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Videssos Cycle: Volume Two

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2013-04-16
ISBN 10 : 9780345545701
Pages : 832 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (545 downloads)

Download Videssos Cycle: Volume Two in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic fantasy series from “one of alternative-history’s stalwarts” (The New Yorker) continues in the adventure of a lifetime. Harry Turtledove’s brilliant re-imaginings of major world events have thrilled fans for decades, but he first captured readers’ attention with the Videssos Cycle, a unique blend of fantasy and speculative history. In this two-book volume, a Roman legion, thrown into another world, fights its way through sorcery, intrigue, and epic conflict. THE LEGION OF VIDESSOS Since the legion was mysteriously transported to this magical realm, Roman military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus has valiantly served the rulers of the war-torn city of Videssos. However, Fortune is a fickle goddess. Returning in triumph after defeating a well-entrenched army of rebel mercenaries, Marcus is betrayed by a friend, seized as a traitor, and dragged before the Emperor. Only one person may be able to save him: the Emperor’s niece. But consorting with her could lead to exile . . . or worse. SWORDS OF THE LEGION As prisoner of the Emperor, Marcus Scaurus is in a desperate situation. He stands condemned for treason, unless he can reclaim a rebel province from a fanatic usurper—without the aid of his Romans. Now, with just one centurion by his side, Marcus sets out to once again do the impossible. Soon the fates conspire against the men, driving them toward the torture chambers of an evil, deathless wizard-prince. But an audacious last hope rallies behind them—the soldiers of the legion are on the march.

Swords of the Legion

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9780575121065
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (121 downloads)

Download Swords of the Legion in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Videssos the city, tribune Marcus Scaurus was bored. The legion that had been magically transported to this strange world was far away. But the Emperor's niece Alypia was near - and willing. When their secret trysts were betrayed, Emperor Thorisin Gavras was forced to condemn Marcus as a traitor - but with a promise of freedom and Alypia, if he could reclaim a rebel province from a fanatic usurper, with no military aid. With only centurion Gaius Philippus, Marcus set out to try the seemingly impossible task. But the fates conspired against them, driving them further westward, into the innermost sanctum of Videssos' great enemy Yezd - and toward the torture chambers of the evil, deathless wizard-prince Avshar. But behind them, without orders, the men of the legion were on the march!

Videssos Cycle: Volume One

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2013-04-02
ISBN 10 : 9780345545695
Pages : 672 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (545 downloads)

Download Videssos Cycle: Volume One in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience one of the most beloved series in fantasy—as could only be imagined by “the standard-bearer for alternate history” (USA Today). Harry Turtledove’s many New York Times bestsellers provide an intriguing take on history’s most crucial moments, but he honed his speculative talents in a different genre: fantasy. The Videssos Cycle is the perfect fusion of the two. Collected here are the first two novels of Turtledove’s one-of-a-kind saga, in which a Roman legion is transported to a strange realm where magic rules. THE MISPLACED LEGION In a duel for survival, the Roman military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus raises his sword, blessed by a Druid priest, against a Celtic chieftain, who brandishes a blade of his own. At the moment the weapons touch, Marcus and his legion find themselves under a strange night sky, full of unfamiliar stars, where Rome and Gaul are unknown. They are in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos—a world that will test their skill and courage as no soldiers have ever been tested before. AN EMPEROR FOR THE LEGION In the capital of Videssos, a coward and betrayer has seized the throne. There, behind great walls that have always made the city impregnable to storm or siege, he rules with the aid of dark sorcery. Overthrowing him seems impossible and the imperial army has already fled in panic from the savage victors. But there is no panic in the legion. Now Marcus Scaurus leads his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search of winter quarters, to regroup and do the unthinkable: take the untakeable city.

Krispos of Videssos (The Tale of Krispos, Book Two)

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2011-08-10
ISBN 10 : 9780307801708
Pages : 80 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)

Download Krispos of Videssos (The Tale of Krispos, Book Two) in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? For trouble was brewing in every, quarter. Civil war erupted under Petronas, the late Emperor's uncle. A brilliant general and a canny politician, Petronas had a very personal score to settle against the upstart Krispos. And even as rebel troops took the field against the untried Emperor, outland raiders swept down from the northlands in a tide of carnage. The power stemmed from foulest sorcery, and Videssos' wizards could not counter its evil curse. Krispos reign showed every sign of being brief -- and very bloody...

Classical Traditions in Science Fiction

Author : Brett M. Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-12
ISBN 10 : 9780199988433
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (988 downloads)

Download Classical Traditions in Science Fiction in PDF Full Online by Brett M. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection in English dedicated to the study of science fiction as a site of classical receptions, offering a much-needed mapping of that important cultural and intellectual terrain. This volume discusses a wide variety of representative examples from both classical antiquity and the past four hundred years of science fiction, beginning with science fiction's "rosy-fingered dawn" and moving toward the other-worldly literature of the present day. As it makes its way through the eras of science fiction, Classical Traditions in Science Fiction exposes the many levels on which science fiction engages the ideas of the ancient world, from minute matters of language and structure to the larger thematic and philosophical concerns.

Krispos Rising

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-11
ISBN 10 : 9780575121072
Pages : 353 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (121 downloads)

Download Krispos Rising in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empires health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep.

The Guns of the South

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2011-04-20
ISBN 10 : 9780307792358
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (792 downloads)

Download The Guns of the South in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read." Professor James M. McPherson Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club

Blood and Iron (American Empire, Book One)

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2006-07-25
ISBN 10 : 9780345494283
Pages : 656 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (494 downloads)

Download Blood and Iron (American Empire, Book One) in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blood and Iron is a masterpiece.”—Sci Fi Weekly World War I—The Great War—has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists. With Socialists rising to power in the U.S., and a dangerous fanatic in the Confederacy preaching a doctrine of hate, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war. “A master storyteller as well as a trained historian with an imagination . . . [Turtledove] has succeeded in taking title as the premier writer in [alternate history], relentlessly asking what if one or two key events in our reality happened differently. The result is fascinating.”—Houston Chronicle “Turtledove is a master at weaving details of ordinary life into a much bigger canvas to produce a world that so easily could have been our own. [It] is what keeps readers coming back for more.”—Tulsa World

A World of Difference

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2011-05-18
ISBN 10 : 9780307792334
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (792 downloads)

Download A World of Difference in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol of the new peace between the two great rivals. Humankind's first close encounter with extraterrestrials would be history in the making, and the two teams were schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepared them for alien war—especially when the Americans and the Soviets found themselves on opposite sides. . . . Praise for A World of Difference “A master storyteller.”—Houston Chronicle “[Harry] Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places. he's developed a cult following over the years. . . . I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere.”—San Jose Mercury News “Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations.”—Library Journal

Lee at the Alamo

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-07
ISBN 10 : 9781429965316
Pages : 32 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (965 downloads)

Download Lee at the Alamo in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his native state. But what if the demands of honor had led him in the other direction altogether? Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South, 1992), here returns with Lee at the Alamo, a look at what the great military leader might have done under only slightly different circumstances. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Shtetl Days

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2011-04-14
ISBN 10 : 9781429991186
Pages : 32 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (991 downloads)

Download Shtetl Days in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recreated "village" of Wawolnice, where--along with dozens of colleagues--Veit and Kristi re-enact the daily life of the long-exterminated but still frightening "Jews." Veit and Kristi are true professionals, proud of their craft. They've learned all there is to know about this vanished way of life. They know the dead languages, the turns of phrase, the prayers, the manners, the food. But now they're beginning to learn what happens when you immerse yourself long enough in something real...in Harry Turtledove's Shtetl Days. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

We Haven't Got There Yet

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2011-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781429924771
Pages : 32 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (924 downloads)

Download We Haven't Got There Yet in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts -- every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? What kind of name is that for a play? In Harry Turtledove's Tor.com Original, We Haven't Got there Yet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Counting Up, Counting Down

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2002-02-06
ISBN 10 : 9780345454997
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (454 downloads)

Download Counting Up, Counting Down in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-02-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s literary skill and unbridled imagination. FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: With the help of his time travel software, computer genius Justin Kloster returns to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake–but all actions have their consequences. THE MALTESE ELEPHANT: A legendary detective finds himself in grave danger when a noir masterpiece takes a stunning new twist. GODDESS FOR A DAY: Taking a page from history, a young girl dares to challenge the gods–and is richly rewarded for her efforts. DECONSTRUCTION GANG: Mired in unemployment and despair, an academic finds happiness and intellectual fulfillment in a most unexpected place. TWENTY-ONE, COUNTING UP: Justin Kloster’s college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted–and irreversibly disrupted–when forty-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself. Plus twelve more thrilling, unforgettable tales of wonder!

Return Engagement

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2004-08-03
ISBN 10 : 9780345478597
Pages : 640 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (478 downloads)

Download Return Engagement in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Harry Turtledove] handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty.”—Publishers Weekly It’s 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world—but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. Behind this façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to explode. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse. Opposite him is Al Smith, a Socialist U.S. president in the Philadelphia White House. Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the hell of war and depression. Featherston and his Freedom Party are determined to conquer their Northern neighbor at any cost. After crushing a Negro rebellion in his own nation, Featherston sends Confederate army planes to attack Philadelphia. In the aftermath of the CSA blitzkrieg, the war machine spins a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one—not even Jake Featherston himself—can control. “Turtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. [Return Engagement features] strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background.”—Kirkus Reviews “Another absorbing installment of [Turtledove’s] character-centered alternate-history saga.”—Booklist

The Man with the Iron Heart

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2008-07-22
ISBN 10 : 9780345507778
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (57 downloads)

Download The Man with the Iron Heart in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany’s flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might today’s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945? In this imagined world, Nazi forces resort to unconventional warfare, using the quick and dirty tactics of terrorism–booby traps, time bombs, mortar and rocket strikes in the night, assassinations, even kamikaze-style suicide attacks–to overturn what seemed to be a decisive Allied victory. In November 1945, a truck bomb blows up the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where high-ranking Nazi officials are about to stand trial for war crimes. None of the accused are there when the bomb goes off, but their judges, all of them present and accounted for, are annihilated. Worse acts of terrorism follow all over Europe. Suddenly the Allies–especially the United States–must battle an invisible enemy and sacrifice countless lives in a long, seemingly pointless, unwinnable conflict. On the home front, patriotism corrodes, political fortunes are made and lost in the face of an antiwar backlash, and a once-proud country wonders how the righteous fight for freedom overseas has collapsed into a hopeless quagmire. At once a novel of thrilling military suspense, intriguing alternate history, and profound insight into contemporary affairs, The Man with the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power.

Aftershocks (Colonization, Book Three)

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2002-01-08
ISBN 10 : 9780345453679
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (453 downloads)

Download Aftershocks (Colonization, Book Three) in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SERIES OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS EVER WRITTEN.” –Science Fiction Age World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth’s great powers launches a nuclear strike against the Race’s colonization fleet–and the merciless invaders find themselves confronting a far more complex and challenging species than any they have encountered before. Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empire’s control–or it may destroy the world. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, one nation plots a stunning counterattack . . . “Hugo winner Turtledove lives up to his billing as the grand master of alternative history. . . . This novel is altogether excellent.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Victorious Opposition (American Empire, Book Three)

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Release Date : 2003-08-05
ISBN 10 : 9780345464507
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (464 downloads)

Download The Victorious Opposition (American Empire, Book Three) in PDF Full Online by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] colossal and brilliant saga . . . [This novel] may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won power in the South—and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic and shrewd, he is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the persecution has just begun. As the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan, Featherston may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A. in an all-out war. Praise for The Victorious Opposition “Turtledove’s Great War/American Empire series is an epic achievement, a meticulously worked-out alternate history of the twentieth century’s great two-act tragedy. . . . Bravo! A fine performance by a master-craftsman.”—S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time “Anyone who loves history will love what Harry Turtledove can do with it.”—Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Red Phoenix