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I read this book just as I was finishing writing my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles. Jack Dann's book is brimming with useful information about how masterful science fiction writers have written alternate history stories.
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…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
In addition to being an author, I'm also a singer-songwriter, with two albums released. I loved the way The Singer Sisters told a story across decades about two sisters who sang the folk songs they wrote.
