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Review: Civilizations
- Thread starter Gary Oswald
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A lot of discussion about indie AH has noted the timeline and scrapbook approach is widespread instead of the mainstream's traditional narrative, so it is a bit of a laugh seeing a mainstream book independently invent it!
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A lot of discussion about indie AH has noted the timeline and scrapbook approach is widespread instead of the mainstream's traditional narrative, so it is a bit of a laugh seeing a mainstream book independently invent it!
Particularly given how online AH has started adding more narrative style stuff in the meantime.
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- UK
As I keep saying every time this comes up, the so-called scrapbook approach is by no means unique to AH. It certainly did not originate in the genre. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is the earliest I know of, then John Dos Passos 'USA Trilogy' (1930s) which was explicitly used as a model by John Brunner in 'Stand on Zanzibar' (1968). The epistolary format apparently goes back to 1485 at least (according to Wikipedia anyway)
It's not unique to online AH but it's a common style compared to other genres & mainstream AH.