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22 unusual facts about Harry Turtledove


Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

She has a short role in Harry Turtledove's novel in Days of Infamy where she is offered the throne of a restored Kingdom of Hawaii.

American Empire: Blood and Iron

American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the American Empire trilogy of alternate history fiction novels by Harry Turtledove.

American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold is the second book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove.

Charles M. La Follette

Fictional character Charles W. La Follette, based on Charles M. La Follette, plays a key role in the latter books of Harry Turtledoves alternate history the Southern Victory Series.

Fantacollana

Authors translated included US most famous fantasy writers, such as Robert E. Howard, Jack Vance, C. J. Cherryh, David Gemmell, Harry Turtledove and others.

Freedom Party

Freedom Party (Harry Turtledove), in the American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels, a fictional analog of the Nazis in the Confederate States of America.

Humble, Texas

Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Settling Accounts: In at the Death.

Konrad Henlein

In Harry Turtledove's "Hitler's War", Henlein is assassinated by a Czech named Jaroslav Stribny around 28 September 1938.

Minoru Genda

Alternative-history writer Harry Turtledove used Genda as the primary Japanese protagonist in his fictional account of an invasion of Oahu following the Pearl Harbor attack in his books Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning.

Night Witches

Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar features Lieutenant Ludmilla Gorbunova, a fictional "Night Witch".

Owls to Athens

Owls to Athens is the fourth book in the Hellenic Traders series by H N Turteltaub.

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Give Me Back My Legions! (2009) by Harry Turtledove, which details the events leading up to the battle, including a great deal of background information on Varus himself.

Rural Municipality of Rhineland

This part of Canada has an important role in the "Southern Victory Series" by Harry Turtledove - depicting an alterante history in which the US sides with Germany and against Britain in the First World War.

Tales from Gavagan's Bar

While L. Sprague de Camp never continued the series on his own, an additional Gavagan's Bar story authored by Michael F. Flynn, "The Ensorcelled ATM", appeared in Harry Turtledove's 2005 tribute anthology honoring de Camp, The Enchanter Completed.

The Great War: American Front

The Great War: American Front is the first alternate history novel in the Great War trilogy by Harry Turtledove.

The Great War: Walk in Hell

The Great war: Walk in Hell is the second book in the Great War series of alternate history books by Harry Turtledove.

The Sacred Land

The Sacred Land is the third book in the Hellenic Traders series by H N Turteltaub.

Tredegar Iron Works

In Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels, in which the South wins the Civil War, the Confederate Army's standard rifle is called the Tredegar, produced by what is by then called the Tredegar Steel Works.

Turtledove

Harry Turtledove, a historian and author who writes historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels

War Between the Provinces

The War Between the Provinces is a series of novels by Harry Turtledove.

White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

The town is featured as a US Army Center of Operations in the book Worldwar: In the Balance, by Harry Turtledove

William Simpson Oldham, Sr.

In the 1994 Harry Turtledove alternative history novel Guns of the South, A "Congressman Oldham" from Texas is mentioned as sponsoring a bill to re-enslave freedmen in a victorious Confederacy.


American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is the third and final book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove, and the seventh in the Southern Victory Series of books.

Bonduca

In the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, William Shakespeare writes a play entitled Boudicca to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

Conucopia

Program participants highlighted by the convention included Harlan Ellison, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, authors David Brin, Larry Niven, and Harry Turtledove, plus Warner Books editor Betsy Mitchell.

Reichsführer-SS

In Harry Turtledove's novel Colonization: Second Contact Himmler is depicted as succeeding Hitler as Führer, and continuing to rule Nazi Germany in the 1960s.

Settling Accounts: In at the Death

It brings to a conclusion the multi-series compilation by author Harry Turtledove, a series sometimes referred to as Southern Victory Series.

The Great War: American Front

After a prologue with Robert E. Lee smashing the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in October 1862, and the subsequent Anglo-French diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America, the novel begins on June 28, 1914, the same day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.

The Purple Pterodactyls

A sixteenth story of Newbury, "The Ensorcelled ATM", authored by Michael F. Flynn, appeared in Harry Turtledove's 2005 tribute anthology honoring L. Sprague de Camp, The Enchanter Completed.