Category Archives: Alternate History

Cover image Our Shared Storm by Andrew Dana Hudson

Our Shared Futures

Can climate fiction help us see our way through the maze of possible futures we face? Can it help us move forward from our present ...
The Only Harmless Great Thing cover

Elephants and Radium Girls

In The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander has taken on two strange and disturbing events from the early 20th century: the willfully negligent poisoning of ...
A 19th-century stone carved angel in a cemetery

American Bardo

As I read George Saunders’ daring first novel Lincoln in the Bardo recently, I was struck by its strangely close parallels with another memorable and ...
An Alternate History reading list for this moment

An Alternate History reading list for this moment

Are we living in an alternate branch of history? I’ve been asking myself that question since waking up the morning of November 9, with the ...