Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

"I can't deal with Sci-Fi," said anonymous.  "It's too wierd."

"Sure you can," I said.  "A story is a story.  Sci-Fi really is just background. Have you ever seen Star Wars?"

"No."

"Lord of the Rings?" I asked.

"Ha," said anonymous.  "No way."

This person actually told me that as a Sci-Fi geek, we can't communicate on that level.  It was my turn to laugh.  Alternate History has been disguised as Sci-Fi for a while now.  Our sixteenth president battling Vampires to me, is the perfect example.  Fans of Abe who are looking for something a little different would enjoy this movie.  Fans of Jane Austen might enjoy "Pride & Prejudice and Zombies".  Perhaps "Sense & Sensibility and Sea Monsters"?

Turtledove has an entire collection of alternate history novels.  What if the south won the civil war?  Would it have meant that we would have sided with the Nazi's in World War II?  How would technology have evolved if such an event occured?  Today's Sci-Fi writer will be remembered tomorrow as a Science Pioneer.

The same is true of all life.  When we look to the future, we prepare ourselves for what is to come.  In the case of this blog, we can sometimes look to the past and wonder what would have happened if luck did not favor the victorious at that moment in time.  It is said that the survivors tell the stories of the past.  Surely there must be some piece of history which has been fabricated by a really good storyteller, right?  If at the end of the book, you found entertainment and possibly learned one or two things, then the job of the storyteller is done.

Ever wonder what would have happened if King George and King Louis saw the writing on the wall with all of these revolutionary types and actually stamped them down before they got out of control?  No?  Perhaps not....