The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
 Amazon.com Review: What if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they might be, they inspired some of the previous century's most [... more]
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Tale of the Fox
A different Turtledove: The fox was a welcome break from recent books by Mr. Turtledove. Do not get me wrong -- I enjoy his recent alternate reality series, especially Darkness and Worldwar/Colonization. Nevertheless i was pleasantly surprised with the [... more]
$6.99
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Beyond the Gap (Opening of the World)
A bit of a disappointment: The glacier has been retreating for as long as anyone can remember, but it will always be there, right? There cannot be anything beyond the glacier. But, when a nomadic Bizogot chieftain comes to the capital of the Raumsdalian [... more]
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American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
Setup for war: "The Victorious Opposition" moves the final pieces on the board into place. War is ready to begin. The United States, weakened by Socialism, is ill-prepared but beginning to catch up on its military. The Confederates, who have [... more]
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Out of the Darkness
War is over, darkness remains: Harry Turtledove's magical allegory of World War Two concludes with Out of the Darkness, and much like in the real world, when the war ends, peace doesn't necessarily begin. Algarve has been crushed and occupied. King [... more]
$7.99
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The Gladiator (Crosstime Traffic)
Static society: Turtledove's juvenile alternate worlds series has had a pattern until now - teenagers from the "home timeline" of the late 21st century (whose past looks very much like our world) travel to an alternate world, have a romantic [... more]
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Return Engagement (Settling Accounts Trilogy, Book 1)
One more war: Harry Turtledove returns to two of his favorite alternate history topics: the American Civil War and World War Two, is "Settling Accounts: Return Engagement." Under command of Gen. George Patton, the Confederates have swarmed into [... more]
$26.95
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Conan of Venarium
Super Reader: While Conan of Venarium is readable enough, the boy band reject on the cover, and the scence of Conan chopping the vegetables in the kitchen alongside his ailing mother are all rather incongruous, and I am sure I am not the only one that [... more]
$6.99
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Down to Earth (Colonization, Book 2)
Amazon.com Review: Colonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the [... more]
$26.00
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Breakthroughs (The Great War, Book 3)
Satisfying conclusion to Turtledove's alternative Great War: This book represents the final volume in Harry Turtledove's trilogy-within-a-tetralogy alternative history series about a world where the United States and Confederate States of America [... more]
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Darkness Descending (World at War, Book 2)
Amazon.com Review: In recent years, Harry Turtledove has specialized in alternate-history novels in which World War II, say, is grimly complicated by the arrival of invading alien reptiloids; the fantasy sequence that started with Into the Darkness and [... more]
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Worlds That Weren't
Amazon.com Review: Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, [... more]
$6.99
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