Tag Archives: alternative history
Steampunk
I got a kick out of Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection when I read it last fall, but months went by before I realized it belongs to a niche category of fiction called steampunk. In Berry’s book, Charles Unwin is reluctantly promoted to … Continue reading
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Abraham Vampire
You’re joking, right? Abraham Lincoln, a vampire hunter? When I heard about this novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I laughed because I thought it was a joke. The cover shows a very stately President … Continue reading


