From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
        The Macedonian Hazard" by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett   
       From Baen Books ©2021 by authors, 351 pages Hardcover $25.00   
                 Got this at the SFPL-Main SF shelves.   
      
   	      They are calling this a Ring of Fire novel (Assiti Shards) .   
          I guess Assiti Shards is a new explanation of the trips to the past.   
          Shortly after the Death of Alexander the Great, the cruise ship   
          Queen of the Seas arrived in the past.  It founded New America   
          on the Island of Trinidad and dropped a lot of the original   
   passengers   
          there to help re-create and create industries from the future as best   
          they can.  We follow a lady working on making clear glass for   
   lenses and   
          other useful items.  They come up with indentured servitude to get   
          useful craftsmen from the Mediterranean societies which hold slaves.   
          Every slave taken aboard the Queen of the Seas becomes free. The   
          powers are given rides aboard the Queen of the Seas for a reasonable   
          price and include all of the powerful women and some of the more   
          powerful former members of Alexander's Army including the Silver   
   Shields   
          who become the bodyguards and police force of the Queen of the Seas.   
   	  The powers aboard the Queen forge a constitutional Empire and   
          pick Eumenes as the Strageos or General of the Empire and his task   
          is to bring the Satraps of the Empire who reject this   
   Constitutional Empire   
          under control   
   	  Another ship the Relliant is at hand and is converted to a gun boat   
         capable of destroying a fleet of contemporary craft if necessary.   
   	  We are treated to a story of Eumenes and Philip the autistic who is   
          not stupid as Eumenes tries to settle matters with a variety of   
   enemies   
          namely Cassander.  Well Philip advances and but that wouild be giving   
          away too much,  The next book should deal with Antigonus One-Eye   
          in Babylon.   
   	  So I am possibly not part of the intended audience but apart from   
          some quibbles with nautical terminology I enjoyed this story very   
   much   
          much.  There are other books in this series. It is so sad that   
   Eric Flint has   
           passed away.     Thursday, 6 November 2025   
      
   		bliss   
      
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