Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:37:51 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Something for Alt History Fans on the lists
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 01:21 PM 10/23/2006, Michael Walsh wrote:
>http://tinyurl.com/yfcn49

Or for book lovers.  Or even WSFAns.

Challenge: figure out why WSFAns might be interested.

Two alternate histories that share a point of departure, the flight of
Hitler's deputy führer Rudolf Hess to Scotland, on May 10, 1941, have
recently been published in the United States. They're both by writers with
greater literary gifts than are usual in this genre, and both are set
downstream from that point of departure. Christopher Priest's The
Separation (Old Earth Books, $25) is set in an alternate present, Jo
Walton's Farthing (Tor Books, $25.95) in an alternate 1949. The Separation
was first published in 2002, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British
Science Fiction Award, and was a finalist for the Sideways Award for the
best alternate history. Late in 2005 it was published in this country by
Old Earth Books.

(Reviewed in AmericanHeritage.com)

I'll tabulate the guesses and let people know the results.

Elspeth