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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Simply in SF/Fantasy, I've watched Alternate History become almost a full-fledged genre of its own, with a good argument to be made that some of it isn't really SF, as it has none of the tropes: simply an underlying assumption that things happened differently than the history we know.
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My ex, Jo Walton, has written two (with a third on the way) brilliant AH novels, Farthing, and Ha'penny, which have been getting rave reviews and oodles of award nominations in the US, where they're published by Tor. They're set in an alternate 1940s where Britain made peace with Hitler in 1941, and written in the style of period murder mysteries (with added creeping fascism!). But despite the fact that they're set in Britain, and have a very British feel to them (Jo's British, now living in Canada), she can't get a British publisher. The SF publishers say they're not SF enough, the mystery publishers say they're too SF, the mainstream publishers won't touch a genre writer. I've recommended them to lots of people who don't read SF and they've all come back praising them to the skies, but the publishers over here seem so locked into their genre subdivisions that they daren't publish something that doesn't fit their neat categories.
