Comments on: World Fantasy wrap up

By: T. L. Morganfield

T. L. Morganfield — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:09:38 +0000

The antho sounds cool, Mary. I’d like to know when you guys post the guidelines too….

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:38:56 +0000

Funny… we were talking about you at World Fantasy. I’ll let you know when we post guidelines. This is likely a 2008 release.

By: Aliette de Bodard

Aliette de Bodard — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:13:57 +0000

I like the idea of the anthology–does that mean I get to dust off my alternate history and write something set in that universe ? *g*

The only con I attended was Worldcon Glasgow, where I was so overwhelmed I merely stared at people (and attended a couple of panels, all right). Number of people met was nil, which simplifies things

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:57:18 +0000

No Dave, that’s what I was looking for, but no one on the panel could come up with an example. After I left, I thought of an example too, but I still like the idea of the anthology.

By: Dave Goldman

Dave Goldman — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:39:17 +0000

I asked if anyone had every done a SF story with an alternate history deep story. You know, like, what would space look like if Lincoln hadnâ€™t been shot?

Doesn’t sound that unusual to me. For example, I’m just this evening happening to be reading a John Barnes novel in which Boris Yeltsin does something just slightly different in August 1991, and the next two hundred years proceeds in rather ugly directions.

Then there’s Leiber’s “Catch That Zeppelin!” where Zeppelins ply the skies of 1973 New York. And, I’m pretty sure, many other examples.

Or am I confused about what you’re looking for?