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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
Sat Jul 20, 2013, 04:26 AM Jul 2013

Harry Turtledove, The Last Article

Harry pits Gandhi against the Thousand Year Reich to make a point about the limits of non violence.

Like most Turtledove stories he puts in a lot of little details that add to the atmosphere of the tale.

I ended up reading this through a convoluted chain that started with a post in this forum about Cordwainer Smith that got me thinking about Eric Frank Russell which led me to Operation Mincemeat and thence to Jo Walton's blog post about Russell where I then found a link to the story below.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5rMljbFiemoMWIxZjJkNjctOGJmMS00Njg1LTg4YzMtODRjNGQwM2JlZWEz/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

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Harry Turtledove, The Last Article (Original Post) Fumesucker Jul 2013 OP
Interesting dusty trails Jul 2013 #1
What's up my apocalyptic fiction brother! GOLGO 13 Jul 2014 #4
Sometimes there is nothing to do but fight. krispos42 Jul 2013 #2
A good read, thanks! (nt) Babel_17 Jun 2014 #3

GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
4. What's up my apocalyptic fiction brother!
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 08:40 AM
Jul 2014

HT is pretty much the king of alternative history fiction. His book, Guns of the South is a (what if) tale that introduces AK-47 to General Lee's army and well stuff is gonna happen.

Breezed through the book in days.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
2. Sometimes there is nothing to do but fight.
Sat Jul 20, 2013, 03:19 PM
Jul 2013

It happens far less often than fighting does, but sometimes there is no choice.


The last legitimate war was WW2.

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