Pros: good characters, historical references accurate, compelling story Cons: jumps around a lot which can make for a difficult read
Worldwar: Tilting the Balance by Harry Turtledove is the second of four novels in this series. Turtledove writes in a genre called Alternate History - what would happen if a different event in history had occurred? With this type of ...
Pros: excellent attention to details, good feel for history, believable characters Cons: can be hard to follow at times
I can't remember anymore who turned me on to the Harry Turtledove books. I believe it was someone in one of my science-fiction groups. Whoever it was, I owe them a debt of gratitude. Harry Turtledove is an author who writes primarily in the genre ...
Pros: Fascinating alternate history with well thought out characters and situations Cons: None Come to Mind
Mussolini, Eisenhower, Einstein and Robert Goddard working together to build spacecraft. Nazis, communists and Jews co-operating against a common foe. Rome, Chicago, Miami, and Munich vanishing in nuclear annihilation. These are just some of the...
Pros: historical details, interesting characters, gripping Cons: incomplete story (i.e. must read rest of series), alien technology not alien enough
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if aliens had invaded during World War II? No? Well, Harry Turtledove will make you care and want to read the rest of his series.
A good number of people who write science fiction have a...
First,a diatribe about S.F.cover art on both sides of the Atlantic.I have been an avid reader and collector of S.F. since the early 60`s when , as a kid I was weaned off Superman comics and introduced to the real stuff ! The saying that we judge a book...
Pros: Fast Paced, well written, original Cons: Series probably not complete
NOTE: This is a review of the WorldWar series of novels. Epinions lists this topic as ‘Worldwar: Striking the Balance’ (the fourth book in the series), but has a link and shows the cover to ‘In The Balance’, the first book in...
Pros: A new twist on an old plot line Cons: Story drags at times
At first I was skeptical of the premise of this series of books, but Turtledove does a tremendous job of spinning a What If out of world history. This book is actually the second in the series of five (one is set 16 years after the first four). I was...
Pros: Innovative Idea, Good Read So Far Cons: Is A Far Fetched Idea
Oh, I can't begin to tell you how intrigued I was when I first saw the cover of the first "Worldwar" book, "Worldwar: In the Balance." At first I wasn't sure it seemed a little odd, but then I figured what the hay, so I got it and...
From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of ...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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