The official web site of A.H. Lloyd

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  • Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…

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  • My youngest made a special request to see The Terminator, the opening volley in what has become an endless (and interminable) film franchise. I agreed, because I hadn’t seen it in many years, but I also recalled not liking it. That was correct. I don’t like it. In some ways it’s a decent, low-budget sci-fi horror film, very much of its time. It seems crazy now, but until the runaway success of Star Wars, science fiction (which includes space fantasy) was something of a film ghetto. It was chock full of crap films, some of which had decent concepts and…

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