Zwaintsai
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I read Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" recently and I must say it was an impressive book. It's basically about Europe being destroyed in the late middle ages and the development of world history from a non-western basis to the modern times.
It was really nice to read a book that dealt with a very complicated subject and yet it was clear that the writer knew a lot about what he was writing about. Of course I would have made a couple of corrections to it, but mostly it was quite plausable. A highly recommendable book.
I'd like to know if you know any similar good alternative history books? Preferably written from an original subject. That is, not the nazis winning the WWII.
It also kinda made me want to write some alternative history of my own.
I was thinking something along the lines of mesoamerican indians inventing bronze working, or proto-indo-europeans not domesticating the horse (maybe due to it's extiction in the mesolithic or it's domestication in some other part of the world)
So tell me what you think.
It was really nice to read a book that dealt with a very complicated subject and yet it was clear that the writer knew a lot about what he was writing about. Of course I would have made a couple of corrections to it, but mostly it was quite plausable. A highly recommendable book.
I'd like to know if you know any similar good alternative history books? Preferably written from an original subject. That is, not the nazis winning the WWII.
It also kinda made me want to write some alternative history of my own.
I was thinking something along the lines of mesoamerican indians inventing bronze working, or proto-indo-europeans not domesticating the horse (maybe due to it's extiction in the mesolithic or it's domestication in some other part of the world) So tell me what you think.
