Excavating Unconquerable Sun: The Horse Is a Spaceship
Detail of Alexander and Boukephalas from the Alexander Mosaic Transforming history into a fictional universe means the writer begins with a template of known places, people, and events. In previous essays, I’ve some of the questions I’ve been asked about how I adapted the story of Alexander the Great into a gender-spun space opera: Which aspects of the setting are meant to represent real places and historical situations from the past (part 1)? How many of the characters are analogs for the historical actors (part 2)? What events from Alexander’s history did I keep? And why-oh-why are mo...
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