Tag: alternate history
group name: alternatehistory
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June 09, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
We had a recent discussion in POD, the alternate history magazine about what it would have taken for the Germans to have knocked Great Britain out of the war in the summer of 1940. I want to start . . .
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September 03, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
The era of battleships overlapped the era of biplanes from shortly before World War I until maybe early1942, when all of the major combatants except to some extent Italy had phased out biplanes, and battleships . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Yet another entry into the “Roosevelt provoked the Japs and knew about Pearl Harbor in advance” genre. It differs from many of the earlier books in that genre in that it says that Roosevelt’s . . .
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June 03, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
This was inspired by some notes I came across that I made in 1979 or 1980. At that point I was very young, naïve, and thoroughly convinced that solar power was the wave of the near future. Here . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:15 PM EDT --
What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world. The US had enough powerful modern . . .
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December 21, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is a brief excerpt from my Nanowrimo novel. For those of you who aren't familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I had been toying with the idea of doing a book on demand for several years. About four years ago I took the plunge. The concept seemed so logical. Produce just the number of books that people . . .
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April 11, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
(this is a timeline I wrote about five years ago. It's already up on my webpage - and was up on my Gather page (I was trying to put it here, but...) - but the more exposure the better, I guess)
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June 03, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
This is a concept with a lot of potential. The idea is that a big hunk of North America, essentially over to a little past the Appalachian Mountains, has broken off and become a large island. . . .
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March 17, 2007 06:56 AM EDT --
Here are some more Scenario Seeds. Scenario Seeds are ideas that may eventually become the backgrounds for stories, but that are just ideas at this point. You can't copyright an idea so . . .
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June 05, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
( Warning: This is not real history. It is iffy history speculaiton)
The south's early lead in HIghWheeler or bicycle technology was doubly ironic, first because the first recognizable bicycle . . .
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June 05, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
What Has Happened So Far : Spain enters World War II on the Axis side in mid-June, trying to pick up some loot from the defeated French and from the British. That changes the dynamics of . . .
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March 17, 2007 07:10 AM EDT --
1. What if Turkey had entered World War II in mid-August of 1944? Turkey stayed neutral in World War II until late February 1945 when Germany was definitely beaten. What if . . .
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March 23, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
Review:The Sky People (Book By Steve Stirling, Review By Dale R. Cozort)
I'm going to try really hard to keep the sour grapes out of this review, but I suspect that a little might slip through. . . .
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June 06, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
Review By: Dale Cozort
This is the second book in a series updating the old tradition of adventure stories set on inhabitable Mars and Venus. Stirling sidesteps the fact that we know those . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
I just got to thinking about the lifespan of various leaders. There is a lot of potential for Alternate History in how long various leaders lived. Here are just a few to get the creative . . .
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December 17, 2008 12:11 AM EST --
What if the Allies had not invaded Sicily? The US saw the Mediterranean as a distraction from the real path to victory, which they figured was a thrust through northern France into Germany. . . .
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March 12, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
What actually happened: The Spanish Nationalists were widely considered allies of Germany and Italy. The Germans and Italians pretty much made Nationalist victory possible in the Spanish Civil War. . . .
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March 12, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
You don’t give an old line-hopper like Tim “Blarney” Smith an opening to get going on a story or you won’t get away from him until the bar's about to close, . . .
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April 05, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
Note to gather people:I originally wrote many of the articles I've posted in the alternate history and scitech for writers groups this past month for a print zine that I publish as part of an APA (Amateur . . .
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