I'm not sure, his most recent books have seemed like a glorification of fascism (e.g., Hitler's War and The Man with the Iron Heart). After the last of the alternate civil war series I've stopped reading his books.
That said his Videssos series is very good. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Btw - speaking of technological superiority - I'd love to see a series > based on Turtledove's Word at War books. While the writing was > horrible, the concept was great: > > An alien fleet arrives during WW2. The alien race are -extremely- > conservative and make advances -extremely- slow. When they sent a > probe during our middle ages, they assumed they would still encounter > folks in armor on horses, not a world with tanks/planes/etc. > Technology-wise (outside of the space ships), they have armaments that > would be close to our modern times (including helicopters), but they > are used to simply landing and taking over with a day or two. Humans > are crafty enough to fight them to a standstill by using tactics to > help remove the technology difference. > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: >> Funny you bring up "dust" - I wonder if the rest dust will come up in >> this miniseries. Nothing like chemical warfare to help overcome >> technological superiority. ;) >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That was their weapon because humans turned to dust too. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:46 PM >>> To: cf-community >>> Subject: Re: the fifth column >>> >>> >>> i thought in the 3 ep it showed the guy turned to dust who died. >>> so do they just turn to dust or was that some thing special like a laser? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308388 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
