one world among many... eleven stories about them all
What if Lincoln never became president, and the Civil War never took place? Wh... read full description
What if Lincoln never became president, and the Civil War never took place? Wh... read full description
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Dec 08, 2011
Sean
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Jul 07, 2009
Paul
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Alternate history is one of my favorite subgenres in Science Fiction, and it is a subgenre that lends itself as well to the short story as to the novel. The sting in the tail in realizing just where the divergence lies in a story's world and how it lies changed with our own often works better in a short story than the expanse of a novel. An AH novel explores an alternate history at length; a story is about the sting in the tail.
So I read Other Earths, a collection of new AH stories More...
So I read Other Earths, a collection of new AH stories More...
Apr 20, 2009
Andreas
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First of all let me start with a warning: usually I don't enjoy stories about "alternate worlds" very much. They tend to focus on details that I find completely boring. Nevertheless I decided to take my chance with this anthology because I was impressed by the included authors!
In This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson no civil war took place and economic reasons made slavery obsolete. This results in new problems: wh More...
In This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson no civil war took place and economic reasons made slavery obsolete. This results in new problems: wh More...
Apr 15, 2009
Liviu
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A quick overview of the stories as they appear:
This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by RC Wilson *****
With the same understated prose of his great sf novels like Spin, Mr Wilson posits a late 19th century US in which there was no civil war and slavery sort of withered on the vine due to public opinion and market forces, though it's still legal but rare in Southern states; but at what cost? And here it lies the crux of this powerful novel More...
This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by RC Wilson *****
With the same understated prose of his great sf novels like Spin, Mr Wilson posits a late 19th century US in which there was no civil war and slavery sort of withered on the vine due to public opinion and market forces, though it's still legal but rare in Southern states; but at what cost? And here it lies the crux of this powerful novel More...
Feb 12, 2012
Ronald
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Alternate history is a genre of fiction consisting of worlds in which history turned out differently from our own. Alternate history might have science fiction elements, or even fantasy elements, but it need not have it.
In this collection, there were three stories I didn't care for, two which were outstanding, and the rest were worth reading. The book is worth buying for the two outstanding works alone.
One outstanding work is the short story, "This Peaceable Land; or, More...
In this collection, there were three stories I didn't care for, two which were outstanding, and the rest were worth reading. The book is worth buying for the two outstanding works alone.
One outstanding work is the short story, "This Peaceable Land; or, More...
Mar 18, 2011
Shawn
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Books of short stories are always a grab bag -- you never exactly know what you are going to get. This book of "what if" alternate histories has some real stinkers (I won't name names) but tucked within the stinkers are a couple of gems, and that's the reason (at least for me) that books of short stories exist. First skip right ahead to Liz Willaims "Winterborn" about a Elizabethan fairy queen in an alternate Renaissance London; also Jeff VanderMeer's disturbing "Goat
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Jul 15, 2011
Kelly
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I wanted to read this book for years, it embraced a hope/dream I had had for many years, to read of-since I cannot actually cross to an alternate earth and see it- a world where the Europeans hadn't taken over North America. A world where we hadn't made such fundamentally detrimental mistakes throughout history.
To see that many of my favorite authors, and Jay Lake(one of my literary heroes) had the same thought, but also had the talent to bring these worlds to life, and to show us that al More...
To see that many of my favorite authors, and Jay Lake(one of my literary heroes) had the same thought, but also had the talent to bring these worlds to life, and to show us that al More...
Mar 20, 2010
Joshua
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Before I begin, I just want to say that this anthology has, so far, been the best DAW anthology I’ve read. The stories were all consistently good and engrossing, drawing me in and holding me in each alternate reality. Kudos to the editors, Nick Gevers & Jay Lake, for putting such a stellar anthology together, and kudos to the writers for coming up with such interesting alternate Earths. I’ve indicated the two stories I thought were the strongest, but of course that’s my personal opinion. It
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May 04, 2011
Jeanette
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It's a book of short stories by different authors. I only liked a few of the stories. I like stuff that talks directly about different dimensions. I didn't care for the story that had sex and drugs in it.
I liked this quote by Lucius Sheppard: "All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end. Life disappoints us. Love fails to last. This has always been so..."
I liked this quote by Lucius Sheppard: "All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end. Life disappoints us. Love fails to last. This has always been so..."
Dec 11, 2009
Richard
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It's a short story collection; variable quality, natch. Some nice stuff though (I personally liked the Lucius Shepherd.)
Nov 03, 2010
Anthology of short stories with an alternate/alternative history theme.
Read the full review here: http://speculativebookreview.blogspot.co...
Read the full review here: http://speculativebookreview.blogspot.co...
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