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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Nov 2014
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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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        1. Rob MacDougall‏ @robotnik 22 Nov 2014
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          .@HeerJeet Highly Recommended: David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. He argues (among other things) that

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        1. Rob MacDougall‏ @robotnik 22 Nov 2014
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          .@HeerJeet ...time travel stories grow out of prologues to utopia tales (eg Looking Backward) combined with Darwin / discovery of deep time

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        1. Rob MacDougall‏ @robotnik 22 Nov 2014
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          .@HeerJeet Not doing justice in 140 (or 280) characters. It's a good book.

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        1. sean gallagher‏ @gallaghers 22 Nov 2014
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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.

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        1. sean gallagher‏ @gallaghers 22 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet obvious his historic fiction required deep thinking on "realism".

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        1. Dimitri Kolokotronis‏ @JimmyLevendia 22 Nov 2014
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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.

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        2. Ben Robertson‏ @BenRobertson 22 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet @robotnik see john clute's Pardon this Intrusion

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        3. Ben Robertson‏ @BenRobertson 22 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet @robotnik all fantastika--fantasy, sf, horror--gets going in response to History/science/modern epistemology broadly

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