SO I MENTIONED I WAS READING KURT SCHLICHTER’S THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, and I finished that a few nights ago. It was good enough that I’m hoping for a sequel.

I also finished Greg Bear’s War Dogs recently. It’s the first of a trilogy of hard-SF that starts out looking a bit like something by Heinlein or Haldeman, but then goes off in a different direction. It’s quite good, and I’m reading the second book, Killing Titan, now.

I also pulled down an actual paperback copy of Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy mysteries a while back, and have been dipping into it from time to time. They hold up pretty well.