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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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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22. Of course there were historical chronicles before 18th century as well as lots of proto-science fiction (Lucien, Donne, Milton, Kepler)
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@HeerJeet Aha. Should have waited before last tweet. Yes. Alt history is about estranging history in same way sci-fi is about the presentThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Somewhere I've seen sci-fi described as (something like) "mystery story where the mystery is 'how the world got to be like this'"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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