The Man With The Iron Heart
Review of Harry Turtledove’s The Man With The Iron Heart
One of my theories about Harry Turtledove is that, for all times he’s been labeled “the master of alternate history,” he never had the most enthusiasm for the genre.
It goes like this: Turtledove wanted to write Byzantine/Eastern Roman-themed fantasy, but after The Guns of the South(1992), alternate history became the money-making niche that he was stuck in. Turtledove would be neither the…