[ SECRET POST #2855 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2855 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[chardmonster]

An endorsement from The Least I Could Do guy is pretty much proof that either the book is shit or the fanbase is insufferable

Fuck that dude and probably fuck you for something or other

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read the comic. I just found this on an alternate history forum while searching for the book's cover, and I used it because I couldn't get my text to show up against the cover.

(As full disclosure, I used to read Looking for Group, but I gave up on it when I got sick of Richard hijacking every punchline.)

writing this without specifics takes some work

[solarbird]

The book (The Guns of the South) is actually really interesting in several ways, particularly (as OP notes) as a character sketch of Robert E. Lee. But the ending Turtledove set up to try to create a meaningfully less horrible path for how that arc of history would've turned out over time was total horseshit. Even with the things the characters discovered about the (original, pre-change-event) future, there's no way in hell the characters would've made the changes they made. I wish they could've, but ... no. It's horseshit. And by giving it the arc he gave it, it ends up feeding into some more modern delusions about the nature of the Confederacy, which is not good for anyone.

If the book had taken that moment of discovery about the future and plotted out what would really have happened... that would've been a really, genuinely interesting novel. But that would've been quite a hard sell, because wow, downer ending.