Interesting movie. I don't handle horror well, but it sounds marvellously visual, or perhaps visually marvellous, and it's a treat to read your description.
I like the idea of Saint Deucalion.
I'm just guessing at what they're the twin gods of, here.
Those don't sound a pleasant pair of twin gods, but I'm sure that in their way they're useful, somehow.
Mary Gentle's First History does not count—her Carthaginians are Visigothic colonizers.
Ah. They would have colonised Roman Carthage, then?
Despite the flaws, I really am thinking I should read Ash: A Secret History.
...but I am coming to realize more and more that her alternate histories entail some really weird forms of erasure.
I started thinking yesterday about to what degree it is or isn't possible to write alternate history without erasure. When I write it myself I do try to limit the erasures to the powerful in our world,* but I'll admit that's more a matter of how things work in terms of my own loyalties than anything else and I'm sure there are things I miss.
That said, I can't seem to even write a simple genre romance without introducing alternate history, so I suppose I'll have to think about it. At least the Irish-speaking Balkan country in my current project seems to occupy a piece of land that doesn't exist in our world.**
*At least in the sense of minimising Anglophonia. **I needed a background for my hero that I could actually write and I know full well that in our world a family of the Gaelic aristocracy having retained the native culture and not being self-consciously revivalist about it is about as likely as an Archaeopteryx hatching from a robin's egg. The setting is too close to our world for that to work, since my heroine comes from and lives in a place that's practically identical to our suburban/exurban US, so inventing the country I needed was the only choice I had.
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I like the idea of Saint Deucalion.
I'm just guessing at what they're the twin gods of, here.
Those don't sound a pleasant pair of twin gods, but I'm sure that in their way they're useful, somehow.
Mary Gentle's First History does not count—her Carthaginians are Visigothic colonizers.
Ah. They would have colonised Roman Carthage, then?
Despite the flaws, I really am thinking I should read Ash: A Secret History.
...but I am coming to realize more and more that her alternate histories entail some really weird forms of erasure.
I started thinking yesterday about to what degree it is or isn't possible to write alternate history without erasure. When I write it myself I do try to limit the erasures to the powerful in our world,* but I'll admit that's more a matter of how things work in terms of my own loyalties than anything else and I'm sure there are things I miss.
That said, I can't seem to even write a simple genre romance without introducing alternate history, so I suppose I'll have to think about it. At least the Irish-speaking Balkan country in my current project seems to occupy a piece of land that doesn't exist in our world.**
*At least in the sense of minimising Anglophonia.
**I needed a background for my hero that I could actually write and I know full well that in our world a family of the Gaelic aristocracy having retained the native culture and not being self-consciously revivalist about it is about as likely as an Archaeopteryx hatching from a robin's egg. The setting is too close to our world for that to work, since my heroine comes from and lives in a place that's practically identical to our suburban/exurban US, so inventing the country I needed was the only choice I had.