As I’ve mentioned before, I’m fascinated with the multiverse theory and will read up on any quantum physics essay about it, and that’s part of the reason I loved the show Sliders until it became the Kro-Mag show.
The other day at a yard sale I found a book that takes place in the 1950s or 60s in an America where the British stamped out the colonial rebellion which is a scenario I’ve wondered about. I have some Harry Turtledove who writes about the “South won” scenarios as well as an alien invasion during WW2 forcing the powers to unite.
Anyone have any other authors they read in this genre?
S. M. Stirling: everything uchronia he writes, but I would kill to get more in the Peshawar Lancers universe. Also, The Black Chamber series.
Harry Turtledove: The Great War series. Hate the author, so I buy his book second hand.
H. Beam Piper: everything Paratime, but start with He Walked Around the Horses to see a real master writer at work (who sadly was taken too soon).
Marc Laidlaw: His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes
And, because I like you: check out uchronia.net
When it comes to S.M. Stirling: I would kill for more in The Lords of Creation series.
(Incidentally, that series features an alternate history cold war-- where early sci-fi ideas of civilization on Venus and Mars turn out to be true, and the space race kicks off in earnest because of humans being found by a probe on Venus.)