Dear Harry Turtledove
I know that as one of the best – nah, make that THE best – writers of alternative history fiction, you're a very busy man. That online novel you're writing about JFK surviving the Dealey Plaza attack, only to face a reputation-destroying impeachment process (yet another of your I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that-myself brilliant ideas), is probably filling most of your free hours right now.
I realise, too, that anybody else in your position would have retired by now, happy in the knowledge that you've reimagined and rewritten history like no-one else ever could. Ruled Britannia, where the Armada invades England and Shakespeare writes a resistance play? Pure genius! Your Timeline-191 series, where the South wins the Civil war? World class, sir! And your series where aliens invade Earth in the middle of World War II? You knew you'd outdone even yourself there, didn't you?
But, see, I have one more favour to ask. Just a small one. You could even do it as a stand-alone novel (like The Guns Of The South, where you had time-travelling AWB militants supplying the Civil War South with AK-47s). No big deal.
All I'm asking is that you write a novel about Operation Unthinkable. That's the one where Churchill planned to lead a US/British invasion of the Soviet Union (using re-armed German troops) at the end of World War II.
Now THAT would make a great alternative history novel!
Regards,
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