the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction in 1993 for The Guns of the South, and the Hugo Award for Novella in 1994 for "Down in the Bottomlands". Must and Shall was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette and received an honorable mention for the 1995 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. The Two Georges also received an honorable mention for the 1995 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His Worldwar series received a Sidewise Award for Alternate History Honorable Mention in 1996. In 1998, his novel How Few Remain won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He won his second Sidewise Award in 2003 for his novel Ruled Britannia. He won his third Sidewise Award for his short story "Zigeuner” and his fourth for his short story "Christmas Truce". On August 1, 1998, Turtledove was named honorary Kentucky Colonel as guest of honor at Rivercon XXIII in Louisville, Kentucky. His The Gladiator was the cowinner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Turtledove served as the toastmaster for Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention. He is married to the mystery and science fiction writer Laura Frankos. His brother-in-law is the fantasy author Steven Frankos. Publishers Weekly dubbed Turtledove "The Master of Alternate History". Within the genre, he is known for creating original alternate history scenarios, such as survival of the Byzantine Empire or an alien invasion during the middle of the Second World War. In addition, he has been credited with giving original treatment to alternate themes that had been dealt with by many others, such as the victory of the South in the American Civil War or the victory of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. His novels have been credited with bringing alternate history into the mainstream. Bibliography References External links Fantastic Fiction Author Page MacMillan Publisher's Harry Turtledove page National Review Online audio interview with Harry Turtledove 1949 births Living people American alternate history writers American Byzantinists American fantasy writers American historical novelists American science fiction writers Jewish American novelists Writers from California Conan the Barbarian novelists Hugo Award-winning writers American people of Romanian-Jewish descent Sidewise Award winners University of California, Los Angeles alumni California Institute of Technology alumni 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers 21st-century pseudonymous writers