That sounds like creepy theme-exploitation and badly-written erotic fiction, with extra steps.
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I'm about halfway through and I'm loving it. It's really reminding me that I need to spend more time on Character, because I've really gotten caught up in the plot. Great Job Colin!
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Earth's Eulogy is book one in the series "Earth's New Timeline". Two men are sent back to the first century after the earth is destroyed in an asteroid apocolypse. They only survive because they happened to be working in a seed vault when it happens. An alien arrives and sends them back in time with the hope that if they make enough changes earth will have the technology to overcome the astroid apocolypse. One goes to africa, the other to Texas. Book 7 in the series is about to release. First couple of books focuses on the area immediately surrounding them, but by book six they are dealing with most of the empires in the world.
As an update on Coiler's book, here's the Review I posted on Amazon:
5.0 out of 5 stars All Union gives us a fantastic look into a USSR that almost was!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
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When writing Alternate History, authors are often challenged between world building and character building. It is difficult to do both well. Colin Salt’s novel approach (and I don’t know if that pun was intended or not TBH) pays off well, where he clearly divides his book into a deep character dive, with a sprinkling of world building, followed by a riveting war thriller.
I was a bit dubious of the sub title, but this book really is about love, mystery and war, and each aspect is well told. In my experience that combination is very rare. Most author’s who can write a badass battle scene tend to embarrass themselves when they try to incorporate a true love story. But Colin easily slides between the two. The Mystery was fun, and I 100% didn’t see it coming, though the payoff in the epilog was a bit of a let down to this reader.
It's almost an intangible, but there's something about Colin's diction. There were several times in the book where I laughed out loud at a turn of phrase, and then stopped, thinking "I feel like I'm the only person in the world who finds that funnny" Almost like I'm sharing an inside joke with a stranger. Read the book, and tell me if that makes any sense.
If you are a fan of history, and what might have been, this is a great read. Colin doesn’t get bogged down in the minutia of Governing the Soviet Sovereign Republics, but provides an interesting overview of how some of this could have come to be.
Finally, this is a complete story. It has a beginning, a Middle and an end. It doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, but it leaves the door open for another installment that I hope the author pursues, and I’ll read if and when it comes out.