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 (1979)
• Werenight (1979, revised in 1994 to include Wereblood)
• Prince of the North (1994) (as by Harry Turtledove)
• King of the North (1996) (as by Harry Turtledove)
• Fox and Empire (1998) (as by Harry Turtledove)
  • Wisdom of the Fox (1999, collects the revised Werenight and Prince of the North) (as by Harry Turtledove)
  • Tale of the Fox (2000, collects King of the North and Fox and Empire) (as by Harry Turtledove)

Writing as H. N. Turteltaub

• Justinian (1998)

Hellenic Traders

This

• Over the Wine Dark Sea (2001)
• The Gryphon's Skull (2002)
• The Sacred Land (2003)
• Owls to Athens (2004)
• Salamis (2020)

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
    (1987)
  • An Emperor for the Legion (1987)
  • The Legion of Videssos (1987)
  • Swords of the Legion (1987)
• The Tale of Krispos series
  • Krispos Rising (1991)
  • Krispos of Videssos (1991)
  • Krispos the Emperor (1994)
• The Time of Troubles series
  • The Stolen Throne (1995)
  • Hammer and Anvil (1996)
  • The Thousand Cities (1997)
  • Videssos Besieged (1998)
• The Bridge of the Separator (2005)

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
  • In the Balance (1994)
  • Tilting the Balance (1995)
  • Upsetting the Balance (1996)
  • Striking the Balance (1996)
• Colonization trilogy
  • Second Contact (1999)
  • Down to Earth (2000)
  • Aftershocks (2001)
• Homeward Bound (2004)

Southern Victory

• How Few Remain (1997)
• The Great War trilogy
  • American Front (1998)
  • Walk in Hell (1999)
  • Breakthroughs (2000)
• The American Empire trilogy
  • Blood and Iron (2001)
  • The Center Cannot Hold (2002)
  • The Victorious Opposition (2003)
• The Settling Accounts tetralogy
  • Return Engagement (2004)
  • Drive to the East (2005)
  • The Grapple (2006)
  • In at the Death (2007)

Darkness / Derlavai

The fantasy series is about a

• Into the Darkness (1999)
• Darkness Descending (2000)
• Through the Darkness (2001)
• Rulers of the Darkness (2002)
• Jaws of Darkness (2003)
• Out of the Darkness (2004)

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

• Sentry Peak (2000)
• Marching Through Peachtree (2001)
• Advance and Retreat (2002)

Crosstime Traffic

Travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. It is a

• Gunpowder Empire (2003) - 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 (2004) - the German Empire won a Blitzkrieg version of World War I in 1914.
• In High Places (2006) - 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 (2006) - 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 (2007) - the Soviet Union won the Cold War, and Italy became an inefficient impoverished communist nation.
• The Valley-Westside War (2008) - civilization remains at a quasi-medieval level since the nuclear world war of 1967.

Days of Infamy

The

• Days of Infamy (2004)
• End of the Beginning (2005)

Atlantis

The trilogy describes a world in which the

• Opening Atlantis (2007)
• The United States of Atlantis (2008)
• Liberating Atlantis (2009)
• Atlantis and Other Places (2010) contains "Audubon in Atlantis" and "The Scarlet Band" (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of A Study in Scarlet and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" in which the Dr. Watson analog repeatedly voices racial concepts common to that time) among ten other unrelated stories.

Opening Atlantis was nominated for the 2009 Prometheus Award.^[1]

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 (2007)
• Breath of God (2008)
• The Golden Shrine (2009)

The War That Came Early

A

• Hitler's War
  (2009); published in paperback as The War That Came Early: Hitler's War (2010).
• West and East (2010)^[2]
• The Big Switch (2011)^[3]
• Coup d'Etat (2012)
• Two Fronts (2013)
• Last Orders (2014)^[4]

Supervolcano

The trilogy has the Yellowstone Caldera erupt at some unspecified point in the future and covers the decade following the Eruption.

• Supervolcano: Eruption (2011)
• Supervolcano: All Fall Down (2012)
• Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart (2013)^[5]

The Hot War

Point of divergence: 1950. The

• "Visitor from the East" (May 2016)
• "Peace is Better" (May 2016)
• "Typecasting" (June 2016; set at the 1980 Ashland Shakespeare Festival)
• "Three Men and a Sasquatch" (January 2019)
• "Something Fishy" (January 2020)
• "Always Something New" (January 2020; set the day of the 1980 United States presidential election)
• "Tie a yellow ribbon" (January 2020; set after the
  Iranian hostage crisis
  )

Standalone books

• 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 (1988): 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 (1988): 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 (1990): A short-story collection, including "The Road Not Taken
  ". Re-published in the collection 3xT.
• A World of Difference (1990): In this alternative history story, the fourth planet of our 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 (1991): 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 (1992): 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 (1993): 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.
• Departures
  (1993): A short story collection
• stays dry to the present day. The dry sea basin is a large canyon containing a national park, and a strongbrow
  who works as a park ranger must race to stop terrorists from letting in the Atlantic and flooding the area.
• The Two Georges (1995) alternate history/mystery, co-authored with Richard Dreyfuss: Set in 1995 in a world in which the American Revolution was peacefully avoided. The painting that symbolizes the union between North America and the United Kingdom is stolen by the terrorist group known as the Sons of Liberty, who want independence from the British Empire. Officers of the Royal American Mounted Police must find it before it is destroyed.
• Thessalonica (1997): Early Christians in the Greek city of
  Thessalonica deal with barbarian invaders on both physical and metaphysical levels (the book was inspired by the Medieval Miracles of Saint Demetrius
  ).
• Between the Rivers (1998): Taking place in a fantasy realm equivalent to ancient Mesopotamia, city-states ruled by different gods fight for dominance.
• Justinian (1998): Fictionalized account (with some speculation involved) of the life of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II—using the H. N. Turteltaub pseudonym.
• Household Gods (1999); co-written with Judith Tarr; science fiction/alternate history: A modern California lawyer finds herself in the Roman Empire of Marcus Aurelius.
• Counting Up, Counting Down (2002): A short story collection.
• The Daimon (2002): A novella included in the alternate history collections Worlds That Weren't and Atlantis and Other Places. It describes a world in which the
  Persian Empire about 80 or 90 years before it happened in our history
  .
• Elizabeth I
  .
• Marranos
  in Spain.
• Conan of Venarium (2003): An authorized prequel to Robert E. Howard's tales of Conan the Barbarian depicts a 14-year-old Conan's resistance to the imperialist legions who occupy his village.
• Every Inch a King (ISFiC Press) (2005): An acrobat becomes king of a small country. Although set in a fantasy world, it is analogous to the real-world, this time in the Balkans between the First and the Second Balkan Wars. Shqiperi is modeled on Albania, and the story itself is modeled on the story of Otto Witte.
• Fort Pillow (2006): A historical novel detailing the Battle of Fort Pillow.
• "Under Saint Peter's" (2007): Short story found in The Secret History of Vampires (edited by Darrell Schweitzer) and We Install and Other Stories. This is Turtledove's rare concession to the secret history genre, which he professes to have little interest in writing. In 2005, viewpoint character Pope Benedict XVI (unnamed but recognizable) is led by an eccentric priest to a secret bunker under the Vatican for a little-known initiation that is undertaken by each new pontiff since the days of Saint Peter.
• Allied occupation of Germany
  . Turtledove mixes information gleaned from authentic German documents and intentions with another historical transplant, which in this case is the Iraqi insurgency of 2003 being transplanted to mid-1940s Germany.
• After the Downfall (2008): A Wehrmacht officer is transported into a fantasy world during the Fall of Berlin at the end of World War II. The story resembles the formula of Edgar Rice Burroughs and L. Sprague de Camp, mixed with Turtledove's usual allegorism as the central character sees parallels between the politics and notions of his new world and those of the world he just left.
• Reincarnations (2009): A limited edition hardcover containing eight stories, including six never before reprinted and one original story.
• Give Me Back My Legions! (2009): A historical novel detailing the events leading up to the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, as well as the battle itself.
• New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is ended by a fire at the New York State Executive Mansion, the Democratic Party has little choice but to nominate the up and coming Steele as its candidate for the 1932 Presidential election. The novel mirrors Stalin's real world acts with actions taken by Steele through the Great Depression, the lead-up to World War II
  , and the ensuing Cold War through the eyes of a president with the soul of a tyrant.
• The House of Daniel (2016). Historical fantasy: during the Great Depression, a young "Okie" joins the roving church-sponsored baseball team of the title. As the team travels to play against the home teams of various western American towns, the young man learns about the culture of the towns they visit and has passing encounters with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and other magical beings.
• Through Darkest Europe (2018): Set in modern times in which Islam developed science, technology, and enlightenment, but Western Europe remained a hotbed of Christian fundamentalism. The working title for the book was God Wills It.
• Alpha and Omega (2019): A depiction of the End of Days, based on Christian legend.
• And the Last Trump Shall Sound (2020), co-authored with James K. Morrow and Cat Rambo: Set in an alternate future where Donald Trump was reelected in 2020.
• Or Even Eagle Flew (2021): Amelia Earhart does not go missing in 1937 and later joins the Eagle Squadrons of the British Royal Air Force to fight against the Nazis in World War II.
• The Best of Harry Turtledove. A short story collection.
• Three Miles Down (2022): A first contact story set in the 1970s.