Columbia & Britannia

Columbia & Britannia
Columbia & Britannia  
Author(s) Edited by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon
Cover artist Cyril van der Hagen
Country United States, United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Alternate History
Publisher Fourth Horseman Press
Publication date 2009
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 406
ISBN ISBN 0615333273, ISBN 0615334644

Columbia & Britannia (2009) is an anthology of alternate history stories edited by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon.[1] Each of the stories in the anthology takes placed in a shared timeline, a world in which the American Revolutionary War never took place. Published by Fourth Horseman Press, the book was nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.[2][3]

Contents

Setting

The alternate history depicted in Columbia & Britannia begins in 1766, when William Pitt proposes the Columbia Compromise, a set of laws that serves to establish a framework for North American representation in Parliament. The American Revolutionary War never takes place and British North America becomes an integral part of an expanding British Empire. Each of the anthology's stories is set against a significant historical occurrence along this timeline, exploring the effects of events including, among others, the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, a Southern revolt against the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, the English Decadent Movement, New York's British Empire Exhibition, and the War of Wars fought between the United Kingdom and Germany.

Contents

  • Brian A. Dixon: "Intolerable Acts"
  • Joe Tangari: "Total Emancipation"
  • Mark Beech: "The Thunderbird"
  • C. Mitchell O’Neal: "All the Jungle is Thine”
  • Alexander Zelenyj: "Here Grow No Flowers"
  • Adam Chamberlain: "Flag Day"
  • Joe Tangari: "The Sun Yet Sets"
  • Brian A. Dixon: "The Last Day of the Old World"
  • Adam Chamberlain: "The Twelfth Man"

References

  1. ^ Silver, Steven. "Review: Columbia & Britannia". http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/dixon.html. 
  2. ^ "Sidewise Awards for Alternate History". Uchronia. http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "The 2011 Sidewise Award Finalists". Locus. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/06/the-2011-sidewise-award-finalists/. Retrieved 1 July 2011. 

External links


Stub icon This article about a collection of short stories is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.