Character guide · 8 books · 1994 to 2004

Harry Turtledove

Science fictionMilitary science fiction Alternate history

Harry Turtledove, a historian of Byzantium, is the leading writer of alternate history. In Worldwar, a lizard-like alien fleet invades Earth in the middle of the Second World War, and the human powers have to unite against them.

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