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
It also seems that no libraries in the US have it in sotckWish it was Nook'd or Kindle'd.
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:
You can see the books and stories that were nominated here.
- 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.
now even Turtledove is out to get me..All the nearby states are devastated with Wyoming obliterated
Synopsis from Pan Macmillian Australia said:
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 AprilAngels of Vengeance, the third installment in the John Birmingham's "Without Warning" series, is due to release next Tuesday.
Its apparently not released in the US until April
Supervolcano: Eruption-Harry Turtledove
This does not sound like a very exciting book. The utterly bland title only makes it worse.
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.
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...