Alternative History.
Dates: 2/6/03,4:48 PM through 2/7/03,1:27 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 4:48 PM
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 5:20 PM
http://www.uchronia.net/
especially the WWII years in the "divergence" section at
http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/diverge.html
around
http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/diverge.html?o=1000
and see if a title rings a bell. Click on link for capsule summary.
Maybe it's William Overgard's THE DIVIDE (Jove pb, 1980), which for
some unrelated reason I have at my desk anyway?
http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=overdivide
Cover shows an
outline of US divided down the middle, with swastika on eastern
half and rising sun on western half. No statue of liberty though.
It involves a German-Japanese summit meeting at midpoint of the
conquered and divided country. I never read it, but had run across
a spare copy a couple of years ago when someone on another of my
lists asked about it. I brought it in to work, the other person
never replied when I got back to them, and I never got around to
taking it home. If this is the book and your client wants it, I'd
be happy to send it along as a gift to get it off my desk.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
At 02:46 PM 2/6/03 -0800, you wrote:
> A Patron is describing a book that seems
>very much like Philip K Dick's "The Man in the
>High Castle" to me, but they seem convinced that
>this is not the book. Perhaps one of you
>geniuses can help me out.
> Alternative History from the 70's or before,
>Old Man stumbles onto Alternative world, Nazis
>Won, Japan protecting Christians that the Reich
>wants to execute, seems to recall book cover with
>Statue of Liberty and Swastikas (I've done book
>cover searches on the Dick book, and find things
>very close to this...)
>PLUS - they have 'It Did Happen Here' in their
>head (possible confusion with 1966 movie 'It
>Happened Here.')
> So you see my dilemma. I'd swear that it is
>"The Man in the High Castle" they're fixated on,
>but they disagree. Before I try to establish
>just what drugs did to their brain in the past 30
>years, does anyone recall a book that fits?
> David Wright
> Seattle Public Library
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FROM: "Deborah T. Walsh" <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 7:59 PM
Our SF Genre study group is reading The Man in the High Castle as the
benchmark for alternate fiction (we meet next week) so fourteen
people in my library are reading it right now. From MY reading, I'd
have to agree that while the facts you've mentioned in your post sort
of sync up, I don't think this is the book your patron is looking
for. No one, for instance, "stumbles" onto anything. If there is a
plotline involving Christians being rescued, it completely escaped my
reading (certainly not impossible, but terrifying!)
I'll poll the other members of the RA team, but in the meanwhile,
could you ask the patron if the book he or she is thinking of has a
storyline involving the counterfeiting of collectibles? - Civil War
firearms, specifically. Knowing that might confirm that this is or
isn't the book since a major plot point of the Dick book hinges on
the manufacturing of fraudulent artifacts.
Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
127 James Street
Geneva, IL 60134
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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/7/03, 1:27 PM
--- "Deborah T. Walsh" <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
wrote:
>
> Hi David -
>
> Our SF Genre study group is reading The Man in
> the High Castle as the
> benchmark for alternate fiction (we meet next
> week) so fourteen
> people in my library are reading it right now.
> From MY reading, I'd
> have to agree that while the facts you've
> mentioned in your post sort
> of sync up, I don't think this is the book your
> patron is looking
> for. No one, for instance, "stumbles" onto
> anything. If there is a
> plotline involving Christians being rescued, it
> completely escaped my
> reading (certainly not impossible, but
> terrifying!)
>
> I'll poll the other members of the RA team, but
> in the meanwhile,
> could you ask the patron if the book he or she
> is thinking of has a
> storyline involving the counterfeiting of
> collectibles? - Civil War
> firearms, specifically. Knowing that might
> confirm that this is or
> isn't the book since a major plot point of the
> Dick book hinges on
> the manufacturing of fraudulent artifacts.
>
>
> Deborah T. Walsh
> Geneva Public Library District
> 127 James Street
> Geneva, IL 60134
> [removed]@geneva.lib.il.us
>
>
>
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