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Hitler's War (2009)

This is actually a trilogy of which I read the first two books: "Hitler's War" and "West and East". The premise is simple: what if Chamberlain and Deladier refuse Hitler's demands at the Munich conference?As opposed to other Turtledove books where historic personalities have a major role in the s...

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Eruption (2011)

This was just okay. In a lot of ways, the plot was getting redundant; the characters were basically encountering the same situations and having the same, seemingly identical thoughts about the supervolcano. More than that, it seemed like the truly interesting stuff was happening off stage to othe...

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Supervolcano: Eruption (2000)

Harry, Harry, Harry. Harry, Harry. Harry.What have you become? What aberration is this? What has become of... How in Gods name can a novel about the eruption of a super volcano be as dull as volcanic ash?This books leaves you with more questions than "House of Leaves" and none of the questions ar...

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West and East (2010)

I enjoyed this book more than the first one, probably just because I was better at keeping all the characters straight. I thought the battle scenes were great, especially the U-boat operations, the tank-busting by the ace Junker pilot, and the Panzer team in action against the Red Army in Poland....

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La Battaglia Di Teutoburgo: Romanzo (2009)

DisappointingThe novel "Give me back my legions" by Harry Turtledove is disappointing. The author concentrates on the psychology of the two main characters Varus and Arminius, which starts to repeat after a while. Besides this the author forgets a lot of other important things. For example I woul...

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Liberating Atlantis (2009)

Turtledove takes the continent of Atlantis into a uniquely different type of civil war. It's 2 generations after the war of independence from England, and the slaves of southern Atlantis can't take more of the suffering they endure. When Frederick Radcliff, the descendant of the famous Victor R...

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Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History (2010)

A fun collection of short stories. The title is a bit of a misnomer, as two of the stories are set in Atlantis and tie into his Atlantis trilogy, the other 10 are not. I was expecting roughly half of the book to flesh out other times of the Atlantis timeline, with a sprinkling of other unrelate...

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The Grapple (2006)

Settling Accounts: The Grapple, by Harry Turtledove is the 3rd book in his alternate history series about WWII after the South won the civil war and has been the Confederate States of America ever since. I'm running out of things to say about this series that I haven't already mentioned in the r...

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Beyond the Gap (2007)

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, it’s the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now ...

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The Victorious Opposition (2004)

Part three of the "American Empire" trilogy show Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party taking control of the CSA, and the predictable reprocussions that happen as a result. It's clear that Turtledove knows his interwar history, and he brings all of that to bear here.There were two main problems...

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Return Engagement (2005)

From about 2001 to 2008, when I was still in high school and undergraduate studies, I was a voracious fan of Mr. Turtledove’s works. I completely finished his Worldwar saga, read all the way up through the American Empire trilogy, and devoured not a few of his single-shot novels. Now, after a hia...

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Breakthroughs (2001)

I'm not sure what I can say about 'Breakthroughs' that wasn't also true of the previous two installments in this series. It has a few interesting turns, and not alot of them I can talk about without disclosing the entirety of the books.In short, this deals with the alternate history in which the...

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Walk in Hell (2000)

Second of the Great War trilogy, and third overall of the eleven-book Southern Victory series - I have so many mixed emotions about the series at this point and just am not sure if I have the patience to continue.There are many things I like here. Harry Turtledove, first of all, knows his history...

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In the Balance (1996)

3.5 stars. This is Book 1 of Harry Turtledove’s massive alternate history WW2 epic and I will say at the outset that I definitely enjoyed this enough to go on to the next book. I was really torn between 3 and 4 stars on this one as I loved the premise and the set up but there were some slow parts...

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Sentry Peak (2002)

For three years, Detina has been wracked by civil war over freeing the blond serfs. Now two great armies move towards the mountain Sentry Peak for what will be a more desperate battle than either side realizes.

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Second Contact (2000)

This novel is the first in the Colonization Trilogy. Set in the 1960's, twenty years after the Second World War was interrupted by an alien invasion. There are still enormous enmities between the three super-powers; the United States, the German Reich, and the Soviet Union. But somehow the humans...

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Blood & Iron (2002)

This series continues to be as captivating as ever. I would say this volume of the series was even better than the previous, which kind of felt like it was dragging on a bit there at the end of the war. It was pretty mesmerizing in a horrifying way to see the watch the Freedom parties shooting ...

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Ruled Britannia (2006)

The premise of Harry Turtledove's alternate history tale, Ruled Britannia, is that the Spanish Armada did manage to take over England in 1588. Philip II installs his daughter Isabella and her consort Albert on the throne of England, imprisons Elizabeth in the Tower, and returns England to Catholi...

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Departures (1993)

What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such "what ifs" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future. Persia has conquered Greece; Athens is...

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Conan of Venarium (2004)

A new Conan adventure--from one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF!For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. Sprague ...

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Krispos Rising (1991)

Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empires health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep. Driven by crushing taxes from the farm where his family had lived -- and died -- Krispos had ...

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Jaws of Darkness (2004)

I should say I thoroughly enjoy this series, but I'd hesitate to call them 'great' books. They are very entertaining. I won't do a review of all 6 just now because I've been reading them on something like 6 month intervals (the books themselves don't take too long to read). Obviously if you've re...

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The Legion of Videssos (1987)

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 Thorish Gavras on the throne. That, of course, made him a hero.Rome or Vid...

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American Front (1999)

This is the second book in the TL-191 series and the first in the American Front trilogy.The world of "How Few Remain" is now experiencing its equivalent of World War I. The tensions in Europe played out in the same way as in our world, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Serbia trigg...

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Krispos the Emperor (1994)

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 the rebels, one son disappears into the rebel ...

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Homeward Bound (2005)

A volte è proprio vero che attendere tanto di vedere, fare, leggere qualcosa può portare a non gustarsela appieno: sarà l'aspettativa, sarà la curiosità, sarà quel che volete, ma effettivamente può capitare.Per me è stato così con l'ultimo volume della seconda saga dell'Invasione scritta da Harry...

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The Center Cannot Hold (2003)

This was an alternative history book set mostly in the early 1900s in what we know as the US and Canada but in this book things are quite different. It was a fairly good read even though I didn't read its predecessors. I am going to defer to the description found a the web site listed here for a...

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Drive to the East (2006)

Only two books to go!I've been reading this alternate history series—which began with How Few Remain (a tale of the Second Mexican War, a conflict begun between the USA and CSA in the 1880s over the CSA's annexing two Mexican provinces)—since I was a sophomore in high school. (How Few Remain begi...

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A World of Difference (2005)

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 the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol...

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The Scepter's Return (2005)

My brief review of "The Bastard King" really applies to the entire trilogy. I have to go on a minor rant about the publisher. The first two novels were listed as being by "Dan Chernenko." So naturally, when I went looking for the third novel, I looked in the C's in the fantasy/SF section of my lo...

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Tilting the Balance (1997)

Il ciclo dell'invasione di Harry Turtledove, lo scrittore statunitense nato a Los Angeles nel 1949 che è comunemente considerato un autore di allostorie, è una saga fantascientifica che è stata scritta tra il 1994 e il 1996 e ambientata nel corso della seconda guerra mondiale, mescolando elementi...

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Upsetting the Balance (1997)

When it comes to critiquing Harry Turtledove’s ability in crafting alternate history, I must echo the old SNL skit characters of “Wayne’s World” in saying, “I’m not worthy!” Those who follow my reviews know that I don’t care for the hopscotch nature of “epic” novels but that I am willing to slog ...

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Into the Darkness (2000)

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 the other countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate. As nation after nation d...

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Darkness Descending (2000)

This part 2 of Harry Turtledove's "Darkness," series. I guess there are six in the series. I started reading this one right after I read volume One. I got involved and finished it fairly quickly.This is a fantasy novel, written with Turtledove's usual exactness and attention to detail. It is a ve...

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The Guns of the South (1997)

Harry Turtledove, The Guns Of The SouthEarns his alternate history reputationI've been interested in the alternate history genre, and finally picked up some Turtledove. (The local library had a copy, and this is a standalone book, as opposed to starting one of his big series in the middle)The sto...

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An Emperor for the Legion (1987)

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 this strange world of magic.Wearily, Tribune Marcus Scaurus led his men thr...

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Wisdom of the Fox (1999)

All Gerin the Fox ever wanted to do was go down to the City of Elabon and study. Life made other plans. When the barbarous Trokmoi killed his father and older brother, he became Baron of Fox Keep, warring against not only the Trokmoi and their fearsome evil wizard but also against the Empire of E...

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A Different Flesh (1988)

I enjoyed the book. The (individual) stories (chapters) were well put together, and showed a pattern of progress over time with regard to human rights and sim(homoerectus) rights. Slavery of blacks ended much earlier, and in a more peaceful way in the book, than in our history. The author impl...

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In the Presence of Mine Enemies (2004)

This book seemed interesting. It wasn't. It had incredibly long passages of intricately detailed bridge games. (Yes, bridge games. And not "high stakes bridge" or anything like that. The book wasn't set at a bridge tournament. It was just two main characters and their wives getting together to pl...

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Swords of the Legion (1987)

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 betrayed, Emperor Thorisin Gavras was forced to condemn Marcus as a trait...

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The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001)

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, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have e...

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Days of Infamy (2005)

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of the...

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Alternate Generals (1998)

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 had -- Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run, and Lincoln had become a Confederate pri...

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The Chernagor Pirates (2004)

The longer the Kings go without acting on their dream of retaking the Scepter of Mercy, the greater the advantage the Banished One gains. King Grus will have to act quickly-before his people realize just how formidable an enemy the Banished One truly is...

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Opening Atlantis (2007)

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove has intrigued readers with such thought-provoking "what if..." scenarios as a conquered Elizabethan England in Ruled Britannia and a Japanese occupation of Hawaii in Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning. Now, in the first of a brand-new trilog...

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The Misplaced Legion (1987)

Before Harry Turtledove became obsessed with writing - and rewriting- alternative versions of the Second World War, he was a notable scholar of Byzantine history, which led him to write the Videssos series, and entertaining saga that turns away from the usual Northern Europeans-folklore influence...

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Down in the Bottomlands and Other Places (1999)

In our world, the Mediterranean basin dried up, only to refill again. If it hadn't, that sea bottom would have become the most savage desert in the world. In his world, mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes it that way. When his kingdom's enemies try to shake down the Barrier Mountains and let th...

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The Gladiator (2011)

Irregular Russian verbs drove her crazy. She consoled herself that things could have been worse. Comrade Montefusco said that Polish, a close cousin to Russian, had separate masculine, feminine, and neuter forms for verbs. Annarita tried to imagine little children learning a language that complic...

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Typecasting

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Two Fronts

Aristide Demange had only contempt for the Belgians. Demange had plenty of that for the whole human race, but his reasons for scorning the Belgians were different. Like some Swiss and Canadians, they had the gall to speak French without being part of France. And they were ...

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Videssos Cycle, Volume 1 (2013)

RESAINA FALLEN TO THE YEZDA?” GAIUS PHILIPPUS WAS SAYING to Viridovix, astonishment in his voice. “Where did you hear that?” “One o’ the sailor lads it was told me, last night over knucklebones. Aye, it’s certain sure, he says. What with their moving around so much and all, those sailors get the ...

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American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

Scipio laid on his Low Country accent even thicker than usual. “Ah ain’t nevah done one lick o’ work, not since de day you hire me. Ah jus’ eats yo’ food an’ drinks yo’ coffee an’ steals yo’ smokes.” He held out his hand, pale palm up, for a cigarette. Laughing, Erasmus gave him one, then lea...

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Videssos Cycle, Volume 2 (2013)

“You’re too tall,” she said. “My neck gets stiff when I kiss you.” “Make yourself used to it, girleen, for you’ll be doing a lot of it after we’re back from the squashing o’ that flea of a Varatesh,” the Gaul answered. A measure of his fancy for her was that he passed up the obvious bawdy comebac...

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The War That Came Early: West and East (2010)

Sergei Yaroslavsky had always thought the Soviet General Staff would have done better to get up in a plane every once in a while to look at the battlefield as if it were a chessboard. Russian chess players amazed the world. So, sometimes, did the Red Army, but not in such a happy way. Sergei had ...

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Down in The Bottomlands

From under the long brim of his cap, Radnal vez Krobir looked them over, comparing them with previous groups he'd led through Trench Park. About average, he decided: an old man spending money before he died; younger folks searching for adventure in an overcivilized world; a few who didn't fit int...

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The Man with the Iron Heart (2008)

Food was still rationed. So was coal. People wore greatcoats even indoors. Demobilized soldiers seemed to huddle in theirs as they ambled along looking for work—but jobs were as hard to come by as everything else in Britain these days. Police Constable Cedric Mitchell counted himself lucky. He’d ...

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Last Orders: The War That Came Early

Somewhere up ahead, there always seemed to be more Germans. Ivan Kuchkov had started to think the Hitlerites stamped out soldiers in a factory somewhere near Berlin. He shared the conceit with the men in his section. He gave them orders; they were stuck listening to him unless they really wanted ...

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The Tale of Krispos (2007)

GNATIOS SHIVERED IN HIS BLUE robe as he walked up to the imperial residence. The troop of Halogai who surrounded him—Krispos was taking no chances on any schemes the ex-patriarch might have hatched—bore the nasty weather with the resigned air of men who had been through worse. Krispos met Gnatios...

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The Breath of God

He hadn’t expected to make their personal acquaintance. Wasn’t a big part of real life the difference between what you expected and what you got? Fighting a dozen guards would have been suicidally stupid. Hamnet took a certain dour satisfaction in noting how astonished Kormak Bersi seemed when th...

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Down to Earth (2002)

In an odd sort of way, he was loyal to the United States. After all, if this not-empire hadn’t taken him in, Atvar would have given him a very hard time. And Yeager was a friend, even if he was a Big Ugly. But those weren’t the main reasons he’d kept quiet about that business. His main concern wa...

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Striking the Balance (2002)

The sharp click of the lock to the inner door, though, brought him up to his feet from the hard floor, his eye turrets swiveling wildly as he tried to see what was going on. Next to no light came through the narrow window that illuminated and ventilated his cell.Fear coursed through him. The Big ...

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How Few Remain (1997)

The Chicago street was so narrow, it still blocked traffic. Behind it, the fellow atop a four-horse wagon full of sacks of cement bellowed angrily. So did a man in a houndstooth sack suit whizzing past on an ordinary. The cab driver said, “That’s sixty-five cents, pal. Pay up, so I can get the he...

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Short Stories

The synchronicity of the story on the radio about an arrest stemming from an event of decades past and the unsettling story in this magazine seems to prove that some historical incidents will haunt us for years to come. Harry’s newest book, Settling Accounts: Drive to the East will be out in Augu...

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Blood and Iron (2008)

The commander of U.S. forces in Canada was scribbling changes on a report Dowling had typed. Some of them, Dowling saw, reversed changes he’d made in an earlier report. Usually, that would have infuriated Custer’s adjutant—not that Dowling could do anything about it. Today, though, he felt uncomm...

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Cayos in the Stream (2013)

All the good stories start that way. When you do it the first time, you think all the good stories end And they lived happily ever after. That is how the fairy tales go, right? Only this is not a fairy tale. This is life. You fall in love. You fall out of love. You fall in...

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Aftershocks (2002)

“How am I supposed to get anywhere if the roads are all kaputt?” the Jewish fighting leader muttered. Burnt-out trucks made the asphalt impassable. These particular vehicles were of human manufacture, but he had to look closely to see which side had used them. The Lizards had pressed plenty of hu...

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Atlantis and Other Places (2010)

That term is idiot. If you doubt it, remember that I wrote “Bedfellows” and I wrote this one. It wonders how World War II might have gone were the American media in those days as, mm, unconstrained as they are now. I like writing pastiche. This piece let me impersonate both Edward R. Murrow and E...

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We Install

PETER’S I mostly don’t do secret histories, the kind of stories where, though everything works out the way we all remember, the forces creating the working are altogether different from and stranger than the ones we think we understand. I usually prefer to leave the forces and to change the resul...

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The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century

The novel, and its sequels Ringworld Engineers and The Ringworld Throne, are part of Niven’s vast Tales of Known Space saga, an acclaimed future history of interstellar space that has accommodated a wide variety of themes including alien culture, immortality, time travel, terraforming, genetic en...

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All Fall Down (2012)

Snow on the mountains ahead of her. They weren’t great big mountains—nothing like the Rockies when you saw them from Denver—and didn’t look as if they ought to have snow so far down them. This was only a little north of the Mexican border, after all, and it was allegedly spring. ...

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In at the Death (2007)

The skies over North Carolina had been lousy with damnyankee fighter-bombers coming down from the north. Now that he’d crossed into South Carolina, the skies were lousy with damnyankee fighter-bombers coming up from the south. He and the handful of loyalists who clung to him through thick and thi...

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The War That Came Early: The Big Switch

So far, Hans-Ulrich Rudel had resisted temptation. He didn’t drink anything they sold in a Polish tavern. Women … Going to an officers’ brothel was always a way to let off steam, as it had been in the Low Countries and France. Up till now, he’d stayed away here. “It’s not bad,” another pilot from...

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The House of Daniel

The land climbs as you go down US 67. I wasn’t sorry to get away from Fort Stockton, not even a little bit. I saw more ditchside shanties while we were on the irrigated land around the town. Had any of the peons who lived in them scraped together fifty cents to watch the Panthers play us? Had the...

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The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat (2012)

He was a Frenchman and a Jew, so he sure thought he did, anyhow. “Marshal Sanjurjo inspects the Madrid front every so often,” he said. “The Nationalists still don’t realize everything your elephant gun can do. Put a round through his giblets at a kilometer and a half and watch the assholes on the...

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Joe Steele (2015)

They were somewhere west of Livingston, Montana. Mike had seen the sign announcing the name of the town through the shutters the guards had put over the windows. He was convinced that wasn’t because they didn’t want the prisoners seeing out. No—it was because they didn’t want ordinary people look...

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Bombs Away (2015)

Konrad Adenauer still wasn’t calling it an army, but it sure looked like one to Gustav Hozzel. He, of course, was on the inside looking out. However much it looked like an army, it didn’t look like the old Wehrmacht. The men wore American olive drab, not Feldgrau. They wore U.S. rank badges on th...

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Something Going Around

My office is in the Languages Building—excuse me, the Randall J. Simonson Foundation Languages Building. You lose points if you forget to name the benefactor. The university knows which side its bread is buttered on. Oh, you bet it does. When there’s butter. Hell, when there’s bread. By the time ...

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