User blog comment:Historygeek1/Continuation of Southern Victory/@comment-21519-20100312053218/@comment-90.220.119.167-20150927113626

"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"'''



Pretty much. I found the whole Homeward Bound series pretty much Meh and never finished it. It would be the same with a continuation of TL-191: it was great fun, but the main tension in the story is resolved with the down-fall of Featherston's CSA and there's nothing there really to replace it.

In fact, I have to say that in recent years Turtledove's writings seem to have declined, or become very repetitive. "The War That Came Early" basically replayed WW2, and I stopped reading after I found out that the next book was going to feature the British and the French siding with the Germans against the Soviets: a plot-twist so ludicrous that I just couldn't bring myself to invest any time in it, and which I now see he basically undid in the following book.

He needs to give writing a break until he finds proper inspiration to write something really interesting.