A one-of-a-kind collection from the New York Times bestselling maven of alternate history.
—San Diego Union-TribuneA famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in Audubon in Atlantis.
A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in The Catcher in the Rhine.
The philosopher Sokrates plays a key role in the Athenian victory over the Spartans in The Daimon.
Centaurs take a sea voyage aboard The Horse of Bronze to a land where they encounter a strange and frightening tribe of creatures known as man. London’s most famous detective, Athelstan Helms, and his assistant Dr. James Walton are in Atlantis investigating a series of murders in The Scarlet Band.
This collection includes these and seven more amazing stories of ancient eras, historical figures, mysterious events, and out-of-this-world adventure from the incomparable Harry Turtledove.
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The super dozen alternate history tales were all previously published in the past decade, but never together. The one volume speaks loudly as to how skilled Harry Turtledove truly is when it comes to the sub-genre where he is the champion grandmaster whether it is a saga, a novel, a novella, or a short story. In the first entry, Audubon in Atlantis, the naturalist arrives on the island seeking rare birds. The second tale satires Bush and Bin Laden who make strange Bedfellows, who need each other like yin and yang. All the News from the Front is the news not worth printing during WW II, as Mr. Turtledove rips the main stream media. Whether it is the American leaving the ducks swimming in Central Park to attack a German castle as in The Catcher in the Rhine, soldier Uncle Alf writing from occupied Paris in 1929 to his niece about the lazy French, re Socrates role in the Peloponnesian Wars (The Daimon), fans will agree this anthology affirms Mr. Turtledove’s abilities whether he lampoons or just changes a pivotal moment he Harry Turtledove