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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
It sounds very much like Philip K Dick's The man in the high castle written in 1963. Perhaps it would be better to call Harris's novel derivative alternative history  |
Well, both start from the premise of a timeline in which the Axis won WWII. Dick's protagonist has an idea that there
are multiple timelines, and one in which the Axis didn't win exists. (In his world, the US is partitioned between Germany and Japan, and he lives in a thin unoccupied zone in the Rockies.)
You can make a stronger case that Dick's work is SF. But while Alternate History originated in SF, it's become a separate genre of its own with increasingly tenuous connection to the SF mainstream.
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Dennis