Publication Order of Worldwar and Colonization Books
Worldwar: In the Balance
1994
Worldwar: Tilting the Balance
1995
Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
1996
Worldwar: Striking the Balance
1996
Colonization: Second Contact
1999
Colonization: Down to Earth
2000
Colonization: Aftershocks
2001
Homeward Bound
2004
Publication Order of Southern Victory Books
How Few Remain
1997
The Great War: American Front
1998
The Great War: Walk in Hell
1999
The Great War: Breakthroughs
2000
American Empire: Blood and Iron
2001
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
2002
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
2003
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
2004
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
2005
Settling Accounts: The Grapple
2006
Settling Accounts: In at the Death
2007
Publication Order of Darkness Books
Into the Darkness
1999
Darkness Descending
2000
Through the Darkness
2001
Rulers of the Darkness
2002
Jaws of Darkness
2003
Out of the Darkness
2004
Publication Order of War Between the Provinces Books
Sentry Peak
2000
Marching Through Peachtree
2001
Advance and Retreat
2002
Publication Order of Hellenic Traders Books
Over the Wine-Dark Sea
2001
The Gryphon’s Skull
2002
The Sacred Land
2003
Owls to Athens
2004
Salamis
2020
Publication Order of Scepter of Mercy Books
The Bastard King
2003
The Chernagor Pirates
2004
The Scepter’s Return
2005
Publication Order of Crosstime Traffic Books
Gunpowder Empire
2003
Curious Notions
2004
In High Places
2006
The Disunited States of America
2006
The Gladiator
2007
The Valley-Westside War
2008
Publication Order of Days of Infamy Books
Days of Infamy
2004
End of the Beginning
2005
Publication Order of Atlantis Books
Opening Atlantis
2007
The United States of Atlantis
2008
Liberating Atlantis
2009
Publication Order of Opening of the World Books
Beyond the Gap
2007
The Breath of God
2008
The Golden Shrine
2009
Publication Order of The War That Came Early Books
Hitler’s War
2009
West and East
2010
The Big Switch
2011
Coup d’Etat
2012
Two Fronts
2013
Last Orders
2014
Publication Order of Supervolcano Books
Supervolcano: Eruption
2011
Supervolcano: All Fall Down
2012
Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart
2013
Publication Order of The Hot War Books
Bombs Away
2015
Fallout
2016
Armistice
2017
Publication Order of City of Shadows Books
Twice as Dead
2025
Lightning Runes
2026
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Agent of Byzantium
1987
Noninterference
1988
A Different Flesh
1988
A World of Difference
1990
Earthgrip
1991
The Guns of the South
1992
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump
1993
The Two Georges (With: Richard Dreyfuss)
1995
Thessalonica
1997
Between the Rivers
1998
Justinian
1998
Household Gods (With: Judith Tarr)
1999
Ruled Britannia
2002
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
2003
Conan of Venarium
2003
Every Inch a King
2005
The Bridge of the Separator
2005
Fort Pillow
2006
The Man with the Iron Heart
2008
After the Downfall
2008
Give Me Back My Legions!
2009
Joe Steele
2015
The House of Daniel
2016
Through Darkest Europe
2018
Alpha and Omega
2019
Or Even Eagle Flew
2021
Three Miles Down
2022
The Wages of Sin
2023
City in Chains
2025
Powerless
2025
Don’t Breathe
2026
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Kaleidoscope
1990
Departures
1993
Counting Up, Counting Down
2002
Reincarnations
2009
Atlantis and Other Places
2010
We Install and Other Stories
2015
The Best of Harry Turtledove
2021
Other People’s Playgrounds
2024
About Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1949, who is best known for alternate history. A trained historian with a doctorate in Byzantine history, he has also written fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction, including the eleven-volume Southern Victory series and the Worldwar books. Publishers Weekly called him “The Master of Alternate History”.
Turtledove grew up in Gardena, California. He dropped out of the California Institute of Technology in his first year and went on to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a PhD in Byzantine history in 1977. His first two novels, “Wereblood” and “Werenight”, appeared in 1979 under the name Eric G. Iverson, because his editor doubted that readers would believe Turtledove was a real surname. He worked as a technical writer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education during the 1980s and has written full time since 1991.
His academic field shaped the early fantasy. The Videssos books are set in a world modelled on the Byzantine Empire, beginning with a Roman legion transported there in “The Misplaced Legion” (1987). His breakthrough in alternate history was “The Guns of the South” (1992), in which time-travelling Afrikaner extremists supply Robert E. Lee’s army with AK-47s. It won the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction.
The Worldwar series has aliens invading Earth in the middle of the Second World War, and the Colonization trilogy and “Homeward Bound” continue that story a generation later. Southern Victory, which starts with “How Few Remain” (1997), imagines a Confederacy that won its independence and follows the two rival American nations into the 1940s. Other series include The War That Came Early, the Darkness fantasy novels, and the Crosstime Traffic books for young adults.
Turtledove won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1994 for “Down in the Bottomlands”. “How Few Remain” and “Ruled Britannia” both won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and “The Gladiator” was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. He has used the pen names H. N. Turteltaub, for historical novels such as the Hellenic Traders series, and Dan Chernenko, for the Scepter of Mercy trilogy. “The Two Georges” was written with the actor Richard Dreyfuss and “Household Gods” with Judith Tarr.
He is married to the mystery writer Laura Frankos and lives in Southern California. Recent books include “Powerless” (2025), set in a socialist California, and the City of Shadows novels “Twice as Dead” and “Lightning Runes”.
