Harry Turtledove
Author of The Guns of the South
About the Author
Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 1949. He received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA in 1977. From the late 1970's to the early 1980's, he worked as a technical writer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. He left in 1991 to become full-time writer. show more His first two novels, Wereblood and Werenight, were published in 1979 under the pseudonym Eric G. Iverson because his editor did not think people would believe that Turtledove was his real name. He used this name until 1985 when he published Herbig-Haro and And So to Bed under his real name. He has received numerous awards including the Homer Award for Short Story for Designated Hitter in 1990, the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction for Guns of the Southand in 1993, and the Hugo Award for Novella for Down in the Bottomlands in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Harry Turtledove
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century (2001) — Editor; Contributor; Introduction — 569 copies
Box Set: The Turtledove Historical Collection (4 Novels): Over the Wine-Dark Sea - The Gryphon's Skull - The… (2017) 22 copies
The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging: A Tor.Com Original (2014) 11 copies
The Last Article [short fiction] 9 copies
Forty, Counting Down & Twenty-One, Counting Up [With Headphones] (Playaway Adult Fiction) (2009) 7 copies
Must and Shall (novelette) 5 copies
Herbig-Haro 5 copies
The Seventh Chapter 5 copies
Under St. Peter's 4 copies
Settling Accounts Series: Return Engagement / Drive to the East / The Grapple / In at the Death 4 copies
And So to Bed [short fiction] 4 copies
The Decoy Duck 3 copies
Bedfellows 3 copies
Bluff [novelette] 3 copies
In This Season 3 copies
Not All Wolves 3 copies
Zigeuner {short story} 2 copies
Harry Turtledove [5 Novels] (American Front/How Few Remain/WorldWar: In the Balance/Tilting the Balance/Upsetting the… (2000) 2 copies
Blue vs. Grey: Alternate History Tales from the Front Lines of the American Civil War (2011) 2 copies
Joe Steele {short story} 2 copies
After The Last Elf Is Dead 2 copies
Thirty Pieces {short work} 2 copies
The Green Buffalo 2 copies
Gladly Wolde He Learne 2 copies
Worldwar Series: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, Striking the Balance (Set of 4) (1990) 2 copies
Goddess For A Day 2 copies
Twenty-one Counting Up 2 copies
Donner Summit 2 copies
Agente de Bizâncio 2 2 copies
Agente de Bizâncio-2 1 copy
Miecze legionu Część 2 1 copy
Mebodes' Fly 1 copy
Agente de Bizâncio I Livro 2 1 copy
Takový jiný svět-- 1 copy
Ready For The Fatherland 1 copy
The Phantom Tolbukhin 1 copy
Deconstruction Gang 1 copy
Black Tulip 1 copy
Island Of The Gods 1 copy
La Difference [short story] 1 copy
News from the Front 1 copy
Videssos series 1 copy
Letters from the Earth 1 copy
Gryphon's Skull, The 1 copy
The Catcher in the Rhine 1 copy
Of Mice and Chicks 1 copy
The Scarlet Band 1 copy
He Woke in Darkness 1 copy
The Great War, Books 1 - 3 1 copy
Hammerfall 1 copy
Darkness, Books 1 - 6 1 copy
Uncle Alf 1 copy
The Horse Of Bronze 1 copy
Worlds Enough And Time 1 copy
6 Darkness novels 1 copy
Victorious Opposition 1 copy
The Maltese Elephant 1 copy
We Install {short story} 1 copy
Trantor Falls 1 copy
Harry Turtledove - Gap 01 1 copy
Hi, Colonic 1 copy
None So Blind 1 copy
Great Unknown {novella} 1 copy
The Thing in the Woods 1 copy
King of All {short story} 1 copy
Lure 1 copy
Archetypes {short story} 1 copy
Clash of Arms 1 copy
American Empire, books 1 - 5 1 copy
Occupation Duty 1 copy
Vermin 1 copy
Getting Real 1 copy
Ils Ne Passeront Pas 1 copy
Christmas Truce 1 copy
Speaker To Emos 1 copy
Honeymouth 1 copy
Birdwitching 1 copy
Liberating Alaska 1 copy
Agente de Bizâncio - 1 1 copy
But Is Does Move 1 copy
Global Warming 1 copy
Associated Works
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Contributor — 393 copies
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Contributor — 186 copies
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Contributor — 151 copies
Nebula Awards 32: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1998) — Contributor — 91 copies
Navigating The Golden Compass: Religion, Science & Dæmonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (2005) — Contributor — 62 copies
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003) — Contributor — 46 copies
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 44 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 41, No. 9 & 10 [September/October 2017] (2017) — Contributor — 17 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 8 [August 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2018, Vol. 135, Nos. 3 & 4 (2018) — Author — 11 copies
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXL, Nos. 1 & 2 (January/February 2020) (1999) — Contributor — 9 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 13 [Mid-December 1989] (1989) — Contributor — 8 copies
Tor.com Short Fiction: Nov/Dec 2020 — Contributor — 7 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 43, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2019] (2019) — Contributor — 5 copies
Clarkesworld: Issue 200 (May 2023) — Contributor — 4 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Turtledove, Harry Norman
- Other names
- Turteltaub, Harry
Chernenko, Dan
Iverson, Eric G.
Turteltaub, H. N. - Birthdate
- 1949-06-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D.|Byzantine History | [1977])
California Institute of Technology (flunked out) - Occupations
- novelist
historian
short story author
essayist - Relationships
- Frankos, Laura (wife)
Frankos, Steven (brother-in-law) - Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Awards and honors
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (2002)
Honorary Kentucky Colonel (named August 1, 1998)
Guest of Honor at Capclave 2009
Homer Award (Short Story, 1990, "Designated Hitter")
Toastmaster, Chicon 2000 (58th World Science Fiction Convention), 2000
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- Works
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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