Used to be a huge Turtledove fan in my youth, the WorldWar series was so ridiculous and lib I absolutely devoured it. Remember when the aliens were addicted to Ginger? Like, the cooking spice made them so high and lucid parts of their army start deserting and joining the humans. I really liked the multiple perspective style he used, and I thought his Chinese POV's were pretty cool and nuanced and not automatically 'China Bad' but I may be misremembering.
He wrote another sci-fi book I read later about the first Human expeditions to an alien planet where the aliens were bizarre slime constructs that still used stone spears and shit. It got really weirdly horny at the end.
I don't know nothin' about that! I do remember he has a short story about like primitive aliens who have muskets, but also spaceships, and how they try to conquer Earth, but it turns out that Earth's technology is super advanced—except when it comes to spaceships. Like, human weapons are advanced, but...agh...forget it, I sound so stoned when I talk about Harry Turtledove. People also made fun of me for reading him entirely because of his name.
His Worldwar series was by far his best work. Goofy, but fun, and played to its rules. Unfortunately, once he found success in that vein he then has done multiple iterations of WW2, including one in which the South won the Civil War (Lee's instructions weren't lost at Fredericksburg), Lincoln becomes a socialist, and by WW2 the South is doing a Holocaust on all the black people.
Used to be a huge Turtledove fan in my youth, the WorldWar series was so ridiculous and lib I absolutely devoured it. Remember when the aliens were addicted to Ginger? Like, the cooking spice made them so high and lucid parts of their army start deserting and joining the humans. I really liked the multiple perspective style he used, and I thought his Chinese POV's were pretty cool and nuanced and not automatically 'China Bad' but I may be misremembering.
He wrote another sci-fi book I read later about the first Human expeditions to an alien planet where the aliens were bizarre slime constructs that still used stone spears and shit. It got really weirdly horny at the end.
The official "China Bad" policy is new in the US if you go back a few decades media is going to be a lot more favorable towards China
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I don't know nothin' about that! I do remember he has a short story about like primitive aliens who have muskets, but also spaceships, and how they try to conquer Earth, but it turns out that Earth's technology is super advanced—except when it comes to spaceships. Like, human weapons are advanced, but...agh...forget it, I sound so stoned when I talk about Harry Turtledove. People also made fun of me for reading him entirely because of his name.
His Worldwar series was by far his best work. Goofy, but fun, and played to its rules. Unfortunately, once he found success in that vein he then has done multiple iterations of WW2, including one in which the South won the Civil War (Lee's instructions weren't lost at Fredericksburg), Lincoln becomes a socialist, and by WW2 the South is doing a Holocaust on all the black people.
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