty books written from all points of view on the alien presence - but some people despite the facts can never allow us to think of them as being in any way bad .. that we are demonising them - yet some behave like demons. not all though, some. aliens looks at the big picture and may take us out of our comfort zone