Opening of the World Series by Harry Turtledove

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  • Beyond the Gap (Opening of the World #1)
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    Beyond the Gap (Opening of the World #1)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2007

    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... more

  • The Breath of God (Opening of the World #2)
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    The Breath of God (Opening of the World #2)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2008

    Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it's broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamund (politely addressed as Your Ferocity), and his lover, the shaman Liv, Hamnet leads an exploration of the new territory in hopes of finding the legendary Golden Shrine. But dangers abound. A violent and implacable group known as the Rulers has already killed many, and now they attack again... more

  • The Golden Shrine (Opening of the World #3)
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    The Golden Shrine (Opening of the World #3)

    Harry Turtledove

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2009

    Continuing the alternate-Bronze-Age epic begun in "Beyond the Gap: " The glaciers came and covered the world with ice. Now they are in retreat. North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And down through that gap come the men who call themselves "Rulers." Their terrifying cavalry rides wooly mammoths. Their bows can shoot arrows farther than those of the southerners... more

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