Review: Interesting, short, and rudderless
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2012
I found this one of the better reads from Turtledove for several reasons.  It's clear that if the original history which is being altered isn't interesting to him, the resulting alternate history book will be that much worse.  That being said, we see Turtledove use this story to explore the more myopic aspects of Nazism.  Turtledove also excels in lengthy books with only cursory character development and extensive story development.  Freed of the apparent requirement for length, this short story flips that balance and focuses on character development exclusively and explores the fixation that main character has with Judaism.  Little occurs with the storyline and little time is spent explaining how things came to be.  A better price would be 99 cents for this short story on alternate history from Harry Turtledove.