Thursday, June 1, 2017

States of Deseret

I love alternate history. And of course I love my peculiar faith, so I have to be all about a bizarre mixing of the two whenever possible. So, just like he was a driving force behind Monsters and Mormons - William Morris put together this alternate history collection States of Deseret featuring tales of what if featuring the Mormon Church.

I wanted to do something different than the usual - so no Porter Rockwell tale this time. (though one is hinted at) I let my mind wander when the call for submissions asked for different ways of telling alternate history. I was struck with the idea of an obituary as a framing device and luckily - William and Theric liked it enough to include The Electric Apostle.

I've always been fascinated with Nikola Tesla, so this was a good place to mess around with a What IF. I even found out a bit more interesting history while I was in the middle of double checking my research.

I'm sharing the table of contents with some great writers including my good friend Dave Butler, here is the TOC.

Forwrd by Theric Jepson
The Guns of Perdition by D. J. Butler
Latter Day Confederacy of Nations by Lori Taylor
Richard Meets the Missionaries by Anneke Garcia
Not Even the Names Have Been Changed by Marion Jensen
Another Meadow by Eric A. Eliason
The Father by Inari Porkka
The Electric Apostle by yours truly
Subject to Kings by Lee Allred
Cover by Casey Jex Smith


If you get a hankering for some weird fiction by a peculiar people - Check it out!



3 comments:

Paul R. McNamee said...

Cool. I love the title of your story!

Charles Gramlich said...

Congrats. Very cool. Strangely, I just watched a documentary on Tesla last night.

nephite blood spartan heart said...

Thanks Paul, it was weird but fun.

Much appreciated Charles, he was a fascinating character.