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the way I understood it, the first strike was not a full blown strike. The visions the little Russian girl has seems to foretell a major hit by the full comet that will wipe the earth clean.

It would take a long time for them to even come close to our level, especially when you have the base of a very reactionary Indian people. To keep from being wiped out by Haley's comet, they are going to nuclear technology, rockets, computer guidance, etc at least. If they don't get it from...

It could have been much better. If I remember rightly, little or nor reaason is given for the time line divergence. The characters were well written but the story background was confusing and did not make sense. Buy it used from Amazon and check it out yourself.

another minor quibble. the protagonist was a wehrmacht infantry captain in the fall of Berlin and was carrying an MP-40. Probably correct, but. As an officer , he would also be carrying a sidearm, probably a P-08 Luger or a P-38 Walther. But neither was mentioned in the book. P.S. enjoyed...

Actually monitors could cross the Atlantic and did so several times. But, it was a very unpleasant trip and they were probably luck not to encounter any storms. we are all talking about 15 inch guns, if memory serves, some were armed with large Parrot guns. these were rifled and firing...

Does anyone know if this is the first book in a series. Turtledove is big on series and the seemed to need a sequel

Is this just the first book in a series?

Sorry if This has came up before but I recently heard of this book. Supposedly a modern U S navy officer is washed overboard and picked up by a British warship, in 1781. Anyone know about this book Written by t. m. grundner a few years ago. Is it worth buying? Please help me out.

The problem with sliders is like that of every network tv show. rapidly the weekly episodes are given to the normal hack tv writers who know nothing about sci-fi, alternate history, etc. because they are normally writing episodes of my mother the car or Bridget loves Bernie or etc, etc. GIGO i

I think the point of divergence was the dino killer meteor hitting 65 million years ago didn't happen. The Grik is a obvious evolved raptor dino of some type. I found both books to be interesting with few faults. The amagi was a battle cruiser converted to a carrier. But the original would...

Just got it read. A few faults but not the usual ones. The characters seem more believable. The wehrmacht captain is definitely damaged goods but not a bad man. There are a couple of minor glitches, a German officer would have had a sidearm beside his issue MP-40 and the NAZI's weren't big...

Cleaned up and with a good edit, I think it would make a good book

a question. Is this from a book or what? i have never heard of it. Please a title and author.

The novel by Heinlien was definately a conserative book of the viet nam war period, a reaction againt the hippie generation. The film no. one was supposed to be a very tongue-in-cheek left wing reaction and was meant to be a left wing propaganda. Indeed I heard one of the main actors being...

How appropriate, the history channel on an alternate history site. P.S. what in hell does does bigfoot have to do with history?