Last Stop Vienna: A Novel
 Really "The Last Stop...": Why was this book written in the first place? Why was it reprinted at all? Thank God I did not buy it, just read it - and am sorry I wasted all this time on a well-written piece of garbage. Geli Raubal might not have [... more]
$25.00
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Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)
beware: OK, here is my assessment. I've read a couple of other Robert Sawyer books and I picked this one up by accident, not realizing he wrote it/. I'm a business traveler and I needed something for a long flight. I decided to let the Hugo winner's [... more]
$7.99
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Lee at Chattanooga: A Novel of What Might Have Been
Strong historical portrayal and an overall good read: I picked up a copy for two reasons: I enjoy alternate history, and I'm a Chattanooga native. The more I read, the closer it brought me to the actual battlesites-which I haven't visited in over a [... more]
$16.95
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American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
Setup for war: "The Victorious Opposition" moves the final pieces on the board into place. War is ready to begin. The United States, weakened by Socialism, is ill-prepared but beginning to catch up on its military. The Confederates, who have [... more]
$27.95
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Lion's Blood
Amazon.com Review: In the year 1863, a primitive village is raided, the men killed, and the women and children captured. The survivors find themselves chained in the dark, filthy hold of a ship crossing the ocean to the New World, where they are sold [... more]
$6.99
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The Plot Against America: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: "What if" scenarios are often suspect. They are sometimes thinly veiled tales of the gospel according to the author, taking on the claustrophobic air of a personal fantasia that can't be shared. Such is not the case with [... more]
$26.00
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Grant Comes East
WOW: Shaara's trilogy is great, but Gingrich and Forstchen bring an even more realistic setting this this time period in American history... and their take is completely fictitious! They write so well that when I was reading I wanted to keep on to see [... more]
$24.95
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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
So Good You Might Think It's Nonfiction: Living in Gettysburg, I like to get books about Gettysburg. The problem is this book isn't about Gettysburg. It starts out familiar enough, but then after the first day of what was the Battle of Gettysburg, the [... more]
$24.95
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The Grantville Gazette
All the news that fits in print?: This is the earliest of the Grantville Gazette sub-series (= I). You have no reason to read it before Eric Flint's original novel, "1632" (the year), that opens the whole mega-series. Actually, the Grantville [... more]
$6.99
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Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History
A suspenseful masterpiece that makes you wish for more.: First I must admit to some surprise at the differing reviews for "Days of Infamy". I loved it. Yes, it is WW2 but a quite different scenario than his other books in this time. In this [... more]
$24.95
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The Western Lands
The West Is The Best.: Review: Contains highly condensed scenarios in past present and future time. Rarefied and raw dream and after-death encounters and conflicts, with unforgettable characters in a multitude of hilarious satiric black humor routines, [... more]
$15.00
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Animal Farm and 1984
Book Description: In this Readers' Guide, Daniel Lea takes a decisive path through the maze of interpretations that has accumulated around Orwell's best-known novels, examining critical reactions from the beginning of the Cold War through to the collapse [... more]
$24.00
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