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Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum [MultiFormat]
eBook by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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eBook Category: Alternate History Hugo Award Nominee
eBook Description: The Israelite plausible fabulist Benjamin Rosenbaum is mulling over his latest commission--a story set in a world without zeppelins--when he meets Prem Ramasson, prince of Ultima Thule, and receives another offer. An impovershed practitioner of a half-despised art in the balkanized and oppressed lands south of the Frankish and Athapascan Moeity cannot take lightly patronage from a citizen of the Aryan Raj--but Rosenbaum has no idea what he's getting into by accepting. Part tale of high adventure in the skies, part Borgesian metafiction, part philosophical inquiry, this story does to the genre of Alternate History what Alternate History does to real history--throw out its premises, and begin anew.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [257 KB], eReader (PDB) [40 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [28 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [26 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [84 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [100 KB], hiebook (KML) [69 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [57 KB], iSilo (PDB) [23 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [30 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [57 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [41 KB]
Words: 7745
Reading time: 22-30 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"...a marvelous metafiction...splendidly executed, marking Rosenbaum yet again as amongst the finest of SF's new short fiction authors."--Nick Gevers, Locus
"...a stand-out story ... The anthology has all sorts of fabulous re-imaginings of the airship, but there is nothing else to match Rosembaum's magnificent Hindu war-city ... Eat your heart out, Kim Stanley Robinson."--Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City
On my return from PlausFab-Wisconsin (a delightful festival of art and inquiry, which styles itself "the World's Only Gynarchist Plausible-Fable Assembly"), I happened to share a compartment with Prem Ramasson, Raja of Outermost Thule, and his consort, a dour but beautiful woman whose name I did not know. Two great blond barbarians bearing the livery of Outermost Thule (an elephant astride an iceberg and a volcano) stood in the hallway outside, armed with sabres and needlethrowers. They politely asked if they might frisk me, then allowed me in. They ignored the short dagger at my belt--presumably accounting their liege's skill at arms more than sufficient to equal mine. I took my place on the embroidered divan. "Good evening," I said.
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