Best Alternative Stories of 20th Century, Turtledove Harry
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Advance and Retreat ISBN: 0743488202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743488204 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 918.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) Описание: In a gripping novel of alternate history, King Avram, determined to restore unity to the kingdom of Detina and free the blond serfs, finds the civil war between the North and South coming to a head when the use of sorcery becomes extremely unpredictable, forcing the South to battle the North.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Down to Earth ISBN: 0345430239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345430236 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Arriving in the midst of World War II, aliens have conquered half the Earth and are threatening to exerminate all life on the planet if they don't get their way.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Best Military S-f of the 20th Century ISBN: 0345439899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345439895 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: A Different Flesh ISBN: 1504052331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504052337 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This novel by the New York Times-bestselling "master of alternate history" explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).
What if mankind's "missing link," the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the "sims" were their slaves.
This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists' desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists' daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who's being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.
"Turtledove's gift for historical speculation is always provocative." --Library Journal
Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the "master of alternate history," and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Thousand Cities1 ISBN: 0345380495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345380494 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The author of the Worldwar series of "alternate history" novels continues the new adventures of the Empire of Videssos, pitting Abivard, the marshal of Makuran, against the treachery and sorcery of Videssos. Original.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Videssos Besieged ISBN: 0345402995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345402998 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Emperor Maniakes once again unleashes his troops against an enemy capital rul by a hated tyrant, only to face the ultimate disaster as his evil nemesis launches his irresistible forces against the very gates of Videssos itself.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Stolen Throne ISBN: 0345380479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345380470 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Receiving a prophetic warning just before war is declared between two rival empires, young Abivard watches his father and king fall in battle and a greedy bureaucrat capture the crown.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Misplaced Legion ISBN: 0345330676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345330673 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As their armies watch, Marcus, a Roman centurion, and Viridovix, a Celt, begin a duel to the death until a strange spell transports them and a group of Roman legionaires to the mysterious world of Videssos, a land ruled by magic and dark sorcery.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Swords of the Legion ISBN: 0345330706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345330703 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Agent of Byzantium ISBN: 1504052323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504052320 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From the New York Times-bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history" A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today).
In another, very different timeline--one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be--the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own.
Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium. A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persia's dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the Franco-Saxons.
But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires, the player who controls the most advanced tools and weaponry--tools like gunpowder, printing, vaccines, and telescopes--must certainly emerge victorious.
A collection of interlocking stories that showcase the courage, ingenuity, and breathtaking derring-do of superspy Basil Argyros, Agent of Byzantium presents the great Harry Turtledove at his alternate-world-building best. At once intricate, exciting, witty, and wildly inventive, this is a many-faceted gem from a master of the genre.
"A very talented science fiction writer, with a gift for finding a way to present a fascinating idea through strong, believable characters." --Orson Scott Card
"These intelligent, colorful tales honorably recall L. Sprague de Camp, the master of historical SF." --Publishers Weekly
" Agent of Byzantium is] a lot of fun." --Locus
Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the "master of alternate history," and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Fort Pillow ISBN: 0312354770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312354770 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 2114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused the Confederates of massacring the black troops after the fort fell and fighting should have ceased. The Fort Pillow Massacre became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to its conclusion.
Harry Turtledove has written a dramatic recreation of an astounding battle, telling a bloody story of courage and hope, freedom and hatred. With brilliant characterization of all the main figures, this is a novel that reminds us that Fort Pillow was more than a battle---it was a clash of ideas between men fighting to define what being an American ought to mean.
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Bombs Away: The Hot War ISBN: 0553390724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553390728 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 919.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot? Bombs Away begins with President Harry Truman in desperate consultation with General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. MacArthur recognizes a stark reality: The U.S. military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis--while China and the USSR have built up their forces. The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. In actual history, Truman rejected his general's advice; here, he does not. The miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia's reaction. Almost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. allies in Europe and Great Britain. As the shock waves settle, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. Will they attack each other directly with nuclear weapons? What countries will be caught in between? The fateful global drama plays out through the experiences of ordinary people--from a British barmaid to a Ukrainian war veteran to a desperate American soldier alone behind enemy lines in Korea. For them, as well as Truman, Mao, and Stalin, the whole world has become a battleground. Strategic strikes lead to massive movements of ground troops. Cities are destroyed, economies ravaged. And on a planet under siege, the sounds and sights of nuclear bombs become a grim harbinger of a new reality: the struggle to survive man's greatest madness. Praise for Bombs Away "A fascinating and compelling story of real people caught in forces beyond their control . . . Harry Turtledove is] the unrivaled monarch of alternate history."--Analog "Turtledove is an undisputed centerpiece of the alternate-history genre, and now, to his already grand display, he's adding the ambitious tale of a WWIII that could have happened."--Booklist "This is Turtledove at his best."--SFRevu "Alternate-world warrior extraordinaire Turtledove delivers the opening barrage of a new speculative conflict."--Kirkus Reviews
Автор: Turtledove Harry Название: Darkness Descending ISBN: 0812575105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812575101 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The country of Algarve is successful in its blitzkrieg tactics, but becomes bogged down in the desolate winter of Unkerlant, its main enemy. Algarve's king decides to undertake blood magic, which amounts to genocide, in order to break the deadlock.
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