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Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781953368133
Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Author : Ian Watson,Ian Whates
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849014281
Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist
Author : Karen Hellekson
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873386833
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.
Author : Matthew Buchholz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780698139176
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.
Author : John Higgs
Publisher : Signal
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771038488
The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art and culture. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, postmodernism, chaos maths, and the Somme. This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture. Its cast includes well-known geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, and Pablo Picasso, lesser known geniuses like Edward Lorenz, Sergey Korolyov, or Shigeru Miyamoto, and infamous but influential ne'er-do-wells like Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley and Keith Richards. In this company we take a tour through ideas as strange as general relativity, DNA, the subconscious, Gaia theory, and Dada. In this brilliantly written and original book, John Higgs explores, with great clarity and wit, the extremes of twentieth century thought, and in doing so shows how a world of empires became a world of individuals. You will never see the twentieth century in the same way again.
Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623567408
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594202052
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897609
With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. . . . “A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been—one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power—and even love—in this bold New World. “Exceptional and engrossing.”—New York Post “Ambitious . . . ingenious.”—Newsday
Author : Glyn Morgan,Charul Palmer-Patel
Publisher : Liverpool Science Fiction Text
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789620139
Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the writings of ancient Rome, alternate history matured into something close to its current form in the essays and novels of the nineteenth century. In more recent years a number of highly acclaimed novels have been published as alternate histories, by authors ranging from bestselling science fiction writers to Pulitzer prize-winning literary icons. The popularity of the genre is reflected in its success on television, where original concepts have been developed alongside adaptations of classic texts such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. This collection of essays, by both leading scholars in the field and rising stars, seeks to redress an imbalance between the importance and quality of alternate history texts and the available critical scholarship on the genre. The essays acknowledge the long and distinctive history of alternate history whilst also revelling in its vitality, adaptability, and contemporary relevance.
Author : Jack Whyte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143197645
Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot Publius Varrus is a veteran Roman officer and a maker of swords. In the early fifth century, amid the violent struggles between the people of Britain and the invading Saxons, Picts and Scots, he and his former general, Caius Britannicus, forge the government and military system that will become known as the Round Table, and initiate a chain of events that will lead to the coronation of the High King we know today as Arthur. Rich in historical detail, brimming with drama, intrigue and passion, The Skystone gives new resonance to an enduring and powerful legend.
Author : Christian Bullock
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359358359
From the Babylonian Mystery School comes a glaring attempt at reconstructing the History of Mankind. The Short Book: An Alternative History, is one that should not be over looked as it describes in detail what was and is known by the Babylonian Priest Caste. In it are the extended History of the People from Nibiru, the Anunnaki, as well as the History of the Wild Men, and also the History of Civilized Man. It all started on another Planet in our Solar System. Where Men-like People first came from and brought with them, to Earth, the Means to Create Civilizations and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Short Book: An Alternative History, is by no means the End All Be All... But it is a Beginning to where we came from... A true Alternative to what Mainstream Society at large has come to teach us. Now for the very first time revealed in a Short Form so that it can clearly be examined and talked about openly by the Public or those who simply want Answers...
Author : Connie Wilkins
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590211342
For as long as there's been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. Wilkins, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, assembles 14 stories that span the centuries--from ancient times to the Renaissance to the modern era.
Author : Graeme Shimmin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448171637
‘I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a knife in their heart – it’s not for me. Too much empathy, that’s my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different . . . ‘ The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany. In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a force far beyond their understanding. Into this arena steps a nameless British assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests on a single kill in the morning . . .
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher : J-Views Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912605600
An alternative history in which the American Civil War was never fought, and the Confederates form an alliance with the rising National Socialist German Workers' Party. The massive Zeppelin Bismarck crosses the Atlantic with a gift to seal the treaty.
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher : J-Views Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912605481
Set in an alternative timeline, but not too far removed from our own, Lieutenant Brian Finch-Malloy of the British Army, and Kolinski of the Bolsheviks race to gain control of the fantastic secret weapons developed by Imperial Russia.