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mae
07-31-2008, 02:29 PM
Just very recently I've become interested in the genre of alternate history, and specifically the subgenre of what-if-the-Nazis-had-won?

There's surprisingly a large amount of works in this subgenre, and I've gotten three books now: Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, Harry Turtledove's In the Presence of Mine Enemies, and Robert Harris's Fatherland.

Anyone read these novels? Can anyone suggest anything else in the same vein?

Hannah
07-31-2008, 03:30 PM
someone (who will remain nameless) once forced me into reading an orson scott card series about an alternate US history. Alvin Maker, I think it's called. It wasn't horrible, I guess.

B Rag
07-31-2008, 03:47 PM
I haven't read any of the ones mentioned, but I have been meaning to read the Galatin series by L. Neil Smith. It's about an alternate US history where the wording in the Constitution was slightly different, leading to it being abandoned and replaced with a new one, with a less powerful government.
I think alternate history ideas are very interesting!

Míchéal
07-31-2008, 04:46 PM
I read The Man In The High Castle and really enjoyed it.