Beyond the Gap, Harry Turtledove
Beyond the Gap, Harry Turtledove
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Beyond the Gap
A Novel of the Opening of the World

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 14 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/01/2007

Synopsis

Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters' camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, it's the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now Nidaros is an old and many-spired city; and though they still feel the breath of the great Glacier in every winter's winds, the ice cap itself has retreated beyond the horizon.

Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice. The great Glacier does not go on forever—and on its other side are new lands, new animals, and possibly new people.
Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, perhaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. Who could resist the urge to go see?

For Count Hamnet and his several companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew. Adventures will surely be had...

About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove's works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the stand-alone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on June 03, 2011

The big idea underlying this book is excellent - the giant glacier that dominates the north has retreated just far enough to create an opening to the previously inaccessible (and practically unimaginable) world beyond. I've read a number of fantasy novels with expanding glaciers dominating the horiz......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 30, 2014

This story of pre-modern man is refreshingly simple and calls attention to the dichotomy between the way things used to be and what we have allowed them to become as we have moved further and further away from the land and our own self-sufficiency. Looking forward to the other books in the series. I......more

Goodreads review by Dan on September 21, 2019

This book has a lot of walking in it. It reminds me of the Hobbit movie, they walked north some stuff happens then they walked south just to walk north again. I might continue the series at some point but it will be when I am low on material. Not a good Turtledove book.......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa on December 31, 2017

3.5-3.75🌟// This read very much like a first book in a series. Nothing much happened and the looming sense of foreboding went on and on. This is not a fun and exciting read (for me, that is), but rather, a relaxing one that kind of reminded me of typical Japanese adventure lightnovels where the main......more

Goodreads review by Joel on February 04, 2017

To the north of the Raumsdalian Empire are the frozen tundra lands and then the glacier. When Count Hamnet is summoned to court, he learns that a jarl of the Bizogots brings news that the glacier has retreated far enough that there's a gap leading beyond, to lands never explored by anyone. Count Ham......more

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