num_pages: 575
description: In Making History, Stephen Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times
language: English
title: Making History
titlecomplete: Making History
characters: Leo Zuckerman, Axel Bauer, Rudolph Gloder, Michael Young
genres: Historical, Science Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History, Humor, Fantasy, Time Travel, British Literature
ratings_count: 11080
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Long Form
publisher: Arrow