There’s a genre in fiction known as alternate history. It usually gets lumped in with science fiction, although in reality it’s somewhere between that and history. The premise usually involves taking some […]
Book Review – Liberty: 1784: The Second War for Independence by Robert Conroy
Alternate History is one of my favorite genres. The idea is to extrapolate history based on something happening slightly differently. In this case, Robert Conroy crafts a story of what happened if […]
Book Review: Settling Accounts: Drive to the East by Harry Turtledove – When Pittsburgh Becomes Stalingrad…
Contains spoilers for earlier books in the series Alternate history is an interesting genre. It takes a pivotal point in history – in this case the Civil War – and supposes what […]
Book Review: Homeward Bound by Harry Turtledove – Stop Writing!!!
For many years I was a huge fan of the author Dean Koontz. Every time a new novel penned by him was released I would rush out to buy it within the […]
Book Review: Two Fronts: The War That Came Early Book 5 by Harry Turtledove
If you haven’t noticed, one of my favorite genres is alternate history. I love the concept of something happening a little bit differently than it did and extrapolating a different history from […]
Book Review: Coup d’Etat: The War That Came Early Book 4 by Harry Turtledove
Alternate history is one of my favorite genres. What if something had gone a little differently in history? How would the world be today is that had happened? Harry Turtledove is one […]
Book Review: Designated Targets by John Birmingham – A Military Thriller with a Science-Fiction Edge
In the second novel in John Birmingham’s “Axis of Time” trilogy, he capitalizes on the events which took place in Weapons of Choice knows as “the Transition” or “the Emergence”. In that […]
Book Review: Settling Accounts: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove – Tell Me Again, Who Does Mary Pomeroy Hate?
At the point that I began reading Settling Account: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove, I was well invested in the series. There were seven books to the series before this one. I […]
Book Review: The Big Switch: The War That Came Early Book 3 by Harry Turtledove
Alternate history is a genre that examines what if history had happened a little bit differently. I enjoy reading that very much and Harry Turtledove is considered one of the top writers […]
Book Review: Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham – When the Future Meets the Past It Ain’t Pretty
At the suggestion of a friend of mine who knows my affinity for alternate history – a genre which takes a pivotal point in history and supposes what would have happened if […]
