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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alternate History, Counterfactual History, Sidewise Award for Alternate History, List of Alternate History Fiction, Cavemen, Gunparade March, Alien Space Bats, Uchronia: the Alternate History List, Jonbar Hinge, Stroke of Fate, Uchronia, Pax Germanica, Point of Divergence, ¿qué Hubiera Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alternate History, Counterfactual History, Sidewise Award for Alternate History, List of Alternate History Fiction, Cavemen, Gunparade March, Alien Space Bats, Uchronia: the Alternate History List, Jonbar Hinge, Stroke of Fate, Uchronia, Pax Germanica, Point of Divergence, ¿qué Hubiera Pasado Si. Excerpt: Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. Definition Alien space bats originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poor alternate histories due to lack of plausibility. These attacks are usually phrased in terms of the need for alien space bats or by saying the alternate history has gone into "ASB territory". This original definition was used by one critic to criticize Harry Harrison 's Stars and Stripes trilogy. The term eventually evolved into a deus ex machina to create an impossible point of divergences. Examples include changes to the physical laws of nature, introducing magic into the world, time travel, and advanced aliens interfering in human affairs. An example of aliens interfering in human affairs to change the direction of history is Harry Turtledove 's Worldwar series. History The term "alien space bats" was first coined, then popularized in the usenet group soc. history. what-if. Alison Brooks is credited as the creator of the term, using it to debunk the possibility of a successful Operation Sealion by saying the only way it could be successful was if alien space bats helped the Nazis. Brooks regretted the use of the ASBs as a supernatural agency, preferring to restrict them to rhetoric. S.M. Stirling credited Brooks with creating the term in the acknowledgments section of Dies the Fire and also used the plot device to send Books, , Alternate-History~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Alternate History, Books Llc, 1156389909, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781156389904

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters:… Altro …

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alternate History, Counterfactual History, Sidewise Award for Alternate History, List of Alternate History Fiction, Cavemen, Gunparade March, Alien Space Bats, Uchronia: the Alternate History List, Jonbar Hinge, Stroke of Fate, Uchronia, Pax Germanica, Point of Divergence, ¿qué Hubiera Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alternate History, Counterfactual History, Sidewise Award for Alternate History, List of Alternate History Fiction, Cavemen, Gunparade March, Alien Space Bats, Uchronia: the Alternate History List, Jonbar Hinge, Stroke of Fate, Uchronia, Pax Germanica, Point of Divergence, ¿qué Hubiera Pasado Si. Excerpt: Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. Definition Alien space bats originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poor alternate histories due to lack of plausibility. These attacks are usually phrased in terms of the need for alien space bats or by saying the alternate history has gone into "ASB territory". This original definition was used by one critic to criticize Harry Harrison 's Stars and Stripes trilogy. The term eventually evolved into a deus ex machina to create an impossible point of divergences. Examples include changes to the physical laws of nature, introducing magic into the world, time travel, and advanced aliens interfering in human affairs. An example of aliens interfering in human affairs to change the direction of history is Harry Turtledove 's Worldwar series. History The term "alien space bats" was first coined, then popularized in the usenet group soc. history. what-if. Alison Brooks is credited as the creator of the term, using it to debunk the possibility of a successful Operation Sealion by saying the only way it could be successful was if alien space bats helped the Nazis. Brooks regretted the use of the ASBs as a supernatural agency, preferring to restrict them to rhetoric. S.M. Stirling credited Brooks with creating the term in the acknowledgments section of Dies the Fire and also used the plot device to send Books, , Alternate-History~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1156389909

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: LIFE JOURNEY, 100 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=159gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert