Neal Stephenson doing a book signing at the National Book Festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia)When I wrote a review
of Mongoliad Book I, I noted that I was going to keep that book handy
because there were so many characters and so many plot threads that I would
need a refresher.Of course, the authors
(Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, Nicole Galland, Erick Bear, Joseph
Brassey, and Cooper Moo) anticipated that, and the front pages list the
characters by the area of the world they are located in. This was particularly
useful, since the opening of book II picked up with a thread that I didn’t
immediately recall, and some of the characters that I remembered the most
clearly didn’t reappear until later in the volume.
Of course the core plot remains unchanged.A group of knights, the Shield Brethren, similar to the Knights Templar as an order under the direction of the Pope, have concluded that the only way to save all of Europe from being conquered by the Mongols, lead by a descendant o…
Of course the core plot remains unchanged.A group of knights, the Shield Brethren, similar to the Knights Templar as an order under the direction of the Pope, have concluded that the only way to save all of Europe from being conquered by the Mongols, lead by a descendant o…