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Re: Good new altenate history authors?

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Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
> Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm a big alternate history fan. I've read most of Turtledove's stuff
>> and the SM Stirling alternate history stuff, along with Stross's
>> Merchant Princes novels and Eric Flint's 163X. What I'm looking for
>> are authors on the way up with stuff that plays the AH reasonably
>> straight--not the Roman empire survives because they tamed dragons
>> and Emperor Marilyn Monroe is now invading President Jeb Bush's
>> US or Nazi sorcerers.
>>
>> I have an ulterior motive for asking this though it's a benign one. I
>> edit an APA (Amateur Press Association) distro called Point of
>> Divergence. It's not a for sale thing and my intention here is not to
>> promote it. POD is just a bunch of alternate history enthusiasts who
>> write amateur zines 4 or 5 times a year which I gather together and
>> send out to the contributors and a few others.
>>
>> Every few issues I either interview an alternate history guest author
>> or (more often) ask them to post an excerpt from their fiction. It's
>> good exposure for the authors, getting their stuff in front of a
>> group of obsessive AH fans, including a couple of Sidewise Award
>> judges and it gives us a chance to see new AH authors in action.
>>
>>In any case, who is good and relatively new in AH?
>
> L Neil Smith's stuff is a bit preachy, but seems to fit.  There's a
> minor change in the constitution but the main divergence is when
> Washington is executed as a traitor.

Good catch. Besides the _The Probability Broach_ there's also "The Lucky
Strike" by Robinson. Captain January's mental deliberations at the start
of "Lucky" remind me of _The Things They Carried_ by O'Brien.

    They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained,
    the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects
    this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put
    down, it required prefect balance and perfect posture. They
    carried their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest
    fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died,
    because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought
    them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams
    of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They
    died so as not to die of embarrassment.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

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Good new altenate history authors? Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 08:10 -0700
  Re: Good new altenate history authors? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-06 19:56 -0600
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 04:13 +0000
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-07 14:20 -0400
  Re: Good new altenate history authors? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-06 21:29 -0500
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 06:08 +0000
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-06-06 23:14 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-09 17:06 +0000
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-09 11:04 -0700
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 12:59 -0700
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-07 04:38 -0700
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 09:28 -0700
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-07 14:23 -0400
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Richard Hershberger <rrhersh@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 06:38 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-10 08:23 -0700
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 14:33 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-10 12:48 -0400

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