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Harry Turtledove

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Death in Vesunna

by Elaine O’Byrne and Harry Turtledove
Lou Muller and his partner-in-crime Mark Alvarez (a.k.a. Lucius and Marcus) travel back from AD 2059 to obtain Sophocles’ lost play Aleadai, but when the owner of the rare manuscript won’t part with it, they kill him and take it, counting on the obscurity of the backwater second-century town to stop the Time Patrol from discovering their foul deed. That may indeed happen, but they didn’t count on Gaius Tero, one of the second century’s finest, and the sharp-tongued physician Kleandros.
Whatever. And as for the Time Patrol, why are we here in the boondocks instead of at the library of Alexandria? Why do we insist on so much privacy when we make our deals? Just so they won’t run across us. And they won’t.
“Death in Vesunna” by Elaine O’Byrne and Harry Turtledove, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 19 January 1981.

Hindsight

by Harry Turtledove
When 1950’s science fiction writer Mark Gordian has a flurry of great stories (“Watergate,” “Houston, We've Got a Problem,” “Neutron Star,” and the ultimate time-travel yarn, “All You Zombies”), Pete Lundquist has nothing but admiration, until Gordian comes out with a story that Pete himself has been outlining.
“Oh, my God! Tet Offensive!” McGregor stared from one of them to the other. “You’re not telling me that one’s based on fact?”
“Hindsight” by Harry Turtledove, in Analog, mid-Dec 1984.

The Last Article

by Harry Turtledove
“The Last Article” by Harry Turtledove, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1988.

The Guns of the South

by Harry Turtledove
A faction from the early 21st century brings boatloads of AK-47 machine guns back to General Lee in the War between the States.
My friends and I—everyone who belongs to America Will Break—come from a hundred and fifty years in your future.
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove (Ballantine Books, October 1992).

Justin Counting Stories

by Harry Turtledove
At twenty-one, Justin Kloster has it made: one more year of college and then happily ever after with his sweetheart Megan. Then his forty-year-old self shows up to prevent Justin from making terrible mistakes that will lead to an eventual nasty divorce with Megan.

Turtledove tells the story twice: once from the Justin-21’s point-of-view and once from that of Justin-40. Together, the stories form a short novel-length work that can be read in either order.

— Michael Main
I was stupid. I didn’t know enough. I didn’t know how to take care of her.
Justin Counting Stories by Harry Turtledove, two pts. [may be read in either order], Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1999 [“Counting Up”] and Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1999 [“Counting Down”].

Crosstime Traffic 1

Gunpowder Empire

by Harry Turtledove
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove (Tor, December 2003).

Crosstime Traffic 2

Curious Notions

by Harry Turtledove
Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove (Tor, October 2004).

Crosstime Traffic 3

In High Places

by Harry Turtledove
In High Places by Harry Turtledove (Tor, January 2006).

Crosstime Traffic 4

The Disunited States of America

by Harry Turtledove
The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove (Tor, September 2006).

Occupation Duty

by Harry Turtledove
“Occupation Duty” by Harry Turtledove, in Time Twisters, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe (DAW Books, January 2007).

Crosstime Traffic 5

The Gladiator

by Harry Turtledove
The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove (Tor, June 2007).

Crosstime Traffic 6

The Valley-Westside War

by Harry Turtledove
The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove (Tor, July 2008).

We Haven’t Got There Yet

by Harry Turtledove
Some 360 years before Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead was first performed in Edinburgh, Will Shakespeare himself attends a performance.
His mind races faster than a horse galloping downhill. Try as he will, he can’t mistake her meaning. If Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is dead itself—a century dead!—then Hamlet must be older yet. But his head had only a little more hair, and that only a little less gray, when he wrote it. An impossibility—an impossibility he has just seen staged.
“We Haven’t Got There Yet” by Harry Turtledove, Tor.com Original Fiction, 19 March 2009 [webzine].
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