What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Good fun

https://atboundarysedge.com/2025/11/19/ ... -reynolds/

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Hard scifi at it's best ..author is insanely productive .....and good.

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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire – A Fresh Biography of the Visionary Monarch and Her Swashbuckling Mariners

“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times

An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant-adventurers who terrorized the seas, extended the Empire, and amassed great wealth for the throne.

Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council to anchor her throne—and in doing so, planted the seedlings of an empire that would ultimately cover two-fifths of the world.

Elizabeth never left England: Like other royals of the time, she frequently used royal barges and vessels for traveling along the River Thames and to visit coastal palaces.