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Originally Posted by HarryT
Just finished "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove, bought from Baen in 2001. A trio of "alternate history" novellas, the genre that Mr Turtledove excels at. The first part of the book, and the one which gives the book its title, is a murder mystery set in a world where the Mediterranean sea, blocked off from the Atlantic Ocean by a range of mountains (as has indeed happened at various times in geological history), is a wildlife preserve, rather like the Grand Canyon, but much larger and much deeper. The second two stories are set in a world where a man from our world finds himself in a version of North America ruled by the descendants of Vikings, where southern Europe is an Arab state. An excellent collection. Highly recommended.
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I will have to give this one a try, although I feel that Mr. Turtledove's characters are to one dimensional.
I recently finished The Dying Season by Martin Walker. This is number eight in his excellent series Bruno Chief of Police. The Dying Season is another excellent book in the series and highly recommended. Fantastic Fiction list this book as number nine, but I list it as eight because they list Bruno and the Carol Singers as number six. Technically this should be number 5.5 since it is a short story.
I am now rereading the first book in H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War Series, To Honor You Call Us. I will then proceed to read For Honor We Stand, the second book in the series. I am doing so to catch up on the characters in the series before I start his newest book in the series, Brothers in Valor.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/h-paul-honsinger/
I highly recommend this Military Science Fiction Series.
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