Harry Turtledove

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From Prince of the North, Map by Eleanor Kostyk

The series of books dealing with Gerin the Fox was Harry Turtledove's first published fiction. Under the pseudonym "Eric G. Iverson," a name selected by his then publisher, Belmont Tower Books, Turtledove published Wereblood and Werenight in 1979.

Not as well known as his Videssos cycle, the Gerin the Fox books allow Turtledove to examine similar themes in a different setting. Based as firmly in historical background as the later cycle, these books take place in the distant hinterlands of a once-great empire instead of at the center.

After fifteen years, Turtledove returned to his earlier world and began to expand on Gerin's life and his attempts to make peace for his families and deal with a multi-deistic universe, more akin, perhaps, to the "Elric" stories of Michael Moorcock or the "Nehwon" cycle of Fritz Leiber than Christian paradigm of Medieval Europe.

(as Eric Iverson), Wereblood, Belmont Tower 1979, Trojan (UK), 1979.
(as Eric Iverson), Werenight, Belmont Tower 4/79.
The Prince of the North, Baen 6/94.

Steven Silver's Review of The Prince of the North
Dani Zweig's Review of The Prince of the North

King of the North, Baen 4/96.

Steven Silver's Review of King of the North

Fox and Empire, Baen 1/98. Previously Announced as Gerin the Fox.

Steven Silver's Review of Fox and Empire

OMNIBUS EDITIONS

Werenight, Baen 2/94. This is a revision and omnibus of the two Belmont Tower books. Published in Italy as Il Liber dei Poteri.
Wisdom of the Fox, Baen 10/99. This is an omnibus of Werenight and The Prince of the North.
Tale of the Fox, Baen 6/00. This is an omnibus of King of the North and Fox and Empire.

Cover Gallery


Wereblood Belmont Tower, 1979	Wereblood Trojan, 1979	Werenight Belmont Tower, 1979

Werenight Baen, 1994 Cover by Larry Elmore	Prince of the North Baen, 1994 Cover by Larry Elmore	King of the North Baen, 1996 Cover by Ken Tunell

Fox and Empire Baen, 1998	Il libro dei poteri Editrice Nord, 1996 Cover by Jim Burns	Wisdom of the Fox Baen, 1999

	Tale of the Fox Baen, 2000 Cover by Bob Eggleton