alternative history

Book Reviews

• Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  - alternative history mystery in a Jewish state in Alaska
• William Gibson, Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine
  - a steam-driven information age in 19th century Britain
• Paul McAuley: Pasquale's Angel
  - a thriller in an industrialised Renaissance Florence
• Harry Turtledove: Agent of Byzantium
  - alternative history, with a powerful 13th century Byzantine empire

See also: historical fiction | history | science fiction

Alternative history is not a genre I'm particularly fond of.