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05/02/2014

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Gregory Benford

"Admittedly, it's more interesting to read about an alternate World War Two than about an alternate Smoot-Hawley Tariff, but nevertheless it was striking to me how those Big Events swallowed up the history around them."

Sharp!
I'm writing an alternate WWII/Manhattan Project novel & it's useful to recall that all presents seem fresh and contingent--a point historians seldom convey.

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