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		Departures 	Cover of the first edition

	Author	Harry Turtledove
	Cover artist	Barclay Shaw
	Country	United States
	Language	English
	Genre	Science fiction short stories
	Publisher	Del Rey Books
	Publication date
	June 1993
	Media type	Print (paperback)
	Pages	342 pp
	ISBN	0-345-38011-8
	LC Class	MLC R CP00507


Departures is a collection of alternate history stories by Harry Turtledove,[1][2] first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in June 1993 and reprinted in October 1998; an ebook edition followed from the same publisher in May 2011. The first British edition was published in ebook form by Gateway/Orion in July 2013.[3]

The book contains twenty short short stories and novelettes by the author, some originally published under his early pseudonym Eric G. Iverson, together with an introductory author's note. The first edition also includes a short piece about the author and an excerpt from his then-recent novel The Guns of the South.[3]

"In the Presence of Mine Enemies" was later expanded into a full-length novel in 2003.


Short stories[edit]

	"Author's Note"
	"Counting Potsherds"
	"Death in Vesunna" (with Elaine O'Byrne)
	"Departures" (prequel to Agent of Byzantium)
	"Islands in the Sea"
	"Not All Wolves"
	"Clash of Arms"
	"Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" (part of Agent of Byzantium series)
	"Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life"
	"Batboy"
	"The Last Reunion"
	"Designated Hitter"
	"Gladly Wolde He Lerne"
	"The Barbecue, the Movie, and Other Unfortunately Not So Relevant Material"
	"In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
	"The R Strain"
	"Lure"
	"Secret Names"
	"Les Mortes D'Arthur"
	"Last Favour"
	"Nasty, Brutish, and..."


Recognition[edit]

The collection placed thirteenth in the 1994 Locus Poll Award for Best Collection.[3]


References[edit]


	^ http://www.uchronia.net/label/turtdepart.html

	^ https://www.fantasticfiction.com/t/harry-turtledove/departures.htm

	^ a b c Departures title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database





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Works by Harry Turtledove

	Videssos	
	Videssos cycle	
	The Misplaced Legion
	An Emperor for the Legion
	The Legion of Videssos
	The Swords of the Legion




	The Tale of Krispos	
	Krispos Rising
	Krispos of Videssos
	Krispos the Emperor




	Time of Troubles	
	The Stolen Throne
	Hammer and Anvil
	The Thousand Cities
	Videssos Besieged




	
	The Bridge of the Separator







	The Race or 
 Worldwar	
	Worldwar	
	In the Balance
	Tilting the Balance
	Upsetting the Balance
	Striking the Balance




	Colonization	
	Second Contact
	Down to Earth
	Aftershocks




	
	Homeward Bound







	Southern Victory
 a.k.a. Timeline-191	
	Second Mexican War	
	How Few Remain




	Great War	
	American Front
	Walk in Hell
	Breakthroughs




	American Empire	
	Blood and Iron
	The Center Cannot Hold
	The Victorious Opposition




	Settling Accounts	
	Return Engagement
	Drive to the East
	The Grapple
	In at the Death







	Darkness a.k.a. World at War	
	Into the Darkness
	Darkness Descending
	Through the Darkness
	Rulers of the Darkness
	Jaws of Darkness
	Out of the Darkness




	War Between the Provinces	
	Sentry Peak
	Marching Through Peachtree
	Advance and Retreat




	Hellenic Traders	
	Over the Wine Dark Sea
	The Gryphon's Skull
	The Sacred Land
	Owls to Athens
	Salamis




	Crosstime Traffic	
	Gunpowder Empire
	Curious Notions
	In High Places
	The Disunited States of America
	The Gladiator
	The Valley-Westside War




	Days of Infamy	
	Days of Infamy
	End of the Beginning




	Scepter of Mercy	
	The Bastard King
	The Chernagor Pirates
	The Scepter's Return




	Opening of the World	
	Beyond the Gap
	The Breath of God
	The Golden Shrine




	Atlantis	
	Opening Atlantis
	The United States of Atlantis
	Liberating Atlantis




	The War That Came Early	
	Hitler's War
	West and East
	The Big Switch
	Coup d'Etat
	Two Fronts
	Last Orders




	Supervolcano	
	Eruption
	All Fall Down
	Supervolcano
	Maelstrom




	The Hot War	
	Bombs Away
	Fallout
	Armistice




	State of Jefferson Stories
 and Three Men and...Stories	
	"Visitor from the East"
	"Peace is Better"
	"Typecasting"
	"Something Fishy"
	"Always Something New"
	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon"
	"Three Men and a Vampire"
	"Three Men and a Werewolf"
	"Three Men and a Sasquatch"




	Alternate Generals	
	Alternate Generals
	Alternate Generals II
	Alternate Generals III




	Non-series books	
	A Different Flesh
	A World of Difference
	Agent of Byzantium
	Between the Rivers
	The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump
	Conan of Venarium
	Down in the Bottomlands
	Every Inch a King
	Fort Pillow
	Give Me Back My Legions!
	The Guns of the South
	Hail! Hail!
	Household Gods
	The House of Daniel
	In the Presence of Mine Enemies
	Joe Steele
	Justinian
	The Man with the Iron Heart
	Noninterference
	Ruled Britannia
	Thessalonica
	The Two Georges
	Through Darkest Europe




	Short stories	
	"A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur’s Court"
	"Election Day"
	"Getting Real"
	"The House That George Built"
	"Joe Steele"
	"Lee at the Alamo"
	"Liberating Alaska"
	"The Last Article"
	"Powerless"
	"The Road Not Taken"
	"Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers"
	"Uncle Alf"
	"Vilcabamba"
	"Zigeuner"




	Short story collections	
	Atlantis and Other Places
	Counting Up, Counting Down
	Departures
	Earthgrip
	Kaleidoscope
	Reincarnations











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