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Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Harry Turtledove is certainly the best-known writer of alternative history. He takes a single event and by changing it creates a fictional world. So, for example, he wrote a fine book based on a North America where George Washington made peace with King George and the American revolution didn't happen. Turtledove's books are interesting and easy to read and, until now, not political. After all, what...
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Desicritics (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
The defeat of Spanish Armada is one of the major turning points in the history of Europe, indeed the world. But what would have happened if the Armada would have reached the shores of Britain? In " Ruled Britannia " by Harry Turtledove, King Phillip II has placed his daughter Isabella and her consort on the British throne, and they have been ruling the isles for 10 years with the conquistadors, the...
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Flick's Journal (Free subscription) | 25/12/2007
- bucks fizz - smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis - giving Mike his pressies (This Is Spinal Tap DVD, Pipe Mania game, a Lairdship, tickets to Caberet, an ice-cream maker, a USB hub (Swann brand), an easter egg, a 5-ring puzzle, a bird call, French chicken pate, a book by Harry Turtledove, oh, and a partridge coin in a pear-wood box!) - not getting my pressie from Mike, damn postal service, but...
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Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
I've never read a Harry Turtledove book before, although I did know that he wrote a lot of alternate history fiction. But I was browsing the used section of the Harvard Book store last week (The Harvard Book store isn't as big as The Harvard Coop but if you ...
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PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 17/04/2007
In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia, while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien invasion changed everything: alliances, technology, commerce, and--most of all--the nature of life and death. Nuclear destruction engulfed some of Earth's great cities, and the...
