Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949. After flunking out of Caltech, he earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA. He has taught ancient and medieval history at UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, and Cal State L.A., and has published a translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle and several scholarly articles. He is also a full-time science-fiction and fantasy writer; much of his work involves either alternate histories or historically based fantasy.

Among his science fiction are the alternate-history stories collected in _Agent of Byzantium_, _A Different Flesh_, and _Departures_, as well as the novels _A World of Difference_ (an alternate-history first-contact story where the planet in what is MarsÕ orbit in this universe is large and life-bearing), _The Guns of the South_ (a speculative novel of the Civil War), and the _Worldwar_ series: (an alternate history involving alien invasion during World War II): _Worldwar: In the Balance_ was published in 1994, its sequel, _Worldwar: Tilting the Balance_, in 1995, and _Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance_ and _Worldwar: Striking the Balance_ in 1996. Also out in 1996 was _The Two Georges_, a collaboration with actor Richard Dreyfuss, an alternate-history thriller set more or less now in a world where the American Revolution never happened.

His alternate-history novella, "Down in the Bottomlands," won the 1994 Hugo award in its category. An alternate-history novelette, "Must and Shall," was a 1996 Hugo and 1997 Nebula finalist.

He has set nine books (_The Misplaced Legion_, _An Emperor for the Legion_, _The Legion of Videssos_, _Swords of the Legion_, _Krispos Rising_, _Krispos of Videssos_, _Krispos the Emperor_, _The Stolen Throne_, and _Hammer and Anvil_) in the Empire of Videssos, a fantasy universe modeled after the Byzantine Empire. Two more are forthcoming. Other fantasy titles include _The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump_ (a high- tech fantasy with puns), _Werenight_, its sequel _Prince of the North_, and _King of the North_.

He is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos Turtledove. They have three daughters, Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.

• Wereblood (Belmont-Tower Books: New York, 1979)*
• Werenight (Belmont-Tower Books: New York, 1979)* (a revised edition of these two books under the title Werenight is published by Baen Books: New York, 1994)
• The Misplaced Legion (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1987)
• An Emperor for the Legion (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1987)
• The Legion of Videssos (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1987)
• Swords of the Legion (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1987)
• Agent of Byzantium (Congdon & Weed: New York, 1987)
• Noninterference (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1988)
• A Different Flesh (Congdon & Weed: New York, 1988)
• A World of Difference (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1990)
• The Pugnacious Peacemaker (novella--Tor Books: New York, 1990)
• Kaleidoscope (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1990)
• Krispos Rising (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1991)
• Krispos of Videssos (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1991)
• Earthgrip (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1991)
• The Guns of the South (Ballantine Books: New York, 1992) (winner of the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction, 1993)
• Bloodfeuds (collaborative novel with S.M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz, and Judith Tarr-- Baen Books: New York, 1993)
• Departures (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1993)
• The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump (Baen Books: New York, 1993)
• Worldwar: In the Balance (Ballantine-Del Rey books: New York, 1994)
• Blood Vengeance (collaborative novel with S.M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz, and Judith Tarr--Baen Books: New York, 1994)
• Prince of the North (Baen Books: New York, 1994)
• Krispos the Emperor (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1994)
• Worldwar: Tilting the Balance (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1995)
• The Stolen Throne (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1995)
• Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1996)
• The Two Georges (collaborative novel with Richard Dreyfuss--Tor Books: New York, 1996)
• King of the North (Baen Books: New York, 1996)
• Hammer and Anvil (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1996)
• Worldwar: Striking the Balance (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1997)
• Thessalonica (Baen Books: New York, 1997)
• The Thousand Cities (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1997)
• How Few Remain (Ballantine-Del Rey Books: New York, 1997)
• Fox and Empire (Baen Books: New York, 1998)

• "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life," Universe 10 (Doubleday, New York: 1980) (revised version appears in What Might Have Been 4 [an anthology edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, 1992])*
• "Death in Vesunna," Isaac Asimov's, January 19, 1981*
• "The Summer's Garden," Fantasy Book, February, 1982*
• "Blue Fox and Werewolf," Amazing, September, 1983*
• "Traditions," Amazing, November, 1983*
• "Herbig-Haro," Analog, October, 1984*
• "Hindsight," Analog, mid-December, 1984*
• "Bluff," Analog, February, 1985* (reprinted in Terry Carr's 1986 best-of-the-year anthology)
• "The R Strain," Analog, June, 1985*
• "Noninterference," Analog, July, 1985*
• "Unholy Trinity," Amazing, July, 1985*
• "Les mortes d'Arthur," Analog, August, 1985*
• "Notes from the General Secretariat," Analog, August, 1985**
• "Vilest Beast," Analog, September, 1985*
• "The Castle of the Sparrowhawk," Fantasy Book, September, 1985
• "The Road Not Taken," Analog, November, 1985
• "Archetypes," Amazing, November, 1985
• "Hatching Season," Analog, December, 1985
• "And So to Bed," Analog, January, 1986 (reprinted in Terry Carr's and Gardner Dozois' 1987 best-of-the-year anthologies)
• "The Eyes of Argos," Amazing, January, 1986
• "Around the Salt Lick," Analog, February, 1986
• "The Barbecue, the Movie, and Other Unfortunately Not So Relevant Material," Analog, March, 1986
• "Thicker than Water," Fantasy Book, March, 1986
• "The Iron Elephant," Analog, May, 1986
• "Second Survey," Analog, July, 1986
• "Strange Eruptions," Isaac Asimov's, July, 1986
• "Though the Heavens Fall," Analog, September, 1986
• "A Difficult Undertaking," The Dragon, September, 1986
• "Images," Isaac Asimov's, March, 1987
• "Superwine," Isaac Asimov's, April, 1987
• "The Report on Bilbeis IV," three-part serial, Analog, May-June-July, 1987
• "The Weather's Fine," Playboy, July, 1987
• "6+," Analog, September, 1987
• "The Irvhank Effect," New Destinies II, fall, 1987
• "Historical Realism, Or, Oh My God, Not Another Movement," short essay on historical fantasy, OtherRealms, fall, 1987
• "Crybaby," Twilight Zone, December, 1987
• "Last Favor," Analog, mid-December, 1987
• "The Last Article," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January, 1988 (reprinted in Gardner Dozois' 1989 best-of-the-year anthology)
• "Trapping Run," Isaac Asimov's, February, 1988
• "Freedom," Isaac Asimov's, March, 1988
• "Lure," Analog, May, 1988
• "Clash of Arms," New Destinies IV, summer, 1988
• "The Boring Beast," Amazing, July, 1988
• "After the Last Elf Is Dead," Weird Tales, summer, 1988
• "The Girl Who Took Lessons," Playboy, August, 1988
• "Tribute Maidens," War World 1 (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1988)
• "The Banner of Kaviyan," Arabesques (an anthology edited by Susan Shwartz, 1988)
• "Not All Wolves," Werewolves (an anthology edited by Jane Yolen and Martin Greenberg, 1988)
• "Gentlemen of the Shade," Ripper! (an anthology edited by Gardner Dozois, 1988)
• "King of All," New Destinies VI, winter, 1988
• "Batboy," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December, 1988
• "Departures," Isaac Asimov's, January, 1989
• "Counting Potsherds," Amazing, March, 1989
• "Nothing in the Night-Time," Analog, March, 1989
• "Nasty, Brutish, and . . . ," Analog, April 1989
• "Ten Times Over," Amazing, July, 1989
• "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire," Isaac Asimov's, mid-December, 1989
• "Islands in the Sea," Alternities (an anthology edited by Robert Adams, 1989)
• "Festival Night," Spells of Wonder (an anthology edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1989)
• "Precious Treasure," Friends of the Horseclans 2 (an anthology edited by Robert Adams, 1989)
• "Curse of the Three Demons," Arabesques 2 (an anthology edited by Susan Shwartz, 1989)
• "Trantor Falls," Foundation's Friends (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1989)
• "Designated Hitter," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May, 1990 (winner of the Compuserve Homer Award for short story, 1991)
• "The Emperor's Return," Weird Tales, spring, 1990
• "Reincarnation," Amazing, May, 1990
• "Island of the Gods," Isaac's Universe 1 (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1990)
• "Half the Battle," There Will Be War, vol. VIII (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1990)
• "The Field of Double Sowing," War Worlds 2 (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1990)
• "Honeymouth," Pulphouse 9 (winter, 1990)
• "Gladly Wolde He Lerne," Analog, January, 1991
• "The Great Unknown," Analog, three-part serial, April-May-June, 1991
• "Thirty Pieces," Isaac's Universe 2 (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1991)
• "Juchi the Accursed," War Worlds 3 (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1991)
• "Gilgamesh and the Homeboys," Pulphouse 11 (spring, 1991)
• "Ready for the Fatherland," What Might Have Been 3 (an anthology edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, 1991)
• "The Green Buffalo," The Ultimate Dinosaur (an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, 1991)
• "In the Presence of Mine Enemies," Isaac Asimov's, January, 1992
• "Secret Names," Analog, January, 1992
• "Pros and Cons of Being a Writer Couple," essay cowritten with Laura Turtledove in The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin (winter, 1992)
• "The Last Reunion," Amazing, June, 1992
• "Mebodes' Fly," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July, 1992
• "Deconstruction Gang," Amazing, September, 1992
• "The Decoy Duck," After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992)
• "Thank You," essay in Requiem (a Robert A. Heinlein memorial anthology edited by Yoji Kondo, 1992)
• "Hang Together," CoDominium (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1992)
• "A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur's Court," Alternate Kennedys (an anthology edited by Mike Resnick, 1992)
• "Breakups," Isaac's Universe 3 (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992)
• "Two Thieves," Tales of Riverworld (an anthology edited by Philip Josè Farmer, 1992)
• "In This Season," A Christmas Bestiary (an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992)
• "Down in the Bottomlands," Analog, January, 1993 (winner of the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Novella)
• "Vermin," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March, 1993
• "They'd Never--," Alien Pregnant by Elvis (an anthology edited by Esther Friesner, 1994)
• "Those Who Lose," War World 5 (an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1994)
• "The Maltese Elephant," Analog, August, 1995
• "Must and Shall," Isaac Asimov's, November, 1995 (Hugo and Nebula finalist)
• "The Bleeding Moon," Orphans of the Night (an anthology edited by Josepha Sherman, 1995)
• "Goddess for a Day," Chicks in Chainmail (an anthology edited by Esther Friesner, 1996)
• "Suffer a Sorceress," Ancient Enchantresses (an anthology edited by Kathleen Massey-Ferch, 1996)
• "Elder Skelter," George, February, 1997
• "The Seventh Chapter," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September, 1997
• "Next Year in Jerusalem," forthcoming in an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle
• "Drang von Osten," forthcoming in an anthology edited by Jerry Pournelle

• The Chronicle of Theophanes: An English Translation of anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602- 813) (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1982)

• "Justin II's Observance of Justinian's Persian Treaty of 562," Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 76 (1983), 292-301.
• "The True Size of a Post-Justiniac Army," Byzantine Studies/ƒtudes byzantines, 10 (1983), 216-22.
• "The Date of Composition of the Historia Syntomos of the Patriarch Nikephoros," Byzantina kai Metabyzantina, 4: Byzantine Studies in Honor of Milton V. Anastos (Malibu, 1985), 91-94.

• The Green Book: A Manual for School Districts on Developing Proposals for Special Funding (Los Angeles, 1984) (co-written with Mary D. Martin, Patricia Cabrera, and Joseph F. Payne)

• 1976-date--Freelance Writer
• Publications noted above
• 1979-1991--Technical Writer, Los Angeles County Office of Education
  Duties include public relations writing; presenting workshops on effective writing and on proposal-writing; writing proposals, newsletters, and bulletins; critiquing and editing proposals and bulletins written by others
• 1986--Assistant Professor, History Department, California State University, Los Angeles
  Courses taught: History of Greece and Rome; History of the Ancient World to the Rise of Muhammad
• 1978-81, 1985--Lecturer, History Department, UCLA
  Courses taught: Byzantine history, History of Ancient Egypt, seminar on the Roman Empire in the third to sixth centuries
• 1983--Lecturer, UCLA History Extension
  Participant in a lecture series on Byzantine history honoring Professor Milton V. Anastos
• 1974-75, 1981--Lecturer, History Department, California State University, Fullerton
  Courses taught: Byzantine history, Western Civilization
• 1975-77--Teaching Assistant, History Department, UCLA
  Sections taught: Western Civilization
• 1972-74--Postgraduate Researcher, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
  Assisting in research and bibliography for Milton V. Anastos' Mind of Byzantium

• 1963-66--Gardena High School
• 1966-67--California Institute of Technology
• 1967-68--California State College, Los Angeles
• 1968-77--University of California, Los Angeles
• 1970--A.B. in history (magna cum laude)
• 1972--M.A. in history
• 1977--Ph.D. in history Thesis title: The Immediate Successors of Justinian: A Study of the Persian Problem and of Continuity and Change in Internal Secular Affairs in the Later Roman Empire during the Reigns of Justin II and Tiberius II Constantine (A.D. 565-582) (Chair, Speros Vryonis, Jr.)