Alt History Book Reviews

[Cairo]

Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> This is a great newsgroup, but it would be even better if people would
> post their impressions/reviews of althist books they've recently read.
> Is this the proper place for such activity?

I don't know, actually, but it may be.

> but I am dying to get some of your impressions on books.

I read the following :
- The Great South : Quite interesting, different timeline quite good
displayed. AltHist seperates with the south wins civil war.
- there's a book of micheal moorcock on althists, which isn't too good
- there is a book named something like "unhappened history"
("ungeschehene geschichte" in german), written by
german historian (!!!) alexander demandt, approaching from the
science of history's point of view. Very good, but a bit dry to
read.
- Saki's "when bismarck came" is an althist, in which england loses WW1,
and gets annected by germany. written in 1912 author actually
predicted ww1, but story is somewhat boring.
- "SS-GB" same plot with WW2, london suffers under ss and gestapo. even
less info on timelines of althist.

So far,
anyone out there with more good books ??

Kai.

[Larry Guzman]

In article <343DF5...@york.ac.uk>, kr...@york.ac.uk says...

> Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> > This is a great newsgroup, but it would be even better if people would
> > post their impressions/reviews of althist books they've recently read.
> > Is this the proper place for such activity?
>
> I don't know, actually, but it may be.
>
> > but I am dying to get some of your impressions on books.
>

[snip]

> So far,
> anyone out there with more good books ??
>
> Kai.
>

The Alvin Maker saga by Orson Scott Card: Seventh Son, Red Prophet,
Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman. They're set in an alternate North
America in the early 19th century (The Revolution failed but many of the
patriots fled and formed a US-like country; the Indian wars ended with a
bloody truce that no whites can cross the Mississippi, where many Native
tribes have settled.) All the of them are excellent, though Alvin
Journeyman is the weakest (IMO, very Peyton Place-ish).