Making History
In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason -- and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to...
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In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason -- and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours -- but in most ways even worse.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679459552 (0679459553)
Publish date: 1998-03-10
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 380
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Contemporary,
Time Travel,
Alternate History
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Loved this book from the first page, Stephen Fry has a wonderful turn of phrase and the way, which is so easy to read.The story is different take on time travel and results in history being worse after the first bout of time travel than it originally was. However all things end up as they should by ...
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The most excellent Stephen Fry at his very best!!
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