Death in Vesunna

Death in Vesunna is a time travel science fiction short story by Harry Turtledove using his Eric Iverson and Elaine O'Byrne, his wife at the time. It was Turtledove's first professional sale but the magazine, Cosmos failed before the story was printed. It was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in January 1981. It was reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World #6, edited by Kathleen Moloney & Shawna McCarthy in 1982 and in the Turtledove collection Departures in 1993.