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  1. Can the USSR be democratic without collapsing?

    According to this page from a libertarian communist site, the undermining of democracy actually happened before the Civil War: (the footnotes in this quote are all to The Bolsheviks and Worker Control by Maurice Brinton) I agree that a multi-party democracy with a planned economy is possible...

  2. Terra Nova

    They said the colony was 85 million years in the past, which would be the mid-Cretaceous, not the Jurassic. You might have thought it was the Jurassic based on the Brachiosaurs, but there were Brachiosaurs in the Cretaceous (not "Brachiosaurus" itself, but they didn't call them that in the...

  3. Star Trek Film!

    Was it established that the ship he saw being built there was actually the Enterprise? Didn't he go up on the shuttle and see the Enterprise docked at a space station the very next day? Maybe I'm misremembering...

  4. Who Watched the Watchmen? I Watched the Watchmen

    Well, it still works when you reread the comic. And I recently rewatched The Day After and Threads, they still made the buildup to nuclear war feel scary and real; the fact that I don't fear it much in reality isn't the issue, The Birds is still scary even though I don't fear birds will turn...

  5. Kings premieres on NBC this Sunday

    I just found this quote from executive producer Michael Greeni in an IGN article:

  6. Kings premieres on NBC this Sunday

    I wonder if they'll address the question of what kinds of religious beliefs people have in this alternate world...is everyone Jewish?

  7. Fatherland - vague areas

    You mean the US would still treat the USSR as an ally even after the US was no longer at war with Germany? Like a version of NATO that includes the US and USSR? It isn't obvious that this would happen, I'm not sure the US would want to start WWIII to protect a former communist country that was...

  8. Fatherland - vague areas

    Oh, OK, I was confused by The Red's subsequent comment: Should we assume that many former Soviet cities are now radioactive craters, and that the continued fighting in the Urals is due to a spread-out guerilla network?

  9. Fatherland - vague areas

    If the US had nukes in this timeline but the Nazis didn't, what kept the US from using them to win? Was Roosevelt still President during WWII in this timeline, or was it someone different?

  10. Last and First Men

    It's true that most of the story takes place in a single history, but (SPOILERS I suppose) when the cosmic mind of our universe finally connects with the "Star Maker" it sees a vision of all the other universes the Star Maker created, including some that resemble branching multiverses:

  11. Last and First Men

    Now if you really want to blow your mind, read the "sequel", Star Maker! http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601841h.html This book has such a cosmic scale that the entire future history of humanity revealed in Last and First Men is dispensed with in two paragraphs:

  12. C.S.A. Movie: Confederate History!

    I think you missed the point of the movie--the whole idea was to highlight racism in our own real history by creating this imaginary history where it was much more overt and obvious. The idea definitely was not to make us feel good about real history by contrast with the C.S.A. history! And...

  13. Killing Hitler: An AH Cliche?

    For anyone who's done any wikipedia editing, you might appreciate this short sci-fi story about a time traveler's bulletin board where senior time travelers constantly have to stop newbies from killing Hitler: http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html

  14. The Cast of Watchmen Movie, with pictures

    The Comedian always had a mask in the comic. Here's a picture from wikipedia: And the Silk Spectre doesn't look too different from the comic either, here's how her costume looked:

  15. Your choices for a modern LXG

    Anyone read the new LXG set in 1958, The Black Dossier? Features James Bond and Emma Peel and Orwell's 1984 and oblique references to "The Prisoner" and even a little cameo by the Tardis...there's a set of annotations here where you can find all the references, although obviously it has a lot of...

  16. Plausibility Check: Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrid Army

    No, see this post from 3quarksdaily: The post goes on to talk about new methods of studying these differences in organization.

  17. Plausibility Check: Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrid Army

    There isn't really much scientific basis for genus classifications, it's basically a matter of convention, and isn't a good guide to genetic similarity. If Linneas were creating his system today he might well put humans and chimps in the same genus. And there are examples of animals that have a...

  18. Superman a nazi

    Reminds me of a science fiction story where most of the Norse pantheon takes Germany's side in WWII, but Loki joins the Allies: Thor Meets Captain America

  19. Superman a nazi

    He could fly in the old Fleischer Superman cartoons in 1941-1943 too. According to the Powers and abilities section of the Superman wikipedia page, "When making the cartoons, the Fleischer Brothers found it difficult to keep animating him leaping and requested to DC to change his ability to flying."

  20. Superman a nazi

    Also see the short story Übermensch!, about baby Kal-El's ship landing in Germany and him becoming a Nazi superhero. See here for info on where it's been published, you can find cheap used copies of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection and New Worlds 1 on amazon.
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