{"title":"Turtledove","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore alternate history with Harry Turtledove, a master of 'what if?' scenarios. From Roman legions in North America to a victorious Confederacy, discover gripping tales that blend historical detail with imaginative fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"worldwar-in-the-balance-book-turtledove-9780340624906","title":"Worldwar in the Balance","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521299718417,"sku":"GOR010378793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572351148305,"sku":"GOR003246106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628605579537,"sku":"GOR004853758","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49658230636817,"sku":"GOR005406751","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340624906.jpg?v=1751196845"},{"product_id":"agent-of-byzantium-book-turtledove-9780865531833","title":"Agent of Byzantium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling standard-bearer for alternate history A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In another, very different timeline--one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be--the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium. A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persia's dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the Franco-Saxons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires, the player who controls the most advanced tools and weaponry--tools like gunpowder, printing, vaccines, and telescopes--must certainly emerge victorious.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A collection of interlocking stories that showcase the courage, ingenuity, and breathtaking derring-do of superspy Basil Argyros, \u003cem\u003eAgent of Byzantium \u003c\/em\u003epresents the great Harry Turtledove at his alternate-world-building best. At once intricate, exciting, witty, and wildly inventive, this is a many-faceted gem from a master of the genre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A very talented science fiction writer, with a gift for finding a way to present a fascinating idea through strong, believable characters. --Orson Scott Card\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These intelligent, colorful tales honorably recall L. Sprague de Camp, the master of historical SF. --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eAgent of Byzantium\u003c\/em\u003e is] a lot of fun. --\u003cem\u003eLocus \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e has called him the master of alternate history, and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include \u003cem\u003eThe Guns of the South\u003c\/em\u003e, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50763346116881,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763348967697,"sku":"CIN0865531838G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865531838.jpg?v=1751202464"},{"product_id":"different-flesh-book-turtledove-9780865531987","title":"A Different Flesh","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis novel by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling master of alternate history explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What if mankind's missing link, the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the sims were their slaves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's \u003ci\u003eA Different Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists' desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists' daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who's being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52458821878033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52458823024913,"sku":"CIN0865531986G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780865531987.jpg?v=1759441272"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-turtledove.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}