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William Gaddis's The Recognitions, which is perhaps best understood as a proto-magical-realist intersection between the "real" postwar literary New York City and an alternate-history version of it
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Creators | Writer Arvid Nelson and his alternate-history comic Rex Mundi get a sizable spotlight from The Times, with a focus on the approaching end of the 10-year-old series, Nelson's split with co-creator EricJ, and the planned film adaptation.
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The Fog Fall 2 is the sequel to the alternate-history Cuban Missile Crisis-era thriller.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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My whole book Lost Pages, for instance, engages very specifically a dozen or so authors by doing alternate-history homages to them.
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? 2009
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Congrats to aliettedb for her sale of her Chinese alternate-history story "In the Time of Transcendence" (title subject to change) to Sheila at Asimov's.
Good things! marshallpayne1 2009
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However, it was The Guns of the South which turned me into a solid Turtledove fan, and this was only partially for the delightful alternate-history story which that book contained.
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To date, I've written (I think) four stories set in Cherry Creek, Colorado (an alternate-history, steampunk version of Denver).
Or whatever. corucia 2009
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The "Alvin Maker" books six so far, begun in 1987 are set in an "alternate-history," frontier America where folk magic still works.
Orson Scott Card's Three-Decade Run Tom Shippey 2011
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I have been heard to describe Bridge of Dreams and River of the World as alternate-history stories, as told in Outremer (which is itself, of course, a fantasy kingdom).
kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF kateelliott 2009
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There's also a story of The Change called "A Murder in Eddsford" in Lou Anders 'alternate-history/mystery anthology Sideways in Crime (reviewed here).
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