Bitter Seeds

Ian Tregillis's first novel is World War two + X-Men + Cthulu.

Now that I've convinced folks to go read the book, let me say that I find the writing good, the plot interesting and the concept... well the concept is a lot of fun. Nazi super-science makes electrical powered mutants, which allows them to crush France, and defeat the British at Dunkirk. England falls back upon it's warlocks, who during Operation Sealion, make the whole channel shift out of phase with reality.

The plot is fairly straightforwardish, but the interesting parts were the discussions of the origins and ethics of magic and science, who cares, and why, and who knows about the existence of such powers, and how they react to these challenges.

The next book is a Cold War spy thriller.