Comments | princeofcairo: [Alternate Mondays] Bad Beat For Aaron Burr

princeofcairo

[Alternate Mondays] Bad Beat For Aaron Burr

Mar 07, 2011 18:36

I have a short story (only my second published one)1 in The New Hero, an upcoming anthology of iconic hero stories for Stone Skin Press ( Read more... )

fiction, alternate history, the new hero, america

Comments 9

anonymous March 8 2011, 03:22:17 UTC

After reading "For Want of a Nail" I can't get enough of American-Mexican fusion empires. And there is simply not enough alternatehistory material about Old Northwest/Ohio Territory secession ( ... )

princeofcairo March 8 2011, 04:09:45 UTC

The story implies that the Pawnee, at least, control or have free use of the land north of the Red River. In my own notions, Burr's Mexican Empire winds up with a number of such marcher nations: Comancheria, Apacheria, etc.

robin_d_laws March 8 2011, 05:13:52 UTC

This is a story that not only fulfills the iconic hero brief, but avoids all of the pitfalls of the alternative history sub-genre.

Spanish ext_454431 March 8 2011, 11:43:54 UTC

I hope it helps, but the Spanish printing would most likely say:

Ministerio Confidencial del Imperador.

Just trying to help.

Cheers,

José

Better, But I Still Await... ext_455246 March 9 2011, 07:32:52 UTC

a tale of Joe McCarthy vs. Will Rogers.

johnprester March 9 2011, 19:43:04 UTC

Seems like a well-done story; avoiding "as you know, Bob" is really hard to do (I've tried to write AH stories myself, and know ( ... )

princeofcairo March 9 2011, 22:59:16 UTC

I agree with you that Burr gets something of an unfair rap in general, and is unfairly neglected for his key role in thwarting Jefferson's attempt to purge the judiciary.

That said, if he conquered Mexico, he surely wouldn't institute a republic. Note that Bolivar, for example, became a dictator despite faultlessly republican ideology to begin with; and Bonapartism was in the air in 1806.