Sunday, January 15, 2023

A Word on Genres...

 


What is Military Historical Fiction with Time Travel?

The Devil Ship, my latest novel, was just released. A Military Historical Fiction, this book adds a twist common in my work, Time Travel, which opens the door to interventions that spin out an Alternative History. Those who have been following my writing, particularly the Kirov Series, one of the longest stories ever told, are familiar with this genre. For those who are new, what is military historical fiction with time travel?

Historical military fiction with time travel is a story set in a documented historical period that involves military conflict. It can be a war or battle in the past, or a hypothetical conflict in the future, where the author presents real historical figures as characters, sometimes interacting with his own fictional characters. The arrival of characters capable of time travel causes interventions and variations in that history, which changes the documented flow of past events and produces an alternative historical outcome. Interventions in Military history can be particularly decisive and dramatically alter future history arising from that period. For example, what if the South had won the American Civil War? What if Napoleon had defeated Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo? These are the kind of questions explored by mixing historical, military and time travel genres.

In Kirov, I displaced a powerful fighting ship some 80 years into the past in the middle of an ongoing historical naval battle in the Norwegian Sea. The fictional characters aboard the ship then struggle to understand what has happened to them, before realizing that the power their ship wields gives them a means of changing the outcomes and consequences of the war. In many cases, the intervention of the time traveler changes the history to create an alternative history of the events covered in the story.

All of these elements are also present in the Devil Ship. What are the historically documented wars and battles? What characters are real and what are fictional? What are the time travel elements? You can find answers to these questions from the book.



          
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