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It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology
at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction
magazines, just weeks away from marrying his long-time fiancée.
Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter
agencies who want him to join a top-secret 'Project Azorian' in the
middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take 'no'
for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all
of Jerry's immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy,
what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to
raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting
undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real,
turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean
floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien
spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a
dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a
ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and
roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the
North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien
first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the
mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the
paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast--and
who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles
Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a
hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult,
and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974.
From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable. But the alternative was even worse. As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge . . .
The most important illuminating source that survived from the two
centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of
the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a
vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth
centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal
religious conflicts. Theophanes's carefully developed chronological
scheme was mined extensively by later Byzantine and Western record
keepers; his chronicle was used as a source of information as well
as a stylistic model. It is the framework upon which all Byzantine
chronology for this period must be based. Important topics covered
by the Chronicle include: The Empire's struggle to repel explosive
Arab expansionism and the Bulgar invasion. The iconoclastic
controversy, which caused civil war within Byzantium and led to
schism between the churches of Constantinople and Rome. The
development of the Byzantine thematic system, the administrative
and social structure that would bring the Empire to the height of
its power and prosperity. Almost all the sources used by Theophanes
have perished, leaving his chronicle as the most important
historical literature from this period. Turledove's translation
makes available in English this crucial primary text for the study
of medieval Byzantine civilization.
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . .
1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881.
But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history. . .
It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology
at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction
magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée.
Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter
agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the
middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take "no"
for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all
of Jerry's immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy,
what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to
raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting
undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real,
turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean
floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien
spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a
dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a
ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and
roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the
North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien
first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the
mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the
paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast--and
who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles
Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a
hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult,
and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974.
"New York Times "bestselling author Harry Turtledove brings his
post-apocalyptic disaster trilogy to a startling conclusion...
An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park
propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the
atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent.
Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines
function only as statuary.
People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced
before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural
resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson
knows that time is running out for his family--and for
humanity...
Yellowstone National Park sits on a hotspot: a plume of molten rock
coming up from deep inside the earth capable of volcanic eruptions
far greater than any that have occurred in times past. It has been
silent for many years, providing false security for a nation
unprepared for the full force and fury of nature unleashed. It
begins with explosions that send lava and mud flowing far beyond
Yellowstone towards populated areas. Clouds of ash drift across the
country, nearly blanketing the land from coast to coast. The
fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes
cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves facing the
dawn of a new ice age as temperatures plummet worldwide. Colin
Ferguson is a police lieutenant in a suburb of Los Angeles, where
snow is falling for the first time in decades. He fears for his
family who are spread across America, refugees caught in an
apocalyptic catastrophe where humanity has no choice but to rise
from the ashes and recreate the world...
What if British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had defied
Hitler? What if the Munich Accord had gone unsigned, and Nazi
Germany had launched its bid for conquest sooner? How would World
War II have unfolded--and with what consequences? Dean of alternate
history Harry Turtledove has the stunning answers in his
breathtaking sequel to "Hitler's War."
In the wake of Hitler's bold invasion of Czechoslovakia, nations
turn against nations, old enemies form new alliances, and ordinary
men and women confront extraordinary life-and-death situations. An
American marine falls in love with a Russian dancer in
Japanese-held Singapore, as Chinese guerilla resistance erupts. A
sniper on the frontlines of France finds a powerful new way to ply
his deadly art--while a German assassin hunts him. In the icy North
Atlantic, as a U-boat with a secret weapon wreaks havoc on British
ships, occupying Nazi forces target Denmark. And in Germany, a
stranded American woman encounters Hitler himself, as a Jewish
family faces the rising tide of hatred. From Siberia to Spain,
armies clash, sides are chosen, new weapons raise the deadly ante,
and new strategies seek to break a growing stalemate. But one
question hangs over the conflict from West to East: What will it
take to bring America into this war?
The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily. Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .
MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Price-winning author and master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War: how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?
If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers, and became an American Classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of readers, and features a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani, a new introduction by award-winning alternate history author Harry Turtledove, and fifteen superb illustrations by the incomparable Dan Nance.
It all begins on that fateful afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, 1863, when a deplorable equestrian accident claims the life of General Ulysses S. Grant . . . .
"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read." Professor James M. McPherson Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club
Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States
hasn't been the same. Hotshot wizards will tell you nothing's
really changed, but then again, hotshot wizards aren't looking for
honest work in Enid, Oklahoma. No paying jobs at the mill, because
zombies will work for nothing. The diner on Main Street is seeing
hard times as well, because a lot fewer folks can afford to fly
carpets in from miles away. Jack Spivey's just another down-and-out
trying to stay alive, doing a little of this and a little of that.
Sometimes that means making a few bucks playing ball with the Enid
Eagles, against teams from as many as two counties away. And
sometimes it means roughing up rival thugs for Big Stu, the guy who
calls the shots in Enid. But one day Jack knocks on the door of the
person he's supposed to 'deal with' - and realises that he's not
going to do any such thing to the young lady who answers. This
means he needs to get out of the reach of Big Stu, who didn't get
to where he is by letting defiance go unpunished. Then the House of
Daniel comes to town - a brash band of barnstormers who'll take on
any team, and whose antics never fail to entertain. Against the
odds Jack secures a berth with them. Now they're off to tour an
America that's as shot through with magic as it is dead broke. Jack
will never be the same - nor will baseball.
The master of alternative history asks the question, 'What would
have happened if World War II had started in 1938?'. The results
are thrilling. The two sides of the Spanish civil war are still
locked in a blood-soaked stalemate. Stalin's purge of the Red Army
is barely underway. And Neville Chamberlain - sickened by the
arrogance and duplicity of the Germans- does not return from Munich
waving the piece of paper that would give the Czech arms factories
to Hitler and postpone the war until 1939. On October 1, German
tanks cross the Czech frontier, touching off declarations of war
from France, from England, from the USSR. Poland, fearing the
Russians more than Hitler, declares war on the German side. Soon
Fascist Spain attacks Gibraltar, the Japanese army crosses the
Manchurian frontier into Siberia . . . and the British Army sets
off for France, which has launched a pre-emptive attack on the
Rhineland. The war we know as World War II has begun - a year
early, in an entirely different way.
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