I really enjoyed The Lords Of Creation by S.M. Stirling. A lot of fun, and the books didn't take themselves too seriously.
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Fox on the Rhine by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. What if the July 1944 bomb plot succeeded in killing Hitler? This one is more military fiction.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.@Furiko Maru. I love the style, but now I'm mad I have to wait for the next installment to come out!
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"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.Thanks for the Randall Garrett recommendation.
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World War II was proceeding nicely until the SPACE LIZARDS showed up!
I've read so many good ones that it's hard to pick a favorite, really. (Coincidentally enough, I'm currently reading Temeraire.)
Just finished Jo Walton's Small Change Trilogy (Farthing, Ha'Penny, Half a Crown), which were quite frankly brilliant. The US never provided Lend-Lease Aid to the Allies in WWII, and in 1941 the British form a tentative peace with Hitler, allowing the Nazis to focus on the Eastern Front. The series are mysteries, first two are set in 1949, the third in 1960. I'm working on fleshing out Jo's page with tropes from them.
Definitely agree with Falco on The Yiddish Policemens Union rec. My favorite of Harry Turtledove's is Ruled Britannia (I'm a theatre nerd).
edited 18th Jul '11 12:12:35 AM by GinaInTheKingsRoad
Dramaturg, troper, theatre reviewer. (Please hire me.)If you want something with alt-history and weirdness, The Man In The High Castle doesn't disappoint.
edited 18th Jul '11 3:27:07 AM by MetaFour
John Birmingham is a pretty good bet. So is Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series in which a beatup WWII destroyer gets sucked into a world where the dinosaur killing asteroid missed and the two dominant lifeforms evolved from raptors and lemures. Guess which ones are the bad guys? Also reccomend The Lords Of Creation but his stand alone books Conquistador and The Peshawar Lancers are also worth a look. Oh and Eric Flint's 1632 series.
edited 18th Jul '11 1:40:27 PM by tricksterson
Trump delenda estI've enjoyed what I've read by Dick, but have little interest in the conceit behind alternate histories, or in reading about Nazis either for that matter. Would The Man In The High Castle still be an enjoyable read, do you think?
EDIT: Clarification, I mean, coming at it from the perspective of a science fiction fan, but not an alternate history fan.
edited 18th Jul '11 2:52:09 PM by MrShine
There's a novella by Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
, which is possibly the only decent alternate American Civil War book I've ever read.
Kenneth Oppel's Airborn series is a fun read, although personally I didn't like the third book.
Fear is a superpower.The Years of Rice and Salt is by Kim Stanley Robinson, not Robert Silverberg.
The Man in the High Castle is...well, c'mon, it's Philip K. Dick! Its not going to be like any sort of normal book about Nazis and stuff. It's...Dickian. If you like PKD, you'll probably like it. That said, while it is his only major SF award, it's not my favorite of his books. But I like it.
And I'm going to give the nth vote for The Yiddish Policemen's Union. It's one of the best books by an outstanding (if insufficiently prolific) writer. That said, it's pretty heavy. If you're looking for something light and frothy, you may want to start elsewhere. But if you're up for the challenge, it's very rewarding.
edited 17th Apr '13 4:12:15 PM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.For light and frothy, I like Turtledove's The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump. I just wish he'd write another in that universe. The hero is a bureaucrat from the Environmental Perfection Agency who gets tangled up in figuring out why a spell dump is leaking Bad Stuff. An everyday hero in a magic-is-technology world. Never read anything else quite like it.
Mike Resnick has done a whole bunch of Alternate X anthologies. One of the oddest is Alternate Skiffy, which is about alternate reality version of famous science fiction writers. ("Skiffy" is a humorous mispronunciation of "sci-fi" common in some branches of SF fandom.) The ones I've read have all been pretty fun.
Oh, and speaking of alternate reality science fiction writers, there's always The Iron Dream, which is about an alternate reality where Adolph Hitler is schlocky fantasy writer. (Although it's really intended more as a criticism of schlocky fantasy, and its tendency to have Unfortunate Implications.)
edited 19th Apr '13 12:07:02 AM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.well, 1632 has already been mentioned, but the creator and main author of that series, Eric Flint (with David Drake) did another I love.
Belisarius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius_series
In the words of Macklemore in his song, "Thrift Shop" - "This is fucking awesome!"
If you want to go way back in time with your alternate history, Harry Harrison's West Of Eden trilogy is really cool.

Hey guys, had enough weirdness for the moment, having finished Gravity's Rainbow, and am looking to start on this genre. I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations or any thing that particularly blew their mind? Thanks guys :D
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