Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove

Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Fiction

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart; The Guns of the South; How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); 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 & 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.

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    • Worldwar: In the Balance

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 26 hrs and 33 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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      4.5 out of 5 stars 518
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 514

    War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Awesome

    • By W on 03-29-10

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • The Guns of the South

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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      4.5 out of 5 stars 456
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 458

    January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • Loved the book but...

    • By Tami A. on 10-28-16

    Regular price: $41.99

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    • Return Engagement

    • Settling Accounts, Book 1
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 205
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 192
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 193

    In 1914, they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades, a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Great book bad narrator

    • By brian on 06-25-16

    Regular price: $41.99

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    • How Few Remain

    • A Novel of the Second War Between the States
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 411
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 370
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 371

    Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, crafts arresting novels based on hypothetical scenarios and featuring iconic figures from the past.....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • A Civil War Alternate History Classic! Fantastic!

    • By Michael on 10-06-12

    Regular price: $31.49

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    • American Front

    • The Great War, Book 1
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 315
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 268
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 267

    In American Front Harry Turtledove envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Incredible Story, Pretty Good Narrator

    • By Amazon Customer on 03-25-15

    Regular price: $45.49

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    • Fallout

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 189
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 175
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 172

    The second installment in an all new series, set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet....

    • 3 out of 5 stars

    • Turtledove has done better.

    • By Kodai on 04-10-17

    Regular price: $34.99

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    • Colonization: Second Contact

    • Colonization, Book 1
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 28 hrs and 7 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 292
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 242
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 240

    Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany are unable to relinquish their hostilities and unite against a massive new wave of extraterrestrials....

    • 3 out of 5 stars

    • A great title poorly presented

    • By Magnus on 06-27-12

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • Agent of Byzantium

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 10
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 9
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 10

    A dashing master spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire and discovers impossible inventions like gunpowder and telescopes in a magnificent romp from the maestro of alternate-history science fiction....

    Regular price: $20.99

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    • Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 420
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 346
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 346

    No one could stop them - not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Easy to tell if you will like this book

    • By James on 01-22-11

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • Colonization: Down to Earth

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 28 hrs and 29 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 232
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 187
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 187

    An alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • good story ruined by subpar performance

    • By Anonymous User on 09-18-18

    Regular price: $41.99

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