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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
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...)
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I like reading about people in the world I live in and alternate history, like fantasy, just isn't about that. I guess in some sense it's true that reading is escape but for me it's a lot more than that. Fantasy, including alternate history, seems like it's just escape; a way out.
I have no problem with others enjoying it. I'm not interested though.
Barry