Swords of the Legion (Videssos)

by Harry Turtledove

  Yet there was no denying the part Alypia played in their contentment together. By not trying to make him over, he thought, she left him free to change for himself instead of being frozen behind a defensive shell.

  The proof of her success—and perhaps of his own—was that they cared for each other more as time went by, where before happiness had steadily leaked away once passion cooled.

  That was not to say he and Alypia did not have differences. She had just shown one, with her talk of happy endings. He thought the imperial religion, with its emphasis on the battles between good and evil, had much to do with that.

  Scaurus had come to terms with Phos himself, but he still felt the influence of his Stoic upbringing. Endings were for romances, which did not have to worry about what came after them. In the real world trouble followed trouble without cease; there was only one ending, and that predetermined.

  But many roads led toward it. “Call this a good beginning,” he said, and Alypia did not argue.

  (1967)

  1979–1983

  (1985)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Harry Turtledove is that rarity, a lifelong southern Californian. He is married and has two young daughters. After flunking out of Caltech, he earned a degree in Byzantine history and has taught at UCLA and Cal State Fullerton. Academic jobs being few and precarious, however, his primary work since leaving school has been as a technical writer. He has had fantasy and science fiction published in Isaac Asimov’s, Amazing, Analog, Fantasy Book, and Playboy. His hobbies include baseball, chess, and beer.

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  Harry Turtledove

  The Confederacy is facing certain defeat in its war against the Union—until a mysterious stranger approaches General Robert E. Lee with the extraordinary offer of an incredibly lethal weapon never before seen: the AK-47 rifle.

  “The most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.”

  —JAMES M. MCPHERSON

  Author of Battle Cry of Freedom

  Published by The Random House Publishing Group.

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  Worldwar: In the Balance

  The Allied forces and the Axis powers grappled for victory as the Second World War raged across the globe. And then, from outer space, came a new enemy that would unite Earth’s warring nations in a battle to save their planet.

  Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

  The marauding extraterrestrial invaders that struck at the height of WWII laid waste to the German, Russian, Japanese, and American forces with their superior weapons and firepower. But Earth was determined to resist enslavement … and slaughter.

  Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance

  Once sworn enemies, Hitler and Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Mao were now bound together as comrades in the devastating war against a brutal intergalactic scourge. And now once-forbidden weapons and unthinkable tactics are being brought to bear to combat the inhuman invaders bent on conquest.

  Worldwar: Striking the Balance

  Time has nearly run out in the battle between Earth and the monstrous alien invaders from the stars. And as city after city across the globe is consumed in radioactive firestorms, the combined Allied and Axis forces struggle to stave off world domination … even as they risk humanity’s annihilation.

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