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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...

Agent of Byzantium is a 1987 fix-up novel by Harry Turtledove, built from linked stories about Basil Argyros, a secret agent of the Byzantine Empire. It is set in an alternate fourteenth-century history in which Byzantium remains a major power rather than following the historical course that led to...

Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance is the third novel in Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series, published in 1996. It continues an alternate version of the Second World War after the arrival of the extraterrestrial Race, whose technology and military power disrupt the conflict among Earth's human nations....

Settling Accounts: The Grapple is a 2006 novel by Harry Turtledove and the third book in the Settling Accounts sequence, which forms the concluding part of his Southern Victory alternate-history series. It depicts the continuing Second Great War between the United States and the Confederate States,...

A Different Flesh is a 1988 fix-up novel by Harry Turtledove, assembled from linked stories set between the early colonial period and the late twentieth century. Its point of divergence is that Homo erectus, called “sims” in the narrative, occupies the Americas instead of Homo sapiens before Europea...

Colonization: Second Contact is the first novel in Harry Turtledove's Colonization trilogy and the fifth book in the Worldwar sequence. It takes place after an armistice between human powers and the invading Race, when a second fleet arrives from the alien home world to settle Earth. The novel follo...

Settling Accounts: Drive to the East is the second novel in Harry Turtledove's four-book Settling Accounts sequence and the ninth novel in the broader Southern Victory timeline. Published in 2005, it presents a 1942 North America in which the Confederate States survived the Civil War and the United...

The Great War: Breakthroughs is a 2000 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove, the third and final volume of the Great War trilogy and the fifth book in the Southern Victory series. It portrays a First World War fought between the United States and the Confederate States after the Confederacy w...

Colonization: Down to Earth is a 2000 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove and the second volume in the Colonization trilogy. It continues the setting established in the Worldwar series, in which an alien species called the Race occupies much of Earth during the Second World War. Human govern...

Settling Accounts: Return Engagement is a 2004 alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove and the opening volume of the four-book Settling Accounts sequence. It is part of the larger Southern Victory series, whose timeline diverges when the Confederate States of America wins independence from the U...

Colonization: Aftershocks is the third and final novel in Harry Turtledove's Colonization trilogy, published in 2001. It continues the alternate-history conflict between human nations and the alien Race after the invasion begun in the Worldwar sequence. The novel follows political, military, and sci...

American Empire: Blood and Iron is an alternate-history novel by Harry Turtledove and the opening volume of the American Empire sequence within his larger Southern Victory, or Timeline-191, series. Published in 2001, it is set in the 1920s after the Confederacy has lost the Great War and remains a s...

Into the Darkness is a 1999 novel by Harry Turtledove and the opening volume of the Darkness series. It presents a fantasy counterpart to the Second World War on the fictional continent of Derlavai, where nations use sorcery, dragons, and other magical resources in place of much modern military tech...

Homeward Bound is a 2004 science fiction novel by Harry Turtledove and the concluding volume of the Colonization sequence, which follows the Worldwar series. Its human characters attempt an interstellar journey to the Race's home world in the Tau Ceti system, extending the story beyond the alien occ...

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is a 2003 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove and part of the Southern Victory sequence. It depicts an interwar United States and Confederate States of America after the Confederacy's earlier victory, with Jake Featherston and the Confederate Freedo...

American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold is a 2002 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove in the Southern Victory sequence. Set during an economic depression in the 1930s, it follows political and social developments in a North America divided between the United States and the Confederate States...

Darkness Descending is a 2000 alternate-history fantasy novel by Harry Turtledove and the second book in his Darkness series. The series reimagines the Second World War through invented countries and cultures whose military power comes from magic, dragons, and other fantasy equivalents of modern wea...

Rulers of the Darkness is the fourth novel in Harry Turtledove's Darkness series, an alternate-history sequence that combines a world war with systems of military magic. The novel expands the series' depiction of the Algarvian empire and its persecution of the Kaunian population. Its plot reveals th...

Through the Darkness is the third novel in Harry Turtledove's Darkness series, an alternate-history fantasy sequence set during a conflict that parallels aspects of the Second World War. The book depicts the Algarvian empire losing momentum as resistance grows within occupied territories. Partisan a...

Alternate Generals is a 1998 anthology of alternate-history fiction edited by Harry Turtledove. The stories examine how military history might have changed if commanders had faced different wars, opponents, technologies, or political circumstances. Its subjects are drawn from real historical conflic...

Jaws of Darkness is the fifth novel in Harry Turtledove's Darkness series, a fantasy alternate history modeled on the military and political conditions of the Second World War. Published in 2003, it follows the continuing Allied advance against Algarve while the empire relies on destructive mass-mur...

*Alternate Generals II* is a 2002 anthology edited by Harry Turtledove. It belongs to the *Alternate Generals* series, which uses alternate history to place real military leaders in different wars, countries, or strategic circumstances than those in which they actually served. The volume presents mu...