The top 10 counter-factual novels?

The Guardian newspaper just ran an article entitled The top 10 counter-factual novels – the “counter-factual” being a nice literary way of describing a parallel reality or alternative reality story without suggesting the story might be … gasp, science fiction or fantasy (which are dirty words among the gatekeepers of high culture … despite the fact that SF/F and horror accounts for about 35% combined of fiction sales).

That aside, the list is quite good, although misses The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (now also a TV series via Amazon Prime), as well as other more outright sci-fi authors’ works such as Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream.

Any other books in the same vein you think might have been missed off this list that are worthy of inclusion?

You can read the full article over at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/23/dj-taylor-top-counter-factual-novels

The top 10 counter-factual novels?

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