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Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart; The Guns of the South; How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood & Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good, solid read,
By zachary@imt.net (Bozeman, Montana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Noninterference (Mass Market Paperback)
Turtledove's take on the "Prime Directive" philosophy is well worth reading. Good characters and an interesting story keep this book moving along.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant piece of science fiction,
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Noninterference (Mass Market Paperback)
Harry Turtledove is mostly known nowadays for massive Alternative History works, but he has also written some spellbinding science fiction. I'm surprised this doesn't have a lot more five star reveiws: IMHO this is one of his most entertaining SF books. Set in a future universe in which a human survey service charts the galaxy and the most important principle on which they operate, exactly akin to the "Prime Directive" from Star Trek, is that of non-interference - pre spaceflight civilisations must be left to develop in their own ways. And where Jim Kirk seems to find an excuse to break the Prime Directive every episode, in this book the principle of Noninterference is strictly enforced, at least until David Ware boards a survey ship. Because the universe is so vast, even a civilisation with faster then light travel only gets around to visiting the more remote planets every few hundred years. David Ware, an idealist on a survey ship exploring a remote and very backward planet on the fringe of the explored area of space, tries to persuade his shipmates to make a very minor exception to the principle of noninterference. The case becomes a cause celebre back home, but even so it is hundreds of years before a human ship returns to that planet. When they do, they discover that an apparently insignificant action has had consequences vastly beyond what anyone could possibly have imagined ....
4.0 out of 5 stars
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Is it possible to love half a book? I realize Turtledove is famous for his alternate history books. Alternate history appeals strongly to me, but I've never been tempted enough to get one of them. I have been tempted enough to buy Noninterference. In fact, I've bought it twice. The second time was after I misplaced the first copy after a move. I know it's around here someplace, but I searched too long wanting to read it again, so I just bought a second copy.
As I alluded earlier, I love half the book. Namely, the half taking place on the planet with low technology. Turtledove's main protagonist is Queen Sabium who has lived to be fifteen hundred years old, although she doesn't look a day over twenty-five. Living so long isn't normal for her race, so she's watched generations of her people grow old and die. I've asked myself how I would write a person with that much accumulated wisdom, and I think it's beyond my abilities. Turtledove pulls it off. Queen Sabium confronts the "leader" of the third expedition to Bilbeis IV, who has the benefit of vastly superior technology. So, who would win in a fight between wisdom and technology? Turtledove handles it masterfully. I can really believe that Queen Sabium is fifteen hundred. I didn't like the scenes on the high technology planets. It deals mostly with bureaucracy, infighting, and betrayal, and I was left feeling tired. I don't like books that make me feel tired. I want to feel exhilarated. Like I felt reading the other part. ~Loyal
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