Turtledove's latest twist on history has the Japanese invading Hawaii in December 1941. The strategic consequences of the U.S. being backed up against its own West Coast, with most of its navy's aircraft carriers sunk, are too extensive to be dealt with in one novel, and one viewpoint character, Joe Crosetti, is training as a naval aviator for the battles to come.
Harry Turtledove's Colonization: Second Contact opens, two decades have passed since the Lizards invaded Earth during World War II and an entire generation has grown up without knowing a world in which the Lizards have a presence. Rather than being the fearsome enemy, they are now hardly stranger than foreigners and have a strong effect on fashion.
Beyond the Gap (2007) is a Prehistorical Fantasy. The Glacier had been covering the northern plains forever. Only myths tell of a time before this mountain of ice. Legends also speak of a Golden Shrine -- sacred to the gods -- on the other side of the Glacier, but few believe these old tales. The Glacier had been retreating even before the founding of the old Raumsdalian Empire. Over the centuries, a gap in the great Glacier has been extending further north.
After the Downfall by Harry TurtledoveHarry Turtledove posits a typical Nazi soldier, in the last days of the defense of Berlin in 1945...Hasso Pemsel...who is supposed to defend to the death the ruins of the old Berlin Museum. All of the antiquities have supposedly been taken to safety in bunkers, but he finds a big rock that he hides behind, taking refuge from the Russian sharpshooters. He sees the information sign is still there, and it says that the big rock is the Omphalos stone, from the temple of Apollo at Delphi. He crawls on top of it and disappears.
40 Counting Down and 21 Counting Up by Harry TurtledoveHarry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, turns to time travel in these two related novellas that range from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient. In the Hugo Award nominee Forty, Counting Down, computer genius Justin Kloster travels to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake. But all actions have their consequences. Then, in Twenty-One, Counting Up, Kloster's college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted when the 40-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.
