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A Novel Imagines a Victorian England Ruled by France Credit...Ben Jones By Dexter Palmer THE KINGDOMS By Natasha Pulley Speculative fiction and historical fiction are closer cousins than one might think, and alternate-history novels (such as Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” or William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s “The Difference Engine”) can give enterprising writers the chance to work in both genres at once. Fans of such stories will be richly entertained by the lavish world-building and breakneck plotting of Natasha Pulley’s “The Kingdoms,” and it’s best to a...

5 November 2013 “Aztec Warrior”, Lalo Ugalde It was a bad decision on my part, but when I was finishing up the manuscript for what became  Gods, Gachupines and Gringos, I unwisely let some English teacher unknown to me, have a copy of the manuscript for what I thought was a bit of polishing and grammar checking.  Whether that foreign English teacher in Chihuahua thought his role was in all this, I have no idea, but he took it upon himself to attack my inclusion of homosexuals among the many diverse forms of humanity in what I saw as a much more culturally and ethnically diverse society ...

Peoria, IL, USA 104.9 The Wolf Jeremy Scott/1470-100.3 WMBD SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — If the proposed Illinois House Bill 3878 passes through the Senate, all documents filed through any recorder of deeds office would increase from $9 to $18. The money collected by recorder of deeds offices goes directly into the state’s Rental Housing Support Program. What that program does, Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said, seems like a secret. “We’ve requested over the past several years [to know] where this revenue is going,” Ackerman said. “We never have been able to get from the State of Il...

Debut novelist J. H. Gelernter’s “Hold Fast” (out May 4) is a ripping Napoleonic War adventure that leans heavily on its influences but nevertheless manages to chart its own course to a satisfying conclusion. The year is 1803; Boston-born Englishman Thomas Grey is in mourning for his wife, Paulette, who was killed after the ship on which they were traveling is attacked by a French frigate, the Fidele. Heartbroken, Grey resigns from the British secret service, intending to retire to a quiet life as a lumber merchant in his hometown. But before he can reach his new life in the New World, ...