Other Covenants

Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

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Other Covenants (2020, ChiZine Publications)

360 pages

English language

Published May 18, 2020 by ChiZine Publications.

ISBN:
9781771485524

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4 stars (1 review)

3 editions

Many futures, some excellent

4 stars

I love the premise of this book, and like any multi author collection the quality of the content is all over the place. Many great stories, some that don't quite work.

I started it excited about having an alternate history collection that wasn't going to be about "what if the Nazis won". It actually doesn't quite meet that bar, though at least there are only a couple of stories that plumb that particular horror, and the more original of the two is perhaps the highlight of the book: a psychological study of the oppressor that I was mentally chewing over for a long time. Meanwhile, the story that mashes up Scottish and Jewish history was an unexpected delight - it started out looking like the whole concept was just going to be a few puns ("Moshe Ben Nevis"; "The Hebraides") but fleshed that out into a genuinely interesting fantasy.

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