29. It's no accident H.G. Wells wrote both Time Machine and The Outline of History (one of the most popular history books ever).
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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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32. Let's go back to Hitler. One impact of Hitler was that he forced a revival of thinking on "Great Man" theory of History.
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33. In the wake of Hitler, 1940s/1950s saw a) academic revival of biographies (Donald Creighton) & narrative history (Mattingly's Armada)
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34. Also saw b) philosophers like Sidney Hook look at the idea of Great Man and c) SF dealing with problem or idea of Great Man.
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35. Asimov's Foundation novels don't mention Hitler (as I recall) but problem of the Mule is the Hitler problem imagined into the future.
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36. Asimov & Heinlein both wrote "future history": not random speculation but attempt to discipline future with historical thought
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37. To borrow a point from
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38. As
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39. To simplify for twitter: Fantastika is the meta-genre born in the French Revolution (includes SF, fantasy, historical fic, horror)
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40. Fantastika (Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, etc) product of the epistemoloigcal rupture of French Revolution: attempt to describe new world
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41. Everyone is saying I should be talking about Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream. But a) this is too long & b) I have to do housework.
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