Title: Remarkably bad
Product review: Harry Turtledove has carved out a niche writing alternative history novels, most of which suffer from serious sprawl but still retain interest from his attention to likely timelines. This novel, which is apparently intended as a Young Adult SF, is not only poorly thought-out, but stupifyingly dull. The central characters are irritating and the "alternate" world that Turtledove has sketched out is far less interesting than a straightforward historical novel would have been, much less as the logical extension of an alternative history. I can't imagine it holding the attention of any young reader, even one ravenous for science fiction.
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