From the New York Times -bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history" A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire ( USA Today ).
The family lives in Southern California..
Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters.
He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history.
In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award.
Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South , the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy.
Publishers Weekly has called him the "master of alternate history," and he is best known for his work in that genre.
About the Author: Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy.
At once intricate, exciting, witty, and wildly inventive, this is a many-faceted gem from a master of the genre.
A collection of interlocking stories that showcase the courage, ingenuity, and breathtaking derring-do of superspy Basil Argyros, Agent of Byzantium presents the great Harry Turtledove at his alternate-world-building best.
But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires, the player who controls the most advanced tools and weaponry--tools like gunpowder, printing, vaccines, and telescopes--must certainly emerge victorious.
A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persia\'s dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the Franco-Saxons.
Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium.
In another, very different timeline--one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be--the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own.
From the New York Times -bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history" A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire ( USA Today )
