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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15. "Fatherland" is premised on idea Holocaust was kept secret so vast majority of Germans in 1964 alternative world don't know about it.
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16. "Fatherland" based on one strand of histriography of Nazism, but that premise has been challenged by more recent work.
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17. If we accept argument by some historians that knowledge of Holocaust widely shared in Nazi Europe, what becomes of "Fatherland"?
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18. Why are alternative history novels considered part of science fiction, even if not set in future & featuring no technology?
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19. One explanation is that time-travel (creating new timelines) & parallel worlds are scientific concepts, so alternative history is s.f.
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20. As per Darko Suvin, science fiction involves "cognitive estrangement" based on novum. Alternative history falls into that definition.
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21. More radically, I want to argue modern science fiction and modern historical thinking were born at the same moment, 18th/19th century
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