![]() ![]() Through a long series of events, this historian becomes President of the United States, and helps put down a rebellion with the help of the second-string main characters. ![]() ![]() Hidden Empire is a sequel to a novel that was written as a companion product to a video game (hence, evidently, the need to kill off the main character half-way through), and is based on the premise that a historian, learning from history, can foresee the decline and fall of America, and has determined the only way to save it is to turn it into an empire run by an enlightened dictator. I did, however, put it on my Christmas wish list, and by golly, my wife bought for me! (Thank you, dear!) ![]() For one, I was knee-deep in writing a novel of my own at the time, and for another…well, there were other by him I’d rather read first. So when Hidden Empire came out last year I didn’t rush to buy it. It was a good book, but not one that got me excited. Perhaps it’s because it reads almost more like a Tom Clancy. Perhaps it’s just a little too close to our current time. Perhaps it was the fact that his main character gets killed half-way into the book. That said, I was not as impressed with his book “ Empire“, when it came out a few years ago. I like the way he writes, and like the people he writes about. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an Orson Scott Card junkie. ![]()
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