A review by leons1701
Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History by Harry Turtledove

3.0

Just finished this, and I have to say, I really do like Turtledove's short fiction better than his novels most of the time. No repeated scenes to pad out the work and a lot fewer sex scenes (Harry can't write a good sex scene at all). Still, I felt most of these pieces from the last ten years were substandard work. Perhaps I'm just tired of seeing familiar events transposed into alternate settings, a common failing of Turtledove's work. So for example, I liked Uncle Alf a good deal more than Occupation Duty, though both works were quite disturbing in their way or at least tried to be. The Scarlet Band is probably the best or at least my favorite of the works in this volume.