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petronius

(26,604 posts) Sun Jul 29, 2012, 08:58 PM Jul 2012

Aliette de Bodard: Butterfly, Falling at Dawn

Very interesting - and unique, IME - alternate history involving Chinese and Incan expansion in the Americas.

http://internationalsf.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/isf-short-story-aliette-de-bodard2.pdf

The International Speculative Fiction site looks to have promise as well...

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Aliette de Bodard: Butterfly, Falling at Dawn (Original Post) petronius Jul 2012 OP

I've read several of her alt-history stories in Asimov's YankeyMCC Jul 2012 #1

YankeyMCC

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1. I've read several of her alt-history stories in Asimov's

Reply to petronius (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 02:40 PM

Jul 2012

and I always enjoy them. Really an interesting thought experiment on how different and similar human history would be with the Eastern cultures more dominate in global community and more surviving native culture from the America's.

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