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Carregando... The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010)de Ian Watson (Editor), Ian Whates (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. As almost all anthologies this book is a mixed bag as well. But as alternative history is my favourite subgenre, I can`t really say anything bad about it. What if the Chinese conquer America? Or if the Roman Empire not falling apart? Or the Enlightement doesn`t happen in Europe? ( ) Fjöldi smásagna þar sem höfundar leika sér mannkynssöguna. Hvernig múhameðstrúin gæti breiðst yfir Evrópu, Kínverjar stofnuðu nýlendur í Ameríku á undan Spánverjum, Jesús væri ekki dæmdur til dauða, Rómaveldi héldi velli o.s.frv. Sumar sögurnar voru ansi áhugaverðar pælingar en aðrar því miður ákaflega ótrúverðugar. The Raft of the Titanic (2010) by James Morrow - delightful and slightly whimsical. Sidewinders (2010) by Ken MacLeod - imaginative and humorous. The Wandering Christian (1991) by Kim Newmanand Eugene Byrne - long-winded, dull, unimaginative. Hush My Mouth (1986) by Suzette Haden Elgin - found the premise implausible. A Letter from the Pope (1990) by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey - excellent Such a Deal (2010) by Esther M. Friesner - enjoyable with a black humour ending Ink from the New Moon (1992) by A. A. Attanasio - dull Dispatches from the Revolution (1991) by Pat Cadigan - chilling and plausible Catch That Zeppelin! (1975) by Fritz Leiber - enjoyable A Very British History (2000) by Paul J. McAuley - dull The Imitation Game (2008) by Rudy Rucker - unmemorable Weihnachtabend (1972) by Keith Roberts - unmemorable The Lucky Strike (1984) by Kim Stanley Robinson His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes (1989) by Marc Laidlaw - ok Roncesvalles (1990) by Judith Tarr - dull The English Mutiny (2008) by Ian R. MacLeod - good O One [Celestial Empire] (2003) by Chris Roberson - good Islands in the Sea (1989) by Harry Turtledove - ok Lenin in Odessa (1990) by George Zebrowski - dull, didn't finish The Einstein Gun (2010) by Pierre Gévart - ok Tales from the Venia Woods [Roma Eterna] (1989) by Robert Silverberg - excellent Manassas, Again (1991) by Gregory Benford - dull The Sleeping Serpent (1992) by Pamela Sargent - ok Waiting for the Olympians (1988) by Frederik Pohl - excellent Darwin Anathema (2010) by Stephen Baxter - ok I've always been fascinated by alternative history stories, the 'what if's' of history. What if Churchill had been hit by a car before the Second World War? What if Roosevelt hadn't had polio, what if Henry IV hadn't gone to Canossa? So I couldn't help but pick up this collection of stories and novella's of Alternate Histories. The collection was pretty good. There were some good stories in here, like one about the Roman Empire lasting to the year two thousand (having a serious effect by cancelling out the industrial revolution it seems), or the one about the crew of the Enola Gay dying before dropping the bomb and the replacement bomber refusing to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. However, reading alternate history requires knowledge about the pivotal change in the story. If I don't know the effects of the bomb on Hiroshima, or the shooting of Franz Ferdinand, it isn't interesting at all from an alternate history point of view to read about a change in this history. Then it is just a story, pretty nice, but it loses its power. This was a problem for me in several of the stories. It was still a fun collection to read, with some nice classics. Four out of five stars. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences.Praise for the editors:'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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