BlackCyberC Tonight we are pleased to have Harry Turtledove here as our very special guest
BlackCyberC Harry, would you like to say hello to everyone?
HarryTurtledove Brief intro? I'm an escaped Byzantinist, one who's been making a living with his degree for a while now, even if it wasn't the living he first had in mind. But this is a lot more fun than academia, believe me. Married, three kids. Middle-aged. Bald, going gray. Life, iow.
BlackCyberC LOL. OK, the first question comes from MDovell. Mr Turtledove would you like to see any of your novels be made into a movie? and if so what one?
HarryTurtledove Well, THE TWO GEORGES, my collaboration with Richard Dreyfuss, has been optioned. GUNS OF THE SOUTH would be fun, too. That had an option deal a while ago, but it fell through.
BlackCyberC The next question is from shsilver: Which is your favorite Harry Turtledove (or Eric Iverson) short story?
HarryTurtledove No need to be shy, folks. I'm mostly harmless, to steal from Douglas Adams.
HarryTurtledove That's a question I always duck. I'll quack it this time, too. Asking me my favorite piece is like asking me my favorite kid.
BlackCyberC The next question is from FicFan: Do you have a web page other forum for fans to see what's in the works?
HarryTurtledove FicFan: www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html is the site, run by the most esteemed Steven Silver, who's sitting here and virtually heckling me now.
BlackCyberC Here is a 2 part question from Alza: Dr. Turtledove, on an average workday, how many pages do you usually write? ...and how many pages do you usually read (considering the tremendous amount of research which must surely go into your work)?
HarryTurtledove I usually measure more by words than by pages. I write 2300-2400 words a day, something like that. Research amounts will vary wildly, depending on what I'm working on at any given moment. But I read a lot.
BlackCyberC AWDorn wants to know: In just doing a little research, I noticed that you consider George Custer to have been an incompetent? I've known people who have argued that he lost his last stand, in fact, because the indians had Winchesters -- repeaters? Any comments?
HarryTurtledove Custer had a way of charging into situations before he thoroughly investigated them. He'd done that more than once before the Little Big Horn, and got away with it. The difference between repeaters and single-shot Springfields has been exaggerated. Once you fired off your first magazine, you had to reload, at which point you weren't that much better off than a fellow with a single-shot rifle. And Springfields were more powerful and could hit harder and at longer. Custer lost because he blundered into a situation where he was outnumbered about 10-1. That sort of thing will ruin your whole day.
BlackCyberC RAfrCC's Question is: In the World War series. I assume then, that you are planning another installment taking up with the colonization fleet coming to earth? Will this be another trilogy?
HarryTurtledove Since the first one was four books, the new one can't be "another" trilogy [g]. But yes, there is a new series; the first one, COLONIZATION: SECOND CONTACT, is just out this month from Del Rey in hardcover. Working titles for the next two are DOWN TO EARTH and AFTERSHOCKS.
BlackCyberC Brooks wants to know how badly will things end up by the end of "The Great War" series (particularly for the US)?
HarryTurtledove He'll have to stay tuned for the next exciting episode. Book 2, GW: WALK IN HELL, comes out in August. I just sent final fiddle changes for book 3, GW: BREAKTHROUGHS (working title), to my agent earlier this week.
BlackCyberC Broken Spirit is up next: Dr. Turtledove, can you give us some insight as to how you developed the names of the Race's characters such as Atvar and Skelwank light?
HarryTurtledove I try to make hissy noises, basically. One character--I won't say who--has a name based on a friend's e-mail address.
BlackCyberC Baron Reldon's question: Do you feel that big PODs or little ones make for better AH?
HarryTurtledove Either one can work, imho. It depends on what you do with it--but then, that's usually true.
BlackCyberC Technical question from Mikey: Hi, I have a question for HT. In the last book in the WorldWar series, the Lizards are shown as using a base 8 numbering system, but in Colonization: SC, they are shown as using base 10. Which is it?
HarryTurtledove If I showed them using base-8, I screwed up. (glyph of embarrassment) These things can happen. Sigh.
BlackCyberC Filouh was wondering what inspired Dr. Turtledove for coming up with aliens in WorldWar in the form of the Lizards
HarryTurtledove I was looking for aliens who could be technologically ahead of us but still have trouble coping with us. The aggressively reactionary Lizards were the answer I came up with.
BlackCyberC this is from BrokenSpirit: Dr. Turtledove, did you intend for the Race's soldjers situation to parallel that of Vietnam Vets to a degree? It seemed that way when I was reading about Fostev's visit to the new Race city.
HarryTurtledove To some degree, yes, BrokenSpirit. The first rush of ginger-tasting came from memories of friends who came back from Vietnam dependent on one chemical or another, too. War's a generally alienating thing, I might add.
BlackCyberC Alza wants to know In the Worldwar: Colonization universe, why was Molotov a more likely candidate to succeed Stalin than Khruschev?
HarryTurtledove He'd been closer to Stalin longer--and foreign affairs, his specialty, are even more important in the universe with Lizards in it than in ours. Nikita Sergeyevich will show up; trust me.
BlackCyberC Here is a question from Mikey: Morrell rearranged almost spells Rommel. I also notice a lot of similarities between them. Was this on purpose?
HarryTurtledove (glyph of innocence) I haven't the faintest idea, not the faintest, what you're talking about. Similarities? I'm shocked--shocked, I tell you.
BlackCyberC Here's one from Canadave: Are there any plans for a sequel to the Two Georges
HarryTurtledove Not at present, Canadave. Richard Dreyfuss and I are both busy with a bunch of other things.
BlackCyberC shsilver wants to know Are there any chances for more Videssos novels or short stories?
HarryTurtledove There are always chances. I'm not working on any right now. There are other stories that could be told, though. Byzantium's a big place.
BlackCyberC Here is a question from the Boards Justinian_the_great :I was wondering, how exactly did you first get intersted in Byzantine History, and why did you decide to get your degree in that specific topic?
HarryTurtledove I read Sprague de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL when I was about 14, and got fascinated. I started trying to find out how much Sprague was making up and how much was real, and one thing led to another. After I flunked out of Caltech at the end of my freshman year, I was looking for something other than science to major in--and so I have a Ph.D. in Byzantine history.
BlackCyberC MDovell's question is: I realize this is somewhat of a general question but where do you get your ideas from? or rather sort the good ideas from the bad?
HarryTurtledove Every so often, what I think of as a story-detector light will go off in my head. I got a letter from Judith Tarr one day in 1988 complaining that the cover art for a book she had coming up was as anachronistic as Robert E. Lee with an UZI--which is how GUNS OF THE SOUTH happened. You have to pay attention to what's going on around you. And you have to read a lot and look around a lot, so you can put together things that shouldn't go together and turn them into a story.
BlackCyberC Mikey wants to know: Do you view either side in the Great War seres as being "the good guys," or is it more "a pox upon all your houses thing?"
HarryTurtledove The hardest part about that series is that, as in the real WWI, there's not much difference between bad and worse. The USA is in bed with the Kaiser, and the Confederates are a pack of racist bastards. Gotta try to keep people interested in the characters, not the regimes.
BlackCyberC Atvar wants to know if his autographed copy of How Few Remain from the Easton Press is legit, or was he taken?
HarryTurtledove I presume it's real; I signed a whole bunch of them.
BlackCyberC FicLover's question: If you had lived at the time of the Civil War, what would you have been doing? If fighting, for which side, and for what reason?
HarryTurtledove If I'd been living at the time of the Civil War, I'd probably have been in Eastern Europe, where my ancestors were till around the turn of the century. Hard to transpose back across 130 years, even in this country. My personal preferences are for the USA, but I'm not an enthusiastic warrior. Whether I would have been, given the different ideological structure that prevailed in those days, is a tough question.
BlackCyberC Broken Spirit wants to know: Dr. Turtledove, did you intend for the Race's soldjers situation to parallel that of Vietnam Vets to a degree? It seemed that way when I was reading about Fostev's visit to the new Race city.
HarryTurtledove I thought I answered that one already.
BlackCyberC Mikey has a question: How do you feel about Fan-fic based upon your work? Ex. A story where the Lizards invade the world of the Draka during the Eurasian War.
HarryTurtledove That's not just my world, of course--it's also Steve Stirling. Fanfic presents too many copyright issues for me to be happy about it.
BlackCyberC Broken Spirit has another question: Dr. Turtledove, can you tell us how big of a role General Le May's spaceship is going to play in the Colonization series?
HarryTurtledove Yes, I can. But I won't. [g]
BlackCyberC RAf wants to know: I really liked the Hammer and Anvil books. You left that "world" on the verge of a real renaissance period. Any plans for future installments in that universe?
HarryTurtledove Thanks very much. There may be more Videssos books one of these days, as I said when Steven Silver asked the question. But I've got some other irons in the fire right now.
BlackCyberC Brooks's question: I've noticed that the Mormons in the Great War series resemble the Northern Irish? What w3as the inspiration for that?
HarryTurtledove Good question, Brooks. Yes, Northern Ireland was part of what went into that. But it's not unique in having an oppressed religious minority rise up against the oppressors, nor even close to unique.
BlackCyberC This is from Mikey: Do you think most of the countries under the Lizard's rule are better off, or worse off then in Our Timeline?
HarryTurtledove Varies a good deal from place to place. No simple answer available.
BlackCyberC This is from Filouh: I want to ask Dr. Turtledove if he plans to write more about the Japanese in the next books of the Colonization series
HarryTurtledove They will get mentioned when they're relevant to the action, and they will be. There won't be any Japanese viewpoint characters, I'm afraid.
BlackCyberC another from the Boards: Justinian_the_Second: I have a question. Judging from how long Videssos has been around, what exists in that world at the present. By which I mena in OUR 1999, what i their world looking like? has Videssos fallen, or it it in the situation it was shortly after the 4th Crusade? Has a Turkish like Empire replaced it?
HarryTurtledove I've never had to think about that, and so I haven't. Invent to your heart's content; no one will be able to prove you're wrong.
BlackCyberC Di has a followup to the previous question: Why no Japanese viewpoint?
HarryTurtledove Because the imperial Japanese are so alien to me in mindset that I've never been able to feel I was inside their heads well enough to write from their POV. I couldn't do it justice, and so didn't try.
BlackCyberC Mikey wants to know: Why isn't Japan a Superpower in the Colonization series, or at least up their with the SU. They rule a substantial amount of territory, and have a good industrial base. I would expect them to be fairly good at copying the Lizards tech, and having a good economy, but you have the USA "propping them up." In OTL, they did surpass the Soviet Union in GNP, and they didn't rule Formosa, The Philippines, Indonesia, and Indochina like they do in th
HarryTurtledove The biggest difference between Japan and the USSR is that the latter has the bomb, and the former doesn't. That means the Lizards have to treat the Russians with a lot more respect. For other developments, see later books, which is all I'll say now.
BlackCyberC shsilver wants to know: Which SF authors do you still read?
HarryTurtledove A mixed bag. Names that spring to mind are Poul Anderson, Judith Tarr, William Sanders, S.M. Stirling, Howard Waldrop. A very mixed bag.
BlackCyberC Alza's question: Dr. Turtledove, at the end of the WorldWar tetralogy, Japan was apparently stripped of its empire, just like Great Britain... But they appear to have control a huge Pacific empire in the Colonization. How come?
HarryTurtledove Japan was stripped of its continental empire: China, most of Southeast Asia. The Lizards don't think much in terms of islands. They're kinda dumb that way, mostly due to the geography of their own world.
BlackCyberC Brooks wants to know: Have you read Harry Harrison's "Stars and Stripes forever"? If so, what did you think of it?
HarryTurtledove Yes, I've read it. It has some unfortunate errors of research.
BlackCyberC Folks, I am sorry if I did not get to your question, I still have about 12 of them! We will open the chat and you can talk to Harry...
BlackCyberC Just please give him a chance to answer a question before you ask another question
BlackCyberC I command you all to speak NOW!!!
dreamer Is Harry Turtledove a pen name?
AWDorn :)
HarryTurtledove No, it's my real name.
Canadave I sure hope Canada is around at the end of the Great War series...
dreamer cool
BrokenSpirit Dr Turtledove, with the way ginger affects females of the Race will you be exploring any intimate relationships between the Race and Humans?
HarryTurtledove er,
shsilver Was Harry Turtledove born in the Worldwar Universe?
HarryTurtledove BrokenSpirit, I don't think that's practical, if you mean sex. Canadave, you'll have to wait to find out. By your handle, you've got an interest. ;)
stevede1 are you planning any other alternate history novels concerning the civil war in the future?
brooks How big of an impact will the CSA rebellion have in the overall GW arc?
HarryTurtledove Steven, I don't know. He doesn't show up as a character, anyhow.
HarryTurtledove stevede1, I'm working on a sort of Civil War-oid fantasy for Baen right now, working title SENTRY PEAK.
filouh In Colonization, the Lizards don't seem to be very interested in the rest of the solar system, except Tosev, which is kind of surprising considering the age of their civilization, as they might have run out of resources, especially on Home. So do we will get a chance of seeing more Lizard space technology at work in the next installments?
stevede1 cool i just love to read your novels they are well done i think
HarryTurtledove Considerable, Brooks, considerable.
HarryTurtledove filouh, the Lizards don't know much about asteroids, because there aren't very many in the systems they know. The planets aren't real attractive, other than Tosev 3. stevede1, thank you kindly.
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, how many volumes do you feel the Colonization series will be?
stevede1 how long is this chat for tonight?
JanCyberC Until Harry gets tired and runs screaming.
Shad Willl the Palaeologi ever make an appearance in Videssos?
stevede1 thank you
JanCyberC Folks...please...let's not overwhelm him
HarryTurtledove There'll be 3 in the COLONIZATION SERIES: FIRST CONTACT, DOWN TO EARTH, and AFTERSHOCKS (last 2 working titles, which means my publisher may pitch a fit at them).
brooks You may have answered this question already but .... what inspired you to make Lincoln a Socialist in How Few remain?
stevede1 i am sorry to ask this again but when will the second book about the colonization series be coming out?
HarryTurtledove Don't know if I want to deal with the Palaeolgi in Videssos or not. Depressing.Second COLONIZATION book will be early next year; that's all I know.
shsilver Your next novel, Into the Darkness is a very complex mix of magic, WWI and WWII. Do you have any comments you would like to make about it or the series?
stevede1 thanks harry
HarryTurtledove I made Lincoln a Socialist because what he wrote about labor and capital in relation to slavery could easily be applied to labor and capital in relation to wage slavery, and in the laissez-faire capitalism of the late 19th cent. it seemed reasonable.
HarryTurtledove INTO THE DARKNESS, I think, may well be the most complex thing I've tried to do. It's wide-scale like the alternate histories, but working in a fantasy world, not ours, so the readers have fewer cues. I hope I've given them enough to keep them interested in the world and the people who live in it. Coming to a bookstore near you in April.
Alza Dr. Turtledove , I gather that you often work on several novels at the same time... How many novels can you work on at once?
HarryTurtledove Most I've ever done is four, Alza. That gets a little crazy. I'm working on three right now.
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, I recently finished reading Justinan and I found it thouroughly rewarding. Will we see any more work along those lines from you?
HarryTurtledove Thanks, BrokenSpirit. Yes, H.N. Turteltaub--my pen-name for straight historicals--will ride again. I'm working on the first of two Hellenistic historicals--this one set in 310 BC--for Tor/Forge now. Working title is OVER THE WINE-DARK SEA.
stevede1 have you considered writing alternate history books about the revolutionary war?
HarryTurtledove Well, there's THE TWO GEORGES, in which the Revolution didn't happen.
BlackCyberC Hi There, AtkButterfly!
JanCyberC Folks...why don't we take a moment here to thank Harry Turtledove for coming out and joining us tonight?
AtkButterfly Hi
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, what advice would you give to any aspiring young alternate history authors?
stevede1 i forgot about that one
di Yes, thank you Dr. Turtledove
BlackCyberC Thanks!!!
BrokenSpirit Thank you Dr. Turtledove!! Best of luck in your future work.
stevede1 thanks
Alza Thank you for putting up with us :-)
shsilver Great to talk with you, harry. Best to Laura & the girls.
filou Thanks Dr. Turtledove, your work is fantastic! :-)
HarryTurtledove Read a lot of history and write a lot. Stubbornness counts for more than anything else, which may well include talent.
filou In dealing with alternate history and fantasy stories like you do, what is the strangest world you thought about or encountered during your research?
HarryTurtledove No problem. This is fun. Joys of minor-league celebrity. [g]
BrokenSpirit If you aren't major league yet you are certainly on your way...
BlackCyberC This is the Minor leagues????
HarryTurtledove Probably the one where the Persians won the Persian-Greek wars ("Counting Potsherds"). That changes everything. Naah, no way, BrokenSpirit. Stephen King and big actors are major-league, and welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned.
stevede1 you consider yourself minor-league that i find hard to believe you are such a great writer
di Yes, but for how long?
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, I belong to a e-mail discussion group called videoss... Do you find it funny that our group is sitting around discussing who attacked the Race's colonization fleet just like the Race does in your novel?
HarryTurtledove I'm a big-league writer, I suppose, but only the biggest big-league writers--King, Clancy, Anne Rice--are big-league celebrities. There's a difference.
filou I read "Counting Potsherds", it was very good :-)
HarryTurtledove If you guys weren't interested, I'd have to go out and work for a living.
stevede1 your big league as far as i am concerned Dr Turtledove
HarryTurtledove Thank you.
BrokenSpirit I would really like to know where you came up with the term Skelwank to descrive laser light.
BrokenSpirit describe even,,,
Alza If writing four novels at the same time isn't work, then I don't know what is...
JanCyberC Folks....we're planning on having Dr. Turtledove out again in April...so be sure to tell your friends.
BrokenSpirit We'll be here!
shsilver For anyone interested, this chat has caused at least 8 pages on the Turtledove website to be updated. They should be live within twenty minutes. http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html
BrokenSpirit Thanks Mr. Silver!
BlackCyberC That should give me enough time to rest up for the next chat!!!
HarryTurtledove For which I do thank you very much, stevede. BrokenSpirit, I made a funny noise and used it. Alza, that's not work, that's running movies in my head and writing down what my characters see and feel and think. Best job in the world.
stevede1 cool
filou ok, was it the first time we heard the working title for the 3rd Colonization book? :-)
shsilver First time I heard it.
stevede1 first time for me too
filou Aftershocks, sounds ominous
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, how far in linear time does Second Contact cover? I seems like it took around a year for Liu Han to make it to America and back..
HarryTurtledove Umm, probably, filou. See, here I am exposing myself for you people, and aren't you just glad it's metaphorically.
JanCyberC LOL
BrokenSpirit LOL
filou hehehe
HarryTurtledove It opens in 1962, and ends near the end of 1963.
BrokenSpirit BTW I would like to say that I think each book in the Worldwar/Colonization series is better than the book preceding it.. which is saying a lot because the first one was excellent IMHO...
Alza .
BrokenSpirit Will we see any famous dissidents, such as John Lennon, in future Colonization novels?
HarryTurtledove Thanks, BrokenSpirit. I do like to think I learn something every time out. Dunno if it's true, but I like to think so.
BrokenSpirit dissidents-rock stars.. they are all the same in my mind.. *laughs*
Alza I have to say that the first couple of Lizard mating scenes in Colonization are by far the funniest passages I've read in alternative history - including Stephen Fry's "Making History"
HarryTurtledove There will be a few little bits of this and that, yes.
stevede1 you have a picture of Martin Luther King on the cover but i dont see him anywhere in the colonization book second contact\
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, since this book ends in 1963 can you tell us approx. what year you will take us to by the end of the series?
shsilver Have you had a chance to look through Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium?
HarryTurtledove Thanks, Alza. Stevede, he's there. Not directly, but mentioned. Look at the bar seen with Glen Johnson and the black barkeep.
stevede1 thanks i will look again
filou the British Invasion may be a tad bit different this time, maybe the songs are in German :-)
HarryTurtledove 1966, BrokenSpirit. Steven, I've got it. Laura's read it; I haven't yet. She thought it was okay--well-written, but not a lot of fantasy there, if I'm quoting her correctly. King does write well, I know from what I have read of him.
shsilver I'll second Laura's analysis.
HarryTurtledove Wir hoffen das ist nicht wahr, filou
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, is the name Glen Johnson a play on John Glenn, and is Sam Yeager's name in the Race's computer a play on his last name?
BlackCyberC Hi There, filou!
filou hello, wrong button :-(
shsilver Speaking of Sam Yeager. Is he related to Heinrich Jaeger?
filou I'm afraid I don't speak german, but I'll be sure to ask a friend for a translation :-)
HarryTurtledove Yeager's name isn't a play, it's an anagram. As for the other, I'll plead the fifth.
Alza Hmm... yes, I remember Heinrich Jager saying something about having distant relatives in America
HarryTurtledove Steven, yes, distantly; Jaeger's got some ancestors whose cousins went to the States.
HarryTurtledove filou, it just means, "We hope that isn't so."
filou ok, thanks :-)
BrokenSpirit I know you don't want to tell us too much Dr. Turtledove, but is Johannes Drucker going to be a catalyst for a split between the Nazi Party and the Wermacht? Many historians have said that these two factions did not get along together very well in our time line.
JanCyberC Folks, if you have any more questions...now is the time.
stevede1 i hope you continue the good work
stevede1 Dr
HarryTurtledove I can't answer that question without writing two more books, so I won't even try--except by writing two more books.
stevede1 keep on hitting enter button by accident
BrokenSpirit I would just like to say that I really love your work and I look forward to anything you put out in the future.
stevede1 same here
HarryTurtledove Thank you, stevede1.
BrokenSpirit Thank you for answering all our questions.. sort of.. *grins*
stevede1 have a good night everyone
BrokenSpirit Will you be doing any public appearences soon Dr. Turtledove?
Alza Thank you... you are the only author whose books I buy in hardcover.
BlackCyberC Any Bo0ok Signings in New York City?
HarryTurtledove Many, many thanks. You keep my children in shoes, BrokenSpirit. Good night, stevede1.
BrokenSpirit Oh... I have to say that Heinrich Jager is my all time favorite character of yours...
filou It kind of broke my heart to hear he died from the nerve gas
filou to read it, that is
HarryTurtledove That's real praise, Alza; thank you. I'll be in Seattle for Norwescon Easter weekend, in Tulsa for Conestoga this June, at the Nasfic this August, at the LA TIMES Festival of Books end of April, and presumably at Loscon Thanksgiving weekend--I am just about every year.
BrokenSpirit Me too... I was hoping we'd get to see some of him.. but I think we do through the characters of Drucker and Aincelewicz...
filou Brokenspirit: true enough
HarryTurtledove Thank you both. I think I did something right, anyhow.
BrokenSpirit Do you know the dates for the LA Times festival? I could attend that..
HarryTurtledove Last weekend in April, I believe. The TIMES will hype it to death between now and then, I'm sure.
BrokenSpirit Have you ever given any thought to developing a game based on your Worldwar Series? Along the lines of MIlton Bradley's Axis and Allies..
BlackCyberC I love that game!
BrokenSpirit I have it on CD-ROM now BlackCyberC.. much easier and quicker to play...
BlackCyberC I have it too!
BlackCyberC Hi There, LowMan!
LowMan Howdy ALl
LowMan err All
Alza At one point, I almost completed a WorldWar scenario for Civilization II, but never quite got to putting the final touches on it.
HarryTurtledove That may happen one of these days. There have been inquiries, but nothing definite yet.
BrokenSpirit We should play online sometime... I need a good challenge BlackCyberC..
JanCyberC Folks...do we have any more questions for Dr. Turtledove?
shsilver Have you finished work on Household Gods yet? How did you and Judy Tarr divide the work?
BrokenSpirit If you ever do develop it Dr. Turtledove, I would bet an army of consumers would purchase it...
BlackCyberC yup
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, will we see any more work from you along the lines of Between the Rivers?
HarryTurtledove From your mouth to God's ear.
BlackCyberC Hi There, AtkButterfly!
HarryTurtledove I may go back to that universe one of these days. I enjoyed working in it. Very stylized, very structured.
AtkButterfly Hi, got bumped, but I'm back.
BrokenSpirit Dr. Turtledove, if you sell enough books would you be enticed into doing a third series beyond Colonization or is this it for the Race?
BlackCyberC Folks, remember that the log of this GREAT chat will be up on our site in a few days, right Jan?
HarryTurtledove Don't know right now. Have to see what happens.
JanCyberC You betcha Black.
JanCyberC Folks...any final questions for Dr. Turtledove?
shsilver Goodnight, Harry, Janice, et alia. Have to stop ignoring my wife and (now sleeping) daughter.
JanCyberC If not...let's give him another round of applause for joining us tonight!
filou I'll probably kick myself tomorrow, but I can't think of any right now :-)
BlackCyberC HarryTurtledove, Have a good evening, and thanks for stopping by!
HarryTurtledove Thank you all for letting me bend your virtual ears tonight. I hope you'll excuse me, but I'm going to go put some words on paper--there are problems with peacocks in Rhodes in OVER THE WINE-DARK SEA, and the damn birds are making a hellacious racket in my head.
filou thanks for your answers again, Dr. Turtledove!
BlackCyberC HarryTurtledove, Have a good evening, and thanks for stopping by!
BrokenSpirit Thanks for a great evening Dr. Turtledove!!
HarryTurtledove Thanks very much.
Alza Looking forward to your upcoming novels...
filou indeed
BrokenSpirit I hope General LeMay does some damage to home with that ship.. IMHO... *grins*
HarryTurtledove Bye all.