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  1. What TL hasn't been done that you would like to read?

    A well-written, well researched TL wherein the Umayyads successfully invade and conquer Gaul. And the aftermath thereof.

  2. The Ruins of an American Party System: From 1920 Onward

    It's been awhile since I've had the pleasure of reading such a fascinating timeline. Subscribed!

  3. Quick question: what exactly is defined as ASB?

    I have always defined ASB as whatever is flat out impossible, such as magic or comic-book superheroes. For different reasons I also consider ancient astronauts to be ASB, however a future timeline revolving around first contact with non-human sentient life, not necessarily so.

  4. AHC: Prevent the "dark age of comic books"

    Wasn't the whole "Dark Age" thing sort of a natural result of the Comics Code finally starting to go away? Had there never been a Code to begin with the comic book ecosystem may well have been much better over all in terms of both quality and diversity.* *And by "diversity" I mean "not just...

  5. The Fountainhead Filibuster: Tales from Objectivist Katanga

    Oh, baby. Now this is just plain smexy, I loves me a good Dystopia! I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

  6. A Grayer Lord of the Rings?

    Really? That is one of the things which attracted me to it early on, that feeling of being placed in a very alternate earth. I got the same vibe from LotR, though to a lesser extent. Well, to each his own.

  7. A Grayer Lord of the Rings?

    That would be veerrry interesting. *Starts imagining some of the possible couplings* :D

  8. A Grayer Lord of the Rings?

    One gets that historical feeling most strongly in the early books. For me it tends to fade as the story goes on and events become increasingly apocalyptic. Even here, Martin handles the elements of magic and whatnot with the kind of restraint you don't often see in fantasy. Magic especially...

  9. A Grayer Lord of the Rings?

    All this talk of Tolkien, high fantasy and shades of gray yet no mention of Martin's masterful Game of Thrones? For shame! Mind you, GoT is more bottom-of-the-mineshaft pitch black than gray, but still...

  10. WI: Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie killed by Orsini's bomb

    Hmmm. One wonders how Bismarck plans to lure alt-France into a war in this TL. Or will butterflies take care of all that? Either way you have me interested.

  11. Alternate History Pet Peeves

    1) Scenarios where X is changed at Y point in history and yet all the same people and events keep happening on time as though the author had never heard of the Butterfly Effect 2) Endless ACW 3) Endless WWII 4) The idea that National Socialism and Fascism belong on the Left end of the...

  12. Damned Turtledove

    This sort of thing is why I try to avoid common, vastly overused PODs (American Civil War, WW2) in favor of more obscure WIs.

  13. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand get their own Windsor royal families

    Oh hell no. King William, if you please. :D

  14. A Soccer TL - Thoughts/Butterflies

    I posted this scenario once several years ago but I couldn't really come with with a proper POD. I suspect that for football to become as big Stateside as it is in the rest of the world one of the big three - basketball, baseball or (American) football - has to somehow fail to catch on over...

  15. WI: David Lynch directs Return of the Jedi...

    WOW. Now that would have been a truly vast improvement over the tripe which we actually got, IMOHO of course.

  16. Alternate Alternate Stirling Timelines

    Without the Draka my username might be a bit different. ;) As far as airships go I am pretty certain that they were a staple of AH long before Stirling.

  17. WI George Lucas had directed Flash Gordon instead of Star Wars?

    From what I understand he wanted it to be what Star Wars was: a contemporary take on the old sci-fi serials of the 1930s, sort of as a counterpoint to the then-current prominence of serious "message" films. I think that if he kept the same sense of fun and adventure that went into OTL Star...

  18. WI George Lucas had directed Flash Gordon instead of Star Wars?

    The idea for this came from here (interesting interview, by the way): "For Kurtz, the popular notion that “Star Wars” was always planned as a multi-film epic is laughable. He says that he and Lucas, both USC film school grads who met through mutual friend Francis Ford Coppola in the late...

  19. Been Winning So Long, I've Lost It - The Long War TL

    I hope so. This really is one of the better alt-WOT timelines that I've ever read; it would be a shame to see it go cobweb.

  20. Alternate symbol for Nazi German.

    For some reason, it makes me think of a pair of bollocks. ^_^;
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