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Harry Turtledove is an American author that writes alternate historical fiction. Born in 1949 in Los Angeles, his grandparents (Romanian Jews) lived in Winnipeg (Manitoba) before moving to the United States. Turtledove started writing at 12.
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Order of Gerin The Fox Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Wereblood | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Werenight (Short Story) | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Prince of the North | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
4 | King of the North | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Fox and Empire | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Wisdom of the Fox | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Tale of the Fox | 2000 | Description / Buy |
Order of Videssos Cycle Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Misplaced Legion | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
2 | An Emperor for the Legion | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Legion of Videssos | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Swords of the Legion | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Bridge of the Separator | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Tale Of Krispos Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Krispos Rising | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Krispos of Videssos | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Krispos the Emperor | 1994 | Description / Buy |
Order of Worldwar Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | In the Balance | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Tilting the Balance | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Upsetting the Balance | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Striking the Balance | 1996 | Description / Buy |
Order of Time Of Troubles Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Stolen Throne | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Hammer and Anvil | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Thousand Cities | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Videssos Besieged | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Order of Southern Victory Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | How Few Remain | 1997 | Description / Buy |
Order of Great War Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | American Front | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Walk in Hell | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Breakthroughs | 2000 | Description / Buy |
Order of Alternate Generals Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Alternate Generals | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Alternate Generals II | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Alternate Generals III | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Darkness Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Into the Darkness | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Darkness Descending | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Through the Darkness | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Rulers of the Darkness | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Jaws of Darkness | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Out of the Darkness | 2004 | Description / Buy |
Order of Colonization Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Second Contact | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Down to Earth | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Aftershocks | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of War Between The Provinces Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Sentry Peak | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Marching Through Peachtree | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Advance and Retreat | 2002 | Description / Buy |
Order of American Empire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Blood & Iron | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Center Cannot Hold | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Victorious Opposition | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hellenic Traders Series as H.N. Turteltaub
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Over the Wine-Dark Sea | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Gryphon's Skull | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Sacred Land | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Owls to Athens | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Salamis | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Scepter Of Mercy Series as Dan Chernenko
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Bastard King | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Chernagor Pirates | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Scepter's Return | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Crosstime Traffic Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Gunpowder Empire | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Curious Notions | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | In High Places | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Disunited States of America | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Gladiator | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Valley-Westside War | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of Settling Accounts Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Return Engagement | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Drive to the East | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Grapple | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
4 | In at the Death | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Days Of Infamy / Pacific War Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Days of Infamy | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | End of the Beginning | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Gap / Opening Of The World Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Beyond the Gap | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Breath of God | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Golden Shrine | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of Atlantis Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Opening Atlantis | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The United States of Atlantis | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Liberating Atlantis | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Atlantis and Other Places | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of War That Came Early Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Hitler's War | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | West and East | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Big Switch | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Coup d'Etat | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Two Fronts | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Last Orders | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Supervolcano Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Eruption | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | All Fall Down | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Things Fall Apart | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hot War Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Bombs Away | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Fallout | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Armistice | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Harry Turtledove Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Noninterference | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Agent of Byzantium | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Different Flesh | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Kaleidoscope | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
5 | A World of Difference | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Earthgrip | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Guns of the South | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Departures | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Two Georges | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Thessalonica | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Between the Rivers | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Justinian | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Household Gods | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
15 | After the Downfall | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Ruled Britannia | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
17 | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Homeward Bound | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Every Inch a King | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Fort Pillow | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Man with the Iron Heart | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Give Me Back My Legions! | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Joe Steele | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The House of Daniel | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Through Darkest Europe | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Alpha and Omega | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Or Even Eagle Flew (Short Story) | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Three Miles Down | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Wages of Sin | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Twice as Dead | 2025 | Description / Buy | |
31 | City in Chains | 2025 | Description / Buy |
Order of Harry Turtledove Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Counting Up, Counting Down | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | We Install and Other Stories | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Other People's Playgrounds | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Harry Turtledove Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Down in the Bottomlands (in Analog) (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Must and Shall (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Forty, Counting Down (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Vilcabamba (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Lee at the Alamo (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Something Going Around (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Hail! Hail! | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Manuscript Tradition (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
10 | No Period (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of War World Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Burning Eye | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Death's Head Rebellion (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Sauron Dominion | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Codominium | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Blood Feuds | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Invasion | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Blood Vengeance | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Discovery | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Takeover | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Lidless Eye | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Battle of Sauron | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Cyborg Revolt | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Jihad! | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Patriotic Wars | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Falkenberg's Regiment | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Fall of the CoDominium | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Andromeda Flight | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
18 | War World Concordance | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Road Warrior | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Falkenberg Protectorate | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Exiled Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clan of the Claw | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | By Tooth and Claw | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Adventures of Conan Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Conan the Invincible | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Conan The Defender | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Conan the Triumphant | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Conan the Unconquered | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Conan the Victorious | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Conan the Magnificent | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Conan the Destroyer | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Conan the Valorous | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The New Adventures of Conan | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Conan The Raider | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Conan the Fearless | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Conan The Renegade | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Conan the Champion | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Conan the Defiant | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Conan, The Marauder | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Conan the Warlord | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Conan the Valiant | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Conan the Great | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Conan The Hero | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Conan the Bold | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Conan the Indomitable | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Conan The Free Lance | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Conan the Formidable | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Conan the Guardian | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Conan the Outcast | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Conan the Rogue | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Conan the Relentless | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Conan The Savage | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Conan and the Treasure of Python | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Conan of the Red Brotherhood | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Conan and the Gods of the Mountain | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Conan and the Manhunters | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Conan The Hunter | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Conan Scourge of Bloody Coast | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Conan at the Demon's Gate | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Conan Chronicles | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Conan and the Amazon | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Conan The Gladiator | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Conan and the Mists of Doom | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Conan and the Emerald Lotus | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Conan and the Shaman's Curse | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Conan Lord of the Black River | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Conan and the Grim Grey God | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Conan of Venarium | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Harry Turtledove Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 1986 | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Friends of the Horseclans II | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Alternatives | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Weird Tales #296: Spring 1990 | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
6 | After the King | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1992 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Time Machines | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Nebula Awards 32: SFWA’s Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
10 | We Could Do Worse: A Millennial Collection of Alternate Histories | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Meditations on Middle-Earth | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Worlds That Weren't | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
17 | New Magics | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
19 | I, Alien | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Space Cadets | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
23 | This Is My Funniest | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Federations | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The Time Traveler's Almanac | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Multiverse | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Field of Fantasies | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Alternate Peace | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
33 | And the Last Trump Shall Sound | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Leviathans: Armored Skies | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Conversations From the Edge: The Galaxy's Edge Interviews | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 | 2023 | Description / Buy |
At the time, he was quite enamored with Science Fiction and Fantasy. The fact that he would grow up to become the so-called Lord of Alternate History never occurred to him, not at that tender age. The author wasn’t even a fan of history. He barely noticed the subject in school.
Turtledove’s journey into publishing and Alternate history, in particular, begun with ‘Lest Darkness Fall’ by L Sprague de Camp. Harry Turtledove was 14 when he came across the novel. Books like ‘The Man in the High Castle’ and ‘World’s of the Imperium’ cemented his love for alternate history but de Camp is responsible for sparking it in the first place.
The magic of ‘Lest Darkness Fall’ lay in the fact that Turtledove couldn’t determine how much of de Camp’s words were fiction. This changed his perception of history. The author felt compelled to delve into the subject with added fervor.
By 16, Turtledove had written an alternative history novel of his own. It wasn’t that good but it was a decent start. Initially drawn to science, the novelist was only enrolled at Caltech for a year before dropping out. Turtledove would like to think that he was driven by passion and nothing else to leave Caltech for UCLA.
But, in truth, he couldn’t do calculus, and the hours, days, and weeks he spent reading The Lord of the Rings did nothing to improve his talents in the subject. And yet it would be foolish to call Harry Turtledove a lazy student. By the late 1970s, the author had earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history.
His writing career took off soon after. Initially teaching at UCLA, Turtledove produced a few scholarly works, including a translation of an ancient chronicle. Byzantine History was the author’s passion. But he quickly found that the job market had nothing to offer a scholar of his talents.
Even the teaching opportunities he thought he would secure refused to manifest. This gave Turtledove the freedom to give fiction writing his undivided attention.
Turtledove’s first book was ‘Wereblood’. He followed it up with ‘Werenight’. Both titles were written under a pen name (Eric G. Iverson). You can blame this on his Belmont Tower editor who initially refused to accept that ‘Turtledove’ was the author’s real name, and then he decided that a more appropriate surname was bound to produce greater profits.
Harry Turtledove has written science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. But it is for alternate history that he is best known. He met Laura Frankos while teaching at UCLA. Later on, he married her.
Harry Turtledove Awards
The author has received Prometheus and Nebula award nominations. He won the Prometheus and Hugo Award for ‘The Gladiator’ and ‘Down in the Bottomlands’ respectively.
Best Harry Turtledove Books
The author has been praised for creating original alternate history situations rather than simply re-purposing old ones, with some of the best titles in his bibliography including:
The Guns of the South: The war was over, or at least it should have been. The confederacy was broken, ill-equipped to mount any significant resistance. For General Lee, defeat was certain.
But then a strange fellow changed all that. He had a new weapon, a gun unlike any that Lee had ever seen, a rifle with breathtaking efficiency and accuracy. With this gun, the AK-47, Lee realized that the Confederates had a chance at attaining overwhelming victory.
This alternate history novel from Harry Turtledove follows the exploits of a group of White Supremacists from South Africa in 2014 who travel back in time to change history.
In the Balance: WWII was in full swing. The Germans, the British and their various allies were fighting a war that would determine the geopolitical future of the planet. Nothing could stop the momentum of violence, or so everyone thought. None of them were prepared for Fleetlord Atvar, an adversary from the stars who was determined to claim the planet for his people.
Now, at the planet’s darkest hour, humanity must do the impossible. They must unite to face a foe that threatens them all.
When Does The Next Harry Turtledove book come out?
The next book by Harry Turtledove is Twice as Dead and will be released on March, 18th 2025.