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• What if Gore Had Won?

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 141
  What if Gore Had Won? : newsweek : This week, we’re playing the alternate history game, in which we ask three writers to write the history of the last 10 years if the Supreme Court had decided differently in Bush v. Gore. (Here we must admit that, as great as these three pieces are, none come close to the ...
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• Alexandria

  
  A Garden Carried in the Pocket — Authority: 126
   Davis, Lindsey.  Alexandria:  A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. While not one of my favorite Falco mysteries, the information about Alexandria and the great Library was fascinating. Falco and Helena, along with their children and Falcos brother-in-law, are visiting Falcos uncle in Alexandria, Egypt.  On their ...
  2 days ago

• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith: D-

  
  Soliloquy in Blue — Authority: 493
  From the back cover: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a ...
  4 days ago

• Alternate History

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 485
  Via SEK , John Wilkins speculates on a world without Darwin .
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• Nova Science Fiction #24, November 2009… (Now Available!)

  
  Lawrence Dagstine: Speculative Fiction Author — Authority: 110
  I’m pleased to announce that the 24th issue of NOVA SF is now available.  Ten years publishing! This would mark my fifth appearance with the Hard SF and Christian SF publication.  I’ll have another story with them sometime in late spring 2010.  According to the recent Novel & Short Story Writer’s ...
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• Lit. Angels Holiday Guide

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 582
  There’s a lot of great new books this year to check out for the holidays.  Some of them are continuations in specific series, and we’ll let you know which ones in our recommendations.  If you think we left out an important recommendation, leave a comment and let us know! For Kids Title: The Evolution of ...
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• New Releases: Triumff: Her Majestys Hero by Dan Abnett

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 124
  Triumff: Her Majestys Hero takes place in a goofy alternate reality, in which the merged British & Spanish Empires rule the world. Magic has precluded any use of technology, Elizabethan culture still prevails and Shakespeare (or pornographic updates thereof) is still on stage.  The book stars Sir Rupert ...
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• Pity about Jeff Lynne, though…

  
  Sore Eyes — Authority: 136
  The best comment on MightyGodKing’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, downright awesome Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer came from MarvinAndroid: MarvinAndoid said on November 11th, 2009 at 2:16 am I think Douglas Adams would appreciate this, and ...
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• Wednesday Night

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 485
  Wednesday night, post-Zizek-lecture links. * President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team , pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration ...
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• Connie Wills: To Say Nothing of the Dog or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird stump at Last

  
  Mervi's Book reviews — Authority: 119
  Part of my 2nds challenge. I’ve only read the Doomsday book from Willis before. What a great book! It combines comedy, time travel, Victorian times, theories about history, detective novels, romance, and lots more. Ned Henry is an Oxford historian who has done too many time jumps between 1940s and the current day ...
  3 weeks ago

• In a Terrifying Alternate Universe, Vice President Sarah Palin Claims Victory [Alternate History]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  On election night, Sarah Palin threatened to "go rogue" by delivering a speech someone else wrote for her, but John McCain refused so she didnt. Now you can read the addresses — both concession and victory — she wouldve given. The Daily Beast has an excerpt from Sarah from Alaska , a new Palin bio , with ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Novel Writing Month Has Begun!

  
  Lisa Leibow's Fodder for Fiction — Authority: 104
  Today marks the first day of National Novel Writing Month. Its the event that taught me to write drunk, revise sober. I started another new first draft, an alternate history story that has been percolating for a while, but is not fully developed. This is a month to explore my idea unfettered with expectations of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: Darkness Be My Friend by John Mardsen

  
  Beth Fish Reads — Authority: 587
  Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden. Its a particularly interesting entry because Marsden originally planned to write a trilogy. This novel, however, does not feel as if it were tacked on as an afterthought. The story flows smoothly and believably. I reviewed the second and ...
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• Kage Baker: Sky Coyote

  
  Mervi's Book reviews — Authority: 119
  The second book in the Company –series and part of my 2nds challenge. This time the main character is Joseph who is one of the oldest immortals around. He was made into an immortal in the Stone Age. The previous book’s main character, Mendoza, is a secondary character here. Joseph has been assigned among the ...
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• The Value of Alternate History

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 131
  The Confederate States of AmericaThis mockumentary presents itself as a San Fransisco-Area television broadcast of a formerly-banned BBC (renamed the “BBS”) documentary about the C.S.A.  The idea is that the Confederate ambassador to France and England persuaded them to enter the war on behalf of the south and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Alfred and Emily-Doris Lessing

  
  The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews — Authority: 151
  Alfred and Emily Doris Lessing Harper, Oct 2009, $14.99 ISBN: 9780060834890 “Alfred and Emily: A Novella”.  Alfred Taylor is a farmer who becomes affluent and marries a warm caring local.  Ignoring the rage of her father, Emily McVeagh leaves town and goes to London where she becomes a nurse who marries ...
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• Book News and Views

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 107
  Once again, I present a bevy of reading- and writing-related links for your weekend perusing pleasure. Are you a writer stuck for a plot twist? Here are 43 essential third-act twists . I am partial to “all the butlers did it.” (Dresdan Codak) Here is Where is a blog about forgotten important places in ...
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