Any new Alternate history authors just over the Horizon?

[JGB]

bringing this idea over from the other thread, anybody want to tackle it?
I'd buy a copy

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Originally Posted by Kymmmm

I suppose they are a bit dated now and so is their writing style. 1950's, 60's?
A more ignorant and trusting age. Heinlein definitely had his 'Daddy' issues and it showed. I bet he was cranky that Hubbard actually got his religion off the ground whereas R.H's never got past the 'grok' disciples.

Kymmmm

Which is a crying shame IMO.

I think I would actually prefer that to Scientology for the most part, or at least it would make for more entertaining competition than the usual religious competition.

Actually considering the other thread, maybe that would be a great idea for a alt-history. Where it really did get off the ground in competition with Hubbards religion. I'd read it at any rate, knowing Heinlein or not it would still be an interesting read."

[plib]

Originally Posted by owly

Then there are the three books by S.M. Stirling starting with "Island in the sea of time" that are kind of the same theme. Nantucket island get's flung back to the Bronze Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time None are new but I thought they might be of interest.

There are also his "Dies The Fire" (3 books) and "Emberverse: The Change" (5 books, so far) series, which deal with the alternate history of the world left behind after the Nantucket displacement.

[svenlind]

I can recommend The Year of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
All humans in Europe are wiped out during the plague.
A kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Years-Rice-Sal...=A8WELHUS1CTB6

[svenlind]

Originally Posted by svenlind

I can recommend The Year of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
All humans in Europe are wiped out during the plague.
A kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Years-Rice-Sal...=A8WELHUS1CTB6

Oops already suggested by RDaneel54

[brudigia]

Try this one
Crossing the line, by Peter Pauzé. Starts as usual Confederate States won the Civil war, but it has a new intriguing twist.
No spoilers, sorry. Worth to be read.

http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-the-L...2106152&sr=1-1

[morriss003]

Originally Posted by scrapking

How did you pick this up for a cent? I looked at each of the books being discussed in the thread, and they all seemed to cost a whole lot more than that.

I got it used. Here on Maui, I can get some scifi for 10 cents at Friends of the Library. That might be where I first found David Weber. Now I have to pay full price because I can't stand to wait.

[DaleCoz]

Slightly off-topic, but sort of AH related, though on TV rather than book form: Awake. This is personal Alternate History. A police detective gets in a car accident and either his son or his wife dies. He lives alternate days in slightly different realities where one or the was killed and the other lives. I enjoyed the first five episodes. Not sure how well the writing will hold up, but not bad so far.

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by svenlind

I can recommend The Year of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
All humans in Europe are wiped out during the plague.
A kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Years-Rice-Sal...=A8WELHUS1CTB6

Not kindled in UK......

[calibrated]

Here are a couple favorites of mine:
The Arabesk trilogy by Jon Courtenay Grimwood--Pashazade, Effendi, and Felaheen. Alternate history of a slightly different sort, which takes place in a 21st Century where the Ottoman Empire never fell.
Amazon Kindle link: http://www.amazon.com/Pashazade-Arab.../dp/B000FCJZHM

And a classic, which may not be available as an ebook: For Want Of A Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won At Saratoga, by Robert Sobel, which posits a world where the American Revolution failed and the revolutionaries emigrated to Mexico. It reads like a history textbook, complete with footnotes and (fake) references.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/For-Want-Nail-.../dp/1853675040

[morriss003]

I'm half way through "Island in the Sea of Time." Regrettably, this is not a great book.

[Angst]

The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde perhaps?

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.

Amazon's Alternate History best selling list.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by DaleCoz

Weird. I hadn't even known Amazon had an Alternate History best selling list, but last night I checked it out and my novel was number 12 on the list. Kind of cool, though I'm pretty sure it won't stay there long.

Cool! Thanks!

[RobynJane]

Originally Posted by Apache

Harry Harrison wrote a three book series about the Civil War.

Don't forget his "Guns of the South." It was featured a few years ago on Oregon Public Broadcasting for one of their nightly audio books programs.

[calibrated]

Originally Posted by RobynJane

Don't forget his "Guns of the South." It was featured a few years ago on Oregon Public Broadcasting for one of their nightly audio books programs.

Guns of the South was written by Harry Turtledove, not Harry Harrison.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Guns-South.../dp/0345384687