Synopsis • In a world dominated by magic, the sudden death of the Duke of Bari leads to international conflict as the nation of Algarve seeks to annex his country, while the nations surrounding Algarve strive to prevent it. • When the Duke of Bari suddenly dies, the neighboring nation of Algarve, long seething over its defeat a generation ago in the Six Years' War, sees its chance to bring Bari into the fold_ an action which the other countries surrounding Algarve cannot, by treaty, tolerate.

Into The Darkness [HARRY TURTLEDOVE] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Who Killed Hemant Kar Kare Ebook Login. Hailed for bestsellers like The Guns of the South, the World War series. Into the Darkness: Darkness Descending (not yet published) Noninterference Kaleidoscope. For a listing of all Harry Turtledove books available at Amazon.com, click go. Into the Darkness (Tor, 1999) is the first book in the Darkness series, which depicts a war analagous to World War II fought on the continent of Derlavai in a world of magic and feudal societies.

As nation after nation declares war, a chain of treaties are invoked, ultimately bringing almost all the Powers of Derlavai into a war of unprecedented destructiveness.For modern magic is deadlier than in ears past. Trained flocks of dragons rain explosive fire down on defenseless cities. Massed infantry race from place to place along a network of ley-lines. Rival powers harness sea leviathans to help sabotage one another's ships.

The lights are going out all across Derlavai, and will not come back on in this lifetime.Against this tapestry Harry Turtledove tells the story of an enormous cast of characters: soldiers and generals, washerwomen and scholars, peasants and diplomats. For all the world, highborn and low, is being plunged by world war_ into the darkness.

The setting of alternate-history guru Turtledove’s latest doorstopper is a world where magic works but human impulses remain pretty much the same. Here, memories of the Six Years” War are still fresh; so that when the Duke of Bari dies, neighboring Algarve loses no time in reabsorbing the province—to the general approval of both Bari and Algarve. But nearby nations, traditional enemies of Algarve, have already prepared treaties against just such an eventuality, and now they jointly declare war on Algarve. Magical wars are weird analogues of technologically more familiar conflicts, as squadrons of dragons drop explosive “eggs” and strafe the ground with fire; troop carriers move swiftly and accurately, buoyed up by the energies generated by ley lines; ships navigate along the marine equivalents; and soldiers carry sticks that fire magical laser-beams. Turtledove (The Great War, 1998, etc.) provides the usual sprawling panorama studded with hundreds of incidents and populated by a cast of thousands.