Dissecting Worlds: Series 6, Episode 1

Published: April 3, 2012, 1:14 p.m.

Doning their tin hats the disagreeing duo of Dissecting Worlds turn their scalpels to Alternate History this series.\n\nTo open the bowling they're going to limber up with Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice & Salt", an exploration of a world in which Europe exited history in the 15th-16th centuries.\n\nThis gives an opportunity to discuss alternate histories on the way, and in the process they potentially upset\n* quantum physicists\xa0\n* Marxists\n* Nazis\n* Harry Turtledove\n* Arthur C Clarke\n* the romantic view of history\n\nIn the usual blend of confessions, obsessions & mispronunciations and teasers for future episodes in the series.\n\nFor all your dissecting worlds news follow us @dissectingwrlds\nFor ramblings of the sleep deprived @clarkythecruel & alternate history RPG at\xa0www.alfiesantics.wordpress.com\xa0(related Wargame material\xa0www.clarkythecruel.wordpress.com\xa0under the VBCW tag.)\n\nMatts twitter is @theGrampus & he really should do a website on his d-hopping campaign (or some blog entries.)