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Books by Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove is an American novelist with a PhD in history. His alternative history novels include The Guns of the South and The Man with the Iron Heart.
“The Wages of Sin is set in 1850s England, in a world where HIV got loose in the early 16th century, instead of in the late 20th century. It spread and was, of course, untreatable: if you got it, you were going to die, unpleasantly…We’re a few hundred years into the wasting changing the politics of the world, and the technology too – most of the people who do a lot of the inventing would never have been born, because there’s a large die-off, and the population is much smaller. Europeans are clinging to the east coast of the Americas in the mid-19th century, and barely penetrating past the Appalachians. India has not been assimilated into the British Empire.” Read more...
“You can change things however you want to change things. I had South Africans give Robert E Lee a whole raft of AK-47s in what’s probably my best-known book, The Guns of the South.“ Read more...
Interviews with Harry Turtledove
The Best Alternate History Books, recommended by Harry Turtledove
By telling alternative histories, we can run thought experiments that shed new light on our own timeline. ‘Master of alternate history’ Harry Turtledove talks us through his five favourites – and considers why alternate history pre-dates conventional sci fi, why some historical changes make for better drama than others, and how the micro-histories of our own lives are radically shaped by chance.
Interviews where books by Harry Turtledove were recommended
The Best Alternate History Books, recommended by Harry Turtledove
By telling alternative histories, we can run thought experiments that shed new light on our own timeline. ‘Master of alternate history’ Harry Turtledove talks us through his five favourites – and considers why alternate history pre-dates conventional sci fi, why some historical changes make for better drama than others, and how the micro-histories of our own lives are radically shaped by chance.
