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Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, the Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now it's 1942. The U.S.A. and C.S.A. are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could...
42) How few remain
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, crafts arresting novels based on hypothetical scenarios and featuring iconic figures from the past. A generation after the South wins the Civil War, it annexes critical territory in Mexico. Outraged, the United States declares total war. This time the American army faces danger on all sides-Confederates, outlaws, Apaches, French, and even the British. George Custer and Teddy Roosevelt fight hard and...
43) In at the death
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the U.S.A.'s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove's compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has...
44) Ruled Britannia
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this novel of alternative history from bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the Spanish Armada has conquered England, King Phillip holds the English throne, and Elizabeth I languishes as a prisoner in the Tower of London. Meanwhile, in London, a mysterious stranger approaches young playwright William Shakespeare with an offer that could change the course of history.
45) Homeward bound
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
With his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a stunning vision of what might have been-and what might still be-if one moment in history were changed. In the Worldwar and Colonization series, an ancient, highly advanced alien species found itself locked in a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious planet: Earth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for survival supercharged human technology, made friends of foes,...
Author
Series
Atlantis trilogy (Harry Turtledove) volume 3
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation's independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country.Frederick feels the color of his skin shouldn't keep him from having the same freedoms his ancestors fought and died for. So he becomes...
Author
Series
Worldwar volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Language
English
Description
No one could stop them-not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt...The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb.But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them. Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans...
48) Opening Atlantis
Author
Series
Atlantis trilogy (Harry Turtledove) volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove has intrigued readers with such thought-provoking "what if..." scenarios as a conquered Elizabethan England in Ruled Britannia and a Japanese occupation of Hawaii in Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning. Now, in the first of a brand-new trilogy, he rewrites the history of the world with the existence of an eighth continent.Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years,...
Author
Series
Worldwar saga. Worldwar series volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
An alternate history in which the enemies of World War II suspend hostilities to fight invaders from outer space. In this, the third volume in the series, a shortage of gasoline has forced them to fall back on World War I-style regiments of cavalry, horse-drawn artillery and troops of cyclists. They have also resurrected a banned weapon, poison gas.
53) Breakthroughs
Author
Series
Great war (Harry Turtledove) volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, Breakthroughs is the third installment of best-selling author Harry Turtledove's The Great War series of remarkable alternate histories. As the frightening war to end all wars continues to spread with vengeance around the globe, the swiftly modernizing armies of the Confederacy and the United States battle for control of the North American continent.
Author
Series
Worldwar saga. Worldwar series volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The final volume of a trilogy on an alternate World War II which is abruptly halted when Earth is invaded by lizard-like creatures from outer space. The former enemies join forces to save the planet, and in this volume the war ends in a truce with the invaders allowed to stay and colonize a part of Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1914 they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a Depression-era America that is woven with magic, zombies, and flying carpets, a down-and-out man escapes a local thug by joining a barnstorming minor league baseball team.
Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life has changed in Enid, Oklahoma. No paying jobs at the mill, because zombies will work for nothing. The diner on Main Street is seeing hard times as well, because a lot fewer folks can afford to fly carpets in from miles away. Jack Spivey...
57) The gladiator
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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