Uchronias. (was: Question of plausibility in Small Rain.)

[Dave Monroe]

Spoiler alert?  Well, I read it as a sort of alternate
history, or, perhaps more precisely, alternate
historical (allohistorical) fantasy (flying carpets et
al.), where Russia colonized North America rather
than, well, everybody else.  Something like that ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Since I'm not yet far enough along w/ *Ada* I can't
> say whether it's intended to be a "Uchronia" ...

The Difference Engine's a favorite, but I tend to read
for the world, not the story, so ... 

> Another "uchronia" I read a few years ago was *The
> Difference Engine* by William Gibson and Bruce
> Sterling.  Fun to read, again for the flavor of the
> world thus projected, but here the story is second
> to the world.
> 
>
http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=gibsdiffer

For an allohistorical, counterfactual, whetever,
textbook on the order of a Tlonian encyclopedia, see,
e.g., Robert Sobel, For Want of a Nail ...

http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=sobeforwan

Me, I think Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High
Castle is the masterpiece of the genre, but ...

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