The Assassination of Orange: A Foreworld SideQuest

Originally posted at FanLit.

The Assassination of Orange is another short (only two hours in audio) ???sidequest??? in the FOREWORLD universe shared by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and others. Like the other sidequest I read, The Assassination of Orange is strictly historical fiction ??? there are no supernatural elements. It stands alone, so you don???t need to have read any of the other FOREWORLD stories.

This story, as the title foreshadows, is about the assassination of Prince William of Orange (aka William the Silent) who was targeted by Spain because he led the Dutch revolt which sparked the Eighty Years??? War. Sir Roger Williams of England was ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-assassination-of-orange/