Description
In Making History, Stephen Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an, at first, deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? One would reason that this would be an unquestionable improvement — and so an earnest graduate history student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. With their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours — but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history is his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. It is Fry's first book to be set mostly in America; it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.