Kaleidoscope (short story collection)

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Kaleidoscope
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First edition cover
Author Harry Turtledove
Cover artist Barclay Shaw
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Ballantine Books
Publication date
April 1990
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages249 pp
ISBN 0-345-36477-5

Kaleidoscope is a collection of science fiction, fantasy and alternate history stories by Harry Turtledove, first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in April 1990. It was later gathered together with his novel Noninterference and collection Earthgrip into the omnibus collection 3 X T , published in hardcover by Baen Books in 2004.

Contents

The book contains thirteen short short stories and novelettes.

Short stories

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