Is there any actually good alt-history? I enjoy the genre sometimes because of just how insane and ridiculous it is, but is there any piece of media that managed to use alternate history in a way that isn't completely fucking dumb?
The Temeraire novels are literally "what if the Napoleonic wars had dragons." I haven't read it in years so I'm sure there's some shit liberal takes in it (you follow an English sea captain as the main character), but it was fun alt history.
Yeah but what if they didn't?
Now what smarty-pants?
damn, i failed to consider
Pretty much the entirety of alt-history requires people to just be absolute baby-brains
That or magic
Is there any actually good alt-history? I enjoy the genre sometimes because of just how insane and ridiculous it is, but is there any piece of media that managed to use alternate history in a way that isn't completely fucking dumb?
The Temeraire novels are literally "what if the Napoleonic wars had dragons." I haven't read it in years so I'm sure there's some shit liberal takes in it (you follow an English sea captain as the main character), but it was fun alt history.