Anyone like "Alternative History"? Need a rec

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My brother likes Harry Turtledove, but I'm assuming he's read everything of Turtledove's that interest him (although I'm not sure)

Any books that are really outstanding that you would recommend?

He likes SciFi too, but his tastes are so specific and so esoteric that I'm afraid to get him anything in that category.

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1. Philip K. Dick -- Radio Free Albemuth

From http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_radiofree.html

Plot Summary:
In the late 1960's, a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. And Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also happen to be God - an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President.

In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest prankster-prophet.

Sounds eerily familiar, no?

Dick is best-known for the stories that became "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "Minority Report" and "Second Variety", but most of his work is more cerebral than your typical sci-fi/laser-toting martians.

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2. Thanks for the suggestion - I've written it down

I ended up wimping out and buying him a SanDisk UBS drive - he's broke, has a computer at home and one at school, and no laptop, so I figured it might help him out.

For Christmas, I'll poke around and see if he's ever read any PKD or if it's the kind of stuff he likes - sounds like a good choice.

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3. Oh My! Isn't that actually what has been happening here

for the last five years?

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