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orichalcum at 05:25pm on 20/09/2007 under academia question politics
orichalcum at 05:25pm on 20/09/2007 under academia question politicsWhy is it that so many alternate history novels, particularly ones with Literary Pretensions, boil down to, "Wouldn't life be more interesting if it sucked a lot more for Jewish people?"
Why does no one write the book about how the Warsaw revolt succeeded and beat back the Nazis, or how FDR got enlightenment and let in all the Jewish refugees who wanted to emigrate to America in the 1930s, or what if the Israeli army kept on going in '48 or '67 and established a Jewish Empire over the whole Middle East?
Or, for that matter, how about other interesting turning points not involving Nazis, like, say, what if the Arabic forces had won the Battle of Tours and France had become Muslim? That's a book I want to read.
BTW, I mentioned a few weeks ago but forgot to describe the novel I'm supposed to be writing along with the Academic Book. It's intended as light popular airport historical fiction, written under a pseudonym.
Here's the blurb:
Caesar's Daughter: As Julius Caesar's illegitimate daughter, Brutus' sister, and Cassius' wife, Tertia's loyalties were torn apart as the Roman Republic began to collapse. We all know the stories of the men in her life, of Caesar the dictator and Brutus and Cassius the assassins. Here Tertia tells her own tale of a tumultuous childhood as an extra, scandal-tinged daughter, marriage and involvement in the highest levels of political intrigue, and her long, lonely decades of widowhood as the last woman to remember the glory days of the Republic.
All details may change. The basic facts are entirely true, however; Tertia was an unusual third daughter born during her mother's lengthy affair with Julius Caesar; she subsequently married Cassius. She lived to the age of 96 and died in the Age of Augustus, incredibly wealthy and with a notably lavish funeral.
Why does no one write the book about how the Warsaw revolt succeeded and beat back the Nazis, or how FDR got enlightenment and let in all the Jewish refugees who wanted to emigrate to America in the 1930s, or what if the Israeli army kept on going in '48 or '67 and established a Jewish Empire over the whole Middle East?
Or, for that matter, how about other interesting turning points not involving Nazis, like, say, what if the Arabic forces had won the Battle of Tours and France had become Muslim? That's a book I want to read.
BTW, I mentioned a few weeks ago but forgot to describe the novel I'm supposed to be writing along with the Academic Book. It's intended as light popular airport historical fiction, written under a pseudonym.
Here's the blurb:
Caesar's Daughter: As Julius Caesar's illegitimate daughter, Brutus' sister, and Cassius' wife, Tertia's loyalties were torn apart as the Roman Republic began to collapse. We all know the stories of the men in her life, of Caesar the dictator and Brutus and Cassius the assassins. Here Tertia tells her own tale of a tumultuous childhood as an extra, scandal-tinged daughter, marriage and involvement in the highest levels of political intrigue, and her long, lonely decades of widowhood as the last woman to remember the glory days of the Republic.
All details may change. The basic facts are entirely true, however; Tertia was an unusual third daughter born during her mother's lengthy affair with Julius Caesar; she subsequently married Cassius. She lived to the age of 96 and died in the Age of Augustus, incredibly wealthy and with a notably lavish funeral.
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