Harry Turtledove, The Last Article

[Fumesucker]

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

[dusty trails]

1. Interesting

Although my main interest is in post apocalyptic fiction.

[GOLGO 13]

4. What's up my apocalyptic fiction brother!

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]

2. Sometimes there is nothing to do but fight.

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


The last legitimate war was WW2.

[Babel_17]

3. A good read, thanks! (nt)