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Harry Turtledove

American novelist with a doctorate in Byzantine history, known for alternate history: The Guns of the South, the Worldwar series and Ruled Britannia; his novella Down in the Bottomlands won the 1994 Hugo Award.

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The Man in the High CastleBook Philip K Dick

recommended

The Man in the High Castle is, for my money, Philip K Dick’s best book.

Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Alternate History Books

2024-08-28·fivebooks.com ↗

If The South Had Won The Civil WarBook MacKinlay Kantor

recommended

And I just want to note that If The South Had Won The Civil War first ran in Look magazine in 1959, it’s maybe 30,000 words, and he got 25,000 1959-dollars for it – which is something like getting a quarter of a million dollars now.

Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Alternate History Books

2024-08-28·fivebooks.com ↗

Lest Darkness FallBook L. Sprague de Camp

recommended

So Lest Darkness Fall changed what I studied, which changed what I wrote about (it didn’t change the fact that I was going to write, because I was always going to write anyway.)

Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Alternate History Books

2024-08-28·fivebooks.com ↗

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