I’m going to be brutally honest, here: Harry Turtledove’s recent dive into undisguised commentary on contemporary politics and mores has aged incredibly badly. I used to buy his books in hardcover; I didn’t even bother picking up the last couple. That being said… I’ll give him one last chance with Twice as Dead. I fully understand it if other people don’t feel obligated to give him that chance, but I hate just the thought of a final break with the author who gave me Videssos and Ruled Britannia. If that makes me a sap, so be it. I will own the moniker.
#commissionearned
And The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump. It’s a perfect little gem on its own.
But yes, I don’t look at his recent stuff.
Unfortunately, it sounds like a vampire story and I try to avoid those because I usually end up disliking them intensely. Nothing I see in them that I didn’t see in the Marvel Comics “poor, misunderstood mutants” theme with less justification than the mutants had. I’ll wait for the next Turtledove book and try that instead. 🙂
The last thing of his I read was The Man with the Iron Heart, which very plainly was about Iraq with Truman as Bush.
I have the first few volumes of The War that Came Early that I picked up right around when I moved cross country… 12 years ago. I’ll probably get around to them, but it sounds like that series will be my last of his.
I hope it’s good.
It was so sad when he fell off the deep end.