A review by tome15
Aftershocks by Harry Turtledove
4.0
Turtledove, Harry. Aftershocks. Colonization No. 3. Del Rey, 2001.
I am going to say something I almost never say about the third volume of a 1800-page trilogy: I wish it were longer. Once again nuclear war threatens, the alien invaders are having a hard time holding on to their territory and the independent human nations are advancing uncomfortably fast. Worse, from the alien point of view, their own culture is becoming more like the human cultures. And unknow to them, the Americans are researching star travel in the asteroid belt. So, there is an obvious fourth volume to be written here. Maybe one of these days Turtledove will pick it up again.
I am going to say something I almost never say about the third volume of a 1800-page trilogy: I wish it were longer. Once again nuclear war threatens, the alien invaders are having a hard time holding on to their territory and the independent human nations are advancing uncomfortably fast. Worse, from the alien point of view, their own culture is becoming more like the human cultures. And unknow to them, the Americans are researching star travel in the asteroid belt. So, there is an obvious fourth volume to be written here. Maybe one of these days Turtledove will pick it up again.