Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Last Thursday Harry Turtledove confirmed that, sadly, we were going to have to pull his story from Eclipse Two. This was a possibility we’d been discussing since he first submitted the story, was entirely amicable, and had to do with negotiating permissions for some quotes that he’d used. It was disappointing news, but [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Interviews and profiles: @Tor: John Joseph Adams ( Seeds of Change , Wastelands , and The Living Dead ). @B&N: A video interview with Harry Turtledove ( The Man with the Iron Heart ). @The Nebula Site: Michael Chabon ( The Yiddish Policemen's Union ). @SciFi Wire: Kristine Kathryn Rusch ("Recovering Apollo 8"). @The Dragon Page Cover to Cover: F. Paul Wilson Gail Martin podcast-interviews Lou Anders...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Alternate-history author Harry Turtledove told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, The Man With the Iron Heart, originated with his wondering how America would have reacted to asymmetrical warfare had we encountered it in the aftermath of World War II--a generation before Vietnam and two generations before Iraq.
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
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...
View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
...tomorrow, y'all. Suffice it to say that a good time was had by all. I'm going to go sit in the shade with a bottle of Victory Brewing's Hop Devil . I'm getting to the denouement of Household Gods by Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr. It's my second time through, and it's every bit as cool as it was the first time. Instead of Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court , think California Liberal In...
Right Wing News (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
I'm not really one for doing reviews, particularly book reviews. Typically, I will dive into a new book before I can even get around to writing a review, but, I have found the new book by Harry Turtledove, The Man...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove and Ha'penny by Jo Walton are the co-winners of this year's Prometheus Award, which recognizes novels that explore the value of personal freedom, human rights and other Libertarian ideals.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Tor is boosting sales of selected books by giving them away in E—a strategy that might be especially effective with series. From John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War to Harry Turtledove’s The Disunited States of America, I’ll pass on the direct links to these nonDRMed editions. Notice? The ePub format has starting to appear. Want the [...]
SJCPL Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
FICTION Brida: A Novel by Paulo Coelho December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove What Was Lost: A Novel by Catherine O’Flynn NONFICTION Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flie by Roger Bennett Love as a Way of Life: Seven Keys to Transforming [...]
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
First sentence: "Simon the shoemaker's shop stood close to the southwestern corner of the Athenian agora, near the boundary stone marking the edge of the market square and across the narrow dirt lane from the Tholos, the round building where the executive committee of the Boule met." Description: "Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
“The Disunited States of America is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is a part of the Crosstime Traffic series, and takes place in an alternate world where the U.S. was never able to agree on a constitution and has long since evolved with each state as a separate country. The states [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Ann Aguirre , author of Grimspace . Matt Ruff shows us some cool custom cover art for some of his books. This week's free Tor book is The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove (have you signed up yet') and the free wallpaper comes from Shelly Wan and Scott M. Fischer . Free Audio Fiction: Escape Pod reads " Schwartz Between the Galaxies " by Robert...
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
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...
Jonathan Wallace (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
I left it rather tight, leaving Cowley St tonight. I left briefcase, cameras etc in the office but took with me a reused carrier bag containing an envelope of press cuttings - sorting them is my job for tonight - 2 novels by Harry Turtledove and 2 empty cava bottles I need for champagne making.As I got to Victoria St, I realised that to get the 8.17pm train, I had to run at breakneck speed.
World History Blog (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
Alternate history can take many forms. Sometimes it can be simple (What if Lincoln had lived') to the unbelievable such as Harry Turtledove's accounts of aliens invading during World War Two. I recently read a role playing game supplement that goes in the unbelievable section right with Turtledove. However, just like the Turtledove saga, this is very enjoyable alternate history. The book is Requiem...
