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At the start of Australian author Birmingham's stellar debut novel, a United Nations battle group, clustered around the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton (named after "the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States"), is tasked in the year 2021 with stopping ethnic cleansing by an Islamist regime in Indonesia. When an experiment goes horribly wrong on a special ship doing research on wormholes, most of the battle group is deposited in the middle of the U.S. fleet on its way to Midway in 1942. The WWII carriers and supporting vessels attack a Japanese Self-Defense Force ship, triggering devastating computer-operated defensive fire from the 21st-century fleet. While the action sequences are outstanding, this book really shines in depicting the cultural shock that both navies experience. The Clinton group reflects a multicultural society that finds the racist and sexist attitudes of 1942 America almost as repugnant as those of the Axis powers, while the mere thought of non-whites and women not just serving in uniform but holding command drives many Allied officers and civilian officials apoplectic. The author also subtly shows the ways in which 20-plus years of the War on Terrorism have changed our attitudes. Unlike many alternate histories, the novel avoids the wish-fulfillment aspect inherent in the genre. This is the first of what should be a hugely (and deservedly) successful series.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

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"This is an excellent combination of near future military SF and alternate history, and a riveting story to boot."–Eric Flint, author of 1632 and 1634: The Galileo Affair

"This book has everying: time travel, the British royalty, things that go boom, and unrelenting action. Read the opening at your own risk: you won't be doing anything else until you finish it."–Sean WILLIAMS, co-author of Heirs of Earth and Star Wars: Force Heretic: Reunion


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4.0étoiles sur 5 Great action and plot, but its hard to like the characters., Sep 11 2009
Par Moe Sasseville "Moester" (Montreal, QC, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I loved the premise of the book, the action scenes were excellent and in many ways it was well researched. But both the future and past characters are caricatures. In the future everyone will be an ultra-liberal bloodthirsty jerk on drugs; while everyone in the 40's bigoted and closed minded.

There are a few exceptions, but its just not enough. These people are hard to imagine being my peers or members of "the greatest generation" While its true that I've only met WWII vets at the end of their lives, they seemed to be much more open-minded and eager to accept others than what is shown here. Its also very hard to think that people could be so callous about killing. Also the naming of the carriers and their class seems more than a little far-fetched.

Yet in the end, the writing is quite engaging and its flaws did not stop me from liking the book. I will leave final judgement until the second instalment in the series.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Alternate History SF, Déc 1 2009
Par Keith Potter (Toronto) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This book will be more satisfying to second world war history buffs than SF fans - the science fiction is just to get the situation in place. Near-future navy ships are inserted into the Pacific theatre of WW2. First of a trilogy.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Pretty Good, But He Should Have Stopped Here, Nov. 25 2009
Par T. M. Stamler "Wannabe Anonymous" (Stonewall, MB Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Since there have already been several reviews about this book, I'll make this brief.

One of the things I love about alternate history is that you find out how little you really know about the original history. Birmingham definitely did his research here, and it made the story work well.

The characters are both interesting and likeable, even some of the more close-minded ones in their way, and their reactions to what they might have ended up becoming is also fascinating. That in mind, I kinda wish the author had spent more time on them and their reactions, instead of bouncing back and forth between our boys and girls from the future and the '42s (as the past folks end up being called).

And he ended the book well, too. You are just getting to the end, you have enjoyed it, but think, 'I think I'll skip on the other two books', when BAM! He ends the book with an unbelievable hook, and now you have to read the other two. I bought them, got about 100 pages into the second and lost interest. Mostly because, like I said, too much time was spent on the future guys and not enough on the past. I had just finished reading S.M Stirling's Nantucket series when I started this, and that one does focus more on the future people, but that story is set 3000 years in the past, where, or when, we have little to no information of what all was going on. In 1942, going on 70 years ago, we have all kinds of records, journals, reports and footage of what went on, so there's no reason more time couldn't have been spent on that era.

But that I didn't notice until the second book; like I said, if he had left it off with the first one, it woul've been an invigorating and eye-opening romp, with a great cliffhanger ending to boot, but unfortunately, everyone's gotta be making trilogies these days.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The future looks bright
While I enjoyed Mr Birmingham's previous works, 'he dided with a falafel in his hand', and 'leviathan' I really loved this book, couldn't put it down. Read more
Publié le Juil 17 2004 par Michael J. Barnes

5.0étoiles sur 5 Good premise, needs some character development
A lot of this book is devoted to contrasting the culture of the 1940s with the 2020s. For example, the horror with which the 1940s characters regard women participating in combat... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A must for alternate history fans
If you are a fan of alternate history, particularly alternate war history,this is the book for you. The pace is excellent and the issues raised concerning the clash of past and... Read more
Publié le Juil 7 2004 par Tyrone J. Taitano

5.0étoiles sur 5 What an alt history story
I am awed by the authors ability to produce a book like this. It is the perfect alt history book but i also am intrigued by the characters,specifically those from 2021. Read more
Publié le Juil 2 2004 par Shane Cawley

5.0étoiles sur 5 Top notch effort
This book is fantastic - I'll just come out and say it outright. Birmingham takes the best of early Clancy (tight plot, detailed knowledge), combines it with best of Sterling... Read more
Publié le Jui 25 2004 par G. Deych

5.0étoiles sur 5 Lets get serious.
There is no doubt that the Australian writer John Birmingham can write. He has a glittering track record in a number of fields and his previous work has made him something of a... Read more
Publié le Jui 25 2004 par Sandy McCutcheon

5.0étoiles sur 5 history with a twist reivented
I'm a huge fan of alternate history, from authors like harry turtledove to William Forstchen and to movies like final countdown. Read more
Publié le Jui 24 2004 par Vasilios Karmiris

5.0étoiles sur 5 VERY good novel of this type
I'm a fan of books like Eric Flint's 1632 as well as Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series and Stirling's Nantucket trilogy. Read more
Publié le Jui 17 2004 par Willy S. Liao

4.0étoiles sur 5 Potentially a Hugo winning series.
Its books like this that make me think the Hugo awards should have a catagory for series. I won't know if this book deserves to be nominated for best novel until I see the second... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Fantastic!
This is one of the best SF books I've read in years. The plot is intense, the characters real and the alternative history seems really well done. Read more
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