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	Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove) - book review
		In the alternative 13th century world of Agent of Byzantium a powerful Byzantine empire faces a Franco-Saxon kingdom in the west, Persia in the east and nomads on the steppes.
		In a series of six short stories the hero, Basil Argyros, soldier and secret agent, confounds the enemies of the empire, in the process discovering smallpox innoculation and ferreting out the secrets of the telescope, gunpowder, distillation and the printing press.
		Agent of Byzantium is hardly very deep, but it's a lot of fun as simple adventure even if you don't enjoy the alternative history.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Agent_of_Byzantium.html (168 words)

	Byzantium Brokerage Services
		Placing a structure on its lot with regard to its exposure to the rays of the sun, prevailing winds, privacy from the street and protection from outside noises.
		That authority which a third person reasonably believes an agent possesses because of the acts or omissions of the principal.
		An improvement which is not the highest and best use for the site on which it is placed by reason of excess size or cost.
	www.byzantiumventures.com /terms_o.htm (288 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle
		To these are to be added the Agent (Efficient Cause) and the End (Final Cause); but as the efficiency and finality are to be reduced, in ultimate analysis, to Form, we have in the physical order two ultimate principles of Being, namely, Matter and Form.
		The Formal Cause, that according to which the statue is made, is the idea existing in the first place as exemplar in the mind of the sculptor, and in the second place as intrinsic, determining cause, embodied in the matter.
		This is true not only in the world of living things, in which, for example, the oak is potentially contained in the acorn, but also in the inanimate world in which heat, for instance, is potentially contained in water, and needs but the agency of fire to be brought out into actuality.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01713a.htm (5714 words)

	Byzantium Brokerage Services
		The conferring by an agent upon another of all or certain of the powers that have been conferred upon the agent by the principal.
		Those powers conferred upon an agent by the principal which empower the agent in certain circumstances to make decisions based on the agent's own judgment.
		An agency relationship in which the agent acts concurrently for both of the principals in a transaction.
	www.byzantiumventures.com /terms_d.htm (1026 words)

	American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
		He is the master of that increasingly popular sub-genre known as “alternative history.” Turtledove creates logical, detailed, and believable histories that are just slightly different from the ones we know.
		He is equally skilled at creating a world in which Mohammed became a Christian (the Agent of Byzantium series); or one where aliens from outer space invaded our earth in 1942 (the Worldwar series).
		Although an expert in the history of Byzantium (which he has fictionalized in several series), Turtledove is best known for his exploration of the internecine battle known as the War Between the States.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov02/centercannothold.htm (1083 words)

	Fantasy & Science Fiction - May 1987 - Books to Look For
		His protagonist, Basil Argyros, is the consummate bureaucrat in the imperial bureaucracy whose twists and turns made "byzantine" the English word for awesome complexity.
		Argyros becomes the agent who deals with several dire threats to the empire; we, as modern readers, realize that what he is really doing is bringing the Renaissance and an industrial and scientific revolution to Byzantium.
		Turtledove could have been content with his clever ideas, which are good enough for most writers of idea-oriented science fiction -- but he is not.
	www.hatrack.com /osc/reviews/f&sf/87-05.html (1651 words)

	Aerie of the Spirit's Breath: Bibliography
		Savvides, Alexes G. Byzantium in the Near East : its relations with the Seljuk sultanate of Rum in Asia Minor, the Armenians of Cilicia and the Mongols, A.D. c.
		Our hero has an interest in Byzantium and so we see life in Constantinople from Justinian to the Ottoman Turks.
		The Basil Argyros stories (1985-7), set in an alternate world in which Mahomet becomes a Christian saint - assembled as Agent of Byzantium (1987) - follows the exploits of a medieval secret agent who tends to cause scientific innovations.
	www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Labyrinth/2398/bginfo/biblio.html (2593 words)

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	Books, Listed by Author
		* Agent of Byzantium* (Congdon & Weed/Contemporary 0-86553-183-8, Apr ’87, $15.95, 246pp, hc) [Basil Argyros] Historical alternate-world (14th century) quasi-novel.
		* _Agent of Byzantium (SFBC #11117, Jul ’87 [Aug ’87], $4.98, 210pp, hc) [Basil Argyros] Reprint (Congdon & Weed 1987) alternate-history novel.
		* Agent of Byzantium* (Baen 0-671-87593-0, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], $4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw) [Basil Argyros] Expanded collection/quasi novel of an alternate Byzantine Empire.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b479.html (2593 words)

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		Mostly, I write about Byzantium and China from half a world or so away.
		Sarge returns from a visit to the American consulate at Adona to tell me that one of the consuls there read SF and had my books.
		Not only that, he had Harry Turtledove's Agent of Byzantium.
	www.plaidworks.com /chuqui/downloads/OtherRealms/28-07.txt (3675 words)

	sffworld.com - Fantasy and the Crusades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One other note, Turtledove's Agent of Byzantium is not strictly historical.
		Byzantium rules most of the Mediterranean and is in conflict with
		Here's also a book @ amazon that may be the one...
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7434 (1733 words)

	Uchronia: The Alternate History List
		Divergence: 610 CE What if: Mohammed became a Christian, and the lack of Islamic pressure meant Byzantium never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
		Series note: Prequel to the Agent of Byzantium stories, providing detail on the what-if basis.
		Divergence: 610 CE Summary: In the 14th century, Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been invented in the steppes north of the Danube.
	www.uchronia.net /bib.cgi/label.html?id=turtagento (371 words)

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		Another similar novel is The Two of Them (1978), in which a female agent is dispatched to a quasi-lslamic world where she rescues a girl from a harem.
		In the past the Horsemen were secretly used to destabilize foreign governments until their actions triggered the nuclear war; now they serve other masters, and Sparrow, simply having discovered their existence, is at risk.
		Apparently broadcasting from one of Jupiter's moons, he informs the Earth that Oliver is responsible for Holly's usurpation of the airwaves.
	lib.luksian.com /textsfnf/bibliogr/028 (16174 words)

	Articles - Harry Turtledove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alternate History â€” The Japanese have gained the initiative in the Pacific War by invading and occupying Hawaii.
		Agent of Byzantium (1987) - the prophet Muhammad became Christian, and Islam was never born.
		A World of Difference (1990) - Mars is bigger and has sentient life (but without modern technology).
	www.chainsawcenter.com /articles/Harry_Turtledove (689 words)

	The religion of Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Turtledove works with significant Jewish themes, history and characters include: The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump; "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"; "In This Season"; "The R-Strain"; Colonization: Second Contact; WorldWar series (In the Balance; Striking the Balance; Tilting the Balance; Upsetting the Balance).
		Turtledove, who earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine History, is the author of the "Agent of Byzantium" alternate history series.
		In this reality, Mohammed did not found Islam, but became a Christian, and the greatest missionary since Paul.
	www.adherents.com /people/pt/Harry_Turtledove.html (183 words)

	Re: "Byzantine Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lord Geoffey's Fancy (London: Faber and Faber 1962, reissued NEL 1975) This is actually a novel set in the crusader kingdom in Greece in the aftermath of the 4th Crusade.
		> Turtledove, Harry, Agent of Byzantium, (New York : > Congdon & Weed in association with Davis > Publications ; Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by > Contemporary Books, c1987; Toronto ; New York : > Worldwide, 1988, c1987.) A novel by a practising > Byzantine historian!
		This is one of my favorite "what-if" novels, it assumed that Mohammed converted to Christianity and so the world is free of Islam (oh, we wish) and there the Byzantine and Persian Empires survive into the 14C.
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started950301/mail-112.html (244 words)

	Agent of Byzantium
		This is the only example I am aware of with an Eastern Orthodox SF/Fantasy novel.
		It's an alternate history book in which the Byzantium empire never fell.
		It's a good read, though slightly flawed for Eastern Orthodox readers.
	www.swcp.com /christian-fandom/sf/turtledove1.html (250 words)

	Byzantium's Shores: Meditations on Nearly Anything
		It could be, I suppose, if I define it in terms of a strict accounting of minutes logged writing the novel or a story in terms of minutes spent writing posts for Byzantium's Shores.
		I have no idea if this helps generate traffic or if it's just a useless scheme I've cooked up, but it seems harmless.
		I pinged a short while ago, with nothing new published here since the last time I pinged (on Friday), and it went through just fine.
	byzantiumshores.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_byzantiumshores_archive.html (10079 words)

	POP FLY BALL: I READ THAT, PART THREE
		Heat is about a former DEA agent sprung from the pen to infiltrate a Aryan Nation like group.
		The latest in a series of suspense novels about John Becker, FBI agent, here pitted against a mad bomber named Spring...but it is only one in a cast of many who pose a threat to Becker and his stopping of Spring.
		Here the series character is narrator Joe Gunther, Lt of police in Brattleboro, VT. He takes on an insidious Asian underworld, battling a dedicated, committed bad guy who commits mayhem on an international scale.
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	HotWired: Club Wired - Harry Turtledove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Harry Turtledove's background is perfect for a science-fiction writer specializing in alternate history: After flunking out of Caltech, he earned a PhD in Byzantine history from UCLA and began teaching.
		His scholarly works on Byzantium became a launching pad for his fiction based in fantasy universes patterned on ancient and medieval histories.
		Harry Turtledove: Did a year and a half of research before GUNS - had to, or people who knew more than I would nail me to the wall.
	webmonkey.wired.com /talk/club/special/transcripts/97-05-27-turtledove.html (4001 words)

	rec.arts.books.hist-fiction Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I've already read Robert Graves' _Count Belisaurus_ (enjoyed it, but didn't find it to be as powerful as his _Claudius_ books) and Harry Turtledove's _Agent of Byzantium_.
		There are also a few (2 out, 1 on the way) Byzantine murder mystery shorts published in anthologies by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer.
		I've got Michael Ennis's _Byzantium_ in my pile of to-be-read books right now, so I don't know how good it is but it is certainly plently long.
	www.histfiction.net /archives.html (10323 words)

	Harry Turtledove at Cybling!
		See also AGENT OF BYZANTIUM, and JUSTINIAN (as by H.N. Turteltaub).
		Haven't read it, no. It's popular history, and supposed to be okay for that.
		I just sent final fiddle changes for book 3, GW: BREAKTHROUGHS (working title), to my agent earlier this week.
	www.cybling.com /artists/harryb.html (5962 words)

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	Science Fiction Featuring Various Religions
		One of the most well-known examples of SF writing about a religious culture foreign to the writer is Harry Turtledove's "Agent of Byzantium" of series.
		Set in an alternative historical culture dominated by the Eastern Orthodox Church, the series is probably the most elaborate elucidation of Orthodox life in all of speculative fiction.
		Alternate history in which the Byzantium empire never fell
	www.adherents.com /lit/sf_rel_sp.html (3088 words)

	I became a felon on my last birthday - Vin Suprynowicz
		Just as the Confederate cause seems doomed, deliverance arrives in the form of 20th-century weapons.
		History and science fiction merge in this latest from Turtledove (A Different Flesh, 1988; Agent of Byzantium, 1987)--something that the publisher calls ``speculative fiction.'' It's not bad.
		What if the South had been armed with modern repeating rifles?
	www.lizmichael.com /felon.htm (1165 words)

	Byzantine Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I love the title; I want to steal it sometime.
		On Turtledove, I don't know him (although I am a friend of a friend!), but I didn't think as highly of Agent of Byzantium as some.
		I realize that it was published as a series of short stories, but the stories themselves were very formulaic.
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started950301/mail-143.html (278 words)

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		How did we get from the Santa Barbara airport to Michael "Blood and Guts" Jackson waging war on the criminal justice system, to Laci Peterson, through Sneddonesque blithering, to swarming law enforcement agents at Neverland?
		Let's hope the AP never regains coherence, otherwise we'd be able to chew only that part of the minivan which the government intends to replace with fiber-optics)
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	Chicon 2000: Toastmaster: Harry Turtledove
		He won a Hugo in 1994 for his novella, "Down in the Bottomlands", and his combination of time travel with alternate history, The Guns of the South, made it to the best seller lists.
		More in line with his scholarly interests are Agent of Byzantium, in which the Roman Empire has survived its historical fall but is beginning to be infected by inevitable modernity, and the fantasy Videssos Cycle, a series of novels tracing the exploits of a Roman legion snatched into a world of magic.
		If you've been to a WorldCon in the past decade, you've seen Harry Turtledove.
	www.chicon.org /gohs/turtldov.htm (2312 words)

	Byzantine Reviews
		Kaegi, W.E., Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests.
		Harry Turtledove: Agent of Byzantium, Hodder and Stoughton 1988 reviewed by Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
		The author and maintainer of this site is Paul Halsall [a picture!
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/byzantium/byzrevs.html (191 words)

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