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Daily Archives: January 20, 2016

Brave New Worlds: The History and Purpose of Alternate Histories

Following last week’s post on the plausibility of The Man in the High Castle, Erstwhile editor Graeme Pente and friend of the blog Travis R. May (Ph.D. student, CU-Boulder) investigate the history of stories with alternate timelines and suggest reasons we tell them. “The only way to view the truth of life is to stand apart from…

January 20, 2016 in All Posts, Popular Culture.

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