Beyond the Gap

2007 novel by Harry Turtledove
0765317109Followed byThe Breath of God 

Beyond the Gap is a fantasy novel by Harry Turtledove, published in February 2007. It is the first book of the Opening of the World series. The book centers on several citizens of the fictional Iron Age Empire of Raumsdalia, a land whose inhabitants have North Germanic names. Raumsdalia is situated south of a great steppeland which is bordered on the north by a vast, seemingly unending glacier.

Plot summary

When a gap opens in the glacier, Count Hamnet Thyssen and Ulric Skakki are dispatched by Emperor Sighvat II of Raumsdalia to explore the other side. Together with Earl Eyvind Torfin and a wizard, Audun Gilli, they team up with Trasamund, a chieftain of the nomadic, mammoth-herding Bizogot nation. Crossing through the gap, the explorers discover that a powerful tribal confederation, who call themselves "the Rulers," are preparing to burst through the gap and seize the lands to the south for their own.

References

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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
War Between the ProvincesHellenic TradersCrosstime TrafficDays of InfamyScepter 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
AtlantisThe War That Came Early
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 GeneralsNon-series booksShort stories
Short story collections


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