Harry Turtledove -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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The Great War : Breakthroughs
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Expected August 2000
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Household Gods
Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Expected July 2000
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Tale of the Fox
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Recent

Into the Darkness
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 2000
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Harry Turtledove is known for his alternate histories; from The Guns of the South to The Great War: American Front, he's practiced at imagining the ways society would have changed if various things had been different in history. Sometimes it's a key figure surviving (or dying); other times it's a strange new variable, like aliens landing during World War II. With Into the Darkness, Turtledove investigates a new wrinkle in this successful field: What if a world war were fought using magic?

Darkness Descending
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published April 2000
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Colonization : Down to Earth
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published March 2000
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Turtledove opens another ripping yarn of World War II Earth invaded by colonizing aliens with a revealing conversation between two Lizards (aliens). The more recent arrival accuses the 40-year veteran of turning into a Big Ugly (human) by forgetting the Race (Lizard-dom) in all its glory and caring only "for the immediate." That is one theme of an exciting novel. The Race and humans are becoming more alike as a generation grows up never knowing a world without Lizards. The invaders try to bribe and tax humans out of their religious beliefs and introduce offworld beasts that rapidly become pets...

Colonization : Second Contact
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 2000
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"[A] TOUR DE FORCE OF SPECULATIVE HISTORICAL FICTION. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." --Library Journal "An exciting, often surprising, story that will not only delight his fans but will probably send newcomers back to the Worldwar saga." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT." --Booklist

Wisdom of the Fox
Harry Turtledove / Paperback / Published November 1999
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Gerin the Fox would like nothing better than to lead a quiet life of study, but the murder of his father and brother will leave him the sole baron of Fox Keep, which he must lead into war against the barbarous Trokmoi and the Empire of Elabon. Original.

Down in the Bottomlands : (And Other Places)
Harry Turtledove, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1999
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Household Gods
Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published September 1999
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The standard time-travel plot turns on what might be changed by the futuristic know-how of an intrepid time traveler--typically a mechanically-minded man who "invents" modern weapons, medical technology, and so on. In Household Gods, Tarr and Turtledove make their time traveler a 1990s Los Angeles lawyer with no special technical or historical knowledge.

The Great War : Walk in Hell
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published August 1999
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Harry Turtledove marches on through history with The Great War: Walk in Hell. In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (How Few Remain), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand's assassination in 1914 (The Great War: American Front), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson's CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages...

Into the Darkness
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published June 1999
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Harry Turtledove is known for his alternate histories; from The Guns of the South to The Great War: American Front, he's practiced at imagining the ways society would have changed if various things had been different in history. Sometimes it's a key figure surviving (or dying); other times it's a strange new variable, like aliens landing during World War II. With Into the Darkness, Turtledove investigates a new wrinkle in this successful field: What if a world war were fought using magic?

The Great War : American Front
Harry Turtledove / Paperback / Published May 1999
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The stunning sequel to "How Few Remain"--and the start of a thrilling new series by the master of Alternate History. When WWI engulfs Europe, the United States and the Confederate States, still bitter enemies after the Civil War, enter the fray on opposing sides. But chilling new advances in warfare--from the airplane to the machine gun--will the conflict unlike any America had ever seen.

Between the Rivers
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1999
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It is the bright, sun-drenched morning of human history, a time when the gods rule the Earth. In the city of Gibil, the citizens have long enjoyed the prosperity afforded them by their benevolent patron deity, Engibil. But the gods of other cities are not so kind and are easily angered. When a young man offends them, all of Gibil is at peril as an epic battle of human and divine wit ensues.

Colonization : Second Contact
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published February 1999
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Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His Worldwar Series began the story when a fleet of lizard-like aliens arrived to conquer Earth in May 1942. It ended in 1945 with a negotiated peace between the Race, the nuclear powers (the Reich, the USSR, and the USA), and the much-weakened Britain and Japan.

Videssos Besieged (Time of Troubles/Harry Turtledove, Bk 4)
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1998
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With the arrival of spring, the Emperor Maniakes vows to unleash his troops against the enemy capital, where a hated despot sits arrogantly upon the throne. But from the moment Maniakes reaches the land of the Thousand Cities, he is plagued by a question no one can answer. Where is his nemesis, the ruthless commander whose cavalry no opposing force can withstand?.

Departures
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1998
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A collection of twenty alternate-history stories features the tale of Persia's conquering of Greece, a werewolf boy tearing through the streets of medieval Cologne, and a retired Confederate captain back on a Civil War battlefield.

Alternate Generals
Harry Turtledove(Editor), et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1998
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Military history--with a new cast of characters! Authors include multiple-Nebula-Award-winning Esther Friesner, Hugo-winner Harry Turtledove, Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, S.M. Stirling, and many more.

The Great War: American Front
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published June 1998
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How Few Remain
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1998
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From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. In the "Second" War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history.

Between the Rivers
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published March 1998
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The "Hugo-winning master of alternate SF" ("Publishers Weekly"), Harry Turtledove turns his hand to a major fantasy creation, a world at the bright, sun-drenched morning of human history. Young Sharur is the scion of a merchant family in the city of Gibil, loyal--he thinks--to his city's god Engibil and to that god's human deputies. When it becomes apparent that the gods of other cities are plotting war against Gibil, it's up to Sharur to save his beloved city Print ads. Online promos. .

Between the Rivers
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published February 1998
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The "Hugo-winning master of alternate SF" ("Publishers Weekly"), Harry Turtledove turns his hand to a major fantasy creation, a world at the bright, sun-drenched morning of human history. Young Sharur is the scion of a merchant family in the city of Gibil, loyal--he thinks--to his city's god Engibil and to that god's human deputies. When it becomes apparent that the gods of other cities are plotting war against Gibil, it's up to Sharur to save his beloved city Print ads. Online promos. .

Fox and Empire
Harry Turtledove, L. Sprague De Camp / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1998
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Gerin the Fox likes peace and independence. For 10 years, respect for Gerin's wiliness has kept Aragis the Archer content to stay within his borders. But when he threatens an independent baron, Gerin is called in. Neither Aragis nor Gerin are young men anymore. Nor is Gerin's giant fighting friend Van as formidable as he once was. Strength goes. But guile, guile endures. And no one in the northlands has more guile than Gerin the Fox.

The Two Georges : The Novel of an Alternate America
Richard Dreyfuss, Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1997
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What if there never was an American Revolution? Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove present readers with a rollicking adventure of an America that never was--but could have been! What if George Washington had made peace with King George? What if America was still part of the British Empire? And the Sons of Liberty were waging war against the King in the 1990s?.

Tilting the Balance
Harry Turtledove / Paperback / Published October 1997
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World War II screeched to a halt as great military powers scrambled to meet an even deadlier foe, armed with formidable technology that made victory seem inevitable. The menace worsens in this, the second novel in the four-book alternate-history saga that Booklist called possibly the most ambitious in the subgenre's history and definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters.

In the Balance
Harry Turtledove / Paperback / Published October 1997
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How Few Remain: A Novel of the Second War Between the States
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published October 1997
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North and South clash in a second Civil War in this dazzling new speculative novel by "one of alternate history's authentic modern masters" (Booklist)--the acclaimed author of Guns of the South and the Worldwar series. Website promo.

Worldwar : Striking the Balance
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1997
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During World War II, three of the world's deadliest foes are forced to join efforts to save the planet from aliens, but Earth might be completely destroyed in order to win the war, in the conclusion of the Worldwar series. Original."

The Thousand Cities (Times of Troubles , No 3)
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1997
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From the author of the acclaimed Worldwar alternate history novels, here's the newest exciting adventure in the Videssos series. Abivard had helped put the King of Makuran on his throne. Now it was his assignment to conquer the Empire of Videssos--before the Videssans conquered Makuran.

The Guns of the South : A Novel of the Civil War
Harry Turtledove / Paperback / Published May 1997
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For the first time in trade paperback, a master of alternate history depicts the ultimate reversal: the South wins the Civil War! January 1864: General Robert E. Lee is facing defeat, when a strange man approaches him with an amazing rifle. Its name--AK47.

Thessalonica
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1997
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Artisan shoemaker and thinking man George becomes increasingly worried when the pagan forces of the Germanic tribes continue to threaten life in the Roman Empire, and he decides to risk everything for the sake of his people.

Striking the Balance
Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published December 1996
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Here is the stunning climax to the bestselling alternate history series that turns World War II into a war between two worlds--human and extraterrestrial. Booklist calls this series "engrossing . . . irresistibly readable . . . definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters.".

Worldwar : Upsetting the Balance
Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1996
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When the warring nations of the world are tenuously united against a common alien foe, the planet's physicists feverishly create humanity's first nuclear bombs with horrifying results. Reprint. AB.

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