Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

POSSIBLY WELL PAST ENOUGH:  Enough Is Enough.

I’VE READ BORING THINGS, STUPID THINGS AND SCARY THINGS. I’VE YET TO MEET A BOOK SO SCARY IT CAN’T BE READ OR WORDS SO CONVINCING THAT THEY PERSUADE YOU TO DO WHAT’S OBVIOUSLY WRONG AGAINST YOUR WILL: The Sins (?) of Our Fathers.

 

“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
Robert A Heinlein

YEAH, IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:  Minstrelsy.

NEW, FROM ALMA BOYKIN:  Against a Rising Tide: The Powers Book 3.

 

The World War has ended. The battles rage on.

Five years after the end of the World War, men, Half-Dragons and True-Dragons labor to repair the damage. The English and French insist on punishing the nations of the Habsburg Confederation and Germany, while nationalists and Communists threaten to tear the alliance and the Houses apart from within. As chaos swirls and tensions rise, István Eszterházy and Archduke Rudolph von Habsburg struggle to preserve order, and to preserve both Houses and Powers. Worse, an old enemy from the war stalks István, intent on revenge.

But true danger lurks to the east. The forces that destroyed Galicia threaten to devour all of the Powers and Houses, killing the very soil of the land as they do. As another war rages, István and Rudolph must hide the secret of the Powers from forces more terrible than the Mongols and ottomans combined.