- Science fiction, Alternate history, Short story, Children's fiction
From inside flap: What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such "what ifs" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future.
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Grave, plot-driven, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Harry Turtledove
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- Random House Worlds, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Del Rey Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575121577
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Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction. In 1979, Turtledove published his first two novels, *Wereblood* and *Werenight*, under the pseudonym "Eric G. Iverson." Turtledove later explained that his editor at Belmont Tower did not think people would believe the author's real name was "Turtledove" and came up with something more Nordic. He continued to use the "Iverson" name until 1985, when he published his "Herbig-Haro" and "And So to Bed" under his real name. Another early pseudonym was "Mark Gordian." Turtledove has recently begun publishing historical novels under
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