Who are your favorite alternate history authors?

Who are your favorite alternate history authors?
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Harry Turtledove’s “Guns of the South” is quite good, if you overlook the lame time-machine premise. I lost interest in most of his other works though. I’m more into the speculative extrapolation genre, apocalyptic alternate futures, or pure sci-fi. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have done many excellent works in those fields.
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