Subject: Alternate History Recommendations
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Posted on: 2013-10-09 21:46:00 UTC

Now I was wonder if we can post stuff about goodfics or is the board mainly to report badfics that might be PPC material?

Now, one reason why Alternate History is a relatively obscure genre is that the few major writers tend to have bad stories. Such as SM Stirling's Draka series, or the "Axis of Time" Trilogy. Never heard of those? Consider yourself lucky.

If you want to read better Alternate History to see what I'm talking about, here are several published ones you might like.

First, The Fireflies of Port Stanley.
From the AH.com wiki: "An administrative error by a British Ministry of Defence employee causes the delivery of 3 decommissioned Sherman Firefly tanks and some tank ammunition to the capital of the Falkland Islands in 1955. While members of the local administration are puzzled by the delivery, they keep the three tanks in basic working condition. Fast forward to 1982 and the invasion of the islands by the then Argentine junta… The locals have little time remaining and have to organize a basic defence of the capital until help arrives from the UK. And that's when the well-preserved Fireflies, until then only a local curiosity, come into play… "
http://www.amazon.com/Fireflies-Port-Stanley-Marc-Jones-ebook/dp/B00COBGLLA

The second, and still in progress is a story called "The Whale has Wings."
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/266885
If anyone wants to endure 670+ pages of thread derailments and long debates over minutiae to read the original version, see here:
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=224761

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