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Mishima Themboy
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The Amelia Earhart story mentioned in the interview with Turtledove is out.
I read Turtledove's new book today.
The Earhart one?
Aye.
What's the PoD? Just not crashing doing her OTL last flight?
It appears that former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has written an alternate history space thriller called The Apollo Murders which is coming out in October.
The Amelia Earhart story mentioned in the interview with Turtledove is out.
Judging by the number of erroneous facts in just this short tweet, this promises to be toe-curlingly awful.
*Buys it anyway*
I'm wondering if the concept of "entry-level AH to the online fandom" that used to belong to the Harry Turtledove books you'd find in the sci-fi section is now obsolete. A part of me wants to say "Paradox games" since the influence they have on online AH is undeniable. However, a bigger and growing part of me thinks that alternate history has become ubiquitous enough that people can just go straight online with just a bit of searching, which is more or less how I got into it.
I'm wondering if the concept of "entry-level AH to the online fandom" that used to belong to the Harry Turtledove books you'd find in the sci-fi section is now obsolete. A part of me wants to say "Paradox games" since the influence they have on online AH is undeniable. However, a bigger and growing part of me thinks that alternate history has become ubiquitous enough that people can just go straight online with just a bit of searching, which is more or less how I got into it.
Is the modern equivalent of the Robert Cowley What If? books Brack and Dale's 'Prime Minister X And Other Things That Never Happened'?
Is the modern equivalent of the Robert Cowley What If? books Brack and Dale's 'Prime Minister X And Other Things That Never Happened'?
I'd say so, yes, and probably the last tranche of paperback titles like that I'd imagine
You say modern version of, but Dale's last one was in 2016 with Prime Minister Corbyn.
(Checking the date showed me that Customers Who Read This Book Also Read a ton of Sea Lion books)