Charles asked Myke Cole:

What else is on your bedshelf?

Myke Cole I’m looking at it as we speak, and there’s at least 20 books piled on there, so I’ll narrow it down to the three that are closest to my nightstand (and therefore being actively read). The first is Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico (research. If LEGION VERSUS PHALANX sells well enough, I want to pitch LEGION VERSUS WARBAND, which would cover Caesar’s Gallic campaigns. The second is The Macedonian War Machine 359-281 BC. The last is the ARC of Richard K. Morgan’s latest - Thin Air. It’s a hard-boiled noir work set on a far-future Mars, and it cements Morgan in my mind as one of the great gifts to Science Fiction. The guy is the second coming of Dashiel Hammett, but updated for 2018. He’s so damn good it makes me want to give up writing. If you haven’t read Morgan’s previous work, start with Altered Carbon (for SF), or The Steel Remains (for fantasy).

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