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Summary: Another Good One
Review: Dr. Turtledove once again continues to keep his readers involved. In this second book of Colonization he continues the stories that made the first intriguing. He also, managed to start a new segment, the young hatchlings (Mickey and Donald), that is particularly entertaining.sPerhaps, his greatest triumph, is making humans understand both the Tosevites and the Race's sides of the story and problems. It is another great book. My only complaint is the lack of a map. Granted he tells you where it's all happening, but being visual, I like to see it, without having to look back in the first book. Nevertheless, a great book, if you like Turtledove and/or alternate history, read this book.
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Summary: REDUNDANT, REDUNDANT, REDUNDANT
Review: Ok folks, lets get real. I can appreciate the desire to weave a story and build characters. I have read all the Worldwar and Colonization books and I have come to the conclusion that Mr. Turtledove is either stretched too thin over writing projects or just trying-for sheer economic gain-to pump out as many books at $ as possible. The plot is less a plot and more of a rehash of the SAME THINGS from the first book in the Worldwar series! I don't know what the approach is for Mr. Turtledove. If you are a new reader of his, you really don't need to read the other books in the series to know whats going on. If you're not, like me, then you're getting a little sick of reading the SAME THINGS (anybody getting this?), and waiting until the last 30 pages for the one and only substantial plot mover. And then that plot line with huge implications gets wrapped up at the end of the book! Really now. I'm starting to think this could all have been done in 1 large volume each for the Worldwar and Colonization series each. Its like reading the newspaper. Same garbage, day in and day out. Skip it. Make Mr. Turtledove work for his $.
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Summary: Another remarkable installment!
Review: This is the best sci fi series I've read. I marvel at Turtledove's vivid imagination and uncanny ability to characterize the lizards. I get so engrossed in his books that they seem utterly real to me. There are many characters in the book, some not so likeable as others, but I think he does a good job maintaining continuity. As fine as the characterization is, let's not forget this is primarily a work of plot, and the twists and turns do not disappoint. I hated to finish the book, because the wait for the next installment will seem so long. This is one series I hope continues for many more volumes! I'd appreciate any recommendations from other readers who love this series.
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Summary: Excellent and exciting
Review: An excellent addition to the worldwar/colonization saga that contionous the stroies of the characters while throwing some twists, opening new insights and ending with a rela big bang ( and I mean real big, read it and weep,weep that the sequal isn't out for another year!
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Summary: Turtledove continues his alternate history in fine style
Review: I enjoyed this book and the continuation of the story farther into history, but I don't think this second series has reached the level of the first. I miss some of the really fine characters and situations from the first four books. Only Sam Yeager and Mordecai Abrimowitz remain onstage for any amount of time (and the latter probably died in the defense of Poland). I saw Mr. Turtledove interviewed at UCSD a few years ago and I remember the interviewer's amazement and appreciation of the role given to Heinrich Jager. His and Ludmilla's romance was the core of the first series on one side of the world, Just as the sad downfall of Barbara Yeager's first hubby touched all the history of the other half. These two books have continued the chain of supposition in fascinating new ways, but the characters just aren't as good. Maybe Mr. Turtledove is trying to say that Cold wars don't produce characters as colorful as 'hot' wars. This new German astronaut, for instance, is no Jager. I wish Turtledove hadn't killed him off. I was happy to see that the Lewis and Clark expedition is establishing an industrial base in the asteroids (the only possible way for humans to win) and that the Reich has been finished off in a particularly nasty way. Another ten years of human technology advancement while the Race stands still should just about finish them off.
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Summary: Best book ever - and I'm not just saying that
Review: Greetings, Tosevites. My name is Regeya, and I am a Senior Tube Inspector. This is the best book ever written, and I'm aware that you have in your language something called "hyperbole". This is not that, however. Mr. Turtledove may for all intents and purposes be a male of the Race, so thorough is his knowledge of us. Like Sam Yeager, he is not the typical Tosevite BU. But don't believe everything you read, or you will be nothing but Tosevites. Question everything. Buy this book and decide for yourself. And click on my name to see my member page. Farewell
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Summary: A great, great book
Review: What an amazing book! Dr Turtledove creates a wonderful alternate world with surprises on almost every page! Excellent!
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Summary: Amazing Ending!
Review: This book started off kind of slow but the ending is amazing! It is a must read and a great continuation of the series. I can hardly wait for the next one.
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Summary: An Epic Saga Continues
Review: I absolutely love this series. Turtledove sure doesn't skimp on the pages. Dr. Turtledove should write 3 more novels for this series, one each for the 70s, 80s, and 90s with the conclusion happening at the turn of the millenium! I bet the Race won't much like facing stealth fighters and bombers! I am also quite happy that Turtledove kept the revolution in his writing style that he introduced in "Into the Darkness". Before that novel, all of his characters were perfect. Perfect in a sense that they understood completely what was going on around them. In this novel, his characters have the blindspots in their logic that we could expect from individuals of different ethnic backgrounds and species. I applaud Turtledove for being bold and daring in that part with the surprise nuclear missle attack on the Race's orbiting ships from a ballistic missle submarine. He didn't chicken out on that scene and did the politically correct thing to do. I now know with absolute certainty which side perpetrated that atrocity. I only have one complaint with Turtledove. Where are the massive scale battles reminiscent of WW2 and the Korean War. I swear he never depicted battles larger than battalion scale. I want to see hundreds of divisions (from each side) slugging it out. After all, the players are fighting for an entire world. By the way, this series shouldn't end with the defeat of the Race's invasion force. It should end with the conquest of Home!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Turtledove, building on what has gone before in WorldWar and Second Contact, has built a believable world, in what should be an unbelievable situation. Without spoiling what happens, we are witness to a complex situation, in a world that has (4) superpowers - The (alien) Race, the USA, the USSR and the Greater German Reich. Turtledove gives us varying perspectives ranging from Molotov, the leader of the Soviet Union, to Glen Johnson, a US astronaut, to Sam Yeager, an American expert on the Race, to various members of the Race ranging up to the Fleetlord Atvar. He covers a lot of ground from Ginger smuggling to race relations, to a conspiracy, to international sabre-rattling. Overall, an excellent read. But do not let anybody spoil the last 100 pages!
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