tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5850172499490375035.post5656653655120568703..comments2024-02-23T00:53:07.310+00:00Comments on Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead: Was Fascist UK Ever Possible? - The View of FictionRooksmoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15563445039351828997noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5850172499490375035.post-7442792725335999682008-07-24T12:15:00.000+01:002008-07-24T12:15:00.000+01:00MCG, I have heard that the Jo Walton triology (the...MCG, I have heard that the Jo Walton triology (the other two books are 'Ha'penny' and 'Half-A-Crown') takes a pretty right-wing line on the counter-factual itself, i.e. suggesting that Britain would have been better off if it had followed a line like the one shown. Is that correct or have I got the wrong end of the stick?<BR/><BR/>I followed that link you provided to the Eve's Alexandria blog. The review is interesting. I can understand why Macleod had such difficulties getting his novel published, I found the same. I think the First World War is not known well enough to have people confident of what was real history and so what is the counter-factual.<BR/><BR/>Rooksmoor.Rooksmoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15563445039351828997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5850172499490375035.post-3768710771498198182008-07-24T10:32:00.000+01:002008-07-24T10:32:00.000+01:00Coincidentally, I just finished reading Jo Walton&...Coincidentally, I just finished reading Jo Walton's "Farthing", which is a detective novel set in 1949 in a world where an equivalent of the Cliveden set made peace with Germany in 1941. The Britain in the story is pretty right-wing and as the novel progresses it becomes even more so, with the Communist party being banned, ID cards being introduced, and so on.<BR/><BR/>I got it free online from Tor Books: http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=577<BR/><BR/>Apparently there are also a couple of sequels.MCGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867390927590243952noreply@blogger.com