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 Criticism of the series tends to claim that the writing quality deteriorated over the course of the series, with books becoming longer and more padded. The first book, "In the Balance", is considered by many to be the best. Some people dislike the concept of the Race, with its reptilian focus on doing things slow and steady, its generic emperor-worship religion and its desire to incorporate everywhere into its Empire.
-==== List of books in the series ====
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-=== Worldwar ===
+==== Concepts related to The Race ====
-In the Balance
+[[The Race]] come from a planet they name, simply, Home, orbiting the red star epsilon Eridani. It is a desert world whose year is about one-half of Earth's. Home was united 25,000 (Earth) years ago and has since been ruled by the same line of Emperors, though usually the Race do not reckon descent and family of any importance (possibly an inconsistency). They are normally inert to sexual desire but go into a periodic breeding season, not retaining any connection to sexual partners thereafter. They do not track which hatchlings come from which eggs and thus members of the Race are not raised by their relatives and have no concept of family. This caused friction with humans.
-Tilting the Balance
+The other two races in the Empire are the Rabotevs and Hallessi (the Race names for their stars) who are similar reptilian races, hence why the Race were so taken aback that humans were different. The Race named the Sun Tosev, the Earth Tosev 3, and humans Tosevites. Their common nickname for humans is 'Big Uglies', as the Race are rather shorter, but humans call them 'Lizards'.
-Upsetting the Balance
+Religiously speaking, the Race venerates their Emperor and the spirits of Emperors past, believing they will serve them in the afterlife. They consider all else superstition.
-Striking the Balance
+Their military technology upon reaching Earth was about that of the state of the art when Turtledove wrote the first book (1994) save that they also had fusion-drive spacecraft. They have had the same military technology, unchanged, for millennia. Although the Race had a significant technological advantage over even the best armies of 1942, humans were able to out-produce them and, significantly, learn, improve and adapt their weapons and strategies at a rate that alarmed the Race. What ultimately ended the first war, however, was when three human powers - the Americans, Soviets and Nazis - all developed nuclear weapons and used them. The Race's fleetlord, Atvar, was unwilling to use more than a few of his own bombs, as this would render the planet uninhabitable for the colonists following him. Thus it was divided.
-=== Colonisation ===
+The Race's alien-ness is emphasised with various terms for military items: tanks are landcruisers, planes are killercraft, and "-man" is replaced by "-male" (e.g. wingmale, infantrymale). The Race did not have any concept of a navy before reaching Earth due to Home only having small seas. Their military or civil rank is indicated by a pattern of body paint, and they wear little other clothing.
-Second Contact
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-Down to Earth
+==== List of books in the series ====
+=== Worldwar ===
+  * //In the Balance//
+  * //Tilting the Balance//
+  * //Upsetting the Balance//
+  * //Striking the Balance//
+=== Colonisation ===
-Aftershocks
+  * //Second Contact//
+  * //Down to Earth//
+  * //Aftershocks//
 === Other ===
-Homeward Bound
+  * //Homeward Bound//
-==== Concepts related to The Race ====
-[[The Race]] come from a planet they name, simply, Home, orbiting the red star epsilon Eridani. It is a desert world whose year is about one-half of Earth's. Home was united 25,000 (Earth) years ago and has since been ruled by the same line of Emperors, though usually the Race do not reckon descent and family of any importance (possibly an inconsistency). They are normally inert to sexual desire but go into a periodic breeding season, not retaining any connection to sexual partners thereafter. They do not track which hatchlings come from which eggs and thus members of the Race are not raised by their relatives and have no concept of family. This caused friction with humans.
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-The other two races in the Empire are the Rabotevs and Hallessi (the Race names for their stars) who are similar reptilian races, hence why the Race were so taken aback that humans were different. The Race named the Sun Tosev, the Earth Tosev 3, and humans Tosevites. Their common nickname for humans is 'Big Uglies', as the Race are rather shorter, but humans call them 'Lizards'.
+==== See Also ====
-Religiously speaking, the Race venerates their Emperor and the spirits of Emperors past, believing they will serve them in the afterlife. They consider all else superstition.
+**[[http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html|Harry Turtledove's Official Site]]**
-Their military technology upon reaching Earth was about that of the state of the art when Turtledove wrote the first book (1994) save that they also had fusion-drive spacecraft. They have had the same military technology, unchanged, for millennia. Although the Race had a significant technological advantage over even the best armies of 1942, humans were able to out-produce them and, significantly, learn, improve and adapt their weapons and strategies at a rate that alarmed the Race. What ultimately ended the first war, however, was when three human powers - the Americans, Soviets and Nazis - all developed nuclear weapons and used them. The Race's fleetlord, Atvar, was unwilling to use more than a few of his own bombs, as this would render the planet uninhabitable for the colonists following him. Thus it was divided.
+**[[http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=turtworldw|The series' entry on Uchronia.net]]**
-The Race's alien-ness is emphasised with various terms for military items: tanks are landcruisers, planes are killercraft, and "-man" is replaced by "-male" (e.g. wingmale, infantrymale). The Race did not have any concept of a navy before reaching Earth due to Home only having small seas. Their military or civil rank is indicated by a pattern of body paint, and they wear little other clothing.
+**[[http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Worldwar|Series overview on the Harry Turtledove Wikia]]**
+**[[http://quantumbranching.deviantart.com/art/WorldWar-World-410781035|Map of the world of the Worldwar series (in 2011)]]**, courtesy of [[offtopic:B Munro]] (note that some elements of the map were subject to slight reimagining)
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