• Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    i wouldn’t mind some fiction just for escapism. escape the doomerism

    kind of like reading the Years of Rice and Salt (aka the world where all the white people die in the 14th century)

    • I wouldn’t either! You’re right most alt history is libs or fash so a lefty getting into it would be refreshing.

      It’s interesting that a book about all the whites gone is named after two famously white things

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        4 months ago

        yeah i think there is a “ahh the title now i get it” moment in the book. it’s been awhile since i read it

        it is cool how in that book at the end after the brutal world superwar is on the path of to global socialism led by the communist superpower of the Haudenosaunee

        my biggest complaint is how each short story chapter is just so damn short like you could write an entire novel in each historical period like i almost want to fanfic it

        especially the japanese diaspora-haudenosaunee alliance of convince and anti-colonial war