Review - 'To Climates Unknown'

[Gary Oswald]

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This article was original published over on Never Was. They regularly republish our articles over there. The last such being this article from @RyanF.

 

[Hendryk]

Sounds like that rarest of birds, commercial alternate history written to the standards of the enthusiast kind. Definitely curious about it.

 

[Gary Oswald]

Sounds like that rarest of birds, commercial alternate history written to the standards of the enthusiast kind. Definitely curious about it.

Its self published I believe. The author is an outsider in terms of AH experience, he's open about not having read in the genre, but I'd put him closer to us than say Turtledove.

(He actually approached SeaLion Press about publishing it but the timing didn't work)

 

[Coiler]

Its self published I believe. The author is an outsider in terms of AH experience, he's open about not having read in the genre

I'd say that's arguably a good thing, to approach a genre without baggage.

 

[Jared]

I'd say that's arguably a good thing, to approach a genre without baggage.

The late Sir Terry Pratchett made similar comments about how he tended to read much more out of genre than in it, since it meant he was importing ideas and not recycling them.

 

[Coiler]

Just finished it. Certainly one of the best highbrow AH works I've ever read. The Rice and Salt inspiration is there and massive, and I honestly feel that the conclusion (where KSR kind of stumbled, IMO), is actually better than its predecessor.