Upcoming AH books

I too, also, have heard of this Spike TV rumored AH show and am intrigued to say the least. Everyone ready to sit in front of the TV yelling "ASB! ASB!" ;):D
 
Not new but interesting!


http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Brit...tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1313538878&sr=1-1










Book Description

Publication Date: November 4, 2009
14 September 1766. Prime Minister William Pitt proposes the Columbia Compromise, unifying the Kingdom of Great Britain and her colonies and establishing a framework for North American representation in Parliament. The American War of Independence is over before it begins. This is the history of British North America. This anthology includes nine original stories from six authors. Each delves into events along the timeline between this point of divergence from established history up to the present day, from the uncertainty of early colonial conflicts to the devastation on the front line of the War of Wars, from the politics underpinning a British mission to land a man on the moon to rivalry on the cricket grounds of New England. Accompanied by extensive appendices including maps, biographies, letters and diaries, they collectively describe an alternate history of the sisterhood between a very British North America and Great Britain, the story of Columbia and Britannia

That is so totally Angelina Jolie.
 

JSmith

Banned
Anyone seen this one yet?

http://www.amazon.com/When-Angels-Wept-What-If-History/dp/1597975176

(Cuban missile crisis WWIII)

Bruce

BTW some in the AH community apparently like it

Sidewise Award Winners Announced

August 21, 2011

The winners of the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced. The winners were announced at Renovation, the 69th Annual World Science Fiction Convention the weekend of August 17-21, 2011, in Reno, Nevada. Here are the winners:
  • Short-Form Alternate History: Alan Smale. "A Clash of Eagles" in Panverse Two (ed. Dario Ciriello), Panverse Publishing.
  • Long-Form Alternate History: Eric Swedin. When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Potomac Books 2010.
You can see the books and stories that were nominated here.
 
BTW some in the AH community apparently like it

Sidewise Award Winners Announced

August 21, 2011


The winners of the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced. The winners were announced at Renovation, the 69th Annual World Science Fiction Convention the weekend of August 17-21, 2011, in Reno, Nevada. Here are the winners:
  • Short-Form Alternate History: Alan Smale. "A Clash of Eagles" in Panverse Two (ed. Dario Ciriello), Panverse Publishing.
  • Long-Form Alternate History: Eric Swedin. When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Potomac Books 2010.
You can see the books and stories that were nominated here.

It is an excellent book, but it is not a narrative. It reads like an actual history book. I plan to write a more thorough review on my blog later next week.
 

JSmith

Banned







Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The New York Times bestselling author and "maven of alternate history" (San Diego Union-Tribune) presents a near- future thriller.
A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe in which humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world...


About the Author

Harry Turtledove, the New York Times bestselling author of numerous alternate history novels, has a Ph.D. in Byzantine history.



Product Details

 

JSmith

Banned
Brief Review
http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2011/10/supervolcano-eruption-harry-turtledove.html








Supervolcano: Eruption-Harry Turtledove

By harstan
Supervolcano: Eruption
Harry Turtledove
Roc, Dec 6 2011, $25.95
ISBN: 9780451464200

In the Los Angeles suburb San Atanasio, livid police lieutenant Colin Ferguson needs to get over the fact that his wife divorced him for a younger man. Bitter and ready to erupt in a meltdown, Colin decides to take a trip to Yellowstone Park. There he meets geologist Kelly Birnbaum who is studying unusual seismic activity when an earthquake hits. She tells him the possibility of a Supervolcano: Eruption is high.

They exchange phone numbers and email addresses; as Colin intends to call her as he wants to date her. Her predictions prove correct when she is flying away from the area: the sky is dark and particles mess up the engines and everything on the ground. All the nearby states are devastated with Wyoming obliterated and the rest of the lower 48 impacted. As the skies remain perpetually dark, while the romance between Colin and Kelly heats up, he keeps track of his three adult children spread across the country. Rob and his band members Squirt Frog and the Evolving Tadpoles are stranded in Northern Maine where gas is unavailable. Vanessa got out of Nevada only to stop at a Kansas FEMA relief camp which she calls is another world for hell. Perpetual student Marshall, on the verge of a degree after a couple of almost a decade at school, is trapped at home in Southern California.

Although life dramatically changes due to the impact of a Supervolcano: Eruption, this engaging tale is not a post apocalyptic thriller at least in the grand scale. Instead the entertaining story line focuses on a family before and after the blast so that the reader feels they have been in several states across the nation. With a nod to Krakatoa but on a continental scale rather than an island, known for his alternate history sagas, Harry Turtledove writes a fabulous near future survival tale (of the Ferguson family).

Harriet Klausner
 
Oh Heavens, another one, how does he keep this up.

Oh well, guess when I come home I'll check this out of the local library, somehow that get every single new Turtledove book when it comes out.
 
The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen.Time travellers from a "perfect"future come back to ensure the Great Conflagration happens so their future happens.Possible spoiler:this may be part of a series.
 
Angels of Vengeance, the third installment in the John Birmingham's "Without Warning" series, is due to release next Tuesday.

Synopsis from Pan Macmillian Australia said:
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This is the New World. Born of chaos and madness. Remember that if nothing else.

Jed Culver, President Kipper's sword and shield, knows that what is right and what is best are rarely the same thing.

To some, Mad Jackson Blackstone, rogue governor of the Republic of Texas, is slowly but surely destroying the United States.

In New York, Caitlin Monroe's one shot at vengeance may lie buried beneath the rubble of the city, but she has to be certain.

Unknown killers hunt Lady Julianne Balwyn in the anarchic, violent freeport of Darwin.

Sofia Pieraro is all alone in the empty heart of a haunted land, revenge her only reason to keep moving.

After many years the long trail of the dead will bring them all together.

The final battle for America and the new world will not be fought with armies, but in the quiet and the dark, by individuals, driven towards vengeance and annihilation.
 
Its apparently not released in the US until April :(

Yeah, one of the few cases we get something earlier than the yanks. :D

No doubt you could order it from down under earlier if you wanted, I often do the opposite when I can't be bothered waiting months for a local release.
 
according to a flyer in my Science Fiction Book Club mailing, Stephen Baxter is starting a new AH trilogy, beginning with "Stone Spring", due for release on Nov. 1. It's all about how a girl in prehistoric England (when it was still connected to France by land) gets the idea to build a giant wall to stop the sea from engulfing the land bridge (?!) and 'history is changed forever.' Apparently, because early man relies on such an engineering feat, the great religions don't arise (not sure how that comes about), and the trilogy will carry on past prehistoric times into the alternate modern world...
 
Eureka!

Supervolcano: Eruption-Harry Turtledove

By harstan
Supervolcano: Eruption
Harry Turtledove
Roc, Dec 6 2011, $25.95
ISBN: 9780451464200

In the Los Angeles suburb San Atanasio, livid police lieutenant Colin Ferguson needs to get over the fact that his wife divorced him for a younger man. Bitter and ready to erupt in a meltdown, Colin decides to take a trip to Yellowstone Park. There he meets geologist Kelly Birnbaum who is studying unusual seismic activity when an earthquake hits. She tells him the possibility of a Supervolcano: Eruption is high.

A 'livid police lieutenant' named Colin Ferguson?! Can you say Eureka!
 
according to a flyer in my Science Fiction Book Club mailing, Stephen Baxter is starting a new AH trilogy, beginning with "Stone Spring", due for release on Nov. 1. It's all about how a girl in prehistoric England (when it was still connected to France by land) gets the idea to build a giant wall to stop the sea from engulfing the land bridge (?!) and 'history is changed forever.' Apparently, because early man relies on such an engineering feat, the great religions don't arise (not sure how that comes about), and the trilogy will carry on past prehistoric times into the alternate modern world...

"Stone Spring" takes place entirely during the last ice age. The setting is in the English Channel before it is flooded. Well mostly, there are a couple of out of area settings that bring in major characters. There is nothing that is truly impossible for the given technological level of the period. This is the set up for the change that will be more evident in future volumes.

The discussion in the afterward describing the underlying history is interesting.

This is pretty typical Baxter writing.
 
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