Harry Turtledove

What grabs me about Harry Turtledove is how he turned a history doctorate from UCLA into a one-man alternate-history industry. Books like The Guns of the South and The Two Georges play out the great "what ifs," and the genre handed him real hardware: a 1994 Hugo for best novella plus a hat trick of Sidewise Awards stretching into 2017. I also find the pen names fascinating, Eric Iverson, H. N. Turteltaub and others, a writer comfortable wearing different masks. He's stayed rooted in Southern California the whole time, and to me that quiet consistency, decades of steady output, is the real story behind the trophies.

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Name (English)

Harry Turtledove

Name (Japanese)

ハリイ・タートルダヴ

Reading

はりい・たーとるだゔ

Born

June 14, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / historian / science fiction writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

University

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Hugo Award for Best Novella
• 1997 Sidewise Award for Alternate History
• 2002 Sidewise Award for Alternate History
• 2017 Sidewise Award for Alternate History

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html
• Xhttps://x.com/HNTurtledove
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Turtledove
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%B4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455780

Tags

• California
• writer
• novelist
• historian

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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