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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 26, 2023 8:56:15 GMT
Recently I discovered that this AH book is available online. Not pirated, but on archive.org, so I'd say it's legit.
It's certainly a new approach to the famous topic. And I took the freedom to use "Oily-Moily" (the favorite band of the main character) in my Chaos TL. (Appropriately, it's popular among gaysexuals.)
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Post by lordroel on Feb 26, 2023 9:15:06 GMT
Recently I discovered that this AH book is available online. Not pirated, but on archive.org, so I'd say it's legit. It's certainly a new approach to the famous topic. And I took the freedom to use "Oily-Moily" (the favorite band of the main character) in my Chaos TL. (Appropriately, it's popular among gaysexuals.) A lets poising a well and kill Hitler before he is born and thus a more capable German takes over and takes over the world. Yes i have read to novel as well. Wich comes to this: The philosophical problem of killing baby Hitler, explained |
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 26, 2023 13:53:30 GMT
As a novel, it is entertainingly Fry. As an AH, it is extremely contrived and comes at things from a quite mainstream view.
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Post by Max Sinister on Mar 4, 2023 11:50:17 GMT
As a novel, it is entertainingly Fry. As an AH, it is extremely contrived and comes at things from a quite mainstream view. Well, yeah... but let's not forget that we need the mainstream AH too, as entry for our hobby. So I'm OK with it.
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Post by simon darkshade on Mar 4, 2023 12:51:46 GMT
The book is 27 years old. There are far better mainstream entry points into the genre of alternate history that have been written in that time that contain more...history.
Fry is many things as a writer, but always goes back to his frequent themes, stamping grounds and hobby horses - each of his four novels is focused around an Oxbridge dwelling or bound public schoolboy/former public schoolboy and are markedly sexually explicit. Indeed, he often ends up writing the same story - his own. As an entry point to a genre, Making History isn't the most accessible in style, themes or content. To be frank, the book is extremely contrived to fit his particular world view.
At its heart, it is an entry point, but a fairly obscure and formulaic one at the same time.
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Post by Max Sinister on Mar 4, 2023 13:24:58 GMT
The book is 27 years old. There are far better mainstream entry points into the genre of alternate history that have been written in that time that contain more...history. Fry is many things as a writer, but always goes back to his frequent themes, stamping grounds and hobby horses - each of his four novels is focused around an Oxbridge dwelling or bound public schoolboy/former public schoolboy and are markedly sexually explicit. Indeed, he often ends up writing the same story - his own. As an entry point to a genre, Making History isn't the most accessible in style, themes or content. To be frank, the book is extremely contrived to fit his particular world view. At its heart, it is an entry point, but a fairly obscure and formulaic one at the same time.
So far, "Making History" is the only book by him I read, because of the topic. No need to read the other ones, so I didn't have the feeling "Again..."
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