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Originally Posted by drofgnal
I DO NOT call alternate history books historical fiction, I leave them with the fantasy/sci-fi genre they are sold with and don't touch them.
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Why won't you touch them? I really love to read them, as they set your mind going on what could have happened, how small that thing was, that made something happen the way it did.
A good Alternate History book writer will have studies the past as well as a true history book writer. I don't care for books that are so unrealistic (the George Washington fighting aliens example mentioned before), but books that change a tiny bit of important history: what if not Lawrence had had TBC, but George Washington? A tiny difference that could have had major repercussions (I'm no historian, sp I'm not going to speculate...)