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The genre would have not been the same without him.Alternate History has lost a giant. Eric Flint, author dead at age 75.
May he rest in peace.
The genre would have not been the same without him.Alternate History has lost a giant. Eric Flint, author dead at age 75.
And I think that is a symptom of the way the growth of small press publishing pushes more writers towards stories over timelines.
Are we counting the Heads o' State lists as not timelines?
Of the names for the long-form, certainly an interesting collection - among them top Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (I have seen his book in Waterstone's, so that might boost AH's profile if he wins) and Harry Turtledove's wife Laura Frankos.
On the other hand, at T'Other Place, timelines remain the predominant format, and the writers' forum is moribund in comparison. So it is to a lesser degree at the AH subforum on SV. And T'Other Place still represents the largest part of the online AH community.I find conversations about timelines interesting because my instinct is they're very much a dying breed.
The vignette contests undoubtedly warp things, but because they exist the main creative writing done on this forum is short stories rather than timelines. Like in the last three months there has been 20 vignettes written on SLP just for the contests and maybe 2 new timelines started on SLP in that time period.
And I think that is a symptom of the way the growth of small press publishing pushes more writers towards stories over timelines.
May this be restricted to this forum? It's still a booming form elsewhere, on AH.com or the AH wikia.I find conversations about timelines interesting because my instinct is they're very much a dying breed.
I’ll forgive you for not making any new mega timelines provided you release the #CaliBCut of Decades of Darkness, but with more darkness and less German parents.On the other hand, at T'Other Place, timelines remain the predominant format, and the writers' forum is moribund in comparison. So it is to a lesser degree at the AH subforum on SV. And T'Other Place still represents the largest part of the online AH community.
At most, I think we're seeing a slow fragmentation of the online AH community, with the SLP component drifting more toward the expectations of narrative published AH, with the others still doing their own thing.
For myself, the main reason I do vignettes these days is because between work and family I no longer have the time to start another mega-timeline. The ideas are still there, but the time is lacking. Of course, any timeline I start now will probably have more narrative components than my previous efforts (though even those had their share), so there's probably a slow change in style there too.