Title: Intriguing
Product review: The interesting part of this novel is Turtledove's explanation of how the victorious South deals with their freedom and, more importantly, the question of slavery. Passages on the time-traveling South Africans are kept to a minimum, so hard sci-fi'ers may be disappointed here. This book is more for history buffs.Questions: Would Lee and the South have been as willing to change their slavery views had they not stumbled upon the trove of books that they did?Why weren't the South Africans more subtle -- thus, more influential -- in their attempts to control Southern politics? With the power at their disposal, what they resorted to seemed outright silly.
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