This book is the grandfather of the alt history genre.
ScarletSpire on
The Peshawar Lancers
The Years of Rice and Salt
Wot106 on
Anything by S. M. Sterling.
Groggy280 on
I can’t believe Eric Flint is not mentioned yet! 1632 is the start of the series.
Able-Distribution on
For “serious” alt history, it doesn’t get better than “For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga” by [Robert Sobel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sobel).
It’s written in the form of a textbook from the alternate timeline.
lin_johnson on
Not exactly this, but you might be interested in Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series.
razmiccacti on
Everfai by Nisi Shawl – in a piece of land in the Congo bought from King Leopold II by Fabian Socialists and African American missionaries, the Congolese develop steam technology….
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon – in 1948 a temporary Jewish safe Haven gets created in Sitka, Alaska. But it’s about to be dismantled….
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The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. The Napoleonic wars…with dragons
Somewhere Harry Turtledove’s Spidey sense is tingling.
this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317502.Atomik_Aztex
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
This book is the grandfather of the alt history genre.
The Peshawar Lancers
The Years of Rice and Salt
Anything by S. M. Sterling.
I can’t believe Eric Flint is not mentioned yet! 1632 is the start of the series.
For “serious” alt history, it doesn’t get better than “For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga” by [Robert Sobel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sobel).
It’s written in the form of a textbook from the alternate timeline.
Not exactly this, but you might be interested in Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series.
Everfai by Nisi Shawl – in a piece of land in the Congo bought from King Leopold II by Fabian Socialists and African American missionaries, the Congolese develop steam technology….
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon – in 1948 a temporary Jewish safe Haven gets created in Sitka, Alaska. But it’s about to be dismantled….
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld