Harry Turtledove Books in Order

Gerin the Fox must defend his northern domain against the warlike Trokmoi and their wizard. With the formidable Van at his side, he undertakes a dangerous journey to seek magical help while demons and hostile nobles pursue them.

Gerin never wanted the responsibilities of a ruler, but an enemy wizard now threatens the lands entrusted to him. As the dreadful Werenight approaches, he must find a sorcerer capable of resisting magic that could transform men into monsters.

In a world where the Byzantine Empire survives and Islam never arises, imperial agent Basil Argyros protects Constantinople's interests. These linked adventures follow his encounters with hostile plots and discoveries that could alter the empire's technological and political future.

A sorcery-backed usurper holds the fortified capital of Videssos while the imperial army collapses. Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus leads his displaced legion through enemy territory, seeking a base from which to attempt the apparently impossible task of retaking the city.

A survey team's small act of compassion violates the ban on interfering with an alien civilization. Returning fifteen centuries later, officials discover enormous consequences and attempt a deadly cover-up that endangers both the service and the planet.

Marcus Scaurus's secret relationship with the emperor's niece leads to a treason charge. Offered freedom if he can recover a rebel province without military support, he sets out with one companion toward enemies and a dangerous sorcerer's stronghold.

Returning victorious to Videssos, Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus is betrayed and treated as a suspect rather than a hero. The emperor's niece supports him, but their growing closeness creates another danger in a court where affection can lead to exile.

A duel between a Roman officer and a Celtic warrior unleashes magic that transports a legion to another world. Marcus Scaurus and his soldiers must survive in Videssos, where their military discipline faces unfamiliar politics and powerful sorcery.

Linked stories explore an America where Homo erectus survives alongside mammoths and other prehistoric animals. European settlers establish a hierarchy over these inhabitants, and three centuries of encounters raise questions about exploitation, rights, and what makes a being human.

After a space probe photographs an alien on Minerva before being destroyed, Americans and Soviets launch a joint manned expedition. Their diplomatic preparations prove inadequate when contact draws the rival teams onto opposite sides of an alien war.

Thirteen science fiction and fantasy stories explore altered realities, dangerous bargains, and unexpected forms of resistance. Nazi rule confronts Gandhi, a prince accepts a fairy challenge, and London's vampires face a killer whose nature may resemble their own.

A dispossessed peasant arrives in Videssos's imperial capital seeking work and shelter, carrying a supposedly magical gold coin. Krispos's decision to preserve it draws him toward opportunities and dangers within an empire weakened by enemies and courtly decadence.

Jennifer Logan joins an interstellar trading ship to make her academic résumé stand out before seeking a teaching job. The journey tests her resourcefulness as her knowledge of old science fiction becomes useful in unexpected situations far from Earth.

Newly crowned Krispos faces rebellion led by the late emperor's uncle, an experienced general with a personal grievance. As civil war threatens Videssos, sorcery-backed raiders descend from the north, forcing the inexperienced ruler to defend his throne on several fronts.

In 1864, Robert E. Lee's battered army appears headed for defeat until a mysterious stranger offers an extraordinary rifle. An unlimited supply of AK-47s promises to transform the Civil War, but raises questions about the supplier's motives.

Twenty stories explore histories that diverge from familiar events, spanning ancient civilizations and distant futures. A conquered Greece, a persecuted medieval werewolf, and a student's unexpected encounter with Genghis Khan reveal the human consequences of altered circumstances.

Magical environmental inspector David Fisher wants a quiet life reviewing the effects of spells and enchanted devices. An investigation into a toxic spell dump instead uncovers a plot involving an ancient deity, human sacrifice, and a threat to civilization.

In the middle of World War II, technologically superior aliens invade Earth and overwhelm its divided nations. Longstanding enemies must consider cooperation across ideological and racial hatred while soldiers, civilians, and leaders struggle to resist conquest.

Emperor Krispos faces a religious heresy spreading from hidden dissent into open rebellion. Leading his forces alongside his sons, he confronts an enemy willing to exploit family divisions as the conflict threatens both his household and his rule.

Gerin the Fox struggles to preserve order among feuding northern states after the Werenight. When an earthquake breaks an ancient protective spell and releases underground monsters, political instability becomes a struggle to defend his people against a new threat.

After war devastates Makuran's ruling order, young Abivard returns to protect his family and lands. A usurper has seized the crown and the rightful heir has disappeared, forcing him into a dangerous struggle beyond the barbarian raids he expected.

In an America that remained under British rule, separatist terrorists steal a painting symbolizing peace between Washington and George III. Colonel Thomas Bushell must recover the national treasure before the theft helps unravel a union that has endured for centuries.

Earth's wartime rivals struggle against technologically superior alien invaders whose campaign divides America and devastates Europe. Guerrillas, scientists, and ordinary soldiers improvise resistance, but each adaptation brings harsher retaliation and raises the stakes from military defeat to human survival.

Young Maniakes rallies support from exile to overthrow a tyrant who is draining Videssos while enemies seize its lands. Even if he reaches the throne, he must reunite the damaged empire and confront a former friend turned dangerous foe.

Gerin the Fox hopes to enjoy peace until the Gradi arrive with gods determined to destroy those who refuse their worship. Defending his northern realm now requires confronting both a new army and the supernatural powers driving its invasion.

Human nations answer alien conquest with nuclear weapons, but retaliation threatens to destroy the world both sides want to control. Divided allies fight on several fronts while seeking an escape from a war whose victory could mean annihilation.

In seventh-century Thessalonica, shoemaker George learns that invading Avars and Slavs command supernatural creatures. As his Christian city faces siege, he considers whether surviving pagan beings might help defend it despite the religious divisions separating them.

The nations fighting alien invaders begin developing nuclear weapons and increasingly inventive guerrilla tactics. But the enemy's devastating responses and humanity's own desperate measures leave civilians facing a widening question: whether anything will remain when the fighting ends.

Escalating threats between Gerin the Fox and Aragis the Archer bring the northern rulers toward war. When the empire demands their submission, the rivals must reconsider their feud and face a larger danger together.

A generation after Confederate victory, the United States goes to war again over the South's acquisition of Mexican territory. Fighting spreads across a contested frontier, where foreign powers and experienced Confederate commanders complicate the North's attempt to reverse its defeat.

Makuran commander Abivard is ordered to defeat Videssos, but an unexpected invasion forces him to defend his own homeland. Military strategy and powerful sorcery become essential as enemy armies advance and political rivals seek to undermine him.

Edited by Harry Turtledove, Roland Green, and Martin H. Greenberg, this anthology imagines military history with different commanders in charge. Stories place familiar generals in unfamiliar conflicts, examining how leadership might reshape campaigns, nations, and the outcome of war.

In 1914, a divided America enters the Great War on opposing sides: the United States backs Germany, while the Confederacy joins Britain and France. New weapons and racial tensions turn old rivalries into a destructive continental conflict.

In an early civilization where gods directly rule their cities, Gibil prospers under a comparatively generous deity. When a young man offends less forgiving divine powers, the entire city faces danger and human ingenuity must confront supernatural authority.

This historical novel presents the life of Byzantine emperor Justinian II through his account and a loyal soldier's perspective. Ambition, overthrow, exile, and the desire for revenge drive a struggle in which imperial authority and personal obsession become intertwined.

Emperor Maniakes prepares to carry the war into his enemy's capital and overthrow its despot. But as his army enters the Thousand Cities, the unexplained absence of a formidable opposing commander makes every advance uncertain.

Exhausted lawyer and mother Nicole falls asleep in modern America and awakens as a widowed tavernkeeper on Rome's frontier. Her imagined escape from present-day pressures becomes a struggle with ancient society, separation from her children, and approaching catastrophe.

The death of a duke prompts Algarve's king to reclaim a lost duchy, drawing neighboring countries into war. Alliances, nationalism, and hatred widen the conflict in a fantasy world where magic and military power threaten ordinary lives.

Decades after the alien invasion interrupted World War II, a new colonization fleet reaches Earth. Rival human powers remain unable to put aside their hostility, leaving the planet divided as its extraterrestrial occupiers prepare a more permanent settlement.

In 1915, the United States fights alongside Germany against a Confederacy allied with its northern neighbor Canada. A Marxist uprising among oppressed Black southerners complicates the war, while both American presidents pursue victory despite mounting destruction.

Gerin the Fox wanted a scholar's life, but his family's deaths leave him ruling Fox Keep. These adventures pit him against raiders, a demanding empire, missing family, and supernatural threats as he tries to preserve his small corner of civilization.

The Great War reaches another turning point in a North America divided between the United States and an independent Confederacy. Old defeats fuel the North's determination to prevail, while soldiers and civilians face the consequences of an expanding conflict.

Algarve's magical war grows more brutal as Kaunians are deported and killed to power its attacks. Rival nations seek weapons of their own, leaving civilians and soldiers trapped in an escalating struggle where military strength increasingly depends on mass death.

In the 1960s, alien colonists arrive on an Earth already divided between human powers and the Race. A black market in addictive ginger and Germany's new weapons threaten the uneasy peace, forcing both species into dangerous diplomatic calculations.

King Avram's plan to free Detina's serfs sparks a northern rebellion led by his cousin Geoffrey. Armies supported by wizards and unicorn cavalry battle over the kingdom's future in a fantasy reworking of the American Civil War.

Gerin the Fox struggles to secure the isolated Northlands against invaders backed by hostile gods. These two adventures bring fresh supernatural dangers and renewed imperial ambitions, forcing him to seek divine help and alliances with rivals he cannot otherwise trust.

Fleeing Berlin in 1945, German officer Hasso Pemsel enters a magical world and joins a people whose appearance resembles his own. Their genocidal war forces him to reconsider the racial beliefs and military obedience he has long accepted.

A nuclear attack on the Race's colonization fleet threatens to shatter Earth's uneasy peace in the 1960s. Human rebellions and alien retaliation raise the stakes, while another nation prepares a response that could reshape the conflict again.

After the Great War, the United States occupies a resistant Canada while the defeated Confederacy struggles with poverty and inflation. Political extremism grows across both nations, threatening to turn a fragile peace into another cycle of hatred and war.

Detina's southern armies must capture Peachtree Province to preserve their king's hopes of reunification. A capable northern commander, difficult terrain, repeating crossbows, and powerful magic stand in their way, making the campaign a dangerous test of determination.

Rhodian sea traders Menedemos and Sostratos cross the Mediterranean seeking profitable cargoes after Alexander's death. Pirates, thieves, and rival generals' intrigues threaten their journeys, forcing the adventurous captain and scholarly merchant to balance curiosity with survival.

Algarve continues conquering territory using magic powered by murdered Kaunians, while refugees seek uncertain shelter. Scholars in Kuusamo investigate a bloodless alternative, offering hope of changing a war whose violence reaches soldiers and civilians across the continent.

King Avram's forces gain the advantage in Detina's civil war, but victory requires invading the rebellious north. Better enemy soldiers and powerful wizards make hostile territory deadly, testing whether the south's greater resources can finally restore a united kingdom.

This anthology presents alternate-history stories in which military commanders face changed circumstances and different choices. Battles on land and sea become opportunities to explore how leadership, strategy, and altered events might send familiar histories in unexpected directions.

This collection ranges across time travel, alternate history, fantasy, and science fiction. Two linked tales follow a programmer trying to correct his younger self's mistakes, while other stories reshape detective fiction, academic life, and encounters with the gods.

In a Britain conquered by Spain, William Shakespeare concentrates on the theater while Elizabeth remains imprisoned. An invitation to write a play that could inspire rebellion draws him into politics, putting his words and life against the occupying regime.

As Algarve advances through Derlavai with lethal battle magic, scholars in Kuusamo and Lagoas work to develop a different source of power. Soldiers, refugees, and civilians confront choices that test their humanity as the war approaches a decisive stage.

Postwar prosperity reassures the United States while the defeated Confederacy turns toward the extremist Freedom Party. Economic disaster and unrest undermine that confidence, leaving divided North America vulnerable to leaders who promise strength through hatred and renewed conflict.

Menedemos and Sostratos resume trading amid struggles between Alexander's successors that threaten Rhodes' neutrality. A skull apparently belonging to a gryphon offers a valuable opportunity, but selling their remarkable discovery means surviving an increasingly unstable eastern Mediterranean.

Young Conan grows up in Cimmeria as Aquilonian invaders establish the frontier fort of Venarium. Occupation draws his homeland into resistance, forcing the future warrior to confront foreign rule and take his first steps into conflict.

Jeremy and Amanda accompany their parents on a trading trip to an alternate world where Rome never fell. Left behind when their mother becomes ill, they lose contact with home just as war threatens the city around them.

In a twenty-first century ruled by a victorious Third Reich, Jewish families survive by concealing their identities behind apparently Aryan lives. Raising children and maintaining ordinary routines become acts of danger in the heart of a regime committed to their destruction.

A magical ice ship gives Algarve's enemies a way to carry dragons into battle and challenge its advance. As the tide begins turning, hunted Kaunians and other civilians still face slaughter in a war fueled by stolen life energy.

Young Lanius inherits a disputed throne while naval captain Grus watches Avornis weaken under poor rulers. Their futures become linked to the lost Scepter of Mercy, a talisman whose recovery could prevent a banished god from dominating their kingdom.

Rhodian traders Menedemos and Sostratos journey to Jerusalem, where unfamiliar religious beliefs fascinate the scholarly cousin. Unwanted cargo, bandits, and Menedemos' romantic pursuits complicate their expedition, turning the search for profit into another test of their resourcefulness.

Confederate ruler Jake Featherston consolidates power through persecution and promises of renewed strength. With the United States distracted by occupation, rebellion, and overseas conflict, his growing ambitions threaten to turn North America's political struggle into another devastating war.

Paul and his father sell advanced technology in an alternate San Francisco ruled by a victorious German Empire. Their shop attracts official suspicion and rival interests, leaving Paul on the run when his father's arrest threatens their secret trading mission.

Japan follows its attack on Pearl Harbor with an invasion that captures Hawaii. American prisoners, civilians, and island families struggle under occupation, while control of the islands gives the conquerors a new base from which to threaten the United States.

A human expedition reaches the home planet of the alien Race, carrying decades of rivalry beyond Earth. Diplomats, soldiers, and exiles navigate an unfamiliar society whose leaders may see humanity's rapid progress as a threat requiring catastrophic action.

The Derlavaian War reaches its final battles as rival allies already maneuver for the peace that might follow. Escalating magic and shattered personal lives complicate the struggle to defeat Algarve, with victory offering no guarantee that conflict will end.

Menedemos and Sostratos arrive in Athens for the Dionysia festival, hoping to enjoy trade and celebrations after dangerous voyages. The city's intrigues prove hazardous too, especially when Menedemos pursues an affair with an influential woman whose position makes trouble likely.

In 1941, Confederate leader Jake Featherston attacks the United States, unleashing a new war between the divided American nations. President Al Smith faces a determined enemy, while soldiers and civilians are drawn into violence neither government can fully control.

Kings Lanius and Grus struggle to protect Avornis while the Menteshe hold its lost Scepter of Mercy. Civil war among northern city-states opens another dangerous front, allowing the Banished One's influence to grow while recovery of the talisman remains out of reach.

This anthology gathers alternate-history stories that redirect the lives of commanders and political figures. Scenarios involving Joan of Arc, Antony and Cleopatra, and generals in the Philippines explore how survival, changed battles, and unexpected loyalties could transform familiar events.

Pious cleric Rhavas flees his city's destruction as civil war and barbarian invasion engulf Videssos. Journeying through dangerous territory, he struggles to reconcile loyalty to the god of light with a world where violence and evil seem to prevail.

Confederate forces press into Pennsylvania while the United States reels from the bombing of its president. Battles in the industrial heartland, Canadian rebellion, and a concealed Confederate program in Texas deepen a war whose dangers extend far beyond the front.

Japan's occupation of Hawaii leaves prisoners and civilians struggling to survive while island families face divided loyalties. Across the mainland, American forces prepare a counterattack, hoping to retake the islands before the occupation's costs grow still greater.

Circus acrobat Otto discovers he resembles a prince invited to rule Shqiperi and decides to claim the crown himself. Traveling with sword-swallower Max, he must navigate magic, danger, and royal complications to turn an audacious impersonation into a better life.

Annette Klein travels undercover with her family in an alternate Europe where slavery persists, trading through Crosstime Traffic. A bandit attack separates her from her parents, and captivity reveals an unauthorized portal that could place her beyond their rescuers' reach.

Rival kings Lanius and Grus must cooperate to recover the Scepter of Mercy before the Banished One overwhelms Avornis. Lanius proposes a desperate plan, but their competing ambitions threaten the unity needed to save both their kingdom and themselves.

In April 1864, Union troops at Fort Pillow, many of them Black soldiers, face Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate attackers. The novel follows the battle and its racial violence through men fighting over freedom and America's future.

In an alternate world where the United States never unified, individual states function as rival countries. A California visitor and a traveller from Crosstime Traffic become trapped in a war between Ohio and Virginia.

In 1943, the United States pushes back against the Confederacy as Jake Featherstone's offensive falters. Evidence of mass murder and a race to develop atomic weapons raise the stakes for soldiers and civilians on both sides.

An opening in a vast glacier prompts Count Hamnet Thyssen and his companions to explore beyond their known world. Their expedition encounters a powerful tribal alliance preparing to invade the lands south of the ice.

The war between the United States and the Confederacy approaches its final struggle as armies advance into Southern territory. Atomic weapons threaten to transform the conflict, leaving soldiers and civilians facing destruction beyond conventional battle.

An unexplored continent between Europe and Terranova attracts settlers seeking resources, freedom and opportunity. Their arrival brings discovery and colonisation, but also threatens the natural wonders that drew people to Atlantis in the first place.

In an alternate world where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, communist rule has spread across the globe. Crosstime Traffic's contact with this society brings dangerous encounters between official ideology and ideas from other timelines.

Count Hamnet Thyssen explores lands exposed by a retreating glacier in search of the legendary Golden Shrine. The invading Rulers bring powerful magic and deadly attacks, forcing his companions to seek allies and prepare resistance.

Reinhard Heydrich survives assassination and organises a Nazi insurgency after Germany's military defeat. Terrorist attacks challenge Allied occupation and undermine faith that the war is over, threatening to overturn victory through prolonged resistance.

As England tightens its grip on the Atlantean colonies, Victor Radcliff leads revolutionaries determined to resist. The struggle for independence tests their ability to turn military defiance into a new nation without surrendering their liberty.

Liz Mendoza accompanies her parents to an alternate Los Angeles devastated by nuclear war and reduced to feudal rule. Researching the disaster's causes becomes dangerous when local fighting and an observant archer threaten their cover.

Roman governor Varus leads three legions east of the Rhine to bring German tribes under imperial control. Arminius, a German prince serving Rome, secretly uses his military knowledge to unite his people against conquest.

When Chamberlain refuses to appease Hitler in 1938, Germany attacks Czechoslovakia and war begins early. Soldiers and civilians across several countries confront a conflict whose alliances and battlefields develop differently from the history we know.

Enslaved Frederick Radcliff descends from Atlantis's founding settlers but has none of their freedom. Seizing a chance to escape his shackles, he leads a revolutionary army seeking to end slavery across the country.

The invading Rulers have shattered the Raumsdalian Empire with superior weapons and magic. Count Hamnet Thyssen and his surviving allies must seek the legendary Golden Shrine, hoping it offers a way to resist their conquerors.

Twelve stories explore alternate histories and fantastic worlds, from Audubon's search for an Atlantean bird to centaurs encountering humans. Historical figures, enchanted places and detectives investigating murders reveal societies familiar in some ways and strange in others.

Decades after aliens conquer Earth, a small remnant of the United States and Canada survives in the mountains. Its president faces a demand for mineral access that could destroy the last territory still under human control.

A world war begun in 1938 spreads across Europe and Asia, drawing soldiers and civilians into changing alliances. German submarines, Chinese resistance and fighting in France intensify the question of when America will enter the conflict.

Yellowstone erupts, spreading lava and ash across North America and damaging food supplies, machinery and cities. Los Angeles police lieutenant Colin Ferguson fears for his scattered family as falling temperatures deepen the struggle to survive.

When Texas secedes, Robert E. Lee remains in command of federal troops and decides to defend U.S. property in San Antonio. Holding the Alamo against secessionists forces him to weigh military duty against loyalty to the South.