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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I like labels and tags as much as anyone but it does get tricky.
Where do you put 'alternate history' novels? I usually say fantasy but sometimes it gets all steampunky. China Mieville tends to ride that edge of definition.
How about John Ringo's 'Council Wars' series? Pure intended fantasy world (elves and dragons too!) all created & driven by advanced technology. The curtain gets pulled back to show the tech but very rarely. Most of the story could have been a modern man's time-travel into a Tolkien novel.
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Thats where modern technological "tags" and genres come into play, a single story can follow multiple or combination of tags or genres. Alternate history can also follow into the fantasy category, depending on how far off it goes. If it is something like including items that never were real like dragons controlled by modern computer chips, then yes it is "fantasy alternate history", otherwise it is just primarily alternate history using items and beings that were possible to exist in the real world, with a different timeline.
I do not read many of these, but one that stands out to me as just an "alternate history only" type book was
CSA by Howard Means (and before someone tries to politicize this, it is NOT a racist book).