2019 Fandom Promo!

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Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

<b>FANDOM NAME</b>:
<b>WHAT MAKES IT GREAT</b>:
<b>WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional)</b>:


For reference, last year's promo post!

This post on LJ

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FANDOM NAME: The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: In a world where time travel is a discovery science, an apparently naturally occurring phenomenon known to humanity from the earliest days of civilization, the past is editable. And the Daughters of Harriet, a secret feminist society dedicated to improving history for women and people of color, are finding themselves in the middle of an edit war with a shadowy men’s rights organization. Even worse, these creeps aren’t just trying to change history to take away women’s rights and freedoms--they’re trying to seize total control of access to the process, locking their changes in and freezing the timeline for everyone else. Tess is trying to fight for her version of the future (and an even better version than that), while simultaneously and surreptitiously traveling back to her own early-90s adolescence to try and undo the greatest regret of her life.

In a parallel narrative, Beth is a teen girl and a punk fan in 1993, attempting to navigate adolescence and troubled family dynamics and trauma and youthful romance; not to mention the fact that in her timeline, abortion is illegal throughout the US.

Features riot grrrl bands in California, bellydancers and rogue sex educatiors at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, time travel academics, geology and prehistory, teenage girls murdering rapists and abusers, a rescue mission to save a trans woman from being retroactively murdered in her past, and an alternate history where women and African-Americans won the vote at the same time, and Harriet Tubman was elected to the Senate. There is so. Much. To expand on and explore.

WHERE TO FIND IT: Bookstores, libraries and e-book sellers of all kinds! This is a new release, so on the one hand, it’s probably everywhere. (On the other, there might be a decent wait at the library.) The audiobook version features an original riot grrl song!