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Summary: WOW!! WAY COOL!
Review: This book was great. Turtledove really IS the master of alternate history as everyone claims. The characters are great, and the battle scenes are well done. One problem. Is it just me, or is all the sex in the book designed to attract 13-14 year old boys?
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Summary: Excellent book - here to buy the next one!
Review: Read this a few weeks ago - found it in the ship library (The Flying Cloud). Excellent book that was a quick read and I have become a fan of Turtledove!
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Summary: Turtledove provides a gripping paradox
Review: Turtledove's crowning moment comes in the paradox facing Jewish concentration camp inmates as they find themselves freed after The Race overruns their Nazi captors. The extraterrestrial liberators, thoroughly disgusted and mortified by what they discover at Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, offer to arm the inmates to allow them revenge upon their aggressors in exchange for their aid in subduing the rest of mankind. An amazing turnabout; can these Jews - labeled "sub-human" by Germans formally in power - possibly resist aiding the alien race that set them free? And is there any reason they SHOULD resist, given the treatment these Jews had endured at the hands of "fellow humans"
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Summary: A must-read for history and science fiction enthusiasts.
Review: Turtledove's talents are quickly realized when reading the World War series. His ability to combine history and science fiction have never been more apparent. The series shows the worldwide reaction to invasion while retaining the personal aspect of war. Readers understand not only what a character does but the motivations behind his/or her actions. The action does slow at times, and I couldn't help but notice a similarity betweens the aliens and our own technology. However, anyone who enjoys alternative history and/or science fiction and who has a little time to spend should find the World War series very entertaining
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: Harry Turtledove is without a doubt the master of alternative fiction that everyone claims him to be. His writing, in my mind, exceeds the writings of some of my other favorite authors working with similar genres, Ian Slater for example. This book was virtually impossible to put down, I would heartily recommend it to anybody who enjoys science fiction, fantasy, history, or all-around good writing. The story is, for the most part, historically accurate. Characters like Stalin, Hitler, and Churchill, whom everyone has heard of, could not have been developed better, and the conflict with the aliens brought out interesting aspects that might have been for each of those characters. Be it action, adventure, romance, drama, military strategy or a host of others, there is something here for everybody. I have no reservations or hesitations about giving this work a 10
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Summary: Hard to put down, hard to forget.
Review: The World War/Balance series is very addicting.
The writting flows and it is a fairly straight forward
job of keeping the numerous charecters in order.
As a fan of alt. history, I feel that this isn't one of the greatest
examples of such, but it is fun. The 'what if' factor is
too far out (aliens in 1942) for a good, thought provoking
novel. I can see Lucas and Spielberg
jumping on this one.
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Summary: Very enjoyable and entertaining alternate history
Review: The worst thing that can be said about the 'Worldwar' series is the waiting time between volumes!
This series is full of action and characters from all sides of the war so that the reader gets a full scenario of the events taking place. It is often hard to decide who the 'good guys' are in this war. You don't need to be a WWII historian to really enjoy this series.
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Summary: Not the worst Alien Invaders story
Review: The space invaders plot has been a sci fi cliche
since War of the Worlds. If yer gonna do it, you better
give us something orginal. Turtledove, billed
as a master of alternative history story telling, doesn't
do a half bad job, espcially in light of the recent spate of
space invaders films that have hit the big screen.
Mans inhumanity to man, round II, has been
cut short in the early years of WWII by an
invasion of dim-witted royalist aliens with
technology that seems just a bit more advanced
than best the US marshalled against Iraq.
If you liked Niven and Pournelle's Footfall, you'll
probably like this trip around the block. No real
characters emerge as truly interesting and the aliens
seem a nudge stupider than believable, but there's a
mixute of humor in this one that makes the suspension
of belief not too difficult. Even enjoyable at times.
There's better sci fi out there, fer sure. But there's
a lot worse. All in all, it's just good, clean sci fi fun.
Let's just hope this one gets wrapped up at the trilogy level
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Summary: An interesting view of WWII tech vs alien invasion
Review: Turtledove creates a story of how humanity of the WWII era deals with the technology of the future. His descriptions of people are believable and moving, and yet, the fact that his
aliens seem so standard takes away from the story. Aliens are slow of thought, reptilian, and use technology scarcely better if at all than that of our own era. It is worth reading if you enjoy the genre, but it is not one to use to introduce others to the subject.
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Summary: Historically accurate and wonderfully entertaining
Review: In this saga of alternate history, Turtledove somehow
manages to create a fine blend of fact and fiction,
pinpointing a "what-if?" in time. The characters are realistic, the plot is unpredictable, and the concepts
are mind-boggling. It's as if Turtledove has tainted the pages with some narcotic, urging us to read on.
I would give this book to anyone interested in military
history, alternate timelines, or World War II in general.
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