# Unknown sci-fi novel: any ideas??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487 "2004-04-17T04:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487/1 "2004-04-17T04:46:26Z")
I’m posting this question that I saw on another board. Here is the info: * * * Many moons ago - actually, in 1994 - I read a sci-fi novel that really gripped me… but I can’t remember the title, and years of Googling/asking/bugging people on boards have not yet brought me any closer. So now it’s your turn The book started with the crew of a deep-space exploration vessel waking up from hibernation. They had no recollection of who they were and how they ended up on the ship - all they knew was that one of the airlocks was open and alarms were sounding. Using the main computer they found out they were half of the ships crew; the other half of the team was supposed to wake them weeks earlier (as part of a work/hibernate cycle), but had failed to do so, and the prolonged freezing had caused the minor amnesia. Apparently, their colleagues had abandoned ship in quite a hurry - though without obvious reasons. The ship, meanwhile, had drifted into a system that looked remarkably similar to our own. Before landing, the crew theorized that they might have ended up in a starsystem that had accidentally developed into a “mirror” of the one we know. Upon arrival in Australia, they were horrified to meet themselves - as scientists of the Nazi space program; on the parallel Earth, WWII had a different outcome. After a narrow escape, the story gets foggier (well, it’s been a decade), but there was at least a part with a “plant-planet” and a cliffhanger. The story mentioned tape-driven computers and the tragedy of Apollo 1, so I guesstimate it was written between 1967-1975, give or take. Illustrated, though sparsly, hardcover and in Dutch, might have been translated. The title sounded foreign - for years I thought it was Terra Incognita but that doesn’t give me any results. Any ideas ? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487/2 "2004-04-17T18:49:27Z")
I thought I had it until the alternate Earth part. But it sounds really cool… :::subscribes to thread::: ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487/3 "2012-08-27T18:07:38Z")
I’m blowing the tanks on this old thread. Any ideas??? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487/4 "2012-08-27T18:27:57Z")
Have you looked for it on [Uchronia](http://www.uchronia.net/)? They have a pretty complete list of AH novels and stories. The downside is “Nazis win WWII” is a really big category. Do you recall any other details? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unknown-sci-fi-novel-any-ideas/240487/5 "2012-08-27T19:08:43Z")
Nope. I cut and pasted this from another message board many years ago. I didn’t personally read it.