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Article: FICTION; A `what-if' novel has Aztecs fighting Nazis; A novel of parallel realities and collapsed time, based on a provocative premise: What if the Aztecs had not fallen?(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book Review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 18, 2005
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Byline: Cherie Parker
Special to the Star Tribune
If Columbus had never "discovered" America, some of the greener and more idealistic of us believe, the Western Hemisphere would have been a Utopia. Peaceful native folk would have lived harmoniously with the land and each other and never bothered to construct anything bigger than an Iroquois longhouse.
But this image, so full of PC wish fulfillment and so devoid of the base characteristics inherent in the human animal, conveniently avoids the complicated and sometimes violent societies that flourished here before conquerors and germs from a fetid Europe cut them down like a scythe through field ...