2. Yesterday I went to lecture by Nicholas Ruddick on "Swastika Nightmares: Hitler Victorious in Science Fiction"
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3. Idea of alternative history emerged out of academic history: G. M. Trevelyan & others using counterfactuals to make pedagogical points
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4. Winston Churchill wrote alternative history fiction: a story imagining world where Lee won Gettysburg. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/2615-qif-lee-had-not-won-the-battle-of-gettysburgq …
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5. Science fiction imagining Hitler winning World War II actually pre-date the War. Katharine Burdekin's 1937 novel Swastika Night
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6. Burdekin's novel, set 700 years in future, imagines dystopian world where Hitler regarded as a Wagnarian God & Nazis rule world.
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7. Burdekin's novel was feminist: future Nazi dystopia, having killed Jews, Roma, etc. now bent on eradicating women as autonomous group.
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8. In Burdekin's novel, future Nazi state similar to ancient Sparta in deep misogyny: men's chief emotional relationship with other men.
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9. Burdekin's novel shows one use of alternative history: as dystopian satire calling attention to ignored aspect of reality (Nazi misogyny)
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10. Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle" uses Nazi Victorious scenario for Dickian examination of epistemology, realty breakdown.
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11. In "High Castle" world everything is false, so characters have to find truth in out of the way places (art, novel-within-novel.)
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12. Oddly enough, like hero of "High Castle", Dick himself concluded that he lived in a false "alternative reality"
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13. During Valis visions of early 1970s, Dick concluded that in real world Roman Empire never died & we're living in false simulacrum.
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14. 3rd novel discussed Robert Harris's "Fatherland" - which raises question about relationship between actual history & alternative history
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