- Location
- Albany, NY
- Pronouns
- She/Her
As the title says, now that the worst discussion has pretty much settled on my pick being correct, what is Best in AH that isn't here?
I too enjoyed Alternate Generals. And both of those for sure.It's a guilty pleasure and is probably inaccurate, but as I was in my "WWI at Sea" phase when I read it, I couldn't help but fall in love with Elizabeth Moon's Tradition where Craddock fights the Goeben.
Another good AH short story is RM Meluch's Vati, which is basically what The Big One should have been like in terms of telling a "all the wunderwaffe can't save Germany" story. Werner Molders survives and revs up the Luftwaffe, the German wunder-planes make an Allied channel invasion impossible-and then at the end, it gets nuked. Very good prose, very good pacing, and brisk compared to TBO or even AANW.
Secret Police and Funky Bass Lines by GoulashComrade
Protect and Survive I enjoyed immensely too.
My personal pick would be The Vulture's The Revolution Will Be Live which unfortunately with Between Two Waves Gone and his request that Ian take it down at The Other Place is no longer available to read.
The basic premise was that the First Red Scare never ended and the United States developed into a one party dominant political state with massive and disturbing levels of social authoritarianism heaped on. America spends the period between 1918 and the early 1960s when the story starts intervening in other nations wars and building a world system by force where the world's most powerful Communist state is Ethiopia and the British Empire has turned inward with something akin to an isolationist Imperial Federation.
The story is set in the 1960s with the US refusing to permit dissent and thus dooming itself to radical violence. The three tracks of the story are passages from a History Book of the era and the Anarchist and Communist insurgencies of the time, transcripts of an Alt-FBI agent who is trying to stop the attacks while at the same time losing faith in the country and the 'found' journal of one of the heroes of the underground covering what it was like to be at the center of an American Red Army Faction type group, and the moral compromises, optimism and doubts that fill his life.
You missed the Non-SLP part I guess.Look to the West by Thande.
You missed the Non-SLP part I guess.
My personal pick would be The Vulture's The Revolution Will Be Live which unfortunately with Between Two Waves Gone and his request that Ian take it down at The Other Place is no longer available to read.
Probably one of the top five I've ever read. I'm crap at picking favorites.