A Crash Course in Alternate History Novels
Submitted by kingrat on Tue, 2008-04-29 15:45.So you've snapped up Michael Chabon's Nebula Award winning novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and now you want more thoughtful alternate histories to fill your brain and bookshelf. While there are literally hundreds of alternate histories out there (many of them written by various Michael Moorcocks and Harry Turtledoves in different timelines), a few standouts will help you get into the genre.
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I remember I liked The Years and Salt a lot, but then I'm also a fan of Kim Stanley Robinson's stuff. It's an important book in an this age, so dominated by the polarization of Christianity and Islam, each painting the other the devil. This book draw an alternate history dominated by Buddhism and Islam, and it's an interesting yet very not so different world that KSR tells the story of.
He seriously needed to shorten that book though.
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