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Karl Cohen in 1939 |

I will point out where there are a couple of picky examples of poor editing that mar an otherwise excellent book. One of these - and I self-identify as an aviation geek - is when the author gets certain aircraft wrong - what's more jarring is that he refers to them correctly earlier in the book and then somehow messes them up later. Similar where to he refers to in the altered history of the book first that Fermi's first reactor is set up on the east coast in New Jersey, rather in Chicago, where it was in our timeline, but later his main character states that Fermi's reactor is in Chicago. It's little slips like this - and God knows I'm guilty of them myself, trust me - that the reader notices.
As I said, these things are only minor glitches in an otherwise superlative tale by excellent writer and scientist. Do I recommend the book? Of course: Alternate history doesn't get much better than this. The Berlin Project is a treat to read and a feast for the imagination.
Up Next:
I'm beginning to read Stephen Baxter's The Massacre of Mankind. I hope to have a review of it for next month, but, we'll have to see. Things have been a little busy around the old blog.
In the meantime, you can help out a poor unemployed writer by purchasing Elvis Saves JFK! for just 99 cents and War Plan Crimson, A Novel of Alternate History, for $2.99 and now The Key to My Heart, also $2.99 (all are free to preview). All books -- which are already on Smashword's premium distribution list -- are also available through such fine on-line retailers such as Sony, Chapters Indigo, Barnes & Noble and Apple's iTunes Store. Thanks.