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Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Harry Turtledove’s brilliantly-imagined alternate history that began with the Confederacy winning the American Civil War and continued with a Great War that left it on its knees now approaches its most terrifying hour, as a resurgent South scents victory.
It is 1942, and the Confederate States of America are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines with the United States of America. In Richmond, dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia - killing U. S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. But he presses ahead with a secret plan on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose.
The United States face a furious thrust by Confederate army into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt and US ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.
The master of alternate history has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold and as convincing as it is provocative.
'Turtledove's series is an epic achievement, a meticulously worked-out alternate history of the 20th century's great two-act tragedy… A fine performance by a master-craftsman' S.M.Sterling
'The wizard of If' Chicago Sun-Times
'An epic achievement, a meticulously worked-out alternate history of the 20th century's great tragedy' S.M.Stirling
'A masterpiece… sure to both please and terrify' Sci Fi Weekly
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Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
What if the South had won the American Civil War? Harry Turtledove has imagined brilliantly what the consequences would have been from that initial victory in the 1860s through the Great War of the early twentieth century. And now - still bitter after the depression that followed that bloodbath - the Confederacy rises again to smite its enemies.
On June 22, 1941 Jake Featherston, the charismatic dictator of the resurgentConfederate States of America, sends his bombers over the USA. He sets off a holocaust of violence that will engulf the continent.
As war rages on land and in the air, occupied Canada and Utah hope for liberation at last, when the Americans are at their weakest. The prisoners in Featherston’s concentration camps – both the former slaves and anyone who dares to preach justice or democracy – fear that their only possible fate will be annihilation. And somehow, the USA resists the Confederate invasion – but at enormous cost.
In Settling Accounts Harry Turtledove creates a devastating new chapter in the conflict between two the two American superpowers, one that must surely result in total victory for one side or the other.
‘The author handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty’ Publishers Weekly
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Jaws of Darkness
Harry Turtledove’s masterful story of a magical world at war continues in this, the epic fifth volume of the Darkness series. 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 - but for artillery and bombers, read magical fire and dragons.
Yet 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 - begins to founder as it runs into Habakkuk: a sorcerous ship of ice used by the embattled nations of Lagoas and Kuusamo to ferry their deadly dragons across the seas to war.
But though the tide has begun to turn, the conflict is far from over. The widely disdained Kaunians still struggle desperately to escape as the Algarvians kill them by the thousands - for life energy, but also simply for the crime of being Kaunian. And as the death of innocent civilians on both sides continues to feed the flames of war, those who have struggled to survive and preserve their freedom have only their will to see them through...
`One of the geniuses of this demanding field’ SF Age
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American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America in 1934 is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict – complete with a new generation of killing machines.
Jake Featherston, leader of the Freedom Party, now rules the Confederate States of America and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic, shrewd and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps and the persecution has just begun.
The North stumbles through a succession of leaders, still locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan. Is the USA strong enough now to endure if Featherston seizes his chance and declares war?
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Rulers of the Darkness
In his previous Darkness books - Into the Darkness, Darkness Descending, and Through the Darkness - bestselling author Harry Turtledove has been telling an epic tale of a world at war; a dark mirror of the terrible wars of our own twentieth century, set in a world where battles are fought with magic rather than technology.
Imagine the drama and terror of the Second World War in such a place. The death, the destruction, the sheer scale of the horror is the same - but the bullets are beams of eldritch fire, the tanks are great horned and taloned beasts, and fighters and bombers are dragons raining fire upon their targets. This is the world of the Derlavaian continent, a world that is slowly but surely being conquered, mile after bloody mile, by the forces of the Algarvian Empire... forces whose most terrible battle magics are powered by the slaughter of innocent people.
In this, the fourth volume of the series, following on from Through the Darkness, the war for the future of Derlavai builds towards its crescendo as the mages of Kuusamo, aided by their former rivals from Lagoas, work desperately to create a newer form of magic. Magic of unprecedented destructive power. Magic that will change the course of the war.
`A breath of fresh air ...you’re treated to a planet made of various different nations each unique and varied’ SFX
About The Author
Harry Turtledove is a Hugo-Award winning writer of alternate history and science fiction. He has lived in Southern California all his life. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, California State Fullerton and California State University, Los Angeles. He has written many works of speculative fiction and fantasy. He is married to the novelist Laura Frankos and they have three daughters.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2005)
Oct 05
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2004)
Pbk Nov 05
Jaws of Darkness
(Pocket Books Pbk,
2004)
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2003)
NEL Pbk Feb 04
Rulers of the Darkness
(Earthlight Pbk,
2003)
American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2002)
NEL Pbk Jan 03
American Empire: Blood and Iron
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2001)
NEL Pbk May 02
Colonisation: Aftershocks
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2001)
NEL Pbk Dec 01
The Great War: Breakthroughs
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2001)
NEL Pbk Jul 01
Colonisation: Down to Earth
(Hodder & Stoughton,
2000)
NEL Pbk Dec 00
Darkness Descending
(Earthlight Pbk,
2000)
The Great War: Walk in Hell
(
1999)
NEL Pbk Apr 00
Into the Darkness
(Earthlight,
1999)
Earthlight Pbk Apr 00
The Great War: American Front
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1999)
Colonisation: Second Contact
A World of Difference
The Two Georges
Worldwar: Striking The Balance
Worldwar: Upsetting The Balance
Worldwar: Tilting The Balance
Worldwar: In The Balance
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
by Harry Turtledove
