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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", | 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", | ||
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+ | ==== Concepts related to The Race ==== | ||
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+ | [[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' | ||
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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', | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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, | ||
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+ | The Race's alien-ness is emphasised with various terms for military items: tanks are landcruisers, | ||
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==== List of books in the series ==== | ==== List of books in the series ==== | ||
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* //Homeward Bound// | * //Homeward Bound// | ||
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- | [[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' | + | ---- |
- | 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', | + | ==== 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:// |
- | 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, | + | **[[http:// |
- | The Race's alien-ness is emphasised with various terms for military items: tanks are landcruisers, | + | **[[http:// |
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+ | **[[List of AH Media and Works on the Wiki]]** | ||
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