From the Books! File

I have been reliably informed that I just received S.M. Stirling's short story collection, Ice, Iron and Gold from Amazon today.

Review to follow by the end of the weekend. I demolish anthologies pretty quickly.

And here's one to make you shudder--Caliphate, forthcoming from Baen Books. Synopsis: Mark Steyn's demographic nightmare comes true and Europe becomes majority Muslim. Three American cities get nuked in terror strikes, and the end result is an Islamic Caliphate squaring off against a rather unpleasant and vengeance-minded American Imperium (!) at the beginning of the 22nd Century. To quote someone who frequents these comboxes, "It's a dystopia, you twit."