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The Only Thing to Fear
by Caroline Tung Richmond
I think my main problem with this book is that it's not alternate history. It uses history as a basis, yes, but what's missing is the strong sense of competing ideologies in the world building. For instance, Hitler and Stalin. Au doubt that either dictator would allow the other to survive. Hitler invaded well before the war ended in this timeline, and the ideology between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was so different that they hated each other. No, really. If the USSR and US were pitted against each other in the Cold War with so much fear, this would be even worse, except with both Hitler and Stalin - two ruthless dictators - I doubt that either would have cared if they destroyed the world in an attempt to conquer each other. Communism and fascism hated each other. Hitler's nonaggression pact was so that he could lull Stalin into a false sense of security so he didn't have to fight the Soviets while he was attacking the other front.
Also, the genetic engineering didn't ring true to me, especially as there's no scientific basis in it. Atomic bombs, super strength - yeah, but I don't buy -kinesis.
I guess I was looking for a novel that explored the after effects of an Axis win. (The Soviet Union was Allied, by the way.) What I got was a dystopian I've read several times before.
Also, the genetic engineering didn't ring true to me, especially as there's no scientific basis in it. Atomic bombs, super strength - yeah, but I don't buy -kinesis.
I guess I was looking for a novel that explored the after effects of an Axis win. (The Soviet Union was Allied, by the way.) What I got was a dystopian I've read several times before.