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Liberating Atlantis (2009)

by Harry Turtledove(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0451462963 (ISBN13: 9780451462961)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Roc Hardcover

series

Atlantis

review 1: I think this was the best book of the series. An interesting alternate treatment to how slavery was ended. What would have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful? What would have happened if the southern stated hadn't of suceded? No war of succession. An interesting federal government with two heads each ruling on alternate days. Don't know how practical that is. Again, Turtledove hits home when talking about human rights, bigotry and gender inequality.
review 2: Like I said with the previous book in this series, Harry Turtledove does not write great characters or scintillating prose, but his alternate histories are great thought experiments. The first book was the discovery of Atlantis (the east coast of the States as an island in ... morethe middle of the Atlantic), the second book was the Revolutionary war, and this one is the war to free the slaves. The interesting twist was that instead of a war between the northern and southern states, it was an uprising of the slaves in the south that forces the acceptance of freeing the slaves (both black and indian, or 'copperskins').All in all, it was a fun read, but not exactly great literature. I think that finishes the series, though, since it looks like he's going to have a new series coming from the same publisher later this fall. less

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