Good historical fiction that is alt history without being ridiculous (i.e., flying cars, machine guns in Rome) particularly looking for 16-17th century stuff.
>>25360348I doubt such a thing even exists but The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson technically has some althist elements
>>25360348Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
The Terror
I have yet to read it but there's the 1632 series by Eric Flint.
>>25360399I dnf'd Hyperion, is it any better?
>>25360403Thats not what I'm asking for. The premise is ridiculous
>>25360405i dropped hyperion halfway through after only liking the first story and i thought that the terror tv show was greathaven't read the book tough
>>25360348Just read stuff on the alternate history forum. I haven't been there for years, but some threads there are literal novels about different possible timelines.
>>253604031632 (and ring of fire series) does not fit the description that he's looking for.
>>25360537I liked the Priest's story too but lost interest pretty quickly after that.
>>25361425I found a couple using gemini considering nobody has mentioned these:>The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson>The Alteration by Kingsley Amis>Pavane by Keith Robertsweird all their names start with the letter K.
>>25360348>Good historical fictionYou're asking for a lot here pal.>that is alt historyGive up.
>>25360348I, Claudius
>>25360348The Accursed Kings series
>>25363122>>25363117that's what really happened in reality thoughever
>>25363418Maybe but doubtful. Some of it is the same. Some of it is speculative.
>>25360348name of the rose.
>>25363491already read it, didn't much like it
>>25360348Fatherland is pretty good. Wot if the Nazis won WWII?Similarly The Plot Against America, wot if Lindbergh won in 1940 and the US became nazi sympathetic?The Difference Engine is also good. Wot if Victorian England had been the real dawn of the computer when it was Babbage's mechanical computers?>>25363095>The Years of Rice and SaltRead that one, the problem is he's trying to tell a very long story so he uses the crutch of reincarnation to string the same characters together over time to explore the changes and this kills how interesting the characters can be. It's also an alt history that tends to repeat actual history's patterns. So it's not really showing history changing but putting a different mask on it, if that makes sense.
>>25363587thanks, the only poster ITT to get it. I hope you have a very large family someday.
>>25363095>The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonRead that novel about 10 years ago and its less so alternate history and more so our history but no Europeans from the 1400s onwards. The Age of Discovery, Industrialization, World Wars all happen at the same time it occurred IOTL. It's pretty lame and destroys the whole point of this alt history scenario. No idea what the other two novels are, but from the summaries it seems like typical Anglo-written Black Legend nonsense.
>>25360348Most of Shakespeare, the Henry plays particularly, though even his comedies are set in historical events.
>>25363955I dunno I thought the plots were compelling
