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  • Bibliography:
    152 Books (17 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

American Empire

Blood & Iron (Aug-2001)
The Center Cannot Hold (Jun-2002)
The Victorious Opposition (Aug-2003)

Atlantis

1 - The United States of Atlantis (Dec-2008)
2 - Liberating Atlantis (Dec-2009)
3 - Atlantis and Other Places (Dec-2010)
Opening Atlantis (Dec-2007)

Colonization

1 - Second Contact (Feb-1999)
2 - Down to Earth (Feb-2000)
3 - Aftershocks (Feb-2001)

Crosstime Traffic

1 - Gunpowder Empire (Dec-2003)
2 - Curious Notions (Oct-2004)
3 - In High Places (Jan-2006)
4 - The Disunited States of America (Sep-2006)
5 - The Gladiator (Jun-2007)
6 - The Valley-Westside War (Jul-2008)

Darkness

1 - Into the Darkness (Jun-1999)
2 - Darkness Descending (Apr-2000)
3 - Through the Darkness (Mar-2001)
4 - Rulers of the Darkness (Mar-2002)
5 - Jaws of Darkness (Apr-2003)
6 - Out of the Darkness (Apr-2004)

The Fantastic Civil War

1 - Sentry Peak (Aug-2000)
2 - Marching Through Peachtree (Nov-2001)
3 - Advance and Retreat (2002)

The Great War

1 - American Front (1998)
2 - Walk in Hell (Aug-1999)
3 - Breakthroughs (Aug-2000)

The Hot War

1 - Bombs Away (Jul-2015)
2 - Fallout (Jul-2016)
3 - Armistice (Jul-2017)

The Opening of the World

1 - Beyond the Gap (Feb-2007)
2 - The Breath of God (Jan-2009)
3 - The Golden Shrine (Oct-2009)

Pacific War

1 - Days of Infamy (Dec-2004)
2 - End of the Beginning (Nov-2005)

Settling Accounts

1 - Return Engagement (Apr-2004)
2 - Drive to the East (Aug-2005)
3 - The Grapple (Aug-2006)
4 - In at the Death (Aug-2007)

Supervolcano

1 - Eruption (Dec-2011)
2 - All Fall Down (Dec-2012)
3 - Things Fall Apart (Dec-2013)

Tale of Krispos

1 - Krispos Rising (Jan-1991)
2 - Krispos of Videssos (Aug-1991)
3 - Krispos the Emperor (Jun-1994)

Time of Troubles

1 - The Stolen Throne (May-1995)
2 - Hammer and Anvil (Aug-1996)
3 - The Thousand Cities (Jun-1997)
4 - Videssos Besieged (Sep-1998)

The Videssos Cycle

1 - Misplaced Legion (Jan-1987)
2 - An Emperor for the Legion (Apr-1987)
3 - Legion of Videssos (Aug-1987)
4 - Swords of the Legion (Sep-1987)
Bridge of the Separator (Dec-2005)

The War That Came Early

1 - Hitler's War (Aug-2009)
2 - West and East (Aug-2010)
3 - The Big Switch (Jul-2011)
4 - Coup D'Etat (Aug-2012)
5 - Two Fronts (Jul-2013)
6 - Last Orders (Jul-2014)

Worldwar

1 - In the Balance (Jan-1994)
2 - Tilting the Balance (Mar-1995)
3 - Upsetting the Balance (Oct-1996)
4 - Striking the Balance (Dec-1996)

Multi-Author Series List

Conan

Conan of Venarium (Jul-2003)

Gerin the Fox

Prince of the North (Jun-1994)
King of the North (Apr-1996)
Fox and Empire (Dec-1997)

Book List in Order: 152 titles

  • The Road Not Taken

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Warrior
    • / Science Fiction
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    WARRIOR! spans the length and depths of interstellar space, breaching the farthest reaches of infinity. From the deepest heart of the starkest black hole to the dazzling chaos of starry inception man endlessly replays the tireless scenarios of war. F...

  • The Eyes of Argos

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Guns of Darkness
    • / Science Fiction
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    ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...

  • Misplaced Legion

    The Videssos Cycle - 1

    NO ROADS TO ROME One moment, they stood under the skies of Gaul, facing each other in a strange duel of survival. In the hand of the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus was the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest. The Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a ...

  • Agent of Byzantium

    From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling “standard-bearer for alternate history”: A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today). In another, very different timeline -- one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came...

  • An Emperor for the Legion

    The Videssos Cycle - 2

    SWORDS AGAINST SORCERY Foul sorcery had slain the Emperor. Now the army of Videssos, betrayed by one man's craven folly, fled in panic from the savage victors. But there was no panic in the Legion, mysteriously displaced from Gaul and Rome into th...

  • Legion of Videssos

    The Videssos Cycle - 3

    A HERO'S REWARD... ! Since the Roman legion had been mysteriously transported to this world of magic, tribune Marcus Scaurus had served the rulers of war-torn Videssos well. He had been largely responsible for ousting the Pretender and putting Tho...

  • Swords of the Legion

    The Videssos Cycle - 4

    SORCERER'S WAR In Videssos the city, tribune Marcus Scaurus was bored. The legion that had been magically transported to this strange world was far away. But the Emperor's niece Alypia was near--and willing. When their secret trysts were betray...

  • Noninterference

  • A Different Flesh

    • / Science Fiction
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    This novel by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling “master of alternate history” explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly). What if mankind’s “missing link,” the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to d...



  • Pugnacious Peacemaker

  • Kaleidoscope

    THIRTEEN DAZZLING TALES BY A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY THE WEATHER'S FINE In our world, time is money, but in Harry Turtledove's alternate world, weather is time. And for Tom and Donna, happiness requires a temperature of 1968. TH...

  • A World of Difference

    ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and th...

  • Krispos Rising

    Tale of Krispos - 1

    COIN OF THE REALM Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in' the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep. Driven by crushing ta...

  • Krispos of Videssos

    Tale of Krispos - 2

    UNEASY LIES THE HEAD Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? For trouble was brewing in every quarter. Civil war erupted under. Petronas, the late Emperor's un...

  • Earthgrip

    Jennifer Logan was young, gorgeous, and utterly devoted to teaching Middle English. But to qualify for any decent teaching position, she'd have to make her resume stand out. Since her specialty was science fiction, she wrangled a berth on a trading s...

  • The Guns of the South

    January 1864-General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent...

  • Departures

    From the undisputed master of Alternate History comes an original collection of twenty provocative stories springing from the imaginative reinvention of history. Traveling down ancient roads and into far-off futures, Harry Turtledove poses the what i...

  • The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump

    HE'S NO HERO David Fisher, an EPA (Environmental Perfection Agency) bureaucrat, was not the stuff of which heroes are made. At least he hoped not. All he wanted was a good life with a good wife, and a chance to do his bit for society reviewing mag...

  • In the Balance

    Worldwar - 1

    NO ONE COULD TOP THEIR POWER -- NOT THE GERMANS, NOT THE GERMANS, NOT THE JAPANESE, NOT THE RUSSIANS, NOT THE UNITED STATES From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across t...



  • Krispos the Emperor

    Tale of Krispos - 3

    Krispos had held the throne of Videssos since he was scarcely more than a peasant youth. But now a strange heresy has taken root in the land, a hidden dissent that is flaring into open revolt. As Krispos leads his legions with his three sons, against...

  • Prince of the North

    Gerin the Fox

    A great leader rises when forced to defend his troubled lands against an onslaught of monsters in the second book of this remarkable fantasy series featuring Gerin the Fox Peace in the North has been fragile and tentative in the five years since the ...

  • Tilting the Balance

    Worldwar - 2

    THEY CUT THE UNITED STATES IN TWO. THEY DEVASTATED MUCH OF EUROPE. THEY HAD A FEROCIOUS AGENDA. AND NO ONE COULD STOP THEM. World War II screeched to a halt as the Russians, Germans, Americans, and Japanese scrambled to meet an even deadlier fo...

  • The Stolen Throne

    Time of Troubles - 1

    THE BORDER WARS An uneasy peace had prevailed these last few years between the Empire of Videssos and rival Makuran. But now Makuran's King of Kings alerted his border holdings--even the small fortress where Abivard's father was lord--to prepare f...

  • Goddess for a Day

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • King of the North

    Gerin the Fox

    Just when he thought he could settle down to enjoy peace in his time, Gerin the Fox is told by the god Biton's new Voice (rather to Biton's annoyance, Gerin had married and so disqualified Biton's previous Voice) that: "Danger overhangs the Northland...

  • Hammer and Anvil

    Time of Troubles - 2

    THE RED BOOTS
    Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.

  • Upsetting the Balance

    Worldwar - 3

    NO ONE COULD HALT THE ENEMY'S ADVANCE. NOT CHINA OR THE SOVIET UNION, NOT JAPAN OR NAZI GERMANY, NOT EVEN THE UNITED STATES. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy ...

  • Striking the Balance

    Worldwar - 4

    THE FATAL DEADLINE ARRIVES. THE SMASHING FINALE UNFOLDS. THE LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO AVERT ATOMIC OBLIVION. At the height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against a seem...

  • Thessalonica

    SIEGE THE MOMENT George was a shoemaker--but not just a simple artisan. He thought a lot, worried too much, and questioned everything. But he knew when to keep his mouth shut, and he knew his duty. Life in the Roman Empire was hard these days, and...



  • The Thousand Cities

    Time of Troubles - 3

    A dazzling new fantasy for all the fans of the Videssos Cycle!

    As the sun gleamed off the gilded domes of Videssos the city, Abivard, marshal of Makuran and son of Godarz, pondered the impossible. How could he carry out the command of Sharbara...

  • How Few Remain

    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... 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of ba...

  • Fox and Empire

    Gerin the Fox

    THE RELUCTANT EMPEROR Ever since the devastating Werenight that spelled the end of the Elabonian Empire, Aragis the Archer has been saying he doesn't want war with Gerin the Fox, also called King of the North. But the Archer is ambitious and feels...

  • American Front

    The Great War - 1

    When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy j...

  • La Difference

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Between the Rivers

    At the sun-drenched dawn of human history, in the great plain between the two great rivers, are the cities of men. And each city is ruled by its god. But the god of the city of Gibil is lazy and has let the men of his city develop the habit of thi...

  • The Phantom Tolbukhin

    in Alternate Generals

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

  • Videssos Besieged

    Time of Troubles - 4

    Emperor Maniakes once again unleashes his troops against an enemy capital ruled by a hated tyrant, only to face the ultimate disaster as his evil nemesis launches his irresistible forces against the very gates of Videssos itself. Original....

  • Second Contact

    Colonization - 1

    Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States,...

  • Into the Darkness

    Darkness - 1

    A WORLD WAR--IN A WORLD WHERE MAGIC WORKS When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the neighboring nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' War, sees its chance to bring Bari into the fold...an action which t...



  • Walk in Hell

    The Great War - 2

    The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a...

  • Down in the Bottomlands

  • Down to Earth

    Colonization - 2

    In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everythin...

  • Darkness Descending

    Darkness - 2

    Now Turtledove returns to the story of a World War in a world where magic works, with this moving second volume. Algarvian soldiers corral Kaunians to send them west, towards Unkerlant, to work camps. The Kaunians left behind are worried about what t...

  • Farmer's Law

    in Crime Through Time III

    ANDREW GREELEY introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered Pope"... Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts crime at a stuffy dinner party in BRUCE ALE...

  • Breakthroughs

    The Great War - 3

    Is it the War to end all Wars-or war without end? What began in 1914 as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spreads to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explode...

  • Sentry Peak

    The Fantastic Civil War - 1

    THE STRANGEST CIVIL WAR NOVEL YOU EVER READ! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. The northern provinces, where most of the serfs lived, would not accept his lordship....

  • Aftershocks

    Colonization - 3

    World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth's great powers launches a nuclear strike against the Race's colonization fleet--and the merciless invaders...

  • After the Downfall

    From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices.
    1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. W...

  • Through the Darkness

    Darkness - 3

    In Harry Turtledove's third novel in the Darkness series, a young Kaunian girl is forced to remain hidden while her Forthwegian savior braves the rough, Algarvian-controlled streets to earn their keep. The scholars of Kuusamo are no closer to underst...



  • The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century

    Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space -- and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, an...

  • Blood & Iron

    American Empire

    World War 1--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Cana...

  • Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century

    Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed -- and still might yet . . . Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you...

  • Marching Through Peachtree

    The Fantastic Civil War - 2

    FREE THE BLONDES! (America's Civil War Turned Upside Down) A terrible civil war was tearing apart the kingdom of Detina, a land which could no longer be half serf and half free. When the new ruler, King Avram, announced his intent to liberate t...

  • Counting Up, Counting Down

    Bestselling author and master of the short story, Harry Turtledove offers a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios that illustrate his literary skill and unbridled imagination. Inside you'll discover FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: ...

  • Advance and Retreat

    The Fantastic Civil War - 3

    THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, ...

  • Rulers of the Darkness

    Darkness - 4

    Beginning with Into the Darkness, Darkness Descending, and Through the Darkness, bestselling author Harry Turtledove ("The master of alternative history"-Publishers Weekly) has been telling an epic tale: the story of a world war, comparable to the te...

  • The Center Cannot Hold

    American Empire

    The year is 1924. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the', Powell House in Philadelphia. The Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession but at last tasting defeat in th...

  • The Daimon

    in Worlds That Weren't

    Presents a collection of four novellas which explore alternate history, including "The Daimon," in which Sokrates leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans, and in "The Last Ride of German Freddie," Nietzsche finds himself in Tombstone, Ariz....

  • Ruled Britannia

    Now the bestselling master brilliantly reimagines what was to be--or not to be--in Shakespeare's time.... The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live ...

  • Jaws of Darkness

    Darkness - 5

    Harry Turtledove's masterful story of a magical world's cataclysmic war-which began with Into the Darkness, Darkness Descending, Through the Darkness, and Rulers of the Darkness-continues in this, the fifth volume of the series: Jaws of Darkness. The...

  • Conan of Venarium

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy
    Conan

    On the verge of adulthood, young Conan of Cimmeria confronts disaster in his homeland: an attack by the Aquilonian Empire. Conan burns to join the fight, but he's deemed too young. Then comes the grim news: Cimmeria's defenses have collapsed, and the...

  • The Victorious Opposition

    American Empire

    Seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won power in the South--and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic and shrewd, he is whippin...

  • In the Presence of Mine Enemies

    Harry Turtledove, the multiple-award-winning author of such imaginative alternate ,histories as Ruled Britannia and Guns of the South, asks a startling question: What if Germany won World War II, and the Nazi regime's rule over most of Europe and Nor...

  • Gunpowder Empire

    Crosstime Traffic - 1

    Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not ...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Darkness - 6

    Harry Turtledove's rousing saga of a fantastic world at war, which began in Into the Darkness and continued through Darkness Descending, Through the Darkness, Rulers of the Darkness, and Jaws of Darkness, draws to its climactic conclusion in Out of t...

  • Return Engagement

    Settling Accounts - 1

    It's 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world -- but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its forme...

  • The First Heroes

    The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stori...

  • 3 x T

    Hugo Award winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has garnered high praise for his mastery of alternate history science fiction, and for his fantasy adventure novels, but he is equally a master of science fiction adventure, as he proves in t...

  • The Touch

    A collection of short stories--by Harry Turtledove, William F. Nolan, Janet Asimov, Tananarive Due, Maggie Estep, Kit Reed, and others--documents the bizarre biological phenomenon of Deprivers, people who, for unknown reasons, possess a strange defen...

  • Curious Notions

    Crosstime Traffic - 2

    In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land. They run a st...

  • Days of Infamy

    Pacific War - 1

    Japanese Zeros appear in the skies over Hawaii and descend upon Pearl Harbor in a devastating attack that cripples the U.S. Navy fleet and airfields. One after another, the islands are conquered and occupied by the Empire of the Sun. In the hands of ...

  • Homeward Bound

    In the twenty-first century, Earth is teeming with hostile aliens known as the Race. With geopolitical relationships boldly shifting into unheard-of alliances and mankind's technology advancing at a dangerously accelerated pace, a few daring American...

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century

    LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST H. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with...

  • Shock and Awe

    in Alternate Generals III

    GREAT LEADERS MAKE HISTORY-- BUT NOT HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest ...

  • The Enchanter Completed

    TODAY'S TOP WRITERS PAY TRIBUTE TO A MASTERFor seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales filled with genial humorous touches and backed up with a profound kn...

  • The Haunted Bicuspid

    in The Enchanter Completed

    TODAY'S TOP WRITERS PAY TRIBUTE TO A MASTER For seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales filled with genial humorous touches and backed up with a profoun...

  • The Time of Troubles I

    Two Complete Novels in the Popular Videssos Series.The Stolen ThroneThe fragile peace between the Empire of Videssos and the nation of Makuran had shattered. War came, and the King of Makuran lay dead on the field of battle. Worse, a power-mad minist...

  • Drive to the East

    Settling Accounts - 2

    It's 1942. For twenty-five years, the USA and the CSA have been entrenched in an era of simmering hatred, locked in a tangle of blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conj...

  • The Time of Troubles II

    Abrivard, marshal of Makuran, has been given an impossible task by his King: destroy the mighty Empire of Videssos. Even as he pondered how to obey, Videssos's legions are on the march, attacking Makuran first. Abrivard finds himself fighting a defen...

  • End of the Beginning

    Pacific War - 2

    Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as ha...

  • Bridge of the Separator

    The Videssos Cycle

    Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man-and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city . . . if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empir...

  • In High Places

    Crosstime Traffic - 3

    In the twenty-first-century Kingdom at Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that's wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm wo...

  • Fort Pillow

    In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to...

  • The Grapple

    Settling Accounts - 3

    It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States, a war that will turn on the deeds of ordinary soldiers, extraordinary heroes, and a colorful cast of spies, politicians, rebels, and everyday...

  • The Disunited States of America

    Crosstime Traffic - 4

    Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at "now". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same "now" in another timeline where history turned out differently. So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to d...

  • Beyond the Gap

    The Opening of the World - 1

    Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, its the nature of the great Gl...

  • Every Inch a King

    Otto of Schlepsig is risking his neck as an acrobat in a third-rate circus in the middle of nowhere when news arrives that the land of Shqiperi has invited Prince Halim Eddin to become its new king. Otto doesn't know the prince from Adam, but he does...

  • The Gladiator

    Crosstime Traffic - 5

    The Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a ...

  • In at the Death

    Settling Accounts - 4

    Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust...

  • Opening Atlantis

    Atlantis

    Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored ...

  • The Valley-Westside War

    Crosstime Traffic - 6

    THE MISSION OF CROSSTIME TRAFFIC: TO TRADE WITH PARALLEL EARTHS WITHOUT EVER REVEALING THE SECRET OF CROSSTIME TRAVEL. IT'S A TOUGH JOB. In a Los Angeles where nuclear war broke out back in 1967, survival is a matter of neighborhood versus neighborh...

  • The Man with the Iron Heart

    What if V-E Day didn't end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by G...

  • Appeasement

    A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the res...

  • The United States of Atlantis

    Atlantis - 1

    England has driven the French from Atlantis, giving King George leave to tighten his control over the colonies. The Redcoats have seized the continent?s eastern coastal towns, depriving the Atlanteans of the markets where they sell their goods as par...

  • The Breath of God

    The Opening of the World - 2

    Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it's broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamund (politely addressed as Your Ferocity), and his lover, ...

  • Give Me Back My Legions!

    Bestselling author Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the Emperor, Augustus...

  • Birdwitching

    in Witch Way to the Mall

    Featuring contributions from Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, S. M. Stirling, and Esther Friesner, this urban fantasy collection features spellbinding stories that reveal how witches from all walks of life cope with the idiosyncrasies of suburbia. Or...

  • Hitler's War

    The War That Came Early - 1

    A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the res...

  • The Golden Shrine

    The Opening of the World - 3

    The glaciers came and covered the world with ice. Now they are in retreat. North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And down through that gap come the m...

  • Liberating Atlantis

    Atlantis - 2

    Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation's independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced...

  • Reincarnations

    Harry Turtledove, Capclave 2009's Guest of Honor, is the master of alternate history, and now with Reincarnations, a limited edition celebrating his achievements, he explores worlds that might have been. Featuring six previously-uncollected stories, ...

  • West and East

    The War That Came Early - 2

    In 1938, two men held history in their hands. One was Adolf Hitler. The other was British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who, determined to avoid war at any cost, came to be known as "the great appeaser." But Harry Turtledove, the unrivaled mast...

  • Atlantis and Other Places

    Atlantis - 3

    A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in "Audubon in Atlantis." A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in "The Catcher in the Rhine." The philosop...

  • The House that George Built

    One February morning, H.L. Mencken walked into a Baltimore restaurant to have a bite and talk baseball with the owner, a has-been player named George…...

  • The Star and the Rockets

    True story: in 1954, Joe Baumann hit 72 home runs for the Roswell Rockets, the most exciting thing to happen to Roswell since the alien landing. Not to imply a causal relationship. Well, maybe a little one....

  • Vilcabamba

    Harris Moffatt III, President of the Free United States and Prime Minister of Canada, has never seen Washington, D.C.; it belongs to the Krolp now, along with ninety percent of everything. All he can do is try to keep the rest of it out of their hand...

  • We Haven't Got There Yet

    William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts -- every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? What kind of name is that for a play?...

  • Shtetl Days

    Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recr...

  • Blue Vs. Gray

    An all-new collection of stories edited by the “master of alternate history” (Publishers Weekly) -- featuring some of the most popular authors in the genre -- timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. It was the...

  • The Big Switch

    The War That Came Early - 3

    In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938? Enraged, Hitler reacts by lashing out at the We...

  • Lee at the Alamo

    In the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his native state. But what if the demands of honor had led him in the other dire...

  • Eruption

    Supervolcano - 1

    A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who surviv...

  • Coup D'Etat

    The War That Came Early - 4

    In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels -- and so does a different World War II. In Harry Turtledove’s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941....

  • On The Train

    FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Turtledoves père and fille offer two stories set on a railroad-girt world. Harry Turtledove (Supervolcano) introduces Javan, a young man from the city of Pingaspor whose third-class ticket allows him to expand his worldview,...

  • All Fall Down

    Supervolcano - 2

    In Supervolcano: Eruption, one of nature’s most destructive forces released its ferocity on an unsuspecting world. Now, New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove reveals how the survivors of the disaster adapt to their new environment… ...

  • Running of the Bulls

    There's what we know...and what we assume.Running of the Bulls, a Tor.Com Original from fantasy and science fiction master Harry Turtledove.You are all a lost generation, she said back then. And anyone who looked at them as they spun their dizzy way ...

  • Two Fronts

    The War That Came Early - 5

    In 1942, two nations switch sides -- and World War II takes a horrifying new course. In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf Hitler to gobble up the Sudetenland in 1938. Once Hitler finished dismembering Czechoslovakia, he was ready...

  • Cayos in the Stream

    You're the greatest writer of the age, gone to ground and subsiding into drink. You always said you wanted to catch some of those Nazi bastards in the waters around your beloved Cuba. What happens when you actually get your wish?...

  • Over the Wine-Dark Sea

    Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.While they trade in ...

  • Things Fall Apart

    Supervolcano - 3

    An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines fu...

  • The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging

    Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of this tale by Harry Turtledove, master of the counterfactual....

  • Something Going Around

    From the Hugo-winning, bestselling author of The Guns of the South, a tale of love, parasitism, and loss....

  • Europa Universalis IV

  • Last Orders

    The War That Came Early - 6

    History is changed by one small act. In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove examines a very different World War II -- one which erupts eleven months earlier, and over Czechoslovakia rather than Polan...

  • Joe Steele

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Supervolcano trilogy envisions the election of a United States President whose political power will redefine what the nation is -- and what it means to be American… The Great Depression continues to ...

  • Werenight

    A young, untried Northern baron must somehow defend his vulnerable realm from an invading force strengthened by darkest magic in this magnificent fantasy adventure from a master world builder The second son of the Baron of Fox Keep, Gerin never wante...

  • Bombs Away

    The Hot War - 1

    In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storytell...

  • We Install: And Other Stories

    From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and "The Guns of the South," a collection of nine stories and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range Harry Turtledove earned the title “master of alternate hist...

  • The Bastard King

    Two rivals must unite to prevent a disgraced malevolent god from attaining a relic of extraordinary power in the first book of alternate history master Harry Turtledove’s magnificent fantasy trilogy More than four centuries ago, the Scepter of Merc...

  • The Chernagor Pirates

    Only a long-lost talisman can save a besieged kingdom torn between two kings, as a malevolent god marshals his minions to attack, corrupt, and destroy Two lieges -- King Lanius, who is of royal blood, and King Grus, the usurper -- now share the thron...

  • The Scepter's Return

    Two rival kings must unite to defeat a malevolent god in the “wise and humorous” conclusion to the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author’s Scepter of Mercy trilogy (Publishers Weekly). When Avornis falls, the Banished One will reign supreme. Rival kings ...

  • The House of Daniel

    Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn't been the same. Hotshot wizards will tell you nothing's really changed, but then again, hotshot wizards aren't looking for honest work in Enid, Oklahoma. No paying jobs at the mill,...

  • Thirty Days Later

    Hang on to the edge of your seat with the latest anthology of Steampunk flash fiction, featuring pairs of stories thirty days apart. Filled with rayguns and corsets, ghosts and gamblers, dragons and airships, Thirty Days Later is the latest from the ...

  • Typecasting

    Being Governor of Jefferson has its particular perks, and its particular challenges. Particularly if you're a member of this Pacific Northwest state's most famous ethnic minority...with all the extra height and hair that implies.At the Publisher's re...

  • Fallout

    The Hot War - 2

    The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In this astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot -- and the United States and the...

  • Armistice

    The Hot War - 3

    Chaos reigns in a world already devastated by full-scale nuclear war in the third and final installment of the Hot War series, from “the standard-bearer for alternate history” (USA Today)....

  • Through Darkest Europe

    From the modern master of alternate history and New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, Through Darkest Europe envisions a world dominated by a prosperous and democratic Middle East―and under threat from the world's worst trouble sp...

  • Alpha and Omega

    Harry Turtledove now turns his potent imagination to the End of Days in this gripping novel about a discovery in the Middle East that turns the world upside down. What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certai...

  • Manuscript Tradition

    From the bestselling author Harry Turtledove comes a Tor.com Original short story, "Manuscript Tradtion."Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a p...

  • Three Bill Williamson Stories

    Three Bill Williamson Stories features a trio of brand new tales from legendary New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove about Governor Bill Williamson, a yeti with a plan. Read on for Something Fishy, Always Something New, and Tie a Yellow...

  • And the Last Trump Shall Sound

    Set in the near future, And the Last Trump Shall Sound is prophetic warning about where we, as a nation, may be headed.

    A politically torn nation watches as the Republicans solidify their hold over the US with a series of electoral victories a...

  • No Period

    A man sets out to tell a story of his ex, which in turns becomes a story of the world. If only he could change that story -- find the moment where it all began and alter the past. But what if he can't find the beginning -- or even the end?At the Publ...

  • Salamis

    Salamis is the fifth novel in Harry Turtledove''s critically acclaimed Hellenic Traders series. Creating an intricately detailed world (as Turtledove is famous for doing), the series details the adventures of two cousins, Menedemos and Sostratos who ...

  • Armored Skies

    IT IS THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE...At the beginning of the 20th century, the world was forever changed by the discovery of electroid, a strange liquid that allowed for lighter-than-air travel. Militaries around the world rushed to develop new vessels base...

  • Or Even Eagle Flew

    As the Battle of Britain looms, Hope Flies on Eagle's Wings From Master of Alternate History Harry Turtledove As Britain faces the full fury of the Nazi war machine, hope comes in the form of American volunteers called the Eagle Squadrons. ...

  • The Best of Harry Turtledove

    For more than forty years, Harry Turtledove has been the acknowledged master of one of science fiction's most durable sub-genres: the tale of alternate history. In the course of an incredibly prolific career, Turtledove has created a host of brillian...

  • Three Miles Down

    From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal.It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA w...

  • Other Covenants

    What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or ...

  • Wages of Sin

    A terrifying tale about HIV spreading in the early sixteenth century by an author, Publisher Weekly calls “The Master of Alternate History.”What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine,...

  • Other People's Playgrounds

    Every now and then, writers get the chance to work in worlds they didn't create. This is uniquely enjoyable; it gives a writer the chance to pretend to be someone else, or to riff on somebody else's good idea. But these stories, however much fun they...

  • Twice as Dead

    Rudolf Sebestyen is missing, and Marianne Smalls is involved in an illicit affair with the shady Jonas Schmitt. Both cases converge when Dora Urban, Rudolf’s beautiful and mysterious half-sister, and Lamont Smalls, Marianne’s suspicious h...

  • Powerless

    When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People’s Democratic Republic, the breaking point co...

Award-Winning Books by Harry Turtledove

Down in the Bottomlands
1994 Hugo Award -- Novella
Fallout
2017 Dragon Award -- Alternate History Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Harry Turtledove has published 152 books.

The next book by Harry Turtledove, Powerless, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Harry Turtledove, The Road Not Taken, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Harry Turtledove has 17 series.
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