Time travel is always a complicated proposition. It’s easy to imagine the chaos that would result if someone was able to just flit back into the past and change things, or soar into the future and return with stock tips or laser weapons. That’s why most time travel stories focus on the challenges—should you kill […]
Let’s harken back to a less complicated time, a time when fantasy books didn’t have to be dark and gloomy, or meta-commentaries, or genre riffs. A time when the world was…well, it wasn’t actually much simpler. Fine: 1968. Let’s harken back to 1968, when L. Sprague de Camp published The Goblin Tower, the first book […]
Plenty of alternate histories concern themselves with war and its aftermath. Philip K. Dick’s seminal example of the genre, The Man in the High Castle, deals with that age-old question, what if the Axis powers won the Second World War? There are alternate histories of the American Civil War—North America fractured into North and South and […]
