"Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history."--USA
Today
The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments:
One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In this
astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War
turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their
nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are
displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom
fighters next to Russian fascists. The genie is out of the bottle. And
there's no telling what fresh hell will come next.
At the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Even as Joe
McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. president is focused elsewhere,
planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin.
It's a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. Meanwhile,
Europe's weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the
winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. With Great Britain
ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of
options. When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow
the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back--with horrifying
results.
These staggering events unfold through the eyes of a sprawling cast of
characters: a Holocaust survivor in a displaced persons camp in
Washington; the wife of a bomber pilot and her five-year-old daughter
starting a new existence; a savage Soviet fighter waging war by his own
rules; a British pub owner falling in love with an American pilot. In
the masterly hands of Harry Turtledove, this epic chronicle of war
becomes a story of human struggle. As the armies of the world implode,
the next chapter will be written by the survivors--those willing to rise
up for an uncertain future.
Praise for Fallout
"Turtledove proves, yet again, that he is the best when it comes to
rewriting history!"--Suspense Magazine
"Turtledove, the master of alternate history, has done well
again."--Shelf Awareness
"No one writes alternate-history novels quite like Turtledove. . . .
Expect epic political stakes as well as personal and heartfelt stories
of war."--BookTrib
