Talk:Counterfactual history: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Russell D. Jones |
imported>Hayford Peirce (→Relationship to the science fiction genre?: history is history, fiction is fiction) |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
:No. [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]] was writing fiction; Historians who practice counterfactual history are writing history but (as I wrote in the article) are arguing from analogy. [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 21:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | :No. [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]] was writing fiction; Historians who practice counterfactual history are writing history but (as I wrote in the article) are arguing from analogy. [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 21:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
::As a guy who has actually written a couple of parallel-history novels, I would say that the counterfactual historians are, by definition, writing "fictional history". What else could it be qualified as? As opposed to "historical history," as written by, say, A.J.P. Taylor or Sam Morison. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 21:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 16:48, 27 February 2010
Relationship to the science fiction genre?
Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --Howard C. Berkowitz 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- No. Heinlein was writing fiction; Historians who practice counterfactual history are writing history but (as I wrote in the article) are arguing from analogy. Russell D. Jones 21:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- As a guy who has actually written a couple of parallel-history novels, I would say that the counterfactual historians are, by definition, writing "fictional history". What else could it be qualified as? As opposed to "historical history," as written by, say, A.J.P. Taylor or Sam Morison. Hayford Peirce 21:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)