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How Few Remain is a 1997 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove that serves as the opening installment of the Southern Victory series. The premise imagines a timeline where the Confederate States successfully seceded, leading to a renewed military conflict between the United States and the Conf...

Worldwar: In the Balance is a 1994 alternate-history and military science-fiction novel by Harry Turtledove, opening the Worldwar series. During the Second World War, an alien force known as the Race arrives to conquer Earth, expecting human technology and society to resemble observations made centu...

Published in 1995, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance is an alternate history science fiction novel by Harry Turtledove and the second book in the Worldwar series. The story continues the timeline of World War II, where an alien invasion by the Race forces humanity to suspend its global conflicts to face...

Settling Accounts: In at the Death is a 2007 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, serving as the eleventh and final book in the Southern Victory series. It concludes an alternate timeline where the Confederate States of America maintained independence into the 20th century and aligned with f...

The Great War: American Front is a 1998 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove and the second book in the Southern Victory series. Set in an alternate 1914, the narrative explores a timeline where the Confederate States of America remains an independent nation allied with Britain and France, wh...

Ruled Britannia is a 2002 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove set in an England conquered by Spain after a successful Spanish Armada. In the occupied country, William Shakespeare becomes entangled in competing theatrical and political demands, including plans for a play that could encourage...

Worldwar: Striking the Balance is a 1996 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove and the fourth volume in the Worldwar series. It concludes the conflict that began when the Race, an alien civilization expecting medieval opposition, invaded Earth during the Second World War. Human states and the...

The Great War: Walk in Hell is a 1999 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove and the second volume of the Great War trilogy within the Southern Victory series. It depicts an alternate First World War fought across North America, with the United States and Confederate States aligned with opposin...

Harry Turtledove's 1987 fix-up novel set in an alternate medieval world where the Byzantine Empire never fell, following secret agent Basil Argyros on missions across the 14th century.

Third in Turtledove's Worldwar series (1996), depicting the stalemate deepening as humanity develops nuclear weapons to match the alien Race's superior arsenal.

Tenth Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (2006), depicting the USA's advance into Confederate territory and early exposure of a Confederate genocide against Black citizens.

Harry Turtledove's 1988 fix-up novel depicting an alternate Americas where Homo erectus survived and Homo sapiens never migrated, explored through linked short stories.

First in Turtledove's Colonization trilogy (1999), set decades after the Worldwar armistice as a second alien fleet arrives to permanently colonize the contested Earth.

Ninth in Turtledove's Southern Victory series (2005), following armored campaigns across the American South as both nations deploy tanks and air power in earnest.

Fourth Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (2000), concluding the Great War tetralogy as the United States breaks through Confederate lines to end the conflict.

Second Colonization novel by Turtledove (2000), following tensions between human nations and the alien Race as Cold War-style rivalries and nuclear proliferation intensify.

Eighth Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (2004), launching the Settling Accounts tetralogy as the USA and CSA enter a WWII-equivalent conflict in the late 1930s.

Third and concluding Colonization novel by Turtledove (2001), resolving the long-running conflict between humanity and the Race with a nuclear exchange and fragile peace.

Fifth in Turtledove's Southern Victory series (2001), set in the 1920s as the defeated Confederacy breeds resentment and demagogue Jake Featherston rises to power.

First in Harry Turtledove's Darkness series (1999), a fantasy retelling of World War II set on the fictional continent of Derlavai, where sorcery and dragons replace modern technology.

Harry Turtledove's 2004 novel closes the Worldwar/Colonization saga as a human crew makes the first interstellar voyage to the Race's home world in the Tau Ceti system.

Seventh in Turtledove's Southern Victory series (2003), depicting Featherston's electoral victory and the Confederacy's drift toward fascism before a second world war.

Sixth Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (2002), covering the Depression-era 1930s as the Confederate Freedom Party consolidates power under Featherston.

Second Darkness novel by Turtledove (2000), continuing the fantasy WWII allegory as multiple Derlavai nations mobilize sorcery and dragons in a widening continental war.

Fourth Darkness novel by Turtledove (2002), revealing the full horror of Algarvian genocide as Kaunian civilians are mass-sacrificed to power the empire's war magic.

Third in Turtledove's Darkness series (2001), depicting the tide turning against the Algarvian empire as partisan resistance grows and allied forces launch major offensives.

1998 alternate history anthology edited by Harry Turtledove in which historical military commanders are placed in different conflicts or eras, altering the outcomes of famous engagements.

Fifth in Turtledove's Darkness series (2003), following the allied advance against Algarve as its mass-murder-based sorcery extracts an ever-greater toll on a collapsing empire.

2002 second anthology in Harry Turtledove's Alternate Generals series, continuing the format of transposing historical military figures into counterfactual battles and campaigns.