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  1. Orson Scott Card Argle Bargle

    So, guys, remember Orson Scott Card wrote this book called Empire a few years ago? The one where the culture wars escalate to the point where Noam Chomsky uses his army of mechs to occupy Manhattan and is promply defeated, somehow allowing Niall Ferguson to become president as part of his...

  2. Thoughts on the purpose of alternate history

    Wasn’t quite sure where to put this; I suppose here is as good a place as any. My decision to post this was brought on by the discussion between B_Munro and Thande over in the thread on creating a “more realistic” version of the Bring the Jubilee, which started off another thread about...

  3. Wow, someone did NOT like Half a Crown...

    The talk about Jo Walton's Farthing series a few weeks back reminded me of this rather vicious review of the last book I read about a year ago. I won't deny that it's a good review (heck, the guy is one of the editors of The freakin' Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, so he clearly knows what...

  4. Russian Spring, by Norman Spinrad

    http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Spring-Norman-Spinrad/dp/0553298690/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255631026&sr=8-1 Seeing as how this book is turning 18 this month, I figured now would be as good a time as any to stick my head out and see if anyone else remembers it. For anyone unfamiliar...

  5. Julian Comstock: Robert Charles Wilson does Fitz's War

    http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2009/06/julian-comstock-story-of-22nd-century.html Not technically AH, but perhaps of some interest to us here. It's set in the late 22nd century, long after Peak Oil, Global Warming, and all that jazz have caused post-industrial civilization to crap...

  6. TL-191 Question: Freedom Party Ideology

    This is a bit of an odd question, but I think it’s one that can probably be answered, or at least puzzled over. It came to me while I was reading over the entries for the TL-191 series in the Turtledove wiki. I don’t have any intention of reading the series, but I do find the TL it presents...

  7. Damnation - The ACW goes steampunk

    http://damnation.blueomega.com/ This is another upcoming video game I was informed about by the industrious fellows at Rock Paper Shotgun. From where I'm standing, it looks like a fairly standard third-person shooter, though one with a rather fresh premise. It appears that the game is set...

  8. Peter Tsouras' Cold War Hot

    After a quick search of the board, I discovered that are no threads anywhere discussing this book. Being a selfless sort of egotist, I have taken it upon myself to rectify this situation. I’m not that familiar with Tsouras’ other works, but Cold War Hot seems to follow in the same pattern as...

  9. Resistance: The Gathering Storm, by William H. Dietz

    As I have not-so-subtly alluded in previous threads, I’m something of a fanboy for the Resistance series of titles for the Playstation 3. While I have been unable to play them myself, and would readily agree that they are more a triumph of solid design rather than of innovation, I have always...

  10. An incisive analysis of WWI in AH, by...me!

    http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/gatehouse-gazette-6 When I'm not spending all time poking around this site, I write for this online magazine called the Gatehouse Gazette under the handle "Trubetskoy." It's a small monthly 'zine, mostly focusing on steampunk in popular culture, among other...

  11. Alternities, by Michael Kube-McDowell

    I found this book a few weeks ago at a used bookstore, and I bought it more or less on a whim. I think it’s been recommended a few times by some of the posters here, so I finally decided to check it out before I’m hit with the coming birthday book avalanche. The best way that I could...

  12. Fyodor Berezin – The Ukraine’s Dale Brown

    I first heard about this fellow while browsing the TV Tropes page discussing alternate history. After stumbling my way through his English wiki page, I’ve learned that he’s a former Soviet officer, lives in Donetsk, and has been writing military-themed sci-fi since about 1998. As for his...

  13. Singularity – Commies with Time Machines

    Well, now we know what Stalin was doing while the Americans were training Captain America and the Nazis were messing around with the Ark of the Covenant. He was perverting the fabric of space and time from a secret island in the Bering Sea. At any rate, that’s the set-up for Singularity, an...

  14. AH Blogging: A Different Struggle for Mastery in Europe

    I was browsing the blogs the other day, and I came across this very well-done review with commentary of a general history of the 20th century by A. J. P. Taylor from an alternate timeline. It's one of the few AH scenarios I've read that really goes to town with the idea that how you experience...

  15. Andrew Crumey’s Sputnik Caledonia

    I picked this up a week ago. Structurally speaking it’s a bit of an odd book. The first 120-some pages focus on the childhood of a boy named Robbie Coyle, a rather introverted, imaginative kid growing up in a far-left working-class home in 1970s Scotland. Initially, the novel looks to be...

  16. The Man With the Iron Heart

    Remeber how we got into a giant snit about 10 months ago over a book Harry Turtledove was writing? The one where the Nazis resorted to guerilla warfare against the Allied occupation after the fall of the Reich? Well, it'll be out in bookstores come July 22nd. I'm probably not going to...

  17. The Severed Wing, by Martin Gidron

    Ever since I started buying AH at Amazon, this book had been recommended to me constantly. After years of stolid ignorance, I decided to give in, bite the bullet, and finally ordered it. At first, I was a little skeptical of the book’s quality, given how the cover appeared to be the very...

  18. The Red Star: How Did I Miss This?

    I’d heard about this comic series some years back, but it was only recently that I managed to set down and get through the two anthologies currently in print. Admittedly, the comics aren’t alternate history so much as they are analogous history (hey, I just invented a subsubgenre!), but they’re...

  19. Weaver – Stephen Baxter Does Nazi England!

    This book isn’t really on my list of priorities right now, but I thought I’d mention it in the interest of completeness. It only seems to be out in Britain right now, though it’ll probably arrive in North America before too long. It’s apparently part of his “Time’s Tapestry” series, and it’s...

  20. Southland Tales – The Hell?

    Has anyone heard of this movie? It was written and directed by Richard Kelley, the same guy who did Donnie Darko, and he intended it as a sort of political commentary-cum-religious allegory. The basic scenario is that, on July 4th, 2005, two nuclear bombs were detonated in Texas, specifically...
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