Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer who Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove’s works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the standalone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.
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Manuscript Tradition
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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....
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Three Bill Williamson Stories
State of Jefferson Stories
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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Through Darkest Europe
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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State of Jefferson Stories
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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The House of Daniel
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
From Harry Turtledove, “the Master of Alternate History,” comes a tale of minor league baseball set in an alternate Great Depression America full of wild magic
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Something Going Around
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
From the Hugo-winning, bestselling author of The Guns of the South, a tale of love, parasitism, and loss in this Tor.Com Original Something Going Around, by Harry Turtledove.
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The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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 The Eighth-Grade...
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Cayos in the Stream
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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The Running of the Bulls
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition
A Tor.Com Original
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky, with stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Alan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Michael Swanwick and Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park,...
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Lee at the Alamo
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South, 1992), here returns with Lee at the Alamo, a look...
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The Disunited States of America
Crosstime Traffic
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Teen
In Harry Turtledove's The Disunited States of America, Justin's having the worst trip ever. He and his mother are Time Traders, traveling undercover to different alternate realities of Earth...
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Shtetl Days
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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The House That George Built
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
Harry Turtledove's The House That George Built is an atonishing short story set in an alternative world, a Tor.com Original
One February morning, the famous newspaperman...
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The Star and the Rockets
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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Vilcabamba
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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We Haven't Got There Yet
A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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Give Me Back My Legions!
Harry Turtledove
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Griffin
Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome: Give Me...
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Gunpowder Empire
Crosstime Traffic
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
The launch of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure from "the modern master of alternate history" (Publishers Weekly)
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Jaws of Darkness
Darkness
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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The Breath of God
Opening of the World
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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The Golden Shrine
Opening of the World
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
In this sequel to Beyond the Gap, the glacier retreats, and a new tribe, "The Rulers," ride attack. Their weapons and magic shatter the Empire and only Count Hamnet Thyssen and his small band can save their lands. But first they must seek out the legendary Golden Shrine – and the Golden Shrine has not been seen by human eyes since the time before the glaciers came.
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The Valley-Westside War
Crosstime Traffic
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
Racing to discover what destroyed a world — in the latest novel of Crosstime Traffic
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The Gladiator
Crosstime Traffic
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
Adventure between worlds in the latest novel of "Crosstime Traffic"
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Fort Pillow
Harry Turtledove
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Griffin
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...
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Darkness Descending
Darkness
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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....
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Out of the Darkness
Darkness
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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,...
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Through the Darkness
Darkness
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
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...
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Beyond the Gap
Opening of the World
Harry Turtledove
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
Bronze Age meets Ice Age in a compelling new alternate-history adventure from the author of The Guns of the South
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