Tag: Alternate History
ASM Blog Horde Interview with Matt Mitrovich
Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS!
The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all...
Review: Lucy’s Blade
Lucy' Blade
John Lambshead
Baen Books
Kindle $6.83
Lucy’s Blade is a deeply frustrating book. There is a core of a very good story here; I enjoyed reading...
Pixels and Panels #2: Online Comics
Here are two web comics that feature world-building on a grand scale.
Review: The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers
Daniel Graham Jr.
Baen
The Gatekeepers was a book I eyed for some time in Forbidden Planet before actually buying it, despite the...
Review: Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett
One of the great things about being a book blogger is that you often get the chance to read books before they come out...
Review: The General’s President
The General's President
John Dalmas
Baen
The best way to look at Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders is to consider it a thought experiment into how...
My Start as a Writer and My First Published Story
Hi, my name is Matt Mitrovich.
I have been an avid reader most of my life and like most book worms I had the desire...
Commander Koenig and the Lost Planet Airmen
You could get a hernia trying to suspend your disbelief high enough for this premise.
All Aboard for Mars! A True Story
This is not fiction. Your mission, should you accept it, is to go to Mars and die there. I get a bit cynical about this sort of thing,
The Alternate History Masterpiece You’ve Never Read
Satire is no longer being written in America. It’s still on television via Saturday Night Live, South Park, and the great, unsung animation series...
Review: The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
I can't think of a better novel to start my exploration of steampunk then The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. This award-winning novel,...
Steampunk: An Overview of an Up and Coming Genre
Strap on your goggles, fire up the boiler and let's lift off toward adventure. Its time to tackle the wonderful world of steampunk!
So what...
Review: Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories
Horror and alternate history are difficult genres to mash up. You just don't see them together very often and despite my firm belief in...
Anime roundup 4/14/2013: This Will Be on the Test
A big stack of first looks this week, and then it'll be time to make decisions about what to add for the regular weekly...
Spring 2013 Anime Preview
Every three months, like clockwork, Japanese TV remakes itself. A bunch of shows end, a bunch more start, and many continuing series bring out...
In Magnificat, There’s a New Pope. And She Changes…Everything
The lead article in the Review section of the March 9 Wall Street Journal began "The next pope should be a man who..."
But, wait. Before...
Dynamo – Unsuccessful Wooing, Decrees from Rashmon & A Silent, Bearded...
If there's a recently popularized term that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, it's "webisodes." This demeaning and fun-sized determination of quality stems...
War and Dreams – Two Novels by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Kathleen Ann Goonan's In War Times, originally published in 2007, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and the ALA’s Best...
Sequential Wednesdays #2 – To Stand The Gap: The Secret Truth...
This is not how the World ends. This oft-spoken mantra, among others, repeated throughout the narrative of the Marvel comic S.H.I.E.L.D. is a tried and true...
Elementary, my dear Watson-bot 2.0!
Crime and punishment. Both words are synonymous with genre fiction. Whether it is the flashy superhero racing to stop the next crisis or the "I'm too...
E-Zines vs. Dead Tree Zines: the more things change…
I have been producing fanzines off and on since 1976, shortly after encountering science fiction fandom and this particular aspect of that hobby interest....
Dissecting Our Present: How SF Can Highlight Our Historical Bias
As Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, said in the introduction to The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, even historical memoirs...
These Fractured States: An Overview of Balkanized Americas
Adventure and excitement waits for those travelers brave enough to explore Anglo-America…
Treasure troves of colonial history await in the eastern aristocracies, but current events...
Guide to Alternate History Literature
I’m often asked to recommend a good alternate history book, but you might as well ask me to name my favorite film. My mind...
What Is Alternate History?
What is alternate history?
Not as easy question to answer. Historians have been speculating on “points of divergence” since classical times. The Roman historian Livy...