I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.