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Jazerus posted:Once the series was past World War I it kind of collapsed in my opinion. All of the clearly passionate research and thinking about the path that things could have gone on had the CSA really had the chops to be an independent state was thrown aside in favor of yet another Turtledove WW2 book. I think my favorite detail is that Lincoln is the primary founder of the Socialist party. I agree, I absolutely loved How Few Remain (and have it autographed!), One of the reasons it worked was because there was no parallel war that Turtledove was mirroring from for 1881. So we got early trench warfare, wild west fights in Arizona, and Roosevelt on the frontier. I think Turtledove is at his best when he has to make up new battlefields and wars and isn't copy pasting with new names. Southern Victory was enjoyable up until the start of the WWII parallel. Turtledove just started phoning it in so badly that there weren't any significant surprises and meaningless characters started popping up that had no personalities Armstrong Grimes being the worst, while decent ones got sidelined (Jonathan Moss, who was one of my favorites gets dumped in a POW camp until a tornado saves him?!). I tried to get into The War That Came Early but it is just more of the same. On a happier note, has anyone read Resurrection Day? I thought it was excellent, with the premise of the United States in a world where the Cuban Missile Crisis blew up but didn't result in a mutant wasteland, just a grimmer world.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Not to be a wet blanket or anything but I'm pretty sure the 1881 war was close-ish to the Franco-Prussian War. Ah, I know very little about the Franco-Prussian War. I will have to look that up, thanks!
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