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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Foxes
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Tag Archives: alternate history
Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun
Western education, when it comes to the history of China, can be rather scanty in my experience. If you are lucky, you get a list of Chinese dynasties with little context as to what they are and how they came … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, China, chinese history, fantasy, historical fantasy
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Jo Walton’s Half a Crown
In the conclusion to her Small Change trilogy, which began with Farthing and continued with Ha’Penny, Jo Walton returns to a postwar Britain that has negotiated peace with Hitler in exchange for a supposed autonomy. In reality, fascism has infiltrated … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, speculative fiction
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Jo Walton’s Ha’Penny
Jo Walton’s 2006 novel Farthing was set in an imagined Britain-as-it-might-have-been, if instead of battling Hitler the British had let him have continental Europe in exchange for leaving them their island of autonomy and freedom. As the story unfolded, though, … Continue reading
Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land
I’ve been a fan of this author ever since I listened to the oh, so fantastic alternate history of his Bookman trilogy, with its Britain ruled by an alien reptile Royal family, and where every character that you know out of pulp fiction is real. … Continue reading
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine
Steampunk is a relatively recent genre that mixes the image of a cyberpunk dystopia with the technology and culture of the Victorian Empire. I thought it was a fairly common motif, but it appears not to be as I can … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, cyberpunk, steampun
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Connie Willis’ Blackout
Connie Willis has written some brilliant satires. She has a real gift for taking the routines and the personalities we encounter in daily life and, with just a tweak here and there, holding them up to sometimes merciless and often … Continue reading
Viola Carr’sThe Diabolical Ms. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the creation long ago of Robert Louis Stevenson, has been a rich trope in fiction in all forms from print and graphic novels to television series and movies alike. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate history, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, London, steampunk
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