The alternate history is fertile ground in science fiction, the ultimate “what if” that lies at the core of all stories writ large. Most of them go big with their premises, latching onto history’s biggest villains and biggest moments and positing a simple tweak to events, then following the infinite threads it generates to their logical conclusions. And that’s all […]
Norman Spinrad comes to us from the second generation of American science fiction storytellers. Too young for the Golden Age that lead into the 1960s, he helped define the New Wave that came after. If he’s not as well-known as some of his contemporaries, there’s a reason: his fearlessness in courting controversy on the page has frequently […]