American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

by Harry Turtledove | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0345444248 Global Overview for this book
Registered by TomHl of Pewaukee, Wisconsin USA on 11/21/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by TomHl from Pewaukee, Wisconsin USA on Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Journal Entry 2 by TomHl from Pewaukee, Wisconsin USA on Friday, December 8, 2006
This is the third book in the second trilogy "American Empire" of the alternate history series that Harry Turtledove started with HOW FEW REMAIN. In a world where the South won independence during the American Civil War, this trilogy covers the period of time after "The Great War", which was a sort of World War I fought in North America. The translation of European events of our own history into an American setting, and intermixed with actual North American events is fascinating. This volume covers the 1930s with a stock market collapse, a depression, and the rise of fascism in the Confederacy while a Socialist-led USA tries to keep down rebellion in secessionist Utah and occupied Canada.

These three books involve about 2000 pages, and reading them in direct sequence, I've gotten a little tired of Turtledove's tendency to repeat the background stories of the twenty or thirty main characters from different location, each time he returns to them. That background repeating probably adds up to a significant portion of the text. And I've also noticed that these characters all seem to have remarkably similar sex lives.

At this point, I'm going to give the series a rest, and read some other things. After I've collected all of the next four books covering a pseudo-World War II (one book not yet published) I'll come back.

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