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Two books finished over the weekend:
"Foreign Legions" by David Drake. A volume of short (and some not-so-short) stories by various authors set in the same universe as his original short story (and subsequent novel), "Ranks of Bronze", which is about a Roman Legion sold by their Parthian captors as mercenaries to an alien trading guild whose laws require them to fight battles using only the level of technology appropriate to the planet they are operating on.
Excellent. I particularly enjoyed the novella "Carthago Delenda Est" by Eric Flint, which is the longest story in the book, and a direct sequel to "Ranks of Bronze". I'm also pleased that Flint assumes his readers have some knowledge of Roman history, and so doesn't waste time explaining what the title of the story actually means!
"The Mummy Case" by Elizabeth Peters. The third book in the "Amelia Peabody" series of Egyptological mysteries. A re-read, and good as ever.
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