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Departures (Mass Market Paperback)

by Harry Turtledove (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (Jun 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345380118
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345380111
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 804,771 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of twenty alternative-history stories ranging from ancient times the distant future.

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent collection of short stories, 23 Jun 2000
By Tim Bowler "history buff" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book is perhaps Turtledove at his best. He is a very good historian - indeed he has written fine monographs on the Byzantine Empire -- but in his longer novels, I am not always convinced that his characters work.

Here in this collection there are a sseries of fine historical vignettes. I especially liked the switch he plays with the Bulgarian Khan, deciding to become Muslim rather than Christian -- and is reflections on what this might have meant for the course of history throughout Europe. Turtledove is superb at identifying crucial points in history -- even if us have never stopped to realise how crucial they were. Alongside his series of short stories about Basil Argyros -- a spy for an alternate Byzantine Empire -- this is terrific fun.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection of alternate reality short stories, 30 Oct 1997
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This was an excellent book of short stories. Turtledove says alot in just a few pages and I was left me hungering for more. I admit to being a fan of the alternate history/reality genre and Turtledove is a master at making such "potential pasts" believeable. Perhaps my favorite story of the group (and it was not an easy decision) was concerning the arrival of an official of the Persian court to the conquered province of Greece (I believe the story was titled "Counting Potsherds"). This tells a nice compact story of how things can quickly change on a person at the flick of a wrist. This story is representative of Turtledove's work because he allows the altenate history to be a seemless and natural background to the story, as if this was the real course of events. Some writers make too much of describing the alternate history and do not give enough time to giving life and action to the characters in their stories. Turtledove's worlds are certainly different from our own but the focus is still on people and everything that people do. If the world they're set in seems foreign and unfamiliar to the reader, the humans themselves make up for it by simply being real people which is the real strength of his work. Pick this one up.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection of alternative history shorts, 13 Oct 1997
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I read these stories several years ago and they turned me on to Harry Turtledove. I only wish he would write more of these; perhaps a volume two. I especially remember the story regarding democracy and its abortive beginings in Greece.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A BIT MISLEADING
I was a little dissapointed by the content of this book, its not quite as "alternate history" as I expected. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2000 by G. Donohoe

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