Title:: [[The Alteration]] Authors:: [[Kingsley Amis]] Tags:: #counterfactual #alternativehistory #fiction #sciencefiction Read:: [[2022-12-11]] ## Editions - Edition:: NYRB, 2013 - Original Copyright:: 1976 - Pages:: 231 ## Annotations A counterfactual novel set in 1976 England where The Reformation never happened, science is sinful, and an authoritarian Catholic Church rules all of Europe.  A ten-year old boy has a perfect voice and the Church wants to keep it that way via an “alteration.” Prophetic in its portrayal of assholes obsessed with controlling the sexual identity of children.