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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Turtledove is kind of like that. He seems to be really more attached to telling the ideas that make up the story, than the characters who live through it.
That said, I did quite enjoy his alt-Shakespearean Ruled Britannia, which I felt did a really good job of incorporating the characters personalities into affecting the changed-world of the story, and In the Presence of Mine Enemies, while a bit more "big concept"-oriented, was mostly pretty decent in that regard, I thought.
I wonder if their being standalone instead of his usual trilogy+ makes a difference.
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I'll have to try one of his standalone novels. I read all 11 of the Great War series, and really enjoyed them. This was the first Turtledove novel I've picked up in a few years.