found drama

• Challenges of Writing Alternate History Set in Other Cultures

  Interesting piece on alternate history and other misc. steampunkery, over at Tor.com: And unlike a novel set in a secondary (imaginary) world, there is no useful way of working this information into the book: alternate history explicitly relies on readers’ pre-existing knowledge. There’s simply no place to say “well, in real world, the Decembrists lost, and the Crimean War actually took place without Chinese involvement.” This information has to be extraneous to the story and thus there is no way to ensure that the reader will receive this information.

  (tagged: literature steampunk alternate history essay )
• Top 10 Reasons Why Darth Vader was an Amazing Project Manager

  at FNX Studios

  (tagged: DarthVader StarWars management project management satire humor )
• On Confidence and Arrogance

  by Chris Eppstein — worth a read on its own mertis; and also (bonus!) I am quoted in it

  (tagged: arrogance confidence essay attitudes )

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