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To: kaylar
The Turtledove storyline is now up past the first World War, starting with How Few Remain(which is the actual start because Guns of the South involves time travel and was really written as a single shot deal), American Front, Walk in Hell, Breakthroughs, and the latest is American Empire: Blood and Iron
77 posted on 10/08/2001 4:53:59 PM PDT by billbears
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To: billbears
Apparently he's doing two series : One has to do with a timetraveling South African arms salesman who sells 21st century technology to General Lee, enabling him to win the war. That's the series that starts with Guns of the South. The other series, which ALSO deals with the south winning the civil war, is separate from the "Guns of the South " storyline, as it has the southern victory due to rational causes consistent with the true history of the civil war, rather than time travelling. That one starts with "How Few Remain". I've only read "Guns", but judging from the amazon.com reviews, the less'science fiction-y' alternate history books are better, if only because the concept of a SA man going back in time to protect apartheid is now dated.

BTW, Harry Harrison did an alternate history book in which Great Britain enters the civil war on the side of the south-supposedly. Actually, they wish to conquer the land lost to Andrew Jackson. The CSA and the USA join forces against the common foe. Here's the reviews for those books :Stars and Stripes Forever, and Stars and Stripes in Peril

80 posted on 10/08/2001 5:09:38 PM PDT by kaylar
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