My reactions to reading this book in 2005.

A wonderful book in which Hite spins out all sorts of bizarre scenarios that he freely gives away to authors and game designers. (One wishes he, or someone else, would write novels and stories around them rather than just gaming scenarios. Perhaps creating gaming scenarios is the wouldbe, not talented enough author's way of creating a story without having to create characters or a plot, just a setting.) . He does weird people like Emperor Norton, Francis Bacon, Comte Saint Germain as well as Antarctic Nazis, Croatoan weirdness, and 19th century crashed ufos.

I can see why Tim Powers loves Hites books. And the feeling is mutual since Powers gets several entries in the index. ( )