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Reprint: The Fall of Frenchy Steiner

29 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by Paul Kincaid in science fiction

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Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Hilary Bailey, Keith Roberts, Len Deighton, Martin H. Greenberg, Owen Sheers, Philip K. Dick, Robert Harris

This is another of my In Short columns. It appeared in Vector 285, Spring 2017: Continue reading →

Reprint: The Legions of Fire

26 Thursday Mar 2015

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Agatha Christie, David Drake, Lindsay Davies, mary renault, Robert Graves, Robert Harris, Stephen Saylor

This was a review of a novel by David Drake that I wrote for BullSpec 3, Autumn 2010.

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Reprint: Alternate History

07 Monday Oct 2013

Posted by Paul Kincaid in science fiction

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A.J.P. Taylor, Bruce Sterling, G.K. Chesterton, G.M. Trevelyan, Harold Nicolson, Harry Harrison, Harry Turtledove, Hilaire Belloc, Hilary Bailey, J.C. Squire, Keith Roberts, Kingsley Amis, L. Sprague De Camp, Len Deighton, Lisa Tuttle, MacKinlay Kantor, Martin Cruz Smith, Philip K. Dick, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Harris, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Vladimir Nabokov, Ward Moore, William Gibson, William L. Shirer, Winston Churchill

Someone asked for more of my Cognitive Mapping columns, so here’s another one. In fact, this is the first one I wrote. It appeared in Vector 186 (December 1995). To be honest, I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the term ‘alternate history’, one cannot help feeling that grammatically it ought to be ‘alternative’, but usage means we are stuck with it. As a sub-genre, however, it is one of my favourites. Continue reading →

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