Being a history buff, I love to post old family photos, and I figured a military theme would be appropriate for Memorial Day. I come from a long line of civilians, however. Nobody in my family got drafted. As farmers, the food we produced was critical to the war effort. So I swiped some very […]
Tag: World War II
China Miéville’s “The Last Days of New Paris”
Much of the best alternate history is steampunk because the Victorian Era was such a turning point in human affairs. Another such pivotal time was World War II. This is the setting of British author China Miéville’s 2016 book The Last Days of New Paris. People classify his work as “the new weird” and they’re […]