Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction A TorCom Original Small Change eBook Jo Walton
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It's 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction," history is driven both by big events and by small temptations…
Following the appearance of her first two novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, Jo Walton won the 2002 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Two years later she won the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw. Her Small Change trilogy, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half A Crown, is set in a world in which Britain struck an early truce with Hitler in 1941; "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction" is set in the America of that world.
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Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction A TorCom Original Small Change eBook Jo Walton
War isn’t fun for any nation, but the after effects of it are even worse for the losing side.Including newspaper headlines from this alternate universe was a clever way to show how their world was different from ours in all sorts of ways. I wished I could read all of those imaginary articles in full after I spotted their headlines. They gave tantalizing hints about just how devastating World War II was for the United States, among other nations.
There were so many characters in this story that I struggled to keep track of who all they were and how they were connected to each other. As fascinated as I originally was by the premise, it was frustrating to meet a character only to have the narrator switch focus to someone else a page or two later. Eighteen pages simply wasn’t enough space to give all of them enough time to show the audience who they really were.
The ending was well written. Writing it as a cliffhanger made a lot of sense given how unstable the lives of the characters had been for many years. Surviving the war and the long period of deprivation that came after it was no guarantee that anything would ever change for them. They lived from one day to the next with little hope for a better future, and I liked the fact that this was reflected in how things ended for them.
I’d recommend Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction to anyone who has ever wondered how history might have been different if the Allied powers had lost World War II.
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Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction A TorCom Original Small Change eBook Jo Walton Reviews
My only complaint about this collection of vignettes is that it is far too short. The Small Change trilogy was so good that I am bereft now that I have finished it. Now Jo Walton teases me with hints of life in America in the same alternate history, where America never entered World War II and England made a separate peace with Hitler. It turns out that America is considerably poorer and quite a bit more radioactive in this scenario. The three Small Change novels were all set in England, each mimicking a different type of British popular fiction, and the results were outrageously entertaining and chilling at the same time. In Shilling a cozy mystery turns shockingly uncozy. In Hapenny a madcap crime caper collides with Shakespearean tragedy. In Half a Crown 1984 comes a bit early. But surely the series is not complete without a companion novel set in America, mimicking American pulp fiction. I mean, Walton hasn't even done a hardboiled detective novel yet. So, come on, Jo Walton! I know you want to nuke us at closer range than that! I dare ya!
War isn’t fun for any nation, but the after effects of it are even worse for the losing side.
Including newspaper headlines from this alternate universe was a clever way to show how their world was different from ours in all sorts of ways. I wished I could read all of those imaginary articles in full after I spotted their headlines. They gave tantalizing hints about just how devastating World War II was for the United States, among other nations.
There were so many characters in this story that I struggled to keep track of who all they were and how they were connected to each other. As fascinated as I originally was by the premise, it was frustrating to meet a character only to have the narrator switch focus to someone else a page or two later. Eighteen pages simply wasn’t enough space to give all of them enough time to show the audience who they really were.
The ending was well written. Writing it as a cliffhanger made a lot of sense given how unstable the lives of the characters had been for many years. Surviving the war and the long period of deprivation that came after it was no guarantee that anything would ever change for them. They lived from one day to the next with little hope for a better future, and I liked the fact that this was reflected in how things ended for them.
I’d recommend Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction to anyone who has ever wondered how history might have been different if the Allied powers had lost World War II.
originally posted at long and short reviews
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