Jack
posts on 3/18/2009 4:23:26 PM
John, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but there's a huge flaw with Without Warning. On March 14, 2003, Bush was on an overseas trip. I believe he was in the Azores. He wouldn't've been caught under the Wave as you described it and would have been alive to assume command of the various American remnants. I understand why you chose the date you did, but you really painted yourself into a corner with it.
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Alex
posts on 2/17/2007 3:08:17 PM
I heard this on another message board as well and i agree with the poster in that Final Impact felt really rushed. There were a few grammar issues I never noticed in the previous books, like confusing "to" and "too". And several people have mentioned Birmingham's allusion to Orbital Platforms near the end of the book? Can anybody shed any light on that?
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Greg
posts on 2/12/2007 9:47:08 PM
I finished Final Impact a few days ago. I enjoy Mr. Birmingham's writing style, but that is about all I liked in this last of the trilogy. The jump ahead by a few years took me by surprise. I was really looking forward to a story about the retaking of the Hawaiian Islands. The brief story lines about slim Jim and Julia Duffy were disappointing. As was the short reference to Hoover's demise. I hope he plans other novels taking up the soviet vs. allies conflict. To much was left unanswered at the novels end.
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Tommy Atkins
posts on 2/6/2007 6:54:12 AM
I shall start reading tonight as I received my copy through th epost today, stroll on the end of work.
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Jack
posts on 2/6/2007 2:02:42 AM
So I started Final Impact today
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The commentator Jim Brennan
posts on 11/5/2006 2:17:17 AM
Birimingham is tipping his hat to other alternative history authors in many references, I suspect. And he throws in some fanciful curves about his alternative 2021 future.
Catch the Admiral's reference about his terrifying Congressional Committee inquisition by Senators Springer and O'Brien? Don't see those two living long enough to be elected Senators in that year... both WERE elected politicans, in the real past, you know.
The reborn Nazi S. Africans are the Drakka posited by S.M. Sterling's famous alternative history series. Note the foreward dedication to Sterling and Flint, both noted alternate-world creators.
Also spotted what appears to be at least one phony book reference: Prof. Wm. Forstchen's American Tryant. Dr. Forstchen, a military prof, wrote the Lost Regiment series modeled around Joshua Chamberlain's Civil War regiment pulled through a time/space warp to an alternate universe. He was also a decidedly eclectic co-author with partners of widely diverse political leanings.
But Forstchen never wrote about JEdgar, to my knowledge, nor has there ever been any confirmation of the single-sourced allegation repeated by everyone since accusing Hoover of crossdressing which I seem to recall was confessed to be the most widely succesful KGB maskirova in history, after the Katyn Forest massacre they pinned on the Nazis. Believe some post-Soviet-collapse KGB folks admitted they created the Hoover-smear rumor to hurt the FBI.
Birmingham's book itself had a wonderful cautionary warning, that the rumor you want to believe most is the one about which you should be most cynical.
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posts on 9/3/2006 11:47:38 PM
Wow. This place is really feast or famine, isn't it?
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posts on 5/29/2006 12:45:19 AM
Battletweety, the US as the world's leading nation isn't a particularly scary thought considering the competition in the 1940s. Who would you rather have in the number one spot, Hitler or Stalin?
Greg, JB published Book 1 in 2004 and presumably researched it in 2003. Had the military announced its plans to phase out the F-22 by then? I don't know, I don't really keep abreast of such things. But that would be my guess as to the oversight.
Boob, it's September now? That's good, I'd heard December. The wait between 1 and 2 was so long I thought the series had been cancelled at one point, I'm glad it will be so much shorter now. I just hope David Chase follows Birmo's and Del Rey's lead when The Sopranos takes its next hiatus.
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posts on 5/13/2006 7:55:51 PM
I've greatly enjoyed the Axis of Time series so far and if he licenses the universe for other author's the series could no doubt keep going on well after his third book.
With the industrial might of the US and having the bulk of the technical staff from the future, is there any other way this can end than having the US be the single global superpower..? isn't that a scary thought, a 2006 US in 1944.. shudder.. The only saving grace is the president Bush's won't be around for another 40 years :)
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posts on 5/6/2006 12:08:11 PM
I am wondering why Mr. Birmingham choose to equip the clinton with F-22's instead of the F-35? The F-35 which I believe begins production in 2008, and having a vtol version for the marines, will probably be the fighter in service in 2021. Curiously, the second book has a top down picture of the single engine F-35, not the twin engine F-22? Anyone shed some light on this?
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posts on 5/6/2006 12:01:32 AM
His third book's due out in sept 2k6 roughly. He's still developing some characters on and ironing some stuff out. If you search this thread I think you'll see a post from him here saying as such.
Checkout "Cheeseburger gothic", you'll find info on it there and a conv with Madoc that has a little spoiler about book 3 "The Last Good War"
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posts on 5/5/2006 3:57:13 PM
Im new to this board and GREATLY apologize in advance if this question has been asked numerous times.
Does anyone have a clue as to when the next book will be released??
I'm sure thats the $10K question at the moment by all.
Thank you for your patience with a the new guy.
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posts on 5/3/2006 1:30:01 AM
Birmingham is to be congratualted he is only the second author that I know of to take down J. Edgar in a novel that effectivrly (The first was Nero Wolfe courtesy of author Rex Stout in The Dooebell Rang).
Seemingly a minor aspect of an otherwisae exciting and thought provoking series—but one I founf especially amusing.
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posts on 5/2/2006 3:01:15 PM
Thereare so many mistakes that he can keep from being made. A few that I think of is the P-51 Mustang with the allison engine. They can put the Merlin in immediately instead of waiting a year. The Pratt and whitney r4350 engine into the B-29. The AK=47 is an interesting idea that i would have never thought of. The delay of the M-26 Pershing tank because the army thought the M-4 Sherman was "good enough"
The F-86 Sabre could be produced within 5 years. Fixing the American torpedo problems would allow the japanese merchant fleet to be destroyed by 1944. Etc. ETc. the list is endless.
On the other hand, the enemy cannot use all their advantages because of politics.
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posts on 5/2/2006 1:03:31 PM
Also, nice touch with the skyraider plans at the end of book 1... Most folks would've skipped that for the Sabre or Fury or something. Also, ignore the spelling... It's late and info on book 3 seems kinda tucked away... :)
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posts on 5/2/2006 12:52:45 PM
My god, does JB have his (excriment) together or what? AoT is stunning. I only just found them shortly after Designated was released and coulnd't put them down. And they're a much higher quality than the competition too... Nice one :D
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posts on 4/16/2006 1:05:22 PM
I have thoroughly enjoyed the first two Axis of Time novels - John B is clearly the equal of Turtledove and Stirling. While I am greatly looking forward to the third and final volume, I really hope that the author will provide a second trilogy and maybe even a third. The alternate WW2 is entertaining enough, but the culture clash between the time travellers and the 'natives' is far more interesting. I urge JB to show us what happens in the subsequent decades. Great stuff!
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The American
posts on 3/29/2006 10:49:23 PM
I really enjoyed book 2 of this series. Very creative Battle of Britain. Dakota Cyclones were great as well as the Trident battle. Keep it up. Looking forward to book 3.
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The commentator larrydak
posts on 3/13/2006 6:16:03 PM
lets get the next book out of this series first before poor John starts a new one. But I can see how this series could go past three books easly. We are only in 1943 the war could go on much longer now that everyone knows all the turning points and corrects the mistakes made in the other time line. Just solving the logistics and engineering part could fill a book. Plus a fifth colume in the USSR and have we forgot Turman the Japaness developing a better air defence network and a balistic missle system or anyother wepones system for that matter with out all the R&D and its cost. Just my .02 cents worth
Just get the next book out
Larrydak
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The commentator Pegleg
posts on 3/13/2006 8:18:53 AM
Actually, on Birmo's blog, he has discussed this. I think he was talking about either an additional volume focusing on Kolhammer, or another trilogy. Not sure where he has gone with this, since that discussion (some months ago).
But I agree with you-I love these series to go on and on... and on!
Pegleg
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