The original idea was to write "alternative-reality fiction.
I love ex libris, the boring-sounding (but actually extremely entertaining) game where you write alternative beginnings and endings to famous books in order to fool everyone else into thinking yours is the real one.
The children "write alternative endings, and they'll have a nature journal that they get to write in," says Krall.
"You can really write alternative realities and alternative histories anywhere you want, anywhere that there is a community that doesn't have enough power to commission big bronze statues of its heroes," she says., Nine Nights: African Burial Ground, 126th St. Home, Memory and Future is at CCCADI through March 2017.
At fifteen, he e-mailed one of the leading theorists of Internet law, Lawrence Lessig, and helped to write the code for Lessig's Creative Commons, which, by writing alternatives to standard copyright licenses, allows people to share their work more freely.
A touch sensitive screen (resistive LCD Viper 10.4′′; resolution: 800 × 600 pixels; brightness: 350 contrastontratioratio: 250 : 1) was used to display the written alternatives, record the subjects' responses, and display the test score.
He and Kovács began writing alternative headlines and illustrations on them.
To find an audience outside Connecticut, Brian Dolzani has written alternative rock songs with themes that most anybody can relate to — like the romance of "Summer" and the everyday ennui of "Water".
Some writers, such as Harry Turtledove, SM Stirling, Jasper Fforde and Ken Flint, have spent nearly their entire careers writing alternative histories, but others, such as Kingsley Amis, Iain Banks, Stephen Fry, Stephen King, Jo Walton, Kim Stanley Robinson and Philip Roth have also dabbled in the genre.
He hit the health-food speaking circuit, pushing a raw food diet and something he called the Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink; wrote alternative-history books; tried to intervene in the Iranian hostage crisis; and enjoyed an odd revival with his public campaign to help Walter Hudson, a 1,200-pound 1,200-poundeight.
