We Install, Harry Turtledove
We Install, Harry Turtledove
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We Install
And Other Stories

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Tom Beyer

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/15/2025

Synopsis

Short fiction, plus three essays, by the New York Times–bestselling author—including a Hugo Award–winning novella.

Harry Turtledove earned the title "master of alternate history" from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. We Install offers a showcase of styles, from humor—in "Father of the Groom," a scientist with a penchant for wild experimentation helps his love-struck son by synthesizing a wedding ring out of two carrots—to classic science fiction, as in the Hugo Award–winning "Down in the Bottomlands" and "Hoxbomb," in which a regular guy just trying to make a living selling scooters has to deal with some very odd competition. The alternate history tale "Drang von Osten" begins on a bloody battlefield in World War II and ends somewhere quite different. In the brand-new "Logan's Law," a man discovers that sometimes, second chances really do work out. The book's three essays tackle the diverse subjects of how to write alternate history, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the history of Chanukah.

We Install will delight longtime Turtledove fans and new listeners alike with its rich offerings from one of the finest craftsmen writing today.

About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove's works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the stand-alone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helen on November 09, 2015

Truthfully, I didn't read every story. This was a two-week library book, so I had to give it back before I finished. (Insert sadface emoji here.) But the stories I did read were terrific. "Down in the Bottomlands" and "Hoxbomb" linger in my mind. In both of these stories, Turtledove creates complete......more

Goodreads review by Nick on August 26, 2015

A mixed bag that provides an interesting overview of the author but may disappoint readers who are looking for a bunch of alternative history short stories. This is a mix of sci-fi, fantasy, mainstream and some thoughts and essays. Have to say I found the essays the least interesting, but if you are......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 02, 2018

Harry’s early fantasy novels and alternate history short fiction, published in the mid-1980s, weren’t bad. His first full-blown alt-hist novel, Guns of the South, was also pretty good. But shortly thereafter, he began cranking out novels as fast as he could type and their quality degraded badly. Of......more

Goodreads review by Chip on August 24, 2016

Hoxbomb is a really good story of alien and human societies living side by side and what happens when a crime is committed. Down in the Bottomlands is an excellent novella with an alternative Earth setting and features a backdrop of a great desert valley and an atrocity that must be solved and stopp......more

Goodreads review by Jaq on July 25, 2024

A mixed bag of fiction and non-fiction, short stories and novellas. Some good, some okay. There is, however, in the longer pieces, some amazing world building. Hoxbomb and Bottomlands have fully realized worlds which I’d love to see more of.......more

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