Columbia & Britannia

Columbia & Britannia
Author Edited by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon
Cover artist Cyril van der Haegen
Country United States, United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Alternate History
Publisher Fourth Horseman Press
Publication date
 2009
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 406
ISBN 0-615-33327-3

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]

Setting

The Point of divergence occurs 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, a British moon landing, and the War of Wars fought between the United Kingdom and Germany.

Contents

References

  1. ↑ Silver, Steven. "Review: Columbia & Britannia".
  2. ↑ "Sidewise Awards for Alternate History". Uchronia. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "The 2011 Sidewise Award Finalists". Locus. Retrieved 1 July 2011.

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