Alternate History Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Stephen Fry, Poul Anderson, Mark Twain, Saki, Len Deighton, Harry Turtledove, Kim Stanley Robinson, Philip Jose Farmer, John Brunner, L. Sprague de Camp, Murray Leinster, Ken MacLeod, Michael Chabon, Howard Waldrop, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Moore, Newt Gingrich, Eric Flint, Susanna Clarke, David Drake, John M. Ford, H. Beam Piper, Harry Harrison, Robert Silverberg, S. M. Stirling, MacKinlay Kantor, Aleksandr Mazin, Randy Evans, Jacek Dukaj, L. Neil Smith, Kim Newman, Robert Reed, Stephen Hunt, Josh Lanyon, Robert Harris, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Birmingham, Jo Walton, Naomi Novik, Bryce Zabel, Martin Cruz Smith, Geoff Nelder, Ward Moore, Mark London Williams, William R. Forstchen, Sarban, Judith Tarr, John Maddox Roberts, Kit Whitfield, Pamela Sargent, James Rouch, Vasily Zvyagintsev, Peter G. Tsouras, Robert Oldham, Vladimir Lazovi, Eugene Byrne, Richard Garfinkle, Robert Conroy, Daniel Rosenfeld, Sophia McDougall, Kirk Mitchell, Louis Geoffroy, Jan Jensen. Excerpt: Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Frequently described as the best comic writer in history, he has also been described as "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years." He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon. Moore started out writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as 2000AD and Warrior. He was subsequently picked up by the American DC Comics, and as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America," he worked on...