User blog comment:Historygeek1/Continuation of Southern Victory/@comment-21519-20100312053218

A continuation of TL-191 is the last thing I want. It was a great story right up through RE, but it lasted three years too long. The Second Great War was predictable, formulaic, and boring. DttE and TG are two of the worst Turtledove books I've read. IatD started out in that same vein but in its last few chapters did rebound a bit to produce an ending to the series that gave sufficient closure. That's its only redeeming trait, and it would be cancelled out by another book.

There is no cold war between the US and Germany; each will have its hands full looking to its own camp. As for Japan--They can't carry the story. Can't because of what HT did with them in the end--He made them totally unbelievable. In the Great War they were just a combatant like any other. In the Pacific War they were a particularly frustrating enemy but could be fought to a draw. In the Second Great War they were like phantasms--darting in and out of anywhere they wanted to be. If they wanted to take something, they reached out and grabbed for it. They didn't always get it, but if they didn't they scurried away scot-free while their enemies--usually the US--watched them go. No consequences whatsoever.

Anyway, the story is about the struggle among several competing powers on North America. Struggle over! The Rebs won't give up the ghost for a while, but unlike the disbelief-suspending US of MwIH, this US will have the patience to outlast them. So any more books would just be repeats of the occupation scenes in the second half of IatD, which got pretty monotonous even in the space of just a couple of hundred pages.

There may be others who would agree with you about wanting "to see this series to the end." We admins here, veterans of many years of Turtledoveanea, are not among them. We feel we've seen it to the end, and for a few years it was just a labor of love that kept us coming back, like visiting your grandmother in a nursing home even though she's too far gone to understand you're there: You do it in honor of the memory of what she used to be.

I'm reminded of Potter's last scene, where the earnest young diehard talks like he's going to be Featherston 2.0 and Potter tells him to give it a bloody rest, to go home and get on with his life. I mean no offense but that's how I feel about asking for more TL-191 books.