Syria, using the excuse that Saddam's WMDs found their way there, or to free Lebanon from Syrian domination and/or colonization by a large population of guest workers, or just the overall badness of the Assads. But that would be ASB without invading Iraq first and a larger mobilization than Bush...
Unless HT did last minute edits, my guess is that Trump wasn't in his mind when he brought McCarthy into the story. The book was probably brought to his publisher and had its edits well before the 2016 primary campaign got seriously going.
Was there any organized opposition in the political arena during Nika, or was it basically just a mob riot? Maurice surviving might well butterfly the Sassanid invasion as well as turn Islam into a local Arabian religion.
As to the Jewish revolt, IIRC it was a matter of seizing the opportunity...
And from the perspective of someone from 1992 or 2000 (not me per se), 2016 may be downright dystopic. All is relative.
Just imagine asking someone from the 1997 Emberverse about what their 2016 would be. Now there's a dystopia, which a few minor disagreements (a few Wiccan enthusiasts and a...
Yes, and even for him it's repetitive and predictable. Pure product, and I'm getting really sick of his Russian speakers (with a couple of exceptions) speaking almost exclusively in mat' . At least he's cheaper now if you buy him on Kindle than hardcover.
I'm becoming convinced a living...
Under the Mufti, I'm imagining him declaring himself Caliph (in the traditional, as opposed to ISIS sense) and establishing an Ustashe-type regime in Palestine. I wonder how he felt about Druze and Samaritans....
Free Flight by Douglas Terman, where the Soviets rule the world other than parts of China after a first strike and nuclear holocaust:
https://www.amazon.com/Free-Flight-Douglas-Terman/dp/0553283014
There was Amerika, the TV mini series where the Soviets launched a first strike unopposed, and not only occupied the US but broke it apart into regional territories under an occupation army. One of the more evil characters was an East German Major in the UNSSU that occupied the Kris...
It's been awhile since I read the early GWI books, but didn't Turtledove change his planned arc mid-war and decide that the CSA, rather than the USA, would become the fascist analogue? That's why CSA characters like Jefferson Pinkard, Anne Collerton, and even Jake the Snake diverted a fair...
At the rate he's going, he'll be in Alas, Babylon territory by the time the third book comes out, with the surviving population in odd pockets of rural land and small towns.
??? I corresponded with her around 1998, when she was writing her stories, and we compared her cat to my then infant son. Drakon came out in 1996. She was on the Yahoo list for a time after that. My vague memory is she quit due to some personal issues with some poster. I don't think she passed...
I was on the Stirling Yahoo list at the time (back before ISOT and the Emberverse) and Anne-Marie did mention that OFA himself wrote the Gwen POV sections, for Fun in the Woods and at least one of the Domination Centuries fanfic novels. That was before the falling out with Baen and effectively...