Harry Turtledove — American Empire 2: The Center Cannot Hold, 2003 год

26 мая, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
American Empire 2: The Center Cannot Hold - Harry Turtledove

Random House USA / —
In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own — but with dramatic differences.
It is 1924 — a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington’s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new generation faces new uncertainties.
The Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession and in the Second Mexican War but at last tasting defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and natural calamity. The Freedom Party promises new strength and pride. But if its chief seizes the reins of power, he may prove a dangerous enemy for the hated U.S.A. Yet the United States take little note. Sharing world domination with Germany, they consider events in the Confederacy of little consequence.
As the 1920s end, calamity casts a pall across the continent. With civil war raging in Mexico, terrorist uprisings threatening U.S. control in Canada, and an explosion of violence in Utah, the United States are rocked by uncertainty.
In a world of occupiers and the occupied, of simmering hatreds, shattered lives, and pent-up violence, the center can no longer hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock will come when a fleet of foreign aircraft rain death and destruction upon one of the great cities of the United States…

ISBN: 9780345444226
мягкая обложка, 640 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Gunpowder Empire, 2004 год

18 апреля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Gunpowder Empire - Harry Turtledove

Macmillan Publishers / —
Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California-but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell.
For we now have the technology to move between timelines, and to exploit the untapped resources of those timelines that are hospitable to human life. So we send traders and businesspeople-but as whole-family groups, in order to keep the secret of Crosstime Traffic to ourselves.
But when Jeremy ducks back home for emergency medical treatment, the gateways stop working. So do all the communication links. Jeremy and his sister are on their own, Polisso is suddenly under siege, and there’s only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof…

ISBN: 9780765346094
мягкая обложка, 288 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Jaws of Darkness, 2004 год

26 февраля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Jaws of Darkness - Harry Turtledove

Macmillan Publishers / —
The grand conflict for control of the continent of Derlavai rages on in a battle with all the drama and terror of the Second World War — only the bullets are beams of magical fire. The tanks and submarines are great lumbering beasts, and the fighters and bombers are dragons raining fire upon their targets.
Hope may be dawning at last. The terrible onslaught of the conquering forces of Algarve — who power their battle magics with the life energy of their murdered victims — has begun to founder. But though the tide has begun to turn, the conflict is far from over. As the deaths of innocent civilians on both sides continue to feed the flames of war, those who have struggled to survive and preserve their freedom have only their passions to see them through….

ISBN: 9780765343185
мягкая обложка, 688 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — In High Places, 2007 год

4 февраля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
In High Places - Harry Turtledove

Macmillan Publishers / —
In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that’s wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway.
But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That’s because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it’s time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden.
Then bandits attack while they’re crossing the Pyrenees. Annette/Khadija is separated from her parents and knocked out, and wakes up to find herself a captive in a caravan of slaves being taken to the markets in the south. She’s in a tight spot.
Then the really scary thing happens: her purchasers take her, along with other newly purchased slaves, to an unofficial crosstime portal…leaving open the question of whether Crosstime Traffic will ever be able to recover her!

ISBN: 9780765346278
мягкая обложка, 272 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Striking the Balance (Worldwar 4), 1997 год

21 января, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Striking the Balance (Worldwar 4) - Harry Turtledove

RH USA / —
Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. Alternate History with Science Fiction. The series takes place during WWII and the warring Allied and Axis powers are forced to combine resources in order to combat an invading alien species that threatens to conquer the entire planet.

ISBN: 978-0-345-41208-9
мягкая обложка, 547 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Colonization: Aftershocks, 2000 год

14 января, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Colonization: Aftershocks - Harry Turtledove

RH USA / —
World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth’s great powers launches a nuclear strike against the Race’s colonization fleet-and the merciless invaders find themselves confronting a far more complex and challenging species than any they have encountered before. Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empire’s control-or it may destroy the world. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, one nation plots a stunning counterattack…
Hugo winner Turtledove lives up to his billing as the grand master of alternative history…This novel is altogether excellent.

ISBN: 978-0-345-43024-3
мягкая обложка, 624 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — In Balance: Alternate History of Second World War, 1994 год

12 января, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
In Balance: Alternate History of Second World War - Harry Turtledove

RH USA / —
Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. The series takes place during WWII and the warring Allied and Axis powers are forced to combine resources in order to combat an invading alien species that threatens to conquer the entire planet.

ISBN: 978-0-345-38852-0
мягкая обложка, 576 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — The Disunited States of America, 2007 год

12 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
The Disunited States of America - Harry Turtledove

Macmillan Publishers / —
Time travel doesn’t work. You can’t go backward or forward; you’re stuck at «now». What you can do is travel sideways, to the same «now» in another timeline where history turned out differently.
So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to do that. We use it to conduct discreet trading operations in less advanced timelines, selling goods just a little bit better than the locals can make. It’s profitable, but families who work as Time Traders have to be careful to fit in, lest the locals become suspicious.
Justin’s family are Time Traders. The summer before he’s due to start college, he goes with them to a different Virginia, in a timeline where the American states never became a single country, and American history has consisted of a series of small wars. Despite his unease, he accompanies Randolph Brooks, another Time Trader, on a visit to the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia. He’ll only be away from his parents for a few days.
Beckie Royer thanks her stars that she’s from California, the most prosperous and advanced country in North America. But just now she’s in Virginia with her grandmother, who wants to revisit the tiny mountain town where she grew up. The only interesting thing there is a boy named Justin — and he’ll be gone soon.
Then war between Virginia and Ohio breaks out anew. Ohio sets a tailored virus loose on Virginia. Virginia swiftly imposes a quarantine, trapping Beckie and Justin and Randolph Brooks in Elizabeth. Even Crosstime Traffic can’t help. All the three of them can do is watch as plague and violence take over the town.
It’s nothing new in history, not in this timeline or any other. It’s part of the human condition. And just now, this part of the human condition sucks.

ISBN: 9780765353788
мягкая обложка, 288 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Hitler’s War, 2010 год

10 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Hitler's War - Harry Turtledove

Hodder & Stoughton / —
What if the second world war had started in 1938? The two sides of the Spanish civil war are still locked in a blood-soaked stalemate. Stalin’s purge of the Red Army is barely underway. And Neville Chamberlain — sickened by the arrogance and duplicity of the Germans — does not return from Munich waving the piece of paper that would give the Czech arms factories to Hitler and postpone the war until 1939. On October 1, German tanks cross the Czech frontier, touching off declarations of war from France, from England, from the USSR. Poland, fearing the Russians more than Hitler, declares war on the German side. Soon Fascist Spain attacks Gibraltar, the Japanese army crosses the Manchurian frontier into Siberia…and the British Army sets off for France, which has launched a pre-emptive attack on the Rhineland. The war we know as World War II has begun — a year early, in an entirely different way.

ISBN: 978-0-340-92182-1
мягкая обложка, 512 стр.
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Harry Turtledove — Opening Atlantis, 2008 год

5 ноября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Opening Atlantis - Harry Turtledove

Penguin Group / —
Atlantis lies between Europe and the east coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity has lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored territory.
It is a new world indeed, ripe for discovery, for plunder, and eventually for colonization. But will its settlers destroy the very wonders they journeyed to Atlantis to find?

ISBN: 9780451462015
мягкая обложка, 528 стр.
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