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Summary: Some of Turtledove's best work.
Review: Ever since I read Guns of the South, I've been a Harry Turtledove fan, and this book has only stregntend my love of his work. The references to 60's pop culture and history were great. The only problem I had with the book was that, as another reader said, there were not enough reference as to human military technology.
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Summary: A rather sad follow up to his excellent 'World War' series.
Review: After his excellent 'World War' series the first of the next series is a huge disappointment. It lacks the pace and urgency of his earlier books. It is so obvious that the book is the first of a series, it is almost as if we have no right to expect anything from it in itself. It is simply readying the reader for later books and developments, I felt the best story lines were being held back for later in the series. That does seem a little unfair, I want action now!
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Summary: It's about dang time!
Review: It seemed to be a long time coming and it was worth the wait. Mr. Turtledove does a fine job writing history as he imagines it to unfold. It was really disgusting to see the anti-semitism of post invasion England rear it's ugly head. There were a few astronautic mistakes, the NERVA engine on the American "space station" has a high thrust, but that is diminshed by the high mass of the station. All in all, it was a pretty good book, and I hope the next one is as good.
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Summary: An entertaining and well-researched tome
Review: Actually, I'd give this one three and a half stars. Since I can't do that, I'll bump it up to four. The research involved in this series had to be near-obsessive (like a Gary Jennings book), but Turtledove makes it look easy. Quite an achievement when you have the US/Germany/Russia space race, a fascist England, Lizards all over the world, ginger addicts, the Moishe Russie Medical Academy, guerilla warfare, and the status of Straha, exiled shiplord and traitor to the Race. These are the details of the world, and don't even include the human stories. When Liu Han finally met Sam Yeager it put a capstone on twenty years of false history and I felt that that's how things could have really happened in this world. Plus, I laughed out loud when someone played the Spike Jones record 'The Fleetlord's Face'. Bravo, Dr. Turtledove!
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: Harry Turtledove has done it again!As fast paced and exciting as "Guns of the South" and "American Front"!Turtledove really knows how to write a book!
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Summary: Very good, but not as good as its predecessors
Review: My complaints against this book can be summed up in the following points:*It has been commented upon many times before, but I will say it again- how likely is the prospect of a Churchillian UK cozying up to Nazi Germany? *Not enough detail on the military technology of the human Great Powers (except where it relates to space) is given. *I don't like what happened to Jager after he fled to Lodz (He was my favourite character... and I never liked having heroes die).
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Summary: Harry's Done Better
Review: I kept waiting for something to happen but I guess I'll have to wait for the next book. The characters were overdeveloped and you knew after the first 100 pages this book was written in order to write the next book. Unfortunately, this made the last 400 pages even more painful to read. I never had this feeling when I read the first four books of the series. In fact, I enjoyed the first four books but Colonization is my least favorite to date. So, four out of five isn't bad and I'll give it another try. Please Harry, get this story going...I know who the characters are already!
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Summary: Pretty darn good
Review: Turtledove does it again. He has this knack for finding these outlandish themes and making them appear as if they're happening in your own back yard. After reading almost all of his novels, Second Contact certainly ranks among the best. Keep the books and ideas comin', Mr. Turtledove.
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Summary: A worthy continuation of the first series
Review: I've just finished this book and enjoyed it a great deal. It starts out a tad slow as he works in some background on what's happened on Earth since the end of the previous series, but being in uncharted waters this is pretty much unavoidable. As usual, Turtledove does a fine job of weaving together multiple storylines and never dwells too long on any one of them. He is equally adept at presenting the radically different worldviews of the many conflicting human factions and of the increasingly harried alien Race--who are certainly anything but stupid! You'll definitely benefit if you're familiar the first series (and you should read it anyway--it's a classic), but it is not required.
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Summary: You love the series or you don't, but pay attention!
Review: Well, I know for a fact that I read it at work, on the throne, at night when I should be asleep, but who cares! For those of you who can't believe that Great Britain would fall under Gross Deutschland's sway over the indicated period of twenty years, well just remember, it's an alternate history! Cover art is interesting, but I never decide as to purchase/nonpurchase of a book because of it. Some people don't pay attention though. I seem to remember Himmler being a character in the book. My only regret is that I didn't know that the series had continued. I stumbled across it 2 days ago in the local library and read straight on thru to today.(whenever possible!) Now I'll take it back to the library & still go out and buy a copy! Turtledove's style reminds me of Edgar Rice Burrough's in his EARTH'S CORE series as well as other examples of his writings. He will never be able to write a book too long for me. I enjoy his involved and complex style of stringing sentences together as well as his character development. I just wonder how much power the Lewis & Clark has. After all, you have to break a new vehicle in for the first 500 miles before you floor it, right??? Harry, don't worry about the naysayers. I'm waiting for the rest of the series to come out, and I hope it takes ten volumes to tell the whole story!!!!!!!!!!
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