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Discuss this interview with @Lord Roem here
It was a very good idea to subvert the expectations of what an AH book is supposed to look like right from the start. Not only did it help establish SLP's brand identity, but it also lets the public know that there's more to AH than the lurid stuff the genre tends to be associated with.I am sure if you asked people to imagine the cover of an alternate history book, they'd come up with the sort of pulp imagery that's dominated it since as far back as I can remember - swastikas on the Statue of Liberty, steampunk horses at Gettysburg, that sort of thing. We decided we wanted to push back against that
Have we actually had any two interviews where the "How did you get into alternate history?" question is answered along similar lines?
Back in 2020, when I started doing this, it felt like I was getting 'read Turtledove, grew from there' every single time, but the more recent interviews have been less of that.
I'm now slightly tempted to graph it, in terms of which websites and authors get mentioned in answers to that question, but I have a lot of other things that are more important to do, so don't let me actually come back to this with a pie chart.
Back in 2020, when I started doing this, it felt like I was getting 'read Turtledove, grew from there' every single time, but the more recent interviews have been less of that.
I'm now slightly tempted to graph it, in terms of which websites and authors get mentioned in answers to that question, but I have a lot of other things that are more important to do, so don't let me actually come back to this with a pie chart.
Back in 2020, when I started doing this, it felt like I was getting 'read Turtledove, grew from there' every single time, but the more recent interviews have been less of that.
This has crept up on me overnight - his books used to be well represented in the sci-fi section (especially Worldwar, less so the pure AH) and now it's rare to see even one from him.This may be a sign of Turtledove getting less mainstream at least in the UK
This has crept up on me overnight - his books used to be well represented in the sci-fi section (especially Worldwar, less so the pure AH) and now it's rare to see even one from him.
I've never read any Turtledove myself, or any Stirling for that matter. My first exposure to commercial AH was Harry Harrison, and I very quickly grew tired of his style.Back in 2020, when I started doing this, it felt like I was getting 'read Turtledove, grew from there' every single time, but the more recent interviews have been less of that.
This has crept up on me overnight - his books used to be well represented in the sci-fi section (especially Worldwar, less so the pure AH) and now it's rare to see even one from him.
But nobody ever had book 3 (ironically the one with the most British-set scenes). I had to order it from America with a totally different cover, which was aggravating.Yeah, I remember Worldwar being omnipresent in the local library