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"Against All Odds" an alternate history novel.
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<blockquote data-quote="Miran_Eitan" data-source="post: 128234" data-attributes="member: 4189"><p>Alt History is kind of a touchy subject. People love to do it in Sci-Fi as it makes for an easy cop-out when it comes to world design. When you have great writers like Jack McDevitt, Robert Heinlienn and even Tom Clancy, who go out and make these massive universes that most of their books conform to, it's hard to match up with something like that. Tolkien is a great example as well. </p><p></p><p>I've never really taken Alt History with much respect after I read through "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Guns of the South was like an 80s movie turned into a book. Originally it was a short story and they worked to try and lengthen it into a novel. Felt too patched together for my tastes.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, if you don't have much in the way of writing experience, starting out with alt history is as good of a place as any I suppose. The Cold War is kind of an interesting subject idea however. 1986 is when the cold war really started to close, not the middle. The middle was around the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. That was probably the closest we were to an actual war.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miran_Eitan, post: 128234, member: 4189"] Alt History is kind of a touchy subject. People love to do it in Sci-Fi as it makes for an easy cop-out when it comes to world design. When you have great writers like Jack McDevitt, Robert Heinlienn and even Tom Clancy, who go out and make these massive universes that most of their books conform to, it's hard to match up with something like that. Tolkien is a great example as well. I've never really taken Alt History with much respect after I read through "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Guns of the South was like an 80s movie turned into a book. Originally it was a short story and they worked to try and lengthen it into a novel. Felt too patched together for my tastes. Anyway, if you don't have much in the way of writing experience, starting out with alt history is as good of a place as any I suppose. The Cold War is kind of an interesting subject idea however. 1986 is when the cold war really started to close, not the middle. The middle was around the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. That was probably the closest we were to an actual war. [/QUOTE]
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