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Old 04-10-2011, 03:45 PM   #9
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Jo Walton did the excellent "Small Change" trilogy with a fascist post-WWII Britain.

Mary Gentle does some very good AU (mostly medieval-to-Renaissance European).

S.P. Somtow has "The Aquiliad", a hilarious AU in which ancient Rome made it as far as the Americas and are being meddled with by time-traveling aliens, seen from the viewpoint of a Lakota chief whose relatives include one "Equus Insanus".

Speaking of ancient Roman AU, Robert Silverberg has the "Roma Eterna" collection of short stories, in which the Roman empire likewise kept going until space travel.

A lot of historically-set/time-travel-involving sf/fantasy tends to verge on AU sometimes, due to filling-in-the-blanks of the unknown and incorporating the magic/tech.

You can pick up L. Sprague de Camp's classic Lest Darkness Falls for 50% off direct from the publisher's website with the discount coupon offered in their monthly free book newsletter: DIR06579, usable on any of their other books, as well.

Hope this helps.
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