My favorite alternate-histories are the ones set in the world where everyone is gay (i.e. Jo Walton's Farthing)

So, I've been thinking about trying to read a few more SF novels lately and somehow the name Jo Walton bubbled up. She's been getting all kinds of attention lately. Whenever I see her name, I always thing, "Huh, isn't she that woman who wrote that book that's just like a Victorian novel, except everyone is a dragon?"*

            Anyway, Walton's latest…