Other People's Playgrounds

About the book

From time to time, writers are given the opportunity to explore worlds that were not of their own creation. This experience is truly enjoyable as it allows a writer to step into someone else's shoes or to build upon another person's creative concept.

However, despite the fun in writing these stories, they often end up being overlooked once completed. They exist in a gray area - not entirely the author's original work, nor solely the brainchild of the creator of the world in which they are set.

Other People's Playgrounds is a collection of thirteen such stories where Harry Turtledove delves into the realms crafted by various writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Jerome K. Jerome, Philip José Farmer, S. M. Stirling, J. D. Salinger, and Fred Saberhagen.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the characters from Three Men in a Boat encountered a vampire or a werewolf? Or how the downfall of Trantor, the grand imperial world in Asimov's Foundation series, truly transpired? And what crucial detail did Martin Padway of Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall overlook until it was almost too late?

The tales in Other People's Playgrounds provide answers to these intriguing questions and many more.