Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One: 1 (Nemesis, 1)

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For those familiar with the facts of European diplomacy and defence in the period ca. 1890-1914, Massie will bring them to life with love. Daniels' first book, Dreadnought, introduces a girl named Danny Tozer who inherits the mantle of her world's foremost superhero [6]—the eponymous Dreadnought—which gives her powers like flight and the feminine body she has wanted ever since she realized she was transgender, [3] [7] and thrusts her into confrontation with a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) witch and other supervillains. [1] [2] [5] [8] It was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. [9]

The result is an enormous (1,040 pp.) volume that is compelling, readable, and salutary for the amateur reader like me wanting a fuller picture of how the "Great War' became all but inevitable. We cleansed our beards of the mutton-grease, All There in the Manual: In-universe, there is mention of an ethics manual specifically for dealing with Dreadnought's powers, and a general orientation guide for young metahumans. The latter seems like a reasonable thing for a long-standing superteam like the Legion Pacifica to have on hand, but the former definitely overlaps with Crazy-Prepared. Cover painter Boris Vallejo reputedly had Diane Carey and collaborator Greg Brodeur pose for the likenesses of Piper and Sarda.

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Author Diane Carey made extensive use of the Star Fleet Technical Manual when writing this novel. Besides the use of the titular three- nacelled Dreadnought-type ship, the organization of the Federation and Starfleet infrastructure revealed to Piper by the library computer is identical to the layout written by Franz Joseph in that manual. She also mentions several Federation starships and starship classes from that work, such as the Saladin-class of destroyer. Even major characters Piper, "Scanner" Sandage, Vaughan Rittenhouse, Sukaru Tutakai, and Sarda were named for Ptolemy-class transport/ tugs USS Piper, USS Sandage, USS Rittenhouse, and the Constitution-variant subclass vessels USS Tutakai and (probably) USS Sardar. Carey also misspells Potemkin as Potempkin, as Franz Joseph did in the earlier manual. This is an outstanding work of narrative history, featuring a detailed account of the gradually deteriorating relationship between Britain and Germany from the mid-19th century up to the outbreak of WWI. In terms of analysis, the book doesn’t provide anything I haven’t read in other works, but it has many other strengths, and the last two chapters in particular swung my rating from 4 to 5 stars. The Call Knows Where You Live: Or at least Calamity does, and she thinks it would be a total waste for you to wait to turn 18 before you start caping.

Paper-Thin Disguise: Sarah is very obviously Calamity, and Danny figures it out on their third meeting. If the Tactical Doctrine was active for your army during the previous battle round, you can change it so that the Assault Doctrine is now active. When the Adeptus Astartes fight, they employ a set of combat doctrines to eliminate the enemy. After pounding the foe with heavy weapons, warriors advance to lay down a hail of bolter fire before charging forth with chainswords roaring to finish the foe.If every unit from your army has the ADEPTUS ASTARTES keyword (excluding AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM and UNALIGNED units), this unit gains a bonus (see below) depending on which Combat Doctrine is active for your army. During the first battle round, the Devastator Doctrine is active for your army. From the second battle round onwards, at the start of the battle round, you can change which Combat Doctrine is active for your army, as follows: The Nemesis itself almost certainly qualifies. While it's not sapient, it bends reality — the Lattice Danny makes use of — in a fashion which allows for what might be called 'unreality' to exist. And with a 3,000 year orbital cycle, that may have been responsible for the gods of antiquity. Later still, after he has one of his "eruptions", she is upset with herself for not letting her dad get killed.The personalities in Dreadnought carry the story, to an extent that most professional historians would probably criticize. That is, the Great Man Theory has fallen into disrepute, and academics are far more likely to attribute the ebb and flow of events to large, impersonal forces, rather than the personalities of kings or queens, admirals or generals. As popular history, though, Massie’s ability to humanize rather than theorize works perfectly. For example, Massie is extremely fond of Sir Edward Grey, Great Britain’s much-maligned foreign secretary. In Massie’s hands, Grey becomes an eccentric, near tragic figure, a man who lost his first wife to a freak carriage accident, who loved to fly fish, and who worked to tie together Great Britain and France, who less than a century earlier had been mortal enemies. To Massie, Grey is nothing less than heroic: Barbara Tuchman's brilliant descriptions of naval warfare in The First Salute piqued my interest in the subject. In my readings on WWI, I was especially interested in the Battle of Jutland. I read and loved Massie's trilogy on the Romanovs, so despite the fact that this would be my 900th book on WWI, I decided to delve into this. from "The King's Jest," Rudyard Kipling, 1890. In a sense DREADNOUGHT was a book waiting to be written. When Rudyard Kipling, under the semi-pseudonym "Yussuf," first published "The King's Jest" in 1890, he celebrated Great Britain's imperial might on land -- the "Great Game" of the Kyber Pass and Central Asia. Yet, for all the glory, Kipling may have helped distract the British populace from the vast naval buildup taking place, and the fact that Imperial Germany, on the move since 1871, was about to surpass Great Britain in raw production of coal and steel, but soon in naval weight and might and cutting-edge technology. Even today, we more casual students of World War I think of the appalling trenches of Flanders and Northern France, yet, horrible as they were, over-reliance on themes and tropes of land war often distract us amateurs to the crucial naval battles of the "Great War."