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To: c.hinton who wrote (237085)	7/19/2007 1:50:13 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ah, the authors themselves disagree with you. They are all members of the Science Fiction Writers of America. They knew they were writing history of no sort. For example, the spindizzy drive could exist neither at the time the story were written, nor under any current laws of physics. it violates the most basic laws of the science. Also, several of these authors were also fantasy writers. Only if you join a coven can you possibly look at those stories as being history of any sort.

To: c.hinton who wrote (237085)	7/19/2007 9:41:37 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think that is a better term for writers like Alexandre Dumas. The closest thing today would be "Docudrama" writers, but there is a subtle difference. Unlike docudramas that target a wide audience, the works of writers like Dumas addressed the upper classes of the society. Those gentlemen were already well familiar with the official history. The trick was then to rewrite an intriguing account of events in such a way that while the major verifiable events would match the official history, underneath an alternative course of events was presented. I suppose today we'd call such people "conspiracy theorists."