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.
