What are some good alternate history novels?
A classic of the genre is Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle, an early-1960s novel about what happens to the United States after Japan and Germany win World War II. The West Coast has gone Japanese, while the South is full of Germans and the Midwest is still its own independent country. Meanwhile, a mysterious “man in the high castle” has written a book about an alternate United States which won World War II. Dick’s mind-bending and tragic novel inspired a whole host of “what if the Nazis won” novels, including the critically-acclaimed Fatherland. Vladimir Nabokov also picked up on the idea of an alternate history novel-within-an alternate history novel for his book Ada or Ardor, about what would have happened if the U.S. had been colonized by Czarist Russia.
