Friday Question #179 - Alternate History

#1

Happy Friday, Readers!

Recommend a book for the “Alternate History” square on the August Bookish Bingo board and help a fellow reader!

Alternative history is a subgenre of SF (“science fiction” or “speculative fiction”) that creates a fictional world in which an action or event in the past has caused history to diverge from its known course.

#2

Stephen King’s book: 11/22/63
It explores the idea of going back in time to change history of when JFK was shot.
It is not the typical scary book you’d come to expect of Stephen King.
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#3

Like any dystopian novel

#4

I love Babel by R F Kuang, although some people don’t consider it to be true alternate history because it includes fantasy elements.

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#5

This was the first book I thought of too -Stephen King’s 11/22/63

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#6

Theres always the classic that started it all Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick

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#7

Orson Scott Card’s Tales of Alvin the Maker series tells an alternate history of the United States beginning when colonizers encountered indigenous peoples. I read the first four books in the series back in 2011 starting with Seventh Son. Conscientious readers beware of that Card has expressed homophobic and racist agendas.

#8

Thanks for the rec. I’ve added it to my TBR list.

#9

Thanks for the rec! I’ve added it to my TBR list.