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~ Brad Linaweaver (Author), J., Kent Hastings (Author)
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Anarquia: The events move fast, the characters are interesting and the story idea is intriguing. -- Bob Wallace in The Sudden Curve --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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From 1936 to 1939, in the war torn world of the Spanish Civil War, proponents of every major intellectual, economic, political, and philosophical movement of the 20th Century came together for what most believed was to be an epic battle for the future of mankind. Artists, literary émigrés, reporters, philosophers, literary giants, and political activists all poured in to Spain to be where the action was! NOW, in Brad Linaweaver's and Kent Hastings' epic: ANARQUÍA: An Alternate History of the Spanish Civil War, a new vision of the Spanish Civil War has been brought to life. Two revolutionaries who, in our universe would become twin stars of the firmaments of Hollywood and Cape Kennedy become instead, in the universe of Anarquía, the twin fulcrums on which pivot the hopes of the future. Hedy Lamarr and Wernher von Braun join Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, Ayn Rand, G. K. Chesterton, and a host of others who populate Linaweaver's and Hastings' universe in the alternate history Spanish Civil War universe of ANARQUÍA.
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  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Sense of Wonder (September 15, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0918736641
  • ISBN-13: 978-0918736642
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,610,960 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An anarchist's alternate history, August 3, 2005
By Walter B. Conger (Arroyo Grande, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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What if rocket scientist Wernher von Braun hadn't worked for the Nazis before and during World War II but instead had made aerial weapons for the anarchists in Spain? What if, while fleeing Europe and her arms manufacturer husband Fritz Mandl on her way to Hollywood, actress Hedy Lamarr had met, inspired, and become the lover of von Braun? What if, instead of being crushed between the Republicans (Communists) and Nationalists (fascists) during the Spanish Civil War, disparate anarchist factions had successfully linked arms and won out (with the help of von Braun's rockets)?

Those are a few what if's addressed by ANARQUIA, a sci-fi alternate history of the Spanish Civil War by Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings. I've had a copy of this novel for a few months, and I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to it. I'm glad I finally did, because I had a blast reading it. Ever since I first read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" in the seventh grade, I've been fascinated by the idea that if you tweak this or that in a timeline, new paths emerge and things down the pike necessarily change. L. Neil Smith has written some wonderful spins on history (his PROBABILITY BROACH, of course, is a libertarian classic). And Harry Turtledove's made an industry of the alternate history genre.

But ANARQUIA is special in that it covers ground I can't recall seeing covered before. There have been dozens of speculative novels about "what if Hitler had won WWII?" New takes on the U.S. Civil War are pretty common. But the Spanish Civil War is fresh territory, and Linaweaver and Hastings don't waste it. They've stuffed every conceivable "what if" into Anarchía, as well as every possible true-life figure you can imagine: Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Francisco Franco, Louis B. Mayer, G.K. Chesterton, Ayn Rand (and her husband Frank O'Connor, who has an affair with Hedy Lamarr in the book), Konrad Zuse, John Dos Passos, and scores of others. And almost every political stripe is represented: Fascists, Falangists, Carlists, Marxists, Trotskyites, Separatists, Loyalists, Royalists, International Brigades, Comintern members, Syndicalists, Distributists...

Some readers will be annoyed that the dialogue in ANARQUIA often consists of speeches. But that's customary in most philosophical novels (think Rand).

This novel's a must for both history buffs and political junkies.
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