The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century: Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin,
Harry Turtledovewas born in Los Angeles in 1949. 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, as well as several scholarly articles. He is also an award-winning full-time writer of science fiction and fantasy. His alternate history works have included several short stories and novels, includingThe Guns of the South;How Few Remain(winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Great War epics:American Front,Walk in Hell, andBreakthroughs; the Colonization books:Second Contact,Down to Earth, andAftershocks; American Empirenovels:Blood and Iron,The Center Cannot Hold, andVictorious Opposition; andRuled Britannia. He is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.