BFRH 2020 06 19: Peter J. Wacks and Eytan Kollin on Caller of Lightning; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 18.

Peter J. Wacks and Eytan Kollin on Caller of Lightning. This is the third entry in the Arcane America series. It's a flintlock fantasy/alternate history featuring Benjamin Franklin in a magically charged America and Europe. In Caller of Lightning, Ben Franklin discovers an inherent magic within himself connected to the key he electrified in his kite experiment. The novel then details Franklin's coming into his own as a wizard of power, working for the incipient America coming into being; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 18.