Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:14:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mr at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Wow! Yikes!
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Yikes!  Wow!

Send me the cover artwork so I can get it up on the
OEB web site!  Better yet, send me a copy of the book
and I'll scan it.  ;-)

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> from Publishers Weekly:
>
> Separation
> Priest, Christopher (Author)
>
> ISBN: 1882968336
> Old Earth Books
> Published 2005-10
> Hardcover, $25.00
> Fiction | Science Fiction - General
>
> [Starred review] In this subtle, unsettling alternative WWII history
> from British author Priest (The Prestige ), Jack Sawyer is an RAF
> bomber
> pilot who encourages his government to distrust the peace proposal
> offered by renegade Nazi Rudolph Hess. At the same time, perhaps,
> Jack's
> identical twin brother, Joe, is a pacifist Red Cross staffer aiding
> peace negotiations with a German delegation headed by Hess. Jack's
> actions help shape the events we remember; Joe's lead to a truce
> between
> Germany and Britain in 1941 that results in a disturbingly familiar
> postwar world. Convincingly detailed diaries, scraps of published
> texts,
> declassified transcripts and more baffle a historian who tries to
> reconcile different realities. The brothers themselves recognize the
> uncertainty of motives and actions; Joe in particular struggles to
> believe that he's making a better future even though he realizes how
> much it costs him personally. Many alternative history novels are
> bloodless extrapolations from mountains of data, but this one quietly
> builds characters you care about - then leaves their dilemmas
> unresolved
> as they try to believe that what they have done is "right."
>
> PW reviews lots of books, only a few each week get a star.
>
> mjw
>

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