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Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters—Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca—and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.
Alpha and Omega
Armistice
Fallout
Bombs Away
Joe Steele
Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart
Last Orders (The War That Came Early, Book Six)
Two Fronts (The War That Came Early, Book Five)
Supervolcano: All Fall Down
Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early, Book Four)
Videssos Cycle: Volume Two
Videssos Cycle: Volume One
Supervolcano: Eruption
The Big Switch (The War That Came Early, Book Three)
Krispos the Emperor (The Tale of Krispos, Book Three)
Krispos of Videssos (The Tale of Krispos, Book Two)
West and East (The War That Came Early, Book Two)
A World of Difference
Departures
Atlantis and Other Places
Hitler's War (The War That Came Early, Book One)
The United States of Atlantis
Liberating Atlantis
Krispos Rising (The Tale of Krispos, Book One)
The Man with the Iron Heart
In at the Death (Settling Accounts, Book Four)
Opening Atlantis
The Tale of Krispos
Every Inch a King
End of the Beginning
The Grapple
Drive to the East (Settling Accounts, Book Two)
Homeward Bound
Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One)
Counting Up, Counting Down
Days of Infamy

Author Harry Turtledove on his ideal writing environment and bookstore shopping | Author Shorts

Harry Turtledove on the book that helped him find his writing...and his wife! | authorcuts

Books

Alpha and Omega
Armistice
Fallout
Bombs Away
Joe Steele
Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart
Last Orders (The War That Came Early, Book Six)
Two Fronts (The War That Came Early, Book Five)
Supervolcano: All Fall Down
Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early, Book Four)
Videssos Cycle: Volume Two
Videssos Cycle: Volume One
Supervolcano: Eruption
The Big Switch (The War That Came Early, Book Three)
Krispos the Emperor (The Tale of Krispos, Book Three)
Krispos of Videssos (The Tale of Krispos, Book Two)
West and East (The War That Came Early, Book Two)
A World of Difference
Departures
Atlantis and Other Places
Hitler's War (The War That Came Early, Book One)
The United States of Atlantis
Liberating Atlantis
Krispos Rising (The Tale of Krispos, Book One)
The Man with the Iron Heart
In at the Death (Settling Accounts, Book Four)
Opening Atlantis
The Tale of Krispos
Every Inch a King
End of the Beginning
The Grapple
Drive to the East (Settling Accounts, Book Two)
Homeward Bound
Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One)
Counting Up, Counting Down
Days of Infamy

Media

Author Harry Turtledove on his ideal writing environment and bookstore shopping | Author Shorts

Harry Turtledove on the book that helped him find his writing...and his wife! | authorcuts

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