Interviews With The Fantastic
InterGalactic Interview With Harry Turtledove
by Darrell Schweitzer
Harry Turtledove is the great master of the Alternate History story, which is now
as firmly associated with him as robot stories were with Isaac Asimov. He
published his first two novels under the pseudonym of Eric Iverson in 1979, but
probably came to many readers' attention for the first time with the Basil Argyros
series published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which later became
the book Agent of Byzantium (1987), although he began to publish very prolifically
immediately thereafter. He has won the Hugo award for the novella "Down in the
Bottomlands" (1994). He has won the Sidewise Award twice for alternate history,
for How Few Remain (1998) and Ruled Britannia (2003). He was even named an
honorary Kentucky Colonel at Rivercon in Louisville KY in 1998. At this writing,
his most recently published book is The Man With the Iron Heart.
