Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction by Jo Walton

Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction by Jo Walton
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Historical
Length: Short Story (18 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

It’s 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in “Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction,” history is driven both by big events and by small temptations…

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Including newspaper headlines from this alternate universe was a clever way to show how their world was different from ours in all sorts of ways. I wished I could read all of those imaginary articles in full after I spotted their headlines. They gave tantalizing hints about just how devastating World War II was for the United States, among other nations.

There were so many characters in this story that I struggled to keep track of who all they were and how they were connected to each other. As fascinated as I originally was by the premise, it was frustrating to meet a character only to have the narrator switch focus to someone else a page or two later. Eighteen pages simply wasn’t enough space to give all of them enough time to show the audience who they really were.

The ending was well written. Writing it as a cliffhanger made a lot of sense given how unstable the lives of the characters had been for many years. Surviving the war and the long period of deprivation that came after it was no guarantee that anything would ever change for them. They lived from one day to the next with little hope for a better future, and I liked the fact that this was reflected in how things ended for them.

I’d recommend Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction to anyone who has ever wondered how history might have been different if the Allied powers had lost World War II.