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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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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23. But both historical chronicles & proto-science fiction very different than new thinking that emerged out of French Revolution.
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@HeerJeet Highly Recommended: David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. He argues (among other things) thatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet ...time travel stories grow out of prologues to utopia tales (eg Looking Backward) combined with Darwin / discovery of deep timeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Not doing justice in 140 (or 280) characters. It's a good book.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet i read the whole way through War & Peace, only to bog down at the gates of the finish, in Tolstoy's final culminat'n on history.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet obvious his historic fiction required deep thinking on "realism".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I'd agree: Jack London, Conan Doyle, Kipling & Twain all wrote specific stories that could be classified squarely as SF.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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