I've never been a fan of alt history

[andrewducker]

But I'm sure I've read the blurb for this book.

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

You are thinking, probably, of the short story "The Road not Taken" by Harry Turtledove.

[andrewducker]

Aha! Harry Turtledove was the name on the tip of my brain, but I don't think I've actually read anything by him.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

He's better at shorter lengths ...

"The Road Not Taken" is an alien invasion story with a twist. Your usual alien invasion takes place; the aliens land their starship on the White House lawn, pile out, declare their superiority and intention to conquer the world ... and are promptly taken down by the Marine Corps guards. It turns out that FTL travel is easy -- so easy that almost every sentient species develops it before they get the steam engine! Humans are an anomaly, having failed to get interstellar flight we've put huge amounts of energy into exotic high-tech stuff ... like gunpowder and internal combustion engines. (Our surviving alien is left contemplating what will happen when the invincible human starships with these repeating guns and "missiles" get out into the galaxy, with terror.)

[andrewducker]

That does sound like a lot of fun.

(I've not directly avoided him, he's just never been thrust into my hands, and my reading time is insufficient to read all of the stuff that is, let alone the pile on my Amazon wish list)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

A better fit is Ben Jeapes's New World Order in which high tech Neanderthals from a parallel universe provide Oliver Cromwell with the means to win the Civil War early.

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I've not read either of these but now want to.
My mind went to a similar image (different era though) from Howard Waldrop's 'Custer's Last Jump'

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oh! oh! is it the Bible?

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Emergency Re-enactor Squad On Active Deployment

If you have a historical-themed event, and it's bombing, and you need experienced re-enactors to add life to your setting, and nobody else can help ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can hire ... The Sealed Knot (Airborne Division).

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall inventing -- though I don't know if I ever deployed them in fiction (Iron Sunrise, maybe?) the Cold War Re-enactment Society. With Violet Club, of course ...

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Our local (for values of 'local' that include 'OK, a few hundred km away') Vietnam War re-enactors have a 105mm howizter, and borrow helicopters.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/errolgc/4085368240/in/set-72157622751611494/

We are in the process of organising a video shoot with Romans. And AK-47s.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

That's cool. :-)

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[zornhau.livejournal.com]

http://www.baen.com/library/0671319728/0671319728.htm

Note the red pickup truck advancing on the 30 Years War mercs...

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I think I played that out in a game of Civilization...

-- Steve recalls escorting a fleet of galleons with an aircraft carrier once. And landing tanks out of some of them, too.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Try the film It Happened Here.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Imagine the clang when a rotor hits a helmet though