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Alternate History
Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own.
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To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.
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Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others. Sometimes I swear I could see it, glittering in the pavement, glowing between the words in a stranger's sentence, a green, impossible vision--the world as it was meant to be, like a mist around the world as it is.
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― Underground Airlines
― Underground Airlines
This group is fun way for those participating in the Marshall Public Library's annual adult read…more
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Reading books for a monthly club doesn't always work out. This book club is for sharing books yo…more
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A group for discussing alternate histories and imagined futures of humanity, and civilization.
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Each month a theme will be set with a suggested book for each age group (adult, young adult, 8-1…more
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