Best Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove's 1997 novel opens his Southern Victory series, set in 1881 when a Confederate Civil War victory leads to a second North American war with Mexico.

Harry Turtledove's 1994 novel launches the Worldwar series, imagining a reptilian alien fleet invading Earth in 1942 and forcing an uneasy truce among the warring human powers.

Second Worldwar novel by Turtledove (1995), as humans fight both each other and the alien Race while racing to reverse-engineer captured extraterrestrial technology.

Eleventh and final Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (2007), concluding the series with the USA's defeat of the Confederacy and the reckoning for its genocide program.

Second Southern Victory novel by Turtledove (1998), following the USA and CSA fighting on opposite sides of a WWI-equivalent conflict beginning in 1914.

Harry Turtledove's 2002 standalone novel set in 1597, where the Spanish Armada succeeded and occupied England, with Shakespeare coerced into writing pro-Spanish propaganda.

Fourth and final Worldwar novel by Turtledove (1996), concluding the war between humanity and the Race with an uneasy armistice and a transformed geopolitical landscape.

Third in Turtledove's Southern Victory series (1999), depicting trench warfare and socialist uprisings as the Great War grinds on across North America.

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.