Tag: science fiction
group name: alternatehistory
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March 15, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Anybody who has been on gather for the last month or two has probably heard about the First Chapters writing competition. Frankly Science Fiction doesn't seem to be doing too well over there. . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:06 PM EDT --
The comments are about a preliminary version of the chapter I'm entering in the First Chapters contest. I had to remove that article so I wouldn't have the chapter in two places, but I . . .
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 29, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Scenario Seeds are brief ideas that may eventually develop into background for Alternate History short stories or novels. Right now they are just ideas. Ideas can't be copyrighted . . .
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March 12, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
What actually happened: Guam was an American possession in the years between the World Wars, but as part of the Washington Naval Treaty the US was forbidden to fortify it. After Japan withdrew from . . .
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December 07, 2007 10:12 PM EST --
One problem with publishing so many other articles is that it has pushed Char, my entry in the First Chapters-Crime contest, off of my front page, making it harder to find. Here is a link . . .
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June 09, 2008 04:32 PM EDT --
Some historians have embraced alternate history or iffy history as a tool of analysis. Most haven't. Why not? I think iffy history hasn't taken off among historians at least partly so many historians . . .
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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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June 11, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
This is the first part of an on-line group writing experiment that we did for POD a few years ago. I made up a situation and some characters, wrote a few pages and posted them. People then jumped in and . . .
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