- Location
- Visiting BWBs.
That reminds me of a joke in The Eyre Affair where it's suggested that the death of Nelson at Trafalgar was due to French revisionists trying to influence history.As if to prove your point outside of AH circles I've seen Inglorious Basterds described more as a form of "revisionist" history (albeit in the sense of improving on what really happened instead of proper historical revisionism) rather than AH. Of course you could argue that hindsight gives AH this tendency as well but that might be for a different article.
Even then, some people don't take it to straight away. Michael Shannon talked in interviews around The Flash about his initial confusion being asked to reprise Zod because "I think I died in Man of Steel. Are they sure they got the right guy?'" Something that was only rectified when someone actually explained what the multiverse was to him that would make that possible (and getting some blessing from Zach Snyder, as well, apparently). I've had non-comic fan friends and family occasionally ask me about films or especially the animated adaptations trying to figure out how things fit together, only to explain that they're standalone.AH, the ultimate "I know when I see it" genre
The uncommercial aspect is depressing when both Marvel and DC have been putting the multiverse into shows and films, enough normal people grasp the concept with ease, but I guess the difference is there's a specific character to hook it onto. "What if things were different for Spider-Man"
AH, the ultimate "I know when I see it" genre
I wonder how much of it is gaming the Amazon system to try and get a 'Best Seller' label.
I wonder how much of it is gaming the Amazon system to try and get a 'Best Seller' label.
Be right back, finishing up my alternate history biography of a South African mining engineer, Jackhammers, Pumps, and Shafts: The Hot, Hard Life of Magnus Sachs.It is interesting you say that. If you manage to get to the level on Amazon for AH (it is rather buried in Sci-Fi), there are a number of books in the top 100 that do not appear to have anything to do with AH.
I wonder how much of it is gaming the Amazon system to try and get a 'Best Seller' label.
A case in point - one of them has two other categories:
The blurb does not suggest anything to do with AH.
- Erotic Bisexual Fiction
- Bisexual Romance eBooks
Of course.I mean, people have been gaming the bestseller lists long before the internet (Scientologists were/are infamous in strategically timed orders of Hubbard novels)
I mean, people have been gaming the bestseller lists long before the internet (Scientologists were/are infamous in strategically timed orders of Hubbard novels)
A Danish-Jewish mining engineer on the Rand? I'd read that.Be right back, finishing up my alternate history biography of a South African mining engineer, Jackhammers, Pumps, and Shafts: The Hot, Hard Life of Magnus Sachs.