Finished: Conquistador, by S.M. Stirling 📚. This alternate history is one of several that Stirling has written with the general theme of “what if modern technology and military in a new world?” In this case there’s a silly MacGuffin that gets 30 ex-soldiers to a copy of the earth in 1946 where Europeans never visited the new world. A coup-in-progress drives the plot forward, but there’s always the impression that the author is just having too much fun world-building to care as much about the story.