I Read Stories: The Yorkshire Mammoth
A vet finds himself practicing medicine on an unusual domesticated animal. It’s the 30s and Yorkshire, and Turtledove is channelling All Creatures Great and Small (the vet books by James Herriot, turned into a beloved TV series in my youth). However this Yorkshire is on the edge of the glaciers, so some of the upland farmers have Mammoths to help them.
This isn’t quite as rigorous an alternate history as Turtledove usually does (The survival of mammoths into the 20th century and, presumably, Scotland covered in ice would be unlikely to give rise to a recognisable Yorkshire, or for there to be world wars to set it between). But the mammoth stuff is good, the Yorkshire stuff is charming, and I was willing to be charmed by his exquisite SF channelling of the old vet stories.
Read This: Because you remember All Creatures Great And Small and like mammoths
Don’t Read This: If you don’t want mammoths in Yorkshire
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