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Much ado about something

Advantages: A very entertaining read
Disadvantages: None that I have found

It is the year of Our Lord 1597.The Place is London in England. Let your eye zoom in on the bustling crowds as they go about their daily chores. The language may prove strange to your ears. Step back quickly to the side of the road as this group of ...

Coloneljohn 09.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Ruled Britannia - Harry Turtledove

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Blaze that behemoth!

Advantages: Complex, involving read, very powerful
Disadvantages: Extremely long - I got library fines again

Imagine if you were in the middle of World War 2, but instead of tanks, there were huge creatures called behemoths. Instead of fighter planes, there were dragons. Leviathans instead of submarines, magical energy instead of electricity, ley lines instead ...

aphrablack 25.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Into the Darkness - Harry Turtledove

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Lose yourself in another world

Advantages: Highly absorbing. Not highly sci-fi.
Disadvantages: Very, very, long. Complex. Adult only. One long book not 6.

...up this book by accident as part of a job lot. I am now part way through the sixth book in the series simultaneously happy and disappointed to be getting to the end. Be warned. If you get into this book you will get very little sleep until you ...

chris.casey 02.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Into the Darkness - Harry Turtledove

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Reading got better when I read this.

Advantages: Good read
Disadvantages: Long, adult content

This is the first book in a series by Harry Turtledove It is an account of world war two on another planet. Instead of tanks and bombers they have behmoths and dragons etc... But the general theme is still there throughout. You get the full s ...

MerryDanmas 27.11.2002 · Read full review
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Great Follow up to World War Series

Advantages: The Best Yet of Turtledove's Work
Disadvantages: none

This is a series of three books that follows on from the Worldwar Series where an Alien species called the race invades Earth during World War Two. This group of books is set in the 1960's after Human's managed to halt the Race's Advance although at great ...

lukerussell 28.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Colonization: Aftershocks - Harry Turtledove

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