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Posted on: 2014-01-16 21:38:00 UTC
Since the series itself is a sort of alternate universe for the real world, would that mean that everything (person, country, etc.) would exist, except for events that happened to them and the actions they perform would be extremely different? Because up until recent years in the timeline, history does not seem to be drastically warped, just changed to a degree.
Forgive me for not knowing many of your personal fandoms, but I was new for a short while before being gone for a long while. Does anyone here like The Bartimaeous Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, and want to have a polite conversation/chaotic debate about it?
I used to love that series. Haven't read it recently.
Hey, I remember that series! I've read all four, but it's been a while on the first one.
...I don't remember very much of it. I do remember liking it, though!
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~DF
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It's some years back now, but it's funny, I actually have Ring of Solomon lined up to read in the near future (as an audiobook).
I remember being awfully sad about the ending of the trilogy.
Oh, I loved them! Especially the third book; I cried so hard at the end. Haven't reread in awhile, though, so some of this conversation might go ever my head.
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Since the series itself is a sort of alternate universe for the real world, would that mean that everything (person, country, etc.) would exist, except for events that happened to them and the actions they perform would be extremely different? Because up until recent years in the timeline, history does not seem to be drastically warped, just changed to a degree.
They have had some of the same political figures, in roughly analogous positions, such as Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BenjaminDisraeli
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamEwartGladstone">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamEwart_Gladstone
I don't have a concrete answer, but my guy feeling is that an AU means 'everything's the same except what's changed'. Which stinks of tautology.