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Ah,  that makes a lot more sense.  Thanks.  Sounds like an interesting alternate history with a surprising twist at the end.

It is. He has another one where the Spanish has conquered the British in the late 1500s and installed Catholicism (incl. the Inquisition). The British employ a young unknown playwright (William Shakespeare) to write a play that would inflame the populous to rise up against them. 

We're not talking highbrow literature here... But some decently fun reads.

I haven't really kept up with the alternative history genre... I more often read hard sci-fi (and occasionally pulp sci-fi). But his stuff was interesting.

I tried to watch The Man in the High Castle,  which is a streaming series on Prime, I think.    

It's one of those alternate history stories where the Nazis take over the eastern United States and Japan took over the West coast.    The premise was interesting enough but the end of season 1 had a twist where I said, OK I am done.   

I tried to watch The Man in the High Castle,  which is a streaming series on Prime, I think.   

It's one of those alternate history stories where the Nazis take over the eastern United States and Japan took over the West coast.    The premise was interesting enough but the end of season 1 had a twist where I said, OK I am done. 

Yeah I saw the previews for that show and knew it wasn't for me.

I watched all of Inglourious Basterds because I'll watch any Tarantino movie.  It was well acted and well executed and sort of fun-- or at least as fun as a brutal WWII/nazi movie about death squads and revenge and murder can be.  But ultimately I also found it to be pretty self-indulgent and a little too "just-so" for me to really like.  One viewing was more than enough, suffice to say.

I wrote a four book series of alternate history.  

I wrote a four book series of alternate history. 

have you sold the movie rights?
that's where the REAL money is

Brad Pitt in Basterds is freakin' epic.

he's even better in Snatch....another wildly underrated movie

he's even better in Snatch....another wildly underrated movie

Absolute banger of a movie. Plus the first thing I saw from Jason Statham, who was definitely not an action star in it.