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Review This sequel to Islands In The Sea of Time is entertaining and well written, but not quite as much a must read as "Islands" |
Fiction The first chapter of a novel which weaves together several oversized short stories I’ve been working on. POD people have seen earlier versions of most of this, but the revisions are substantial.
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Fiction The first chapter of my first attempt at a story set in my Quarantine time-line. Still very rough and subject to revision.
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Review The French designed a mobile army, including armored divisions, and tried to beat the Germans at their own game in Belgium. They might have been better off cowering behind the Maginot line. |
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Dale Cozort's Alternate History Newsletter Volume 2: Number 4 --- July 1999 (Three time winner of the clear cut award) |
Review The American League of Nations Mandates A good history of the US League of Nations mandates, which goes beyond the evidence by claiming that those mandates postponed another European war and the Great Burning by five or six years. |
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Review Dr Rittenhouse looks at the French invasion and conquest of Mexico in the late 1500’s.
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Review In the 1700 and 1800’s, the Choctaw were one of the three most powerful tribes of the US Southeast. Fifty years earlier, there was no such thing as a Choctaw people.
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Review The Bicycle In Wartime: An Illustrated History Bicycles have played a surprisingly major role in every war since they became practical. The author traces that role from the Boer War, through the World Wars, to Vietnam. |
Fortress Europe—European Fortifications of World War II The French weren’t the only ones who built elaborate fortified lines before World War II. This book looks at the German, Czech, Polish, Italian, and Russian answers to the Maginot line. |
ISSUE NOTES
This is a special reviews and fiction edition of my newsletter. I’m gritting my teeth and refraining from writing new scenarios (well, except for a couple of mini-scenarios in the comments section). This issue will consist only of the obligatory feedback to POD members, reviews, and fiction. Fair warning: at least one of the books reviewed may appear to be, well, from a different time-line. In at least one other case, the book reviewed is from our time-line, but the reviewer may not be. POD members shouldn’t have too much trouble separating most of the other-time-line reviews from the ones that you can really find at your local bookseller, but one or two of them might leave you wondering. Feel free to consider this a challenge and see if you can spot all of the alternate time-line reviews, and all of the alternate time-line reviewers. If you want to take the challenge, feel free to include that in your comments, or e-mail me if you want more immediate feedback. I'll let you know if you were right next issue, or respond by e-mail if you prefer that. Note: The Table of Contents got too cluttered so I left one review off of it. You can look at the my review of Biohazard by clicking here. You can also look at comments about last issue of Point of Divergence by clicking here. While those comments are aimed mainly at fellow POD members, they also contain a lot of little off-the-cuff mini-scenarios and comments that may be of general interest.
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