On the Twelfth Day of Christmas…
Ok, we’ve made it. Christmas is tomorrow. I’ve managed to get a blog out every day for twelve days. I’m impressed with me. I don’t know if you’re impressed with me, but that’s ok.
So, to celebrate the last day of the Christmas blog I’m giving away the complete set of Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Histories.
This will include Shades of Milk & Honey, Glamour in Glass, and Without a Summer.
These are alternate history, Regency-era fantasy novels. They’re amazing. And I love them. So very, very much. If you’ve seen any of the rest of this blog, you’ll know that. I’ve talked about Mary once or twice.
To enter my giveaway, just tell me what alternate version of history you’d like to live in. I especially like steampunk.
Thank you to everyone who participated in my giveaways!
Medusa's Library 
Hmmm, that’s an interesting question! I’d like to live in an alternate version of Regency England where magic is real and mythology (especially fairy lore) is true!
I have always had a fascination with the Victorian era. The clothing, the architecture. But my other choice would be the Renaissance. Especially if it were anything similar to the festivals I go to. My one concern would be the sensibilities. I hate to see people treated as lesser.
I think I’d like to live in a world where electricity was never “invented” because magic was used in its place.
Thirties retro-futuristic noir in which the Civil War was called on account of (hushed-up) zombies, a superfuel coal was discovered and boosted scientific progress, racism and sexism were at least /starting/ to be actively undermined by the late 1800s, and the malevolent things which inch and slink through the shadows can at least be balked.
(…it has its problems, but I’m a /Deadlands Noir/ fan.)
The first thing that really comes to mind is an alternate history in which Tesla got the funding he needed/deserved… I’d really like to see what he would have been able to do if he’d been given the chance…
I have always loved the dawn of the industrial age in England. Although the age of steel and coal brought many challenges to the health and livelihood of the classes living in large cities the entire change of the home fascinates me. I love how the parlour becomes a new invention in the home. Family life changes and the middle class emerge from two separate classes. I love the fashions when petticoats were still worn and the hoop skirt was not quite invented yet. Dickens and the Brontës were writing their works. Queen Victoria, the young and vivacious ruler is upon the throne and England is reaching it’s height of power in the world. Who wouldn’t dream to live in this age?
I’d love to live in an Elizabethan era…with modern plumbing 🙂
Renn Faire alternate history — hot running water, good sanitation and vaccinations. Ooh, and with magic for decent eyeglasses and birth control.
I’d like to live in an alternate history where magic like in Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy exists!!
I would love to live in alt-Regency England where magic and universal human rights exist 🙂
Hi Hope, you won my giveaway! Please email your address to medusasmirror@gmail.com and I’ll get your books in the mail!
I’m very fond of the ice punk world in Cold Magic, but my first and greatest love would have to be steampunk. Asian influenced, hectic adventures in the age of invention, with interest in social justice and air ships. What is not to love?
I’d go for a gear punk jazz age. Good music, classy dress, more modern conveniences, and we’ll assume technology is accelerating an end to institutional racism.
I would love to live in in a steampunk universe in the style of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series.
I’m not sure I’d like to live in a depression era Steampunk America, but I’d like to read stories set there.
Oh that is an enticing world setting to work with.
I think it would be neat to live in either the simpler ways of pre-war 1930s or post-war 1950s North America but with modern computer technology.
I keep thinking about an alternate history in which post-WWII USA turned away from imperialism, said no to the Vietnam War, and put its heart and soul into going into space and staying there. The future in which we were promised we would have flying cars and bases on the Moon.