Recommend any alternate history that's not Harry Turtledove?

[Angst]

Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer

A parallel universe where Neanderthals won the race war.

[anjirlly]

Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card. What if the New World inhabitants were vaccinated and had metalworking skills when the conquistadors came a callin'?

[AlbertaCowboy]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

Robert Harris - "Fatherland".

+1 For "Fatherland". I found it to be one of the most gripping books that I have read in the last few years.

[mentored1]

I'm glad I wandered into this thread! Thanks for all the recommendations, people. I read most of Turtledove's stuff, but I kinda petered out after a marathon. I love it, but I need to read a different style.

Crosstime Traffic was tight, though.

[ebusinesstutor]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

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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.

This is an excellent book - I really enjoyed it. Has a nice touch of humor to it. I second the recommendation.

[ebusinesstutor]

Another one I really liked is Orson Scott Card's "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus."

Interesting premise that I won't spoil for you but the colonization of the New World does not go like in our history books in this novel.

[Frida Fantastic]

Originally Posted by anjirlly

Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card. What if the New World inhabitants were vaccinated and had metalworking skills when the conquistadors came a callin'?

Cripes, that's sounds amazing! I really liked his Tales of Alvin Maker series. Not really alt history, but great magic system and mixing of historical characters with certain knacks.

[Joykins]

Originally Posted by AndrewH

It's still on my TBR list, but S.M. Stirling's The Change series, which is the overall name of the stories of the Nantucket series and the Emberverse series. In the Nantucket series the island of Nantucket is transported back in time to the Bronze Age. The Emberverse series explores the after effects of this change, mostly dealing with the Willamette Valley area of Oregon.

These are good, although the Emberverse series is more postapocalyptic sf than alt history in tone; Stirling also wrote _The Peshawar Lancers_ (a meteor shower devastates Europe and moves the center of the British Empire to India; story picks up a few generations later).

[shootingMaNs]

I found a couple on my bookcase that I had forgotten about. Unfortunately, they aren't available as ebooks. "SS-GB" by Len Deighton, and "Resurrection Day" by Brendan DuBois. Both are excellent. "SS-GB" is about Nazi occupied Britain, and "Resurrection Day" about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that results in a nuclear war.

It really irritates my wife when I "help" her with the spring cleaning, and she finds me sitting in the hallway leafing through a pile of books.

[IcecreamLtDan]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and historian William R. Forstchen have written several alternate history books about the civil war and one about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I've only read the one on Pearl Harbor and found it fascinating. I believe they are all available as ebooks as well.

[bert501]

Originally Posted by shootingMaNs

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It really irritates my wife when I "help" her with the spring cleaning, and she finds me sitting in the hallway leafing through a pile of books.

Actually that is a little-known but highly advanced spring cleaning technique that I have practiced faithfully for several decades;
I was even recently awarded the "slightly dusty book jacket".

Well, it was thrown at me in a rather rude manner accompanied with a loud speech that involved quite a bit of eye rolling and door slamming; but I was quite thrilled to have won.

[ardeegee]

Looks like later this year Stephen King's pulling a Turtledove:

http://www.stephenking.com/promo/11-22-63/announcement/

[Greg Anos]

Non e-book alt-hist -

Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore

And for those with warped tastes... The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

+1 For "Fatherland". I found it to be one of the most gripping books that I have read in the last few years.

+2!!!

[Steve Anderson]

Great recommendations here. I found Fatherland interesting and liked SS-GB, though I read it many years ago and wonder how I would find it now.

I'm excited to finally get to Dick's The Man in the High Castle. I've heard of that one for years.

Slowrain, you got me again with your comment about Roth's The Plot Against America. I'll have to check it out now. Thanks.

That all said, I find normal history so damn intriguing I rarely get to books dealing with the alternate side. Maybe I should more often.