Category Archives: Alternate History
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...