Recently found some Harry Turtledove (Guns of the South and that WW2 interrupted by alien attack series) but haven’t read them yet. I’ve always had an interest in the “what if” story which is why I loved the show Sliders(despite excessive Cro-Mags and downer ending) and love reading up on the multiverse theory.
I have an anthology of mystery stories called sideways in time where each story is a murder mystery that takes place in a parallel earth. My favorite story was a mystery that took place at the equivalent of the U.N. for parallel earth representatives. Another interesting one is The Pacific Mystery. I recently found a book that takes place in the 1950s in a world where the British won the revolutionary war.
Anyway, any recommendations?
Newt Gingrich (yes, that Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House Newt) has a plethera of alternate history books. One 3 book series that imagines what would have happened had Lee won Gettysburg, and several books on WWII.
Wow. Didn’t know that. I knew he had a book about civil war history. Will have to check that out
Out of curiosity, u/Unknownsailor, which of those books have you read?
His co-author is the one with talent on those. Forstchen wrote One Second After (and it's sequels) which I enjoyed quite a bit. Not alternate history, but alternate present/speculative fiction.
I read the Civil War series (spoiler: it ends with the south still losing.) and didn't find it particularly exceptional either way, but it did keep me interested enough to read all three. The one WWII alternate history book of his I read (1945) was in severe need of a good editor, to the point that a major character dies in the penultimate chapter, and is suddenly, and without explanation, alive two pages over in the final chapter.
u/Smith1980 I don't know about the rest of the WWII books, but while Forstchen impressed me as a writer, Gingrich decidedly didn't.
I have 1945 and the first of the Pearl Harbor one, dont have the civil war ones.
Will look into him more. Thanks!