For this episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the distinguished novelist, editor, and scholar Jack Dann, whose new The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Jack discusses definitions of alternate history (as opposed to secret history or parallel universes), his own work in developing his da Vinci novel The Memory Cathedral and his more recent Shadows in the Stone, the responsibilities of the alternate history writer, some key writers and texts, and some recent trends in alternate history fiction.
Episode 263: Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Episode 262: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Charlie Jane Anders in Saratoga
Episode 261: Gene Wolfe, John Clute and A Borrowed Man
Episode 260: The Best of the Year with Charlie Jane Anders and Nisi Shawl
Episode 259: The Best of the Year with Paul Kincaid and Adam Roberts
Episode 258: Jim Minz and Baen Books
Episode 257: The end of the year approaches
Episode 256: Suzy McKee Charnas and Pamela Sargent
Episode 255: Eleanor Arnason, Linda Nagata and Women in Science Fiction
Episode 254: Meeting Infinity and Losing the Alien
Episode 253: SF Lectures, The Martian and more
Episode 252: Cecelia Holland and Dragon Heart
Episode 251: Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Women in Science Fiction
Stories by Waldrop, Klages and Shepard
Episode 250: Forthcoming books with Liza Trombi
Jonathan on Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown
Episode 249: Zen Cho and Sorcerer to the Crown
Jonathan on Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora
Limekiller by Avram Davidson
Episode 248: Spokane, Hugo Awards and the Future
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