Review: World War II on the open priaire! Its great!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
TSN: Sea of Grass.Great story, a five star read and some dang amusing views on how to punish certain types of criminals  I for one would vote for some of them in an instant!And the things I liked? Firstly the Sea of Grass itself. Imagine an endless sea of prairie covering an artificial world - it reminded me of the old Robert Silverberg's Majipoor yarns from the 70s and some of Michael Moorcock's prairie world in  the Dragon in the Sword.Then there were the great wheeled battleships `sailing' like oversized Conestoga wagons across the prairie for mile after endless mile, fighting  a war that just might be an analogue of WW2 or it might not.All in all a great mix of technology and story telling.And best of all, here Phipps has at last produced a work of the imagination better than what passes for prime news on what I suspect is his favourite right-wing news station. No unintended insults to the rest of the world in this one, just good solid imagination and writing.Well done and keep up the good work - TSN has enormous potential as a series.I shall certainly read the next one.