The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

by Jack Dann

A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create recognizable 'divergent points' and how to employ paratextual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350351350
• ISBN13: 9781350351356
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"