Bittercon links: AH
brisingamen finishes up her Bittercon questions with one about fiction and history.
This paragraph will be running through my mind as I do the morning chores in a minute or two, here.
To be a trifle provocative, I might just start by asking what the difference is between history and fiction anyway, given that both seem to me to be all about the narrative, and history is frequently on very shaky ground if one is relying on official documents or one specific account. We all know that three eye-witnesses will give different accounts of the same event, for a variety of reasons, and that accounts may be amended as time goes by. So when we flirt with alternative history, just what are we doing?
This paragraph will be running through my mind as I do the morning chores in a minute or two, here.
To be a trifle provocative, I might just start by asking what the difference is between history and fiction anyway, given that both seem to me to be all about the narrative, and history is frequently on very shaky ground if one is relying on official documents or one specific account. We all know that three eye-witnesses will give different accounts of the same event, for a variety of reasons, and that accounts may be amended as time goes by. So when we flirt with alternative history, just what are we doing?