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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30. It's no accident that science fiction writers are also often historical novelists: Kim Stanley Robinson, Nicola Griffith, etc.
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31. In writing about Middle Ages in "Hild" Nicola Griffith uses same skill set she applies to her SF, imagining radically different world.
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@HeerJeet I'm giving a talk at UBC Okanagan (dec1) on the 'the distant futurity of the evolutionary epic' and you've anticipated my argument -
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@HeerJeet Wells was also influenced by non darwinian theories of evolution, particularly Haeckel's recapitulation, hence his degenerationismThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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