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Maelstrom (Destroyermen Novel)
''Maelstrom'' is the third book of the ''Destroyermen'' series by author Taylor Anderson. Plot synopsis Captain Matthew Reddy's ship ''Walker'', and his Lemurian allies, have won several battles against the cannibalistic lizard race, the Grik, who are waging a war of genocide against the sea-going Lemurians. The Grik sent a large force of 500 ships carrying 150,000-200,000 soldiers to destroy the Captain's crew and base at Baalkpaan. The Japanese heavy cruiser, the ''Amagi'', will be supporting the Grik lizard army. The ''Amagi'' is a more powerful vessel than Reddy's antique, battered destroyers. With these odds, how will the Captain and his allies fare? Can the ship 'Walker' under Captain Reddy and his Lemurian allies prevail against the Grik and their allied ship the ''Amagi''? Will the Grik destroy the Captain's crew and base at Baalkpaan? See also * ''Destroyermen'' * Taylor Anderson Taylor Anderson is an author, historical artillery and firearm expert, re-enactor, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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WikiProject Books
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Anderson
Taylor Anderson is an author, historical artillery and firearm expert, re-enactor, and former history professor. He is the author of the ''Destroyermen'' series, about , , and , and their fight against the Grik. Anderson has also written several short stories in the same fictional universe. Anderson served as a weapons consultant to various media organizations. In 1999, he owned three cannons which he had used for Civil War re-enactments and manufacture 19th century firearms. He served as a weapons expert for the 2004 movie The Alamo (2004 film), ''The Alamo''. In May 2020, Anderson announced that ''Winds of Wrath'' would be the final book in the ''Destroyermen'' series and that he has started on a new writing project. The first book of his ''Artillerymen'' series, a prequel to ''Destroyermen'' will be released in September 2021. Education Anderson received a bachelor of arts and master of arts in history from Tarleton State University. He taught American history for one academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyermen (book Series)
The ''Destroyermen'' series is a series of alternate history books, written by American writer and historian Taylor Anderson. The fifteen books in the series are '' Into the Storm'', ''Crusade'' (both 2008), ''Maelstrom'' (2009), ''Distant Thunders'' (2010), '' Rising Tides'', ''Firestorm'' (both 2011), ''Iron Gray Sea'' (2012), ''Storm Surge'' (2013), ''Deadly Shores'' (2014), ''Straits of Hell'' (2015), '' Blood in the Water'' (2016), '' Devil's Due'' (2017), ''River of Bones'' (2018), ''Pass of Fire'' (2019), and ''Winds of Wrath'' (2020). The books chronicle the adventures of the crews of the destroyer and the Japanese battlecruiser ''Amagi'', in the early stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II, being transported to an alternate Earth. This Earth is relatively the same geographically as the one they left, but evolution took a different turn eons ago. The series ends with the fifteenth book of the series, ''Winds of Wrath'', which was released in June 2020, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate History
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternative history stories propose ''What if?'' scenarios about crucial events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Alternate history also is a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; as literature, alternate history uses the tropes of the genre to answer the ''What if?'' speculations of the story. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history stories feature the tropes of time travel between histories, and the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe, by the inhabitants of a given universe; and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. In the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roc Books
Roc Books is a fantasy imprint of Penguin Group, as part of its New American Library. It was launched in April 1990 after Penguin Chairman Peter Mayer asked John Silbersack, the editor in chief of New American Library's science fiction (SF) program, to launch a new imprint that would draw more attention to Penguin's SF presence. The name Roc Books was chosen as a homage to Penguin's many famous bird-named publishing imprints. Roc was named after the enormous predatory bird of the Arabian Nights. After Penguin's merger with G.P. Putnam's Sons the imprint was aligned with Ace books and the current editorial team at Roc is the same team that edits the Ace imprint, although the two imprints maintain a separate identity. Inaugural list The first monthly list at Roc was: * ''Robot Visions'': Isaac Asimov * ''The Warrior Lives'': Joel Rosenberg * ''Project Solar Sail'': Arthur C. Clarke * ''Among Madmen'': Jim Starlin & Daina Grazuinas * ''Barrow'': John Deakins List of authors * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crusade (Destroyermen Novel)
''Crusade'' is the second book of the ''Destroyermen'' series. Matthew Reddy, and the crew of USS ''Walker'' (DD-163), are reunited with the destroyer USS ''Mahan'' (DD-102), and set out to fight the Grik. Reddy and ''Walkers marine detachment, continue training the Lemurians to defend themselves and take the war to the Grik. The Grik have now taken over the ship that was chasing them, the Japanese battlecruiser ''Amagi''. Plot Synopsis Lieutenant Commander Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander. The corresponding rank i ... Matthew Reddy, and the crew of USS ''Walker'' (DD-163), have located USS ''Mahan'' (DD-102), and are preparing to take the fight to the Grik. Reddy personally leads the first land assault against the Griks to defend a warrior tribe of Monkey-Cats. ''Amagi'' is discovered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distant Thunders
The ''Destroyermen'' series is a series of alternate history books, written by American writer and historian Taylor Anderson. The fifteen books in the series are '' Into the Storm'', ''Crusade'' (both 2008), ''Maelstrom'' (2009), '' Distant Thunders'' (2010), '' Rising Tides'', ''Firestorm'' (both 2011), '' Iron Gray Sea'' (2012), ''Storm Surge'' (2013), '' Deadly Shores'' (2014), '' Straits of Hell'' (2015), '' Blood in the Water'' (2016), '' Devil's Due'' (2017), '' River of Bones'' (2018), '' Pass of Fire'' (2019), and '' Winds of Wrath'' (2020). The books chronicle the adventures of the crews of the destroyer and the Japanese battlecruiser ''Amagi'', in the early stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II, being transported to an alternate Earth. This Earth is relatively the same geographically as the one they left, but evolution took a different turn eons ago. The series ends with the fifteenth book of the series, ''Winds of Wrath'', which was released in June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyermen
The ''Destroyermen'' series is a series of alternate history books, written by American writer and historian Taylor Anderson. The fifteen books in the series are '' Into the Storm'', ''Crusade'' (both 2008), ''Maelstrom'' (2009), '' Distant Thunders'' (2010), '' Rising Tides'', ''Firestorm'' (both 2011), '' Iron Gray Sea'' (2012), ''Storm Surge'' (2013), '' Deadly Shores'' (2014), '' Straits of Hell'' (2015), '' Blood in the Water'' (2016), '' Devil's Due'' (2017), '' River of Bones'' (2018), '' Pass of Fire'' (2019), and '' Winds of Wrath'' (2020). The books chronicle the adventures of the crews of the destroyer and the Japanese battlecruiser ''Amagi'', in the early stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II, being transported to an alternate Earth. This Earth is relatively the same geographically as the one they left, but evolution took a different turn eons ago. The series ends with the fifteenth book of the series, ''Winds of Wrath'', which was released in June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 American Novels
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