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<blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 1157871" data-attributes="member: 696">Alternate history:&nbsp; A Choice of Destinies, in which Alexander the Great, while preparing for the conquest of India, is forced by treaty obligations to turn against a nascent Roman Republic.&nbsp; What would the world be like if Greek, Roman, and Persian ideals were merged on an equal basis?&nbsp; Of course, the story depicts Alexander in the rosy &quot;Man of Culture&quot; persona, rather than the more likely &quot;Ruthless, Merciless Conqueror&quot; persona...&nbsp; Still, a good story.&nbsp;For paratemporal:&nbsp; Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen and its companion (but not by the same author) Great Kings' War.&nbsp;Just plain weird:&nbsp; The Architect of Sleep, wherein the apes in Africa never evolved into humans.&nbsp; Instead, the dominant species is an evolved racoon.&nbsp; Very cool, I just wish the author would finish editing the sequel (it's sitting in a box, right next to his bloody desk!!!).&nbsp; Not likely to ever see print, however. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp;Didn't Turtledove do a series of short stories based on an Earth where other hominids didn't die out in North America, and what would be history if we found non-H.S.-hominids in North America instead of Native Americans?&nbsp; A Different Flesh, I believe it's called...&nbsp;Not really alternate history:&nbsp; The General pentad by David Drake, which models itself on Belisarius' conquest of North Africa and Italy.&nbsp; Also, the Swords of the Legion (?) quad, wherein the remnants of a Roman legion are transported into a pseudo-Byzantine vs. Nomadic invaders world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heretic Apostate, post: 1157871, member: 696"] Alternate history: [i]A Choice of Destinies[/i], in which Alexander the Great, while preparing for the conquest of India, is forced by treaty obligations to turn against a nascent Roman Republic. What would the world be like if Greek, Roman, and Persian ideals were merged on an equal basis? Of course, the story depicts Alexander in the rosy "Man of Culture" persona, rather than the more likely "Ruthless, Merciless Conqueror" persona... Still, a good story. For paratemporal: [i]Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen[/i] and its companion (but not by the same author) [i]Great Kings' War[/i]. Just plain weird: [i]The Architect of Sleep[/i], wherein the apes in Africa never evolved into humans. Instead, the dominant species is an evolved racoon. Very cool, I just wish the author would finish editing the sequel (it's sitting in a box, [i]right next to his bloody desk[/i]!!!). Not likely to ever see print, however. :( Didn't Turtledove do a series of short stories based on an Earth where other hominids didn't die out in North America, and what would be history if we found non-H.S.-hominids in North America instead of Native Americans? [i]A Different Flesh[/i], I believe it's called... Not really alternate history: The General pentad by David Drake, which models itself on Belisarius' conquest of North Africa and Italy. Also, the Swords of the Legion (?) quad, wherein the remnants of a Roman legion are transported into a pseudo-Byzantine vs. Nomadic invaders world. [/QUOTE]

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