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Kill Decision<\/a><\/strong> by Daniel Suarez<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rise of Rome<\/a><\/strong> by Anthony Everitt<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Just picked these up from two authors I very much like, though sadly, Everitt’s Hadrian<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0also sits in my antilibrary <\/a><\/strong>waiting to be read. My normally manic reading pace took a major hit this past year due to my being ridiculously overscheduled and admittedly, underdisciplined, but I am hoping to cure that this fall. Despite an academic foundation in US-Soviet diplomatic history and economic history, I find myself frequently gravitating to classical antiquity<\/a> these days. Everitt’s biography \u00a0Cicero<\/strong> was a masterpiece that overshadowed his sequel, Augustus. <\/strong>What I would like to see Anthony Everitt<\/strong> do, were I able to give him advice, is to write \u00a0a biography of the indomitiable \u00a0Cato the Younger,<\/a><\/strong> whom Everitt blamed most of all for the death of the Roman Republic.<\/p>\n I rarely have time for fiction anymore, but Daniel Suarez<\/strong> is on my very short list of authors next to Stephen Pressfield<\/a><\/strong> and William Gibson<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0Shlok<\/strong> <\/a>did a nice review of Kill Decision<\/strong> here at ZP<\/strong><\/a> and at his own blog<\/a>. As qa result I am kicking Kill Decision<\/strong> to the top of my book pile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez\u00a0 The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt\u00a0 Just picked these up from two authors I very much like, though sadly, Everitt’s Hadrian\u00a0also sits in my antilibrary waiting to be read. My normally manic reading pace took a major hit this past year due to my being ridiculously overscheduled and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,414,420,133,707,444,68,37,165,294,51,78,336,603,397,599,514,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-drones","category-fiction","category-fun","category-futurism","category-historians","category-historiography","category-history","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-republic","category-roman-empire","category-science-fiction","category-shlok","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13466,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions\/13466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}