Fiction updates
A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…
Tag: alternate history
Review of “Red Inferno”, Robert Conroy, SF Site 2010
My first SF Site review, and continuing the theme of alternate history. Conroy’s work is much more straightforwardly alternate history than Owen Sheers’ Resistance , and a much less impressive literary work,…
Review of “Resistance” by Owen Sheers. Alt Hist blog. Sept 2012
All historical fiction is in some way “alternate history” fiction. As a genre however, alternate history is explicitly counterfactual. “Alt hist”, with its echoes of “alt country”, for me…
Jorge Luis Borges, Ireland, and Historical Fiction. Alt Hist, September 9th 2012
With a less than enticing opening line (“The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the key figures in world literature during the twentieth century.”), this piece seems…
Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014
I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…
Alt Kafka: Franz Kafka and Alternate History. Blog post on Alt Hist site, March 13, 2013
The original post is subtitled “Franz Kafka in Alternate History”. Re-reading the post I wonder if “and” is more precise, although as the bulk of the piece is a review…
Dublin Can Be Heaven. Alt Hist 3.
Earlier this week I received word that a short story of mine has been accepted by Alt Hist , a wonderful magazine of historical fiction and alternate history short stories. A…
“Dublin Can Be Heaven”, Alt Hist. December 2011
This is my first fiction piece published outside of nthposition.com. I gave the background to the piece in an interview with Alt Hist’s editor Mark Lord you can read here . The…
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