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Alternate Histories of the World

Author : Matthew Buchholz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698139178
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Alternate Histories of the World written by Matthew Buchholz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection of maps, photographs, engravings and paintings from the early ages to modern day provides a stunning new look at the world as defined by our struggles and alliances with the monsters and supernatural creatures that have defined our existence. Learn how a mechanical man helped write America’s Declaration of Independence. Track the course of the Living Dead virus from Africa to Europe and on to the New World. View artifacts from our uneasy alliance with the Martian race, or simply delight in the vibrant colors and illustrations from a bygone age. More than 100 full-color images and insightful essays make this book an essential addition to the libraries of dedicated historians as well as casual fans of monsters and mayhem.

Alternate History

Author : Kathleen Singles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110272474
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Alternate History written by Kathleen Singles and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

Author : Jack Dann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350351377
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History by : Jack Dann

Download or read book The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History written by Jack Dann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create recognizable 'divergent points' and how to employ paratextual elements and 'layering' to overcome readers' unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures. Alongside this, Dann takes you step-by-step through a complete short story to demonstrate, line-by-line, how alternative history fiction works. As well as Dann's exacting methodology for writing professional quality alternate history stories, this book also features a live-on-the-page Q&A with some of the most esteemed alternate history writers working today, including Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein among many others, who will detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies. Combining extensive and deep knowledge of the field with accessible writing advice, this is the ultimate guidebook to the broad and complex sub-genre of counterfactual and alterative history fiction.

Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction

Author : Pei-chen Liao
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030524922
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction by : Pei-chen Liao

Download or read book Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction written by Pei-chen Liao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers’ reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans’ stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that the novels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.

The Alternate History

Author : Karen Hellekson
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386838
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Alternate History written by Karen Hellekson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

Author : Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350281646
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions by : Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas

Download or read book The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions written by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters look into the question of chance versus determinism in the unfolding of historical events, the role individuals play in shaping a society or occasion, and the way art and literature symbolise important messages in counterfactual histories. They also show how uchronic narratives can take advantage of modern literary techniques to reveal new and relevant aspects of the past, giving voices to marginalised minorities and suppressed individuals of the ancient world. Counterfactual fiction and uchronic narratives have been largely up until now the domain of literary critics. However, these modes of literature are here analysed by scholars of Ancient History, Egyptology and Classics, shedding important new light on how cultures of the ancient world have been (and still are) perceived, and to what extent our conceptions of the past are used to explore alternate presents and futures. Alternate history entices the imagination of the public by suggesting hypothetical scenarios that never occurred, underlining a latent tension between reality and imagination, and between determinism and contingency. This interest has resulted in a growing number of publications that gauge the impact of what-if narratives, and this one is the first to give scholars of the ancient world centre-stage.

Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader

Author : Derek Thiess
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196189
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader by : Derek Thiess

Download or read book Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader written by Derek Thiess and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events. While the science fiction alternate history means to illuminate the past, to increase our understanding of past events, however, the postmodern approach to history typically suggests that such understanding is impossible. To the postmodern philosopher, history is like literature in that it does not offer the reader access to the past, but only an interesting story. Building on criticism that suggests personal psychological reasons for this obscuring the past, and using a literary theory of readership, this book challenges the postmodern approach to history. It channels the speculative power of science fiction to read the works of postmodern philosophy of history as alternate histories themselves, and to map the limits and pathology of their forgetful reading of the past.

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : Ben Carver
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137573341
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature by : Ben Carver

Download or read book Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature written by Ben Carver and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that “discovered” improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The “untimely” imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.

Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur

Author : Rebecca Merkelbach
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846667
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur written by Rebecca Merkelbach and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, have hitherto received little scholarly attention. Previous generations of critics have unfavourably compared them to "classical" Íslendingasögur and fornaldarsögur, leading modern audiences to project their expectations onto narratives that do not adhere to simple taxonomies and preconceived notions of genre. As "rogues" within the canon, they challenge the established notions of what makes an Íslendingasaga. Based on a critical appraisal of conceptualisations of canon and genre in saga literature, this book offers a new reading of the relationship between the individual, paranormal, and social dimensions that form the foundation of these sagas. It draws on a multidisciplinary approach, informed by perspectives as diverse as "possible worlds" theory, gender studies, and social history. The "post-classical" sagas are not only read anew and integrated into both their generic and socio-historical context; they are met on their own terms, allowing their fascinating narratives to speak for themselves.

What If . . . Book of Alternative History

Author : Jeff Greenfield
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1637412584
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book What If . . . Book of Alternative History written by Jeff Greenfield and published by Fox Chapel Publishing+ORM. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of history has taken many turns. What would the world be like if events had happened differently? What if JFK had never visited Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Germany had won the First World War? How would life be different in America if the Southern states had beaten the North? What would a world without The Beatles sound like? Find out the potential answers to all these questions and many more in What If...:Book of Alternative History.With great full-color photos and compelling narratives, historical experts take a look at these and many more intriguing questions in this fascinating look at what might have been. Perfect for browsing, this title will have readers speculating on the events and people that shaped history and make our lives what they are today.

History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia

Author : Konstantin Sheiko
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838265653
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia by : Konstantin Sheiko

Download or read book History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia written by Konstantin Sheiko and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing book explores the delusional imaginings of Russia's past by the pseudo-scientific 'Alternative History' movement. Despite the chaotic collapse of two empires in the last century, Russia's glorious imperial past continues to inspire millions. The lively movement of 'Alternative History', diligently re-writing Russia's past and 'rediscovering' its hidden greatness, has been growing dramatically since the collapse of Communism in 1991. Virtually unknown in the West, these pseudo-historians have published best-selling books, attracted widespread media attention, and are a prominent voice in Internet discussions about Russian and world history. Alternative History claims that Russia is much older than Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome; that the medieval Mongol Empire was in fact a Slav-Turk world empire; and that, in the twentieth century, duplicitous foreign powers stabbed Russia in the back and stole its empire. For its followers the key to Russia's greatness in the future lies in ensuring that Russians understand the true wealth of their past. Alternative history has become a popular therapy for Russians still coming to terms with the reality of Post-Soviet life. It is one of the forces shaping a new Russian nationalism and an important factor in the geopolitics of the twenty-first century.

Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Author : Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359197906
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy by : Paul S. MacDonald

Download or read book Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy written by Paul S. MacDonald and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.

FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES

Author :
Publisher : biblioteca24horas
ISBN 13 : 8578935691
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book FASHODA - ALTERNATE HISTORY TALES written by and published by biblioteca24horas. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893

Author : Rossiter Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893 written by Rossiter Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Divisions and Alien Territories

Author : Keith Brooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230360270
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Strange Divisions and Alien Territories written by Keith Brooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Divisions and Alien Territories explores the sub-genres of science fiction from the perspectives of a range of top SF authors. Combining a critical viewpoint with the exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing authors working in the field, contributors include Michael Swanwick, Catherine Asaro and Paul di Filippo.

History of the World's Fair

Author : Benjamin Cummings Truman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of the World's Fair written by Benjamin Cummings Truman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today

Author : Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630585
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today by : Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay

Download or read book Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today written by Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000. Since then, a key theme has been: what happens when the future no one anticipated arrives faster than anyone expected? Focusing on 21st century independent science fiction films, the author describes a seismic shift in subject matter as society moves into a new technological age. Independent films since the millennium are more daring, incisive and even plausible in their depiction of possible futures than blockbuster films of the same period. Twenty-one chapters break down today's subgenres, featuring interviews with the filmmakers who created them.