05-13-2010, 03:15 PM | #16 |
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Good read I was going to post some of my old-time favourites (others than Turtledove) but I realised that they're not in electronic format anyway, nice thread, but all too tempting!
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Like you I like the small 'what ifs' very much. But I love all AH. Last edited by Guns4Hire; 05-13-2010 at 03:57 PM. |
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Just an FYI. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/14479 |
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Not sure I understand your point. . .
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However few outside of the area know about his wolfman trapping days. Of course that was when a good hide could go for $1000 or more. A little known fact is that he invented the silver bullet in the heart thing. A practice followed by modern wolfman trappers to this day. |
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05-16-2010, 09:39 AM | #22 |
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One well written AH title is Yiddish policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. It's about a police detective working a case in an Alaska which has become an area of settlement for holocaust survivors. It reads like a noir novel.
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Thanks for the reminder. I remember reading ABOUT that novel and thinking I wanted to read it. But of course, my pathetic memory caused me to forget it almost immediately.
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And there's The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's an alternate history of the world from medieval times (when the whole population of Europe is wiped out by the Black Death) to the present. It basically gives you a picture of a world without Europeans.
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Aother thanks is due for the same reason!
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And don't forget Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna in which the Roman Empire survives to the present day.
And I suppose Harry Harrison's West of Eden could be considered alternate history. The dinosaurs never became extinct and evolved into intelligent, reasoning creatures with humans subservient to them. |
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SS-GB is an alternate history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom fictionally conquered and occupied by Germany during World War II. The novel's title refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain.
I read it when it was published in 1978. It is quite good. Deighton set the style of the anonymous anti-hero. His 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany often is considered his masterpiece (wikipedia). Last edited by beppe; 05-18-2010 at 09:39 AM. |
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I forgot about SS-GB. I read that about 30 years ago. It is good.
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Maybe you had your book light off
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