The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

By Dr Jack Dann,

Book cover of The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

Book description

A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it.

First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann…

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1 author picked The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this book just as I was finishing writing my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles. Jack Dann's book is brimming with useful information about how masterful science fiction writers have written alternate history stories.

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