Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:44:49 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: President Lindbergh?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>strongl at sddc.army.mil 03/18/04 02:01PM
>    "Sounds like a fluke."  Obviously, Ernest Lilley has worked with =
my
>organization before.  Tuesday, a computer fix caused the computer window =
to
>shift about 3 centimeters to the left... which made using buttons located =
on
>the left side of the screen, umm... interesting.  In any event, I tried
>President Lindbergh again and this time reached the 1940s.
>    The buzz on the book in question doesn't really provide much
>information about the book.  I recap the review as "Wow!  Someone wrote a
>book with political implications during an election year!  What a =
startling
>innovation!"

Ah, but because it's written by a major literary talent, it ain't no =
scruffy, low life,  sci-fi alternate history novel.

It's a counterfactual novel.

More here: <http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AHnytArticle.htm>-
Warning: academics at work!

& I think the Prologue of Keith Robert's "Pavane" is a masterful opening =
to a great book.

mjw