Puget Sound
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I just got a book club on a Discord server I'm on to read Agent Lavender. It's going to be very interesting to see how non-alternate history fans react to the book...
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I just got a book club to read Agent Lavender
- Thread starter Puget Sound
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Keep us updated on that.
Puget Sound
o-one giant weap fow mankind (≧◡≦)
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This, I notice, could be a pretty big problem if the book ever gains a large following. No one in America really knows who Howard Wilson was, and they might actually get the impression from this that he was a secret communist.
It's addressed multiple times that it's based on a conspiracy theory.
Burton K Wheeler
The G.O.A.T. That Can't Be Got
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Howard Wilson.
Burton K Wheeler
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I need a ‘smack head against wall emoji...’
I mean, you made your point quite well, even if you didn't mean to.
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I need a ‘smack head against wall emoji...’
I took it as a joke to make a point. May I suggest just claiming such whenever you make a mistake in future?
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Funnily enough, a friend of mine and @Lord Roem's is discussing it with her book club on Saturday!
Well, the new series of that should solve that problem.
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Our friend's book club really liked it! Very positive feedback, they bought the motivations of the various characters and liked the twists and turns, and the high number of real people who appear.
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a sinking dumpling. He/Him.
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So which one of you is the Barney and which the Kenny?
Puget Sound
o-one giant weap fow mankind (≧◡≦)
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Update:
The book club has finished reading part one. Some comments:
"did you get the feeling that the book was almost made for tv or something?"
"It's interesting how there are little changes hinted at in this world's history"
"It's almost jarring how quickly it's moving from setting to setting."
"I wish I had more of a context for some of these people."
The book club has finished reading part one. Some comments:
"did you get the feeling that the book was almost made for tv or something?"
"It's interesting how there are little changes hinted at in this world's history"
"It's almost jarring how quickly it's moving from setting to setting."
"I wish I had more of a context for some of these people."
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Heh.
On the last one, I've recommended to some non-historians that they should keep Wikipedia close at hand when reading it. That has worked for most.
I am reminded of this: http://www.anthonymayer.net/ah/thaxted/thaxteda.html (Though how much that could be described a "useful for actually following the story", Im not sure).
Another option might be just to link to an online resource; I've thought about if that might be a good thing for colour or high-resolution maps and other graphics that don't work well on Kindle, I know some authors do it.
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I started work on one when we were putting it together for publication. It was actually too much work, to be perfectly honest.
Maybe we’ll do one in the future.