Writers create their own worlds with every book. The world may be close to our own, it may look very much like our own, but the addition of a fictional character is like metaphorically stepping on the butterfly — it changes everything. Keeping It Straight I love to read alternative histories. My favorite writer of this particular genre is Harry Turtledove. He’ll pose a question, essentially, with his book and then write it out. In the Guns of the South, he asked what would happen if you really armed the South during the Civil War? So he sent some South […]