Harry Turtledove

We begin a series of three programs tonight celebrating our role in the annual Decatur Arts Festival. The prize-winning Atlanta author Jeffrey Small joins us to talk about his exciting new novel, The Jericho Deception, a thriller that bestselling author Steve Berry calls ”captivating with plausibility and imagination.” It centers on a scientist’s invention of the Logos machine, a device that can produce religious ecstasy but also madness. When there’s a murder, two graduate students are thrust into a dangerous CIA plot with Logos that could launch a modern Holy War. It’s a nail-biter written with a cool intelligence and authority. Small won the Nautilus Award Gold Medal for Fiction for his first novel, The Breath of God. (jasbro)… (more)

Mysterious Galaxy in Redondo Beach is pleased to offer visions of sugarplums and stocking stuffers at our Eat! Read! Party! Holiday Event on Sunday, December 2. Readers can mingle with a group of authors whose works solve a variety of genre (and gift giving opportunity) needs. Staff will be on-hand to make recommendations of books and creative gift items, and demonstrate our new Kobo ereaders. Light holiday refreshments will be served, and most attendees will leave with a gift! Participating authors at press time include: Karl Alexander – Time-Crossed Lovers – a new time-travel adventure from the author of Time After Time Juliet Blackwell – Murder on the House – the new Haunted Home Renovation mystery in a B&B Da Chen – My last empress – passion and obsession in 19th-century imperial China Kim Fay – The map of lost memories –an early 20th-century treasure hunter also explores emotions "Magnus Flyte" -- City of dark magic -- a staff fave "rom-com paranormal suspense novel" Jennie Nash – Perfect Red – a clash of passion and truth in publishing Travis Richardson -- Lost In Clover -- tragedy strikes the partying youth of Clover, Kansas Keith Steinbaum – The Poe Consequence – Edgar Allan Poe influences contemporary gang battles S.A. Stolinsky – Counterfeit Lottery – the psychologist and actress’s debut features a diamond heist Harry Turtledove -- Supervolcano: All Fall Down – the aftermath of a Supervolcano’s eruption in Yellowstone Park

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Boulevard City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Writer of speculative fiction, including the genres science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction, Harry Turtledove may be best known for his works of alternate history. Turtledove is the classic story of local boy who made good. Born in Los Angeles, Harry grew up in Gardena and attended UCLA where he received a Ph.D in Byzantine History in 1977. Two years later he published his first two novels under a pseudonym. Harry’s latest novel, The War That Came Early : Coup d’Etat, continues his alternate history retelling of World War II and the events of the winter of 1941.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Blvd. City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Harry Turtledove signs The Man with the Iron Heart .

The Man With the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power.

What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany’s flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might today’s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945? (bookjones)… (more)

Harry Turtledove discusses The Man With the Iron Heart.

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove discusses his new alternate-history book. The book is based on the premise that Reinhard Heydrich, the Man with the Iron Heart, escaped assassination in 1942 and led a German guerilla war after V-E Day. As the pages of the book turn, readers see events happening in Germany and the effects of a protracted war on the American home front. This event is open to the press and the public and free of charge, however space is extremely limited and reservations are required. "The Man with the Iron Heart" will be available for purchase and signing by the author at the event. As a fundraiser for the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, outside books are not permitted. RSVP at opus@press.org. Sponsored by: Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library at the NPC. Location: Ballroom. (SqueakyChu)… (more)