My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
R for Rurikid Diarchy 1933 (2017)
Time for another shift in world history.
And all because I couldn’t stop constructing my Kanata alternative history. The initial trigger, Leif Eriksson’s permanent colonisation of Vinland, inspired me to rewrite other key episodes in history. I wanted the legacy forged from Vikings merging with the indigenous people to ripple down time. Kanata evolved into my vision of a 21st Century Viking Age.
Anyway, this one has deep roots as well as great ripples. Before the ‘our timeline’ revelation, will you recognise all the real historical events echoed here? I threw my whole set of spanners into this period. Amusing? Believably or fantasy?
Expect more alternative history ahead.
In fact, this ties with my current interests – like my short story ‘Feathered Fire’ which has a Ukrainian MC. The tale will appear in the IWSG anthology Voyagers: The Third Ghost, which is released on May 5th, 2020. There’s a taster on the IWSG Anthologies blog – if you’re tempted to delve.
Links to my other 2020 A to Z posts can be found here: https://rolandclarke.com/blogging-from-a-to-z/blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge-2020/
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Writing Wings 
As you know I find alternative history fascinating. It so often gives a voice to the ‘forgotten’ people. The people that mainstream history relies on – but hides. Women and indigenous people fit perfectly.
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That was much of the appeal to me, EC. I attempted to craft a saga/history that place those ‘forgotten’ people in the forefront. My 21st century heroine has indigenous roots going back to the Sami shamaness slave with Leif Eriksson.
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As said above, alternative history can address wrongs and bring up interesting “what ifs” in terms of our lives, then and now.
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Exactly Shannon. I wasn’t aware of the ripples created in my AH – not until I looked closer at events between the initial ‘what if’ and the alternative present.
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