Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

In article <v4kj0l$3ifm5$1@dont-email.me>,
 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/15/2024 10:03 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <ld5kflFu232U1@mid.individual.net>,
  ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
 

In article <v4k3d5$3fg9u$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

So is this series basically Nazi fanfiction?
I can do without that.
>

>
No.  There is nobody (including the author) rooting for the Draka.
They are portrayed as awful and evil.  However, sometimes evil wins.

 
Except that the timeline in the appendix to the first novel, _Marching
Through Georgia_, contained many events that I consider to be
extraordinarily unlikely* (even assuming that the unlikely previous
events happened).
 
*For values of "extremely unlikely" equal to a successful Operation
Sealion (Nazi Germany invasion of Great Britain in 1940).
 

In partial mitigation extremely unlikely things have happened in
reality.  Also the point of the books was a dystopia as horrible as the
author could manage so....

There is a difference between "improbable" and "implausible". IMHO, many
events in the Draka timeline look implausible.

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