What Are Your Favorite Alternate History Novels and Stories ?

"Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" by H.Beam Piper

"Islands in the Sea of Time" by S.M. Stirling

The Multiverse Trilogy by David Weber. First book was great, the 2nd book was mostly Weber-style political meandering. Haven't read the 3rd , it seems. But I still loved the concept of magic vs. technology.

More recently: "The Axis of Time" by John Birmingham & "The Eden Chronicles" by S.M. Anderson. Both of these series were excellent reads.
 
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Custer At the Alamo by Gregory Urbach in this book George Armstrong Custer and his army instead facing doom at Little Bighorn in 1876 and mysteriously sent back in time to 1836 and the Alamo . This is not a widely know book which sad because it s a terrific read and one you wont. be able to put down once you start reading it. :cool:
 
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Custer At the Alamo by Gregory Urbach in this book George Armstrong Custer and his army instead facing doom at Little Bighorn in 1876 and mysteriously sent back in time to 1836 and the Alamo . This is not a widely know book which sad because it s a terrific read and one you wont. be able to put down once you start reading it. :cool:
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It is available on Kindle Unlimited at Amazon, Cicero. Added to my TBR list as well.

 
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It is available on Kindle Unlimited at Amazon, Cicero. Added to my TBR list as well.

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I have it book form and plan to reread it. :)


Here's another one you might find of interest

Kelly Country by A Bertram Chandler In this story, a 20th century Time traveler interferes in the destiny of faamous Australian Outlaw Ned Kelly, who was excited on November 11, 1880 . I n this book the events leading Kelleys' downfall don't happen because of the intervention of the Time traveler. Let's just say the consequences to the timeline are quite interesting.:)
 
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Cicero said:
I have it book form and plan to reread it. :)


Here's another one you might find of interest

Kelly Country by A Bertram Chandler In this story, a 20th century Time traveler interferes in the destiny of faamous Australian Outlaw Ned Kelly, who was excited on November 11, 1880 . I n this book the events leading Kelleys' downfall don't happen because of the intervention of the Time traveler. Let's just say the consequences to the timeline are quite interesting.:)
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Chandler was early favorite of mine. I've read most of his stuff and this one sounds familiar.
 
Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague De Camp Milld mannered historian Martin Padway is visiting the city of Rome and he gets hit by a bolt of lightning and suddens himself in 6th Century Rome which is probably one the worst times in history be in that city. This book is lots of fun to read .:cool:
 
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Must have Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove.
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Saw that in bookshop and didn't pick it out. It sound quite good.

The Peshawar Lancers by S M Stirling A great book and one tat I wish he would do follow up .
 
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I started that and didn't finish it and don't remember why.
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It does start a bit slow but quickly picks up steam . :)


The book also a nod to Talbot Mundy's novel King of the Khyber Riffles. :)
 
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The Merchant Princes is a science fantasy and alternate history series of nine novels by British writer Charles Stross. In the series, there exists a number of parallel worlds all of which are on the same geographical Earth, but with different societies at different points of development. Members of a certain bloodline can travel between these worlds along with their immediate possessions. The series largely follows Miriam Beckstein, a technology journalist raised in a familiar "normal" Earth, who discovers she was born in a parallel world and is a member of this bloodline.
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It starts off appearing to be a fantasy then transitions into science fiction with lots of techno-economics and politics. I gather from reviews that some people do not like the geopolitics.
 
Red Inferno 1945 by Robert Conroy. In this one , what if Jospeh Stalin decided to turn against the allies and launch bid conquer all of Europe ? :)
 
ASH A Secret History by Mary Gentle. Where Carthage is still prominent. Still amazing nearly 25 years on. Big ideas.
Let's quote Wikipedia here:

"The novel employs a framing device which claims that it is a work of scholarship, a translation of texts from the Late Middle Ages. The novel maintains a parallel narrative consisting of the emails between the historian writing the book and his publisher. Initially the author believes that the narrative is simply an embellished and romanticized account of actual events, but as the book goes on he begins to find evidence that the more fantastical claims in the book are true and begins to doubt reality around him. Throughout the novel, elements of fantasy and alternative history become more prominent such as golems, an alternative version of Carthage, and even an alternative Jesus Christ, referred to as "green Christ" and depicted attached to a tree rather than a cross. "

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In the US Cicero it was published as 4 separate books, I believe. Here in the UK, one massive 1000 page tome.
 
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1632 (E Flint), 1633 + 1634 The Baltic War (E Flint and D Weber) which are a self-contained novel and a self-contained duology with a definite storyline and ending in the wider context of the 1632 series - the overall series meanders a lot and I've read some more books from it (on the order of 10+ novels and lots of short stories) but not the more recent ones as the writing quality was mixed and the books hit or miss. However the first three above are masterpieces of alternate history and would highly recommend them
 
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1632 (E Flint), 1633 + 1634 The Baltic War (E Flint and D Weber) which are a self-contained novel and a self-contained duology with a definite storyline and ending in the wider context of the 1632 series - the overall series meanders a lot and I've read some more books from it (on the order of 10+ novels and lots of short stories) but not the more recent ones as the writing quality was mixed and the books hit or miss. However the first three above are masterpieces of alternate history and would highly recommend them
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I quit at book 4. Loved the first 3. I'm not a huge fan of the multi-authored shared world type series anyway. I just liked the premise of the first few books
 
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