Option A isn't mixing present and past tense. Although forms in "-ing" are often called "present participles", they in fact have no temporality...
The people that the romans conquered also employed slavery, often to a greater degree than the Romans. You cannot tell how well the Romans...
Finished Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky Overall I found it just ok. There are some very clever twists to the "classic D&D adventure" that this...
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I finished The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2015) A story taking place in England in the decades following the death of King Arthur, it is...
A unreliable narrator is one of the tools of narrative tension, a form of tension that doesn't rely on conflict, but on which piece of information...
Hello and welcome. From what you're telling of your reading tastes in fantasy, it seems that among contemporary authors you would quite enjoy the...
Sailling across the Atlantic is the easy part. Having native Americans colonize Europe however would require so many things to be completely...
Finished Gideon the Ninth, quite good, bought the sequel already. Then I started and finished Dune, which was very good. Next I think I'll read...
Eh, the technical achievements of the Romans and Ancient Greeks are massively overrated (something we got from the Renaissance and their fanboy...
It's hard to have both slavery and a dynamic economy. Slavery discourages technological innovation, mechanization, widespread education,...
How Many Words Are in a Novel? Word Counts for All Kinds of Books 25*4000–5000 words gets you 100,000–125,000 words for the whole book, in the...
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