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What if, by the passing of just two events, Japan and Germany had won World War 2?

The Goddess of Fortune is a work of alternative fiction in which history is re-explored, in sometimes surprising ways:

Beautiful Louise, while only 24 years old, uses her intelligence, wiles, and body to dominate the so-called "stronger sex."
Kaito Sasaki of the Bank of Tokyo, inspired by Lenin (“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency”), proves just that with his printing of U.S. 100 dollar bills.
The treachery of Hermann "Fatso" Goering is uncovered and his punishment is swift.

As a work of historical fiction, Goddess reveals the private foibles, quirks, and lusts of the famous of the period.

Prepare to re-imagine history, get The Goddess of Fortune today.

Length: 364 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Age Level: 18 - 18

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"This alternate history of WWII is also a reflection on modern-day economic and social missteps. When folks are clothed, Blencowe shows solid ability to write conversational interactions in a believable fashion, especially in the halls of power." --Foreword Clarion

"...Blencowe succeeds in putting a unique spin on familiar events and creating plenty of new ones. He explores the darker connections among governments, corporations, and the military in an informed manner ("Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests," one character says) and connects subplots in wildly different locales with relative ease." --Kirkus Reviews

"Goddess of Fortune is a tour-de-force of alternate historical fiction. The scenes jump from one end of the world to the next, but the action is almost constant. The book is filled with a tension, many times sexual, that teases the reader and leaves them yearning for more." --San Francisco Book Review

"Taking historical figures, places, and using his magical pen, Blencowe has created an interesting alternate universe of World War II. Every page will intrigue readers further into his brilliantly well-written world of fiction." --Manhattan Book Review

About the Author

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Andrew Blencowe discovered at an early age what it was like to live on the edge of life. During his high school years he dropped out to become a motorcycle racer. Smitten by computers in his early twenties, he went on to become founder and CEO of an international software company with offices on five continents. It is his international perspective and a drive to challenge assumptions that influence his writing interests. As a weekend student of history, one point he noticed over and over was how a seemingly trivial action had such immense consequences. Regarding this point of minute actions, it is akin to a 1,000-ton boulder balanced precariously on a steel knife edge; at present still, but with the smallest nudge, an army of men cannot stop the monolith from rolling down the hill. Another reoccurring point was how people's time frames are always myopically short; Zhou Enlai, when asked in the early 1970s about the significance of the French Revolution, was reputed to have answered, "Too early to say". This myopia is daily becoming worse and worse as the destruction of the intellect by mobile "telephones" accelerates. Combined with iPads and other electronic reading devices, the ability of the human mind to think and ponder disturbance-free is being destroyed one interruption at a time. These are some of the main threads in Blencowe's novels - the arrogance and massive overconfidence in the new (blithely and wrongly considered better); the panoply of quick fixes rather than a thoughtful analysis of the unexpected consequences of these often dangerous modern expedients. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00J08X51E
Publisher : Hamilton Bay Publishing (March 11, 2014)
Publication date : March 11, 2014
Language : English
File size : 574 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 364 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,283,649 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,401 in Alternative History
- #5,220 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books)
- #6,080 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books)

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Kieran Hair

Surprisingly A Story More of Triumph Than of Tragedy

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2015

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History is an interesting concept. It’s so easy to look back on all of these major events that have occurred in the world and wonder what things would be like if even one thing had happened differently. For instance, Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and started the chain of events leading up to the First World War, was only in the right place at the right time because a change in the archduke’s motorcade route put Ferdinand right in front of the sandwich shop at which Princip just happened to be eating at the time. But what if this sandwich shop had been just two doors down, putting Princip in a less advantageous position?

This is one of the major questions posed by author Andrew Blencowe in “The Goddess of Fortune,” a book which looks at an alternate history in which Japan and Germany had won WWII. Written in wonderfully skilled prose, this book manages to take a completely alternate timeline and relate it in such a way that it feels as if the story is actually unfolding before the reader’s eyes. The book takes place in the early 1940s, and follows a number of intriguing characters as they live in the history that Blencowe has created so well.

The cast of characters is by far the most intriguing aspect of this story. Covering numerous walks of life, we even get to spend some time with FDR and see his reaction to the imagined downfall of the Allies. Blencowe is successful in keeping all of the characters fairly realistic as they adjust to their surroundings, remembering all the while that they do not know a timeline in which the Allies are winning. And the fact that many of them are able to adjust so well to the happenings of the world is quite empowering. It’s nice to think that, even had we lost the war, mankind would still have held fast to its values.

This is a very interesting book, and it will not take a history buff to enjoy this excellently written story. This one is definitely worth checking out.

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Kimberly Castro

Unique take on history

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018

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When I first picked up this book last week, I was very intrigued because I am a huge fan of alternate realities. Whether I'm reading a story on FanFiction.net or watching a television show or movie, I love the what if episodes. For example, what if the Germans had won World War II? Even little events in the historical timeline are slightly altered: according to the preface of this book, “Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and started the chain of events leading up to the First World War, was only in the right place at the right time because a change in the archduke’s motorcade route put Ferdinand right in front of the sandwich shop at which Princip just happened to be eating at the time. But what if this sandwich shop had been just two doors down, putting Princip in a less advantageous position?” This story follows and eclectic group of characters living in this alternate world, however, my favorite was Louise, a 24-year-old lady spy who uses her feminine wiles to gain information. We even got to see a brief cameo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and what affect the loss of the second world war had on him. The only part of this book I didn't like was the sex scenes, but there weren't many of those.I would recommend this book for any history buff, especially fans of World War II. Warning: some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex.

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Garion

Fun Read

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2018

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This was a fun read. I feel like I know a decent amount of history. But I don’t know as much about 20th history as I thought and there was a lot of 20th century history in this book. Actually that’s all this book is, or at least historical fiction.

I felt like I was reading an Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son series (with sex) with all the famous people, but in the 20th history.

It would have been a quick read had I just read it. But I found myself googling many of the events in the book and would get trapped in a Wikipedia session for longer than I care to admit.

By about the 2nd half of the book I decided to just read the darn book and live with the mystery of how Churchill, Roosevelt, the Panama Canal, Japanese presence in Mexico, etc. really transpired. It’s interesting to think about how if Japan and Germany did things even a little differently the 40’s would have been a much different decade. And of course, that means that our lives today would be radically different.

I’d recommend the book for anyone that wants to explore an alternative universe of the key players of World War II. I will be recommending this book to the conspiracy theorists in my life that aren’t offended with a little sex. So much happened in this time period of history that I thought it was fun to read about the personal encounters whether or not they were made up. Just don’t do what I did and stop reading to constantly look up historical events. The story is short enough to breeze through it and save your questions until the end.

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gastrobart

Just read and enjoy this book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2017

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This book effectively describes how the axis powers won World War 2 and sets the scene for Fatherland by Rober Harris and Man in the High Tower by PKD. I thought Robert Heinlein was a bit of a fascist, and I'd have to think Andrew Blencowe is somewhere over to the right. This is a well crafted alternative history with a great flavour of realism wrapped up in an overcoat of pornography. Not sure why we were given glimpses of Wallis Simson's promiscuity with, well everybody. I have no objection to reading eroticism, I am no prude. However , enjoyable as that aspect of the book was, I found it actually got in the way of the story. I enjoyed this book, I wish it was longer and went into things in more depth (sorry - not refering to the porn here.) This book could make a great film and is a really great read, interesting, wide in scope and depth. Read it and enjoy the whole concept, the descriptions of the significant world leading charecters, see them in a new light. Oh and enjoy the sex education.

Jayp

Quite worthwhile although marred by elements of preaching and some weak plausibility.

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2016

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The spirit of Ayn Rand weights heavily over this well-crafted tale. On several occasions, characters engage in conversations whose aim seems to be to present her objectivist views. In Marx's world, the heroic proletariat struggles against the parasitic capitalists. With Rand, the makers (talented individuals responsible for introducing everything good and new) battle the takers (lazy layabouts) and their politician lackeys out to fleece them. At one point, a suggestion is explicitly made that the makers simply go on strike rather than continue to accept being milked. Tellingly, Rand's major novel “Atlas Shrugged” was almost titled “The Strike”.

Main PODs : Hitler is killed in an airplane crash in September 1941 just as the attack on Russia Barbarossa is losing its focus ; meanwhile the Japanese have successfully managed a major counterfeiting operation which gives them limitless funds for sabotage operations in the USA, Canada and Panama.

The story line flows well and the analysis is sharply focused although it sometimes veers into the dogmatic.

Churchill and Roosevelt are depicted as such utterly dim-witted buffoons that it is difficult to accept it. Even their most ferocious enemies were willing to grant them a good measure of political skills. These seem to have gone AWOL here.

On the other hand, abundant praise is granted to the Hitler-free Germans and the long-term planning Japanese. The firsts promptly display their usual efficiency in victoriously adjusting their strategy on the Eastern front while easily disposing of the Nazi party (a bit more easily than would be plausible). The seconds combine their sneak attack in the Pacific with an unbrokenly successful string of covert operations which leave the US war capacity seriously damaged. They seem to be free of Murphy's law.

Churchill is a bitter bully and a petty tyrant, especially when drunk (daily after 2 p.m.). One of his drunken rants drives away a key military adviser. When Roosevelt calls him after the Japanese attack asking for help, he hangs up on the president which is very difficult to accept since, even deep in his cups, Churchill would have hardly forgotten that America's help was indispensable to a victory over Germany. To top it off, when challenged in the House of Commons, he storms out instead of facing up to the attack. So the “half American whore” is replaced by a “sane, rational Englishman”. Expect a quick march to a “reasonable” arrangement with an Hitler-free Germany.

In the USA, Roosevelt faced with the failure of his New Deal policies to restart the economy on a truly sound basis is actively looking for a war with Japan as the solution. The long term aim is to crush them into a permanent subservient role and make the Pacific a totally American lake. FDR is deeply infuriated by the Japanese apparent unwillingness to respond to his serial provocations. When the attack finally comes, he simply pull out his already prepared “day of infamy” speech, fills in the date and stage delivers it to Congress.

Unfortunately, the combined (military / sabotage) Japanese attack is so successful (again Murphy's law is nowhere to be found) that the USA is left largely unable to respond. So FDR does a complete flip-flop and indicates a willingness to accept a joint US – Japan “partnership” over Asia & Pacific : “Japan administers, we sell.” Quite a departure from the original plan and quite a concession to the “little yellow monkeys” as they were largely seen in 1940s America. As an aside, since it is no longer “artificially” stoked by the government, the anti-Japanese furore (“Remember Pearl Harbour”) is deem to quickly fade away. Plausibility is again left by the roadside. And that is leaving aside the fact that the Japanese are deem to accept this offer without even a brief blinking pause.

Bottom line : a very enjoyable but not fully believable tale.

Marta Cheng

What If History Was Re-Written?

Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2015

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What if a signficant event in history such as a world war was re-written? How about if Japan and Germany had won World War II? Such is the premise of The Goddess of Fortune, a most interesting historical what if? written by Andrew Blencowe. This is a book about sex, politics and powerful alliances and Blencowe’s book pretty much confirms what most of us have always suspected: that everyone in power has a hidden agenda. The writing is good, albeit a bit on the reserved side, but there’s plenty of treachery and duplicity to keep lovers of history entranced. The Goddess of Fortune also seems to confirm that the more powerful the man, the more robust (or deviant, depending on one’s view) his sexual appetites and it is into this miasma of sexual and political power plays, that the reader is introduced to young Louise who, despite her tender age, has the presence of mind to use the tools she was born with to bring the men in her life to submission. The Goddess of Fortune has plenty to speculate over and to enjoy.

Pen Name

Great read...

Reviewed in Australia on March 17, 2014

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A must read. Very easy to follow and very well written. I really enjoyed the way the book flowed. Well done and looking forward to another instalment in the future.

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