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Conquistadors of the Useless recounts the climbing life of French alpinist Lionel Terray, who lived from 1921 to 1965. It is a mountaineering memoir rather than an alternate-history novel. Terray describes a career spanning the Alps, Andes and Himalayas, including the 1950 Annapurna expedition and h...
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Classic mountaineering memoir, acclaimed in climbing literature; not alternate history, but high nonfiction reputation.
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The Winds of Altair is a science fiction novel by American writer Ben Bova, published in 1973. Its story concerns the attempt to terraform an alien planet so that it can support human colonists, while examining the environmental and ethical consequences of changing an unfamiliar world. The novel is...
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Ben Bova science fiction with modest reception; not central alternate history, and consensus is lower-tier among his works.
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