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Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 4:09 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:on alternate history:

Years ago, I read Kingsley Amis's The Alteration. I enjoyed it hugely, though now I remember only two things: I felt nauseous when I realized the double-meaning of the title, and Harold Wilson appeared to be Pope.

Also. In the pile of books I got from the library sales, was Allen Steele's The Tranquility Alternative, where the Space Age begins in 1944 with the launch of Das Amerika Bomber, a sub-orbital manned spacecraft aimed at New York. Not very far into it yet, but as usual with Steele, it's damn well written.

Oh, and I add my vote to the "read Man in the High Castle" brigade. one of the best books of a great writer (who sometimes got just too weird)

Ever read the Temeraire series? Takes place during the war between Napoleon and Britain, except it includes dragons.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 4:52 pm**

Who wrote those? I'm not familiar with that series.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 5:03 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:Who wrote those? I'm not familiar with that series.

Naomi Novik

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 6:39 pm**

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

I've been trying to think of the name of the author of Wolves of Willoughby Chase, which is a part of a series set in a somewhat alternate world (is it that the Stuart rebellion succeeds?)

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 9:08 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

I've been trying to think of the name of the author of Wolves of Willoughby Chase, which is a part of a series set in a somewhat alternate world (is it that the Stuart rebellion succeeds?)

Joan Aiken

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 10:37 pm**

Well done. I just couldn't remember. Thanks.
I didn't like it all that much, but it was bugging me that I couldn't remember.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 10:40 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:Well done. I just couldn't remember. Thanks.
I didn't like it all that much, but it was bugging me that I couldn't remember.

No problem I just went to my local library's web site and searched the catalog both times

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 10:43 pm**

ah all this new-fangled stuff. I don't even know what the internet is.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 11:02 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:ah all this new-fangled stuff. I don't even know what the internet is.

"Oh, so they have internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 11:03 pm**

What's a computer?

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 11:06 pm**

jonesthecurl wrote:What's a computer?

Something like this:

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2009 1:39 pm**

neanderpaul14 wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:What's a computer?

Something like this:

Thought it meant a woman with an abacus?

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2009 1:40 pm**

Does anyone know the name of that old-timey book where the Morning Star is shown to be some type of romantic hero?

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2009 4:47 pm**

Iliad wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:I never understood the obsession with War Craft. Admittedly, I played the game for all of one day. I loved StarCraft. But, I don't understand the online RPG, the books, etc. To me, it's a dumbed-down version of Lord of the Rings. And Lord of the Rings is a dumbed down version of The Song of Ice and Fire. (BLASPHEMY!!! BURN HIM!!!)

Considering I also love The song of Ice and Fire you may live.

Seriously the two are quiet different books.
Tolkien poured enormous time into the setting, where tSoIaF is much more character driven.

Agreed... I was just going for shock value. Ice and Fire is more of an adult book. I haven't read Tolkien in 10 years.

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2009 4:54 pm**

thegreekdog wrote:
Iliad wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:I never understood the obsession with War Craft. Admittedly, I played the game for all of one day. I loved StarCraft. But, I don't understand the online RPG, the books, etc. To me, it's a dumbed-down version of Lord of the Rings. And Lord of the Rings is a dumbed down version of The Song of Ice and Fire. (BLASPHEMY!!! BURN HIM!!!)

Considering I also love The song of Ice and Fire you may live.

Seriously the two are quiet different books.
Tolkien poured enormous time into the setting, where tSoIaF is much more character driven.

Agreed... I was just going for shock value. Ice and Fire is more of an adult book. I haven't read Tolkien in 10 years.

Yes...you nearly owed me for a new laptop after I spat coffee over it.....but it still works......

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2009 5:47 pm**

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - by - Jennifer Armstrong

I've listened to this on audio book several times. It's all about Ernest Shackleton's ill fated voyage to Antarctica. What a great book, and a truly epic voyage. Amazing that they all lived.

Posted: **Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:01 pm**

Can someone recommend Alternative History on WWII books?

I see The Man in the High Castle was recommended here, but I'd love to have more options.

Posted: **Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:44 pm**

nietzsche wrote:Can someone recommend Alternative History on WWII books?

I see The Man in the High Castle was recommended here, but I'd love to have more options.

Knock yourself out:

http://bastiat.mises.org/2014/08/books-on-world-war-ii/

Posted: **Tue Aug 19, 2014 11:01 pm**

Who the f*ck reads books?

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:32 am**

BigBallinStalin wrote:
nietzsche wrote:Can someone recommend Alternative History on WWII books?

I see The Man in the High Castle was recommended here, but I'd love to have more options.

Knock yourself out:

http://bastiat.mises.org/2014/08/books-on-world-war-ii/

Good resource, but I'm looking for alternative history (fiction) books.

MUY UTIL CABRON

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:41 am**

nietzsche wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:
nietzsche wrote:Can someone recommend Alternative History on WWII books?

I see The Man in the High Castle was recommended here, but I'd love to have more options.

Knock yourself out:

http://bastiat.mises.org/2014/08/books-on-world-war-ii/

Good resource, but I'm looking for alternative history (fiction) books.

MUY UTIL CABRON

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

There's actually a player on CC who writes a series of novels based on an alternative history of Rome, where the Republic didn't get corrupted into the Empire. I'm trying to think of his name, but I can't come up with it right now.

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:55 am**

http://www.sfbok.se/asp/serie.asp?Serie=2517

this is quite fun... an american small town is transported into the 30 year war... well they build aeroplans to combat a danish fleet and stuff:)

Orson Scott Card Alvin maker series a bit of alterntive history thats fun

Posted: **Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:31 am**

Hmmm....have you read the subsequent series that book spawned? And is it (are they) heavy with political / religious discussion or are they actioney? Love Weber but hate books that I feel the need to skim 10 out of 12 pages....

Thanks!

There used to be a Book subforum here.....haven't checked to see if it was axed....

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