World War II is not the same. It seems that a multi-national fleet from 2021 accidentally somehow transported themselves back in time to the period just as hostilities were getting into full […]
Book Review – Last Orders: The War That Came Early Book 6 by Harry Turtledove – Thank God It’s Over
Last Orders is the sixth and final book in the War That Came Early alternate history series by author Harry Turtledove. Alternate history is a genre where the author takes a particular […]
Book Review – Settling Accounts: The Grapple by Harry Turtledove – Who Will Win the Nuclear Arms Race
Alternate history is a genre situated somewhere between history, general fiction, and science fiction. Combining elements of the three, an author picks a pivotal point in history and asks what would have […]
Book Review: Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove – If The Japanese Had Invaded Hawaii?
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 […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 