Yesterday , we require a bunch of our favorite alternating history authorsto heel the biggest mistakes that they see other writer make in creating new historical timelines . One author who did n’t get back to us by our deadline was Jo Walton , source of Farthing and several other great book . We just hear from her , and she raised an splendid point that nobody else had brought up yet :
https://gizmodo.com/10-worst-mistakes-that-authors-of-alternate-history-mak-5884879
The only affair that tends to labour me sore about alternate histories is when they have people deport after the divergency point but they ’re the same people . So it ’s 1860 in a globe where the Persians win at Marathon but there are Lincoln and Lee as if they ’re historically inevitable . Nobody would be the same ! That ’s the whole point in time !
Top image : Abraham Lincoln , Vampire Hunter .
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