`` Liar and a Dreamer''

 A stampede at an illegal nightclub party has killed 13 people. 12 women, 1 young man, in Los Olivos My old home town  Sacred Rose of Lima, prey for them 

 I used to read Alternate Histories often. I devoured the works of Harry Turtledove, I worked my way through Harry Harrison, and even some of Stirling before I could no longer stomach him  I read the Man in the High Castle before the TV series made its debut. Bring the Jubilee, The Last Article. The classics if you will. At one point people thought that Alternate History would eclipse SF and Fantasy and become the genre, in genre fiction  But it gets boring tho, and this book illustrates the problem with alternate history. It's become Nazi misery porn. The book does a good job of using the world building to create a London and a 1950s that almost happened. A.J.P Taylor was arrested at a protest in Trafalgar square. Frankie Howard is still in Pompeii. The fog is everywhere. Jive boys which are this world's version of the Teddy boy are fighting with Blackshirts, and Auxiliaries Soho has been cleared of Maltese, and Italians  So no Gracie Fields? There is no rationing but the toy