We Install: And Other Stories

We Install: And Other Stories

<DIV><B>From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and <I>The Guns of the South</I>, a collection of nine stories and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range</B><BR /><BR /> Harry Turtledove earned the title “master of alternate history” from <I>Publishers Weekly</I> for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. <I>We Install </I>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 <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>, and the history of Chanukah.<BR /><BR /><I>We Install</I> will delight longtime Turtledove fans and new readers alike with its rich offerings from one of the finest craftsmen writing today.</DIV>