Harry Turtledove bibliography


Bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction writer Harry Turtledove:

Writing as Eric Iverson

''Elabon''

Set in a Bronze Age fantasy world, these stories follow Gerin the Fox as he tries to maintain order in the Northlands.Wereblood Werenight Prince of the North King of the North Fox and Empire
  • * Wisdom of the Fox
  • * ''Tale of the Fox''

Writing as H. N. Turteltaub

''[Hellenic Traders]''

This historical fiction series is about two cousins who are traveling merchants in the 4th-century BC Mediterranean.Over the Wine Dark Sea The Gryphon's Skull The Sacred Land Owls to Athens

Writing as Harry Turtledove

''[Videssos]''

The series is set in a world analogous to the real-life Byzantine Empire.
  • The Videssos cycle: One of Julius Caesar's legions is transported to a world that resembles the then-future Byzantine Empire but with magic.
  • * The Misplaced Legion
  • * An Emperor for the Legion
  • * The Legion of Videssos
  • * Swords of the Legion
  • The Tale of Krispos series
  • * Krispos Rising
  • * Krispos of Videssos
  • * Krispos the Emperor
  • The Time of Troubles series
  • * The Stolen Throne
  • * Hammer and Anvil
  • * The Thousand Cities
  • * Videssos Besieged
  • ''The Bridge of the Separator''

''Worldwar'' / ''Colonization''">Worldwar series">''Worldwar'' / ''Colonization''

The series incorporates elements of both science fiction and alternate history. In Worldwar, aliens invade during World War II in 1942. The Colonization trilogy deals with the course of history a generation after the initial series, as the humans and aliens work to share Earth. Homeward Bound follows a human spaceship that brings a delegation to the alien homeworld.Worldwar tetralogy

''Southern Victory">Southern Victory Series">Southern Victory''

Order 191 is never found by Union troops during the Maryland Campaign and so the Battle of Antietam never occurs. Instead, the Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee, marches into Pennsylvania, crushes George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac at Camp Hill, and proceeds to capture the city of Philadelphia. As a result, the Confederacy wins the War of Secession in 1862 with official recognition as an independent nation from Britain and France. Another popular moniker for the series is Timeline-191.How Few Remain

''Darkness / Derlavai / World at War">The Darkness Series">Darkness / Derlavai / World at War''

The fantasy series is about a global war that occurs in a world related to medieval Europe in which magic exists. Many plot elements are analogous to elements of World War II, with kingdoms and sorceries that are comparable to the historical nations and technologies.Into the Darkness Darkness Descending Through the Darkness Rulers of the Darkness Jaws of Darkness

''[War Between the Provinces]''

The fantasy series is based heavily on the American Civil War except that magic exists, the geography of the North and South have been reversed, and blond-haired serfs are featured rather than black slaves.Sentry Peak Marching Through Peachtree

''[Crosstime Traffic]''

Travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. It is a young adult fiction series and so racial slurs, profanity, and sex are considerably muted, compared to Turtledove's other work.Gunpowder Empire - the Roman Empire won an analog of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and still goes strong, but technology never advanced beyond the discovery of gunpowder.Curious Notions - the German Empire won a Blitzkrieg version of World War I in 1914.In High Places - the effects of the 14th century's bubonic plagues were doubled, so that the world never left the Middle Ages.The Disunited States of America - the United States did not form a federal government in 1787, and North America balkanized into several dozen nation-states who have periodic border wars.The Gladiator - the Soviet Union won the Cold War, and Italy became an inefficient impoverished communist nation.The Valley-Westside War - civilization remains at a quasi-medieval level since the nuclear world war of 1967.

''Days of Infamy">Days of Infamy series">Days of Infamy''

The Japanese Empire gains the initiative in the Pacific War by invading and occupying Hawaii immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor.Days of Infamy

''Atlantis">Atlantis (series)">Atlantis''

The trilogy describes a world in which the American East Coast, from the tip of Florida to Nova Scotia, broke away from the mainland around 85 million years ago and has an island biota that is similar to New Zealand's. It was discovered in 1452 by a Breton fisherman, François Kersauzon, and was named Atlantis. The seventh continent becomes a focal point in a gradually diverging timeline. Two short stories, "Audubon in Atlantis" and "The Scarlet Band," have been set in the milieu.Opening Atlantis The United States of Atlantis Liberating Atlantis Atlantis and Other Places contains "Audubon in Atlantis" and "The Scarlet Band" among ten other unrelated stories.
Opening Atlantis was nominated for the 2009 Prometheus Award.

''[Opening of the World]''

The trilogy describes a fantasy world in which inhabitants of an empire that is of the Iron Age but has Pleistocene wildlife explore a land uncovered by a receding glacier and then discover a threat to their national security.Beyond the Gap Breath of God
  • ''The Golden Shrine''

''[The War That Came Early]''

A hexalogy describing an alternate World War II which begins in 1938 over Czechoslovakia. The first volume, Hitler's War, was released in hardcover in 2009 without a series title. Hitler's War ; published in paperback as The War That Came Early: Hitler's War.West and East The Big Switch Coup d'Etat Two Fronts

''Supervolcano''

The trilogy has the Yellowstone Caldera erupt at some unspecified point in the future and covers the decade following the Eruption.Supervolcano: Eruption Supervolcano: All Fall Down
  • ''Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart''

''The Hot War''

Point of divergence: 1950. The Korean War escalates into World War III after Harry Truman allows Douglas MacArthur to use atomic bombs as the latter had wanted to, leading to a chain reaction of nuclear bomb attacks throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.Bombs Away Fallout
  • ''Armistice''

''State of Jefferson Stories''

First published in May 2016, the stories are set in a world in which Sasquatch, Yeti, Indonesian Hobbits, merfolk, and other cryptids are real or not extinct. Unlike common popular depictions of such creatures as less evolved primates, they are integrated into a world designed for ordinary humans. Like other ethnic minorities cryptids experience cultural assimilation and racial stereotyping, become less familiar with ancestral customs and languages, and interbreed with the majority.
In 1919 several counties in northern California and southern Oregon secede, forming the State of Jefferson. Neither the new state nor the earlier discovery of cryptids greatly affects United States or world history, with events such as the Chinese invasion of Tibet, 1973 oil crisis, and Iranian hostage crisis still occurring. Most American Sasquatch live in the state; although they are still a small minority, size is a protected class in Jefferson, with anti-discrimination law guaranteeing reasonable accommodation.
Most stories depict Governor Bill Williamson, Jefferson's second Sasquatch leader, who during the late 1970s and early 1980s meets Charles Kuralt, Jerry Turner, Nobuo Fujita and a Yeti Dalai Lama. From the state capital of Yreka he promotes his small, rural, and obscure state to the nation and world as an example of how different species can peacefully cooperate.
  • "Visitor from the East"
  • "Peace is Better"
  • "Typecasting"
  • "Three Men and a Sasquatch"
  • "Something Fishy"
  • "Always Something New"
  • "Tie a yellow ribbon"

Standalone books

Agent of Byzantium : Imperial Byzantine special agent Basil Argyros is sent on various missions in a world in which Muhammad became a Christian saint and so Islam never existed and the Byzantine Empire never declined—and also its arch-enemy, the Persian Sasanian Empire, surviving intact into the 13th century and beyond. A Different Flesh : A related set of short stories spanning the 17th to 20th centuries set in a universe in which, along with the prehistoric megafauna, the Native Americans are Homo erectus, who are known as "sims" to the colonists of English descent. Suggested by Turtledove's reading of Stephen Jay Gould, the novel's main theme is what effect the proximity of a closely related but significantly different species would have on how humans view themselves, one another, and the great chain of life.Noninterference : A human interstellar survey team violates a directive to avoid interference with alien civilizations, with disastrous long-term consequences. Republished in the collection 3xT.Kaleidoscope : A short-story collection, including "The Road Not Taken". Re-published in the collection 3xT.A World of Difference : In this alternative history story, the fourth planet of the Solar System is larger, and named Minerva instead of Mars. The Viking space probe of the 1970s sends back one picture—that of an alien creature swinging a stick—before losing contact. A U.S. mission and a Soviet mission are sent to explore the planet; both missions back rival primitive groups in a tribal war.Earthgrip : A woman whose desire is to teach a university course in Middle English Science Fiction joins a trader ship's crew, just to get something different on her curriculum vitae. Re-published in the collection 3xT.The Guns of the South : A science fiction/alternate history in which the Confederate army is supplied with AK-47s by time traveling members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging from the year 2014 and win the Civil War in 1864.The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump : EPA agent David Fisher battles displaced magical powers in a very creative sorcerous equivalent to late-20th century Los Angeles. He follows the evidence to a toxic spell dump, where dangerous remnants of industrial sorcery are stored.

Short stories

Nonfiction

The Chronicle of Theophanes, Harry Turtledove editor and translator, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. A translation of an important Byzantine historical text, completed soon after Harry Turtledove's PhD studies.

Web publishing

Winter of Our Discontent: The Impeachment and Trial of John F. Kennedy. Fragment of a novel, co-written with the television series creator Bryce Zabel. After John Kennedy survives the attack at Dealey Plaza unharmed, the resulting investigation sets events in motion that tear apart his administration. Zabel eventually published the final work as a solo project entitled Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Had Survived Dallas? in 2013.