Counting Up, Counting Down

  BOOKS BY HARRY TURTLEDOVE

  The Guns of the South

  THE WORLDWAR SAGA

  Worldwar: In the Balance

  Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

  Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance

  Worldwar: Striking the Balance

  COLONIZATION

  Colonization: Second Contact

  Colonization: Down to Earth

  Colonization: Aftershocks

  THE VIDESSOS CYCLE

  The Misplaced Legion

  An Emperor for the Legion

  The Legion of Videssos

  Swords of the Legion

  THE TALE OF KRISPOS

  Krispos Rising

  Krispos of Videssos

  Krispos the Emperor

  THE TIME OF TROUBLES SERIES

  The Stolen Throne

  Hammer and Anvil

  The Thousand Cities

  Videssos Besieged

  Noninterference

  Kaleidoscope

  A World of Difference

  Earthgrip

  Departures

  How Few Remain

  THE GREAT WAR

  The Great War: American Front

  The Great War: Walk in Hell

  The Great War: Breakthroughs

  AMERICAN EMPIRE

  American Empire: Blood and Iron

  A Del Rey® Book

  Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

  Copyright © 2002 by Harry Turtledove

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

  The stories in this work were originally published in the following publications:

  “Forty, Counting Down”—ASIMOV’S, December 1999

  “Must and Shall”—ASIMOV’S, November 1995

  “Ready for the Fatherland”—WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 3,

  edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, 1991

  “The Phantom Tolbukhin”—ALTERNATE GENERALS, edited by Harry Turtledove, 1998

  “Deconstruction Gang”—AMAZING, September 1992

  “The Green Buffalo”—THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1991

  “The Maltese Elephant”—ANALOG, August 1995

  “Vermin”—THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, March 1993

  “Ils ne passeront pas”—ARMAGEDDON, edited by David Drake and Billie Sue Mosiman, 1998

  “In This Season”—A CHRISTMAS BESTIARY, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992

  “Honeymouth”—PULPHOUSE 9, Winter 1990

  “Myth Manners’ Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus”—

  CHICKS ’N CHAINED MALES, edited by Esther Friesner, 1999

  “Goddess for a Day”—CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL, edited by Esther Friesner, 1996

  “After the Last Elf Is Dead”—WEIRD TALES, Summer 1988

  “The Decoy Duck”—AFTER THE KING: STORIES IN HONOR OF J. R. R. TOLKIEN,

  edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992

  “The Seventh Chapter”—THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND

  SCIENCE FICTION, September 1997

  “Twenty-one, Counting Up”—ANALOG, December 1999

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  library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

  Turtledove, Harry.

  Counting up, counting down / Harry Turtledove.

  p. cm.

  I. Title.

  PS3570.U76 C68 2002

  813′.54—dc21 2001049948

  eISBN: 978-0-345-45499-7

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