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If you like this you may like The Watch, by Dennis Danvers. Peter Kropotkin ends up in Virginia in 1999… https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dennis-danv

If you like this you may like The Watch, by Dennis Danvers. Peter Kropotkin ends up in Virginia in 1999… https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dennis-danvers/the-watch/ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dennis-danvers/th...

Aaargh20318 5y ago
Another series in the same vein is the Safehold series by David Weber: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Reef https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Ree...
- ThrowawayR2 5y ago
  Safehold was decent but kind of drags towards the end. "Oh, no, if us bad guys lose these huge armies, our treasury will be dry and we'll collapse!", then at the start of the next volume, "We lost those armies, which we already couldn't afford, but we somehow managed to scrape up an even huger army than last time that are even better armed and this time, if we lose them too, no honest, our treasury will be dry and we'll collapse, totally for real this time!"; lather, rinse, repeat.
  - Aaargh20318 5y ago
    That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series. Nowadays I won't even start a series if I see it has that many books without showing any signs of coming to an end. At some point I want to have some closure. Ideally a series has 5 books max, 3 or 4 would be ideal.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      > That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series. Hello, Wheeel of Time. Hello, A Song of Ice and Fire. Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan.
      - spiralx 5y ago
        > Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan. Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. > At the start of February, Martin told his followers that lockdown had enabled him to make headway on the eagerly anticipated Song of Ice and Fire Book Six. He said: "I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020. The best year I’ve had on WOW since I began it." However, he added some less encouraging news. > Martin added on his blog (called 'notablog'): "I need to keep rolling, though. I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion." This sounds almost like "I only really started working on book six in 2020 because the lockdown meant I couldn't gad about the world doing conferences." given that he only writes while on his Wordstar PC that's at his home.
        CRConrad 5y ago
        > Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. BookS, in Jordan's case. Sanderson wrote at least two, I think maybe three. Is Winds of Winter supposed to be the last or second to last book of aSoIaF; I thought there was supposed to be something like two more after that?
        spiralx 5y ago
        Jordan had said there was only to be one more book at the point he became ill, somewhere along the line that turned into three books, presumably the notes and scenes he left to whomever was to finish the series was a bit more extensive than his original estimate. WoW is the penultimate book in the series apparently. Book 7 will be titled "A Dream of Spring" if it ever arrives...
    - spiralx 5y ago
      But I enjoyed all fifteen books of the Wheel of Time and it had a satisfactory ending - what for me makes an epic fantasy is that it tells the story of a world-changing event, and world changing events have a very broad scope that involve numerous characters who could be protagonists in their own right. And that's probably going to involve more books than a series focussed on a single character or a small group, no matter how earth-shaking the outcome of that story is.

Aaargh20318 5y ago

Another series in the same vein is the Safehold series by David Weber: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Reef https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72199.Off_Armageddon_Ree...

ThrowawayR2 5y ago
Safehold was decent but kind of drags towards the end. "Oh, no, if us bad guys lose these huge armies, our treasury will be dry and we'll collapse!", then at the start of the next volume, "We lost those armies, which we already couldn't afford, but we somehow managed to scrape up an even huger army than last time that are even better armed and this time, if we lose them too, no honest, our treasury will be dry and we'll collapse, totally for real this time!"; lather, rinse, repeat.
- Aaargh20318 5y ago
  That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series. Nowadays I won't even start a series if I see it has that many books without showing any signs of coming to an end. At some point I want to have some closure. Ideally a series has 5 books max, 3 or 4 would be ideal.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    > That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series. Hello, Wheeel of Time. Hello, A Song of Ice and Fire. Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan.
    - spiralx 5y ago
      > Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan. Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. > At the start of February, Martin told his followers that lockdown had enabled him to make headway on the eagerly anticipated Song of Ice and Fire Book Six. He said: "I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020. The best year I’ve had on WOW since I began it." However, he added some less encouraging news. > Martin added on his blog (called 'notablog'): "I need to keep rolling, though. I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion." This sounds almost like "I only really started working on book six in 2020 because the lockdown meant I couldn't gad about the world doing conferences." given that he only writes while on his Wordstar PC that's at his home.
      - CRConrad 5y ago
        > Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. BookS, in Jordan's case. Sanderson wrote at least two, I think maybe three. Is Winds of Winter supposed to be the last or second to last book of aSoIaF; I thought there was supposed to be something like two more after that?
        spiralx 5y ago
        Jordan had said there was only to be one more book at the point he became ill, somewhere along the line that turned into three books, presumably the notes and scenes he left to whomever was to finish the series was a bit more extensive than his original estimate. WoW is the penultimate book in the series apparently. Book 7 will be titled "A Dream of Spring" if it ever arrives...
  - spiralx 5y ago
    But I enjoyed all fifteen books of the Wheel of Time and it had a satisfactory ending - what for me makes an epic fantasy is that it tells the story of a world-changing event, and world changing events have a very broad scope that involve numerous characters who could be protagonists in their own right. And that's probably going to involve more books than a series focussed on a single character or a small group, no matter how earth-shaking the outcome of that story is.