AH Title and Description Game

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

The Battle Of Galveston

A short TL about a single naval battle in a war between the United Principalities of America (UPA), the Empire of Mexico and the Republic of Texas in 1873. In the Battle of Galveston the Imperial Navy managed to defeat the United Principalities Navy onyl to be crushed by the much smaller Texan Navy. This decisive Texan victory ended the war and assured Texan independence for at least the next twenty years. The whole TL was written in the style of a typical military history book with a short description of the reasons for the war and the events leading to the battle and very detailed description of the battle with an analysis and a description of the aftermath. But no PoD was given.




Choose (and write at least four sentences! But more would be better.)
The Drakes - England's First Family of the Admirality
or
The Slave who would be Queen
or
Islamic Nudism and the Kamasutra
or
The Queendom of Lesbos
or
The History of China - From the Republican Interlude to the Mao Dynasty
or
Caligula the Great
or
Secrets of the Boudoir

 

[Shiva]

The Queendom of Lesbos

A fantasy TL in which the Grecian poet Sappho is granted psychic powers by Skippy the Alien Space Bat and a desire for conquest. Sappho then uses her ability to control people's minds to establish her own Queendom with the island of Lesbos as her capital and personal playground.

Queen Sappho I then reverses her cultures patriarchy into a matriarchy in which the women dominate and reduce the male population down to a more managble number to be used as breeding stock. Relations between men and women are then used for making children, marriages only occur between women and are about growing wealth than genetic legacy.

The author of the story, CommuneGal9832 admitted that the entire TL was a personal fantasy of hers, a way to showcase feminist ideals in the ancient world.

Many questioned if it was a proper TL or soft-core pornography, the debate of which led the author to announce that she was leaving AlternateHistory.com in favor of trying to write a novel. A novel that was made available on Amazon.com a month later and had an eerie resemblance to her Queendom of Lesbos TL, which caused many to believe that the whole thing was just a promo for an e-book.


Faygo: The Drink of Champions!

or

A Murder in Venice

or

Models Who Can't Find a Job

or

The Triumph of the Light: The Rise of Manicheanism in the Middle East

or

Hear the Plantagenet Lions Roar!

or

Butterflies in the Hague

 

[Pesigalam]

A Murder in Venice

A TL exploring what would have happened if the 1997 St Mark's Campanile Assault by the Venetian nationalists had turned deadly. TL is written in via in-universe articles, news-reals, books and interviews. The story is purposefully vague on whether it was the nationalists or the Italian Carabinieri that escalated things, but the outcome of the event turning bloody is an increased crackdown on regionalism and nationalism across Europe, leading to increased European integration and the UK leaving the E.U. in 2006. With stronger integration the Greek financial crisis is avoided and Europe is set to become a federation in 2020.

"Foolish White Man! You can't beat the power of Navaho Neutrinos!"

OR

"Exploring the Americas: from the lizard-civilizations of the Andes to the Kamchatkan settlers of Beringia"

OR

The Australian Ayatollah

OR

"East of the American Empire stands the Fortress of Freedom..."

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

"Foolish White Man! You can't beat the power of Navaho Neutrinos!"

A TL about a group of native American superhero calling themselves Navaho Neutrinos and their fight against a supervillain called White Man. Or is it about a young native American daydreaming about being a superhero who is fighting for the native American cause? Or are the Navaho Neutrinos the villains and the White Man the hero? No one really knows because the storyline is so complicated and inscrutable that in the end it is unclear what is real and what is imagination. The writer said that he was inspired by the works of Phillip K. Dick, David Lynch and Neil Gaiman and that even he does not know the truth.






Choose (and write at least four sentences! But more would be better.)
The Drakes - England's First Family of the Admirality
or
The Slave who would be Queen
or
Islamic Nudism and the Kamasutra
or
The Naked Queen
or
The History of China - From the Republican Interlude to the Mao Dynasty
or
Caligula the Great
or
Secrets of the Boudoir

 

[Pesigalam]

The Naked Queen

An AH/sci-fi story whose main character is Tsarevna Petrovna, a sapient naked mole rat queen. At the start of the story, Petrovna finds herself exiled following a coup led by her sister Stalsofia who takes control of the hive-city (naked mole rats in this story, like their real-life counterparts, are eusocial and breeding queens control other members of society through pheromones). Stalsofia despises her sister for perusing new philosophies, ideas and technologies instead of keeping to tradition and sends Petrovna to the "Temples of Eternity" -- caverns close to the scorched, unlivable surface where mole-rats retreat to live in solitude, finding themselves and their god. But in the cavern-monasteries Petrovna's curious mind discovers secrets of the legendary surface-dwellers -- bipedal giants that according to myth once ruled the surface-world before disappearing -- and a technology that may just help her take back her kingdom.

The story is inspired by a variety of sources, including the Rats of NIMH while Petrovna & Stalsofia are based on Peter the great and his sister Sophia (with their roles being reversed, since Sophia was the one to find herself exiled to a nunnery by Peter).

The Hyenas of the Balkans -- Executive Outcomes and the Yugoslav Civil War

OR

Exploring the Americas: from the marsupial civilizations of the Andes to the Kamchatkan warrior-monks of Beringia

OR

The Australian Ayatollah

OR

"East of the American Empire stands the Fortress of Freedom..."

 

[ramones1986]

Exploring the Americas: from the marsupial civilizations of the Andes to the Kamchatkan warrior-monks of Beringia

An alternate history scenario written in style of a travelogue, narrating the different civilizations that existed in both North and South America before the European colonization. The PODs behind the series was diverse, including ASB elements such as surviving marsupials in South America (and their role in civilizations that sprang up there such as the Inca) and the significant part of the early native Americans and their descendants having light-colored eyes (e.g. blue,gray,green) due to a "defect". The timeline was a fan favorite, especially in the part on narrating the mixed Beothuk-Scandinavian civilization of Vinland and the East Asian presence (Tocharians included) in the Pacific Northwest coast.



Choose your pick:

a.) Bahasa Namayan/Filipina: The Full History of the Philippine Malay Language

b.) Meluhha: The Epic of an Alternate India

c.) Chaldea and Erek: The Complicated and Intertwined Histories of the Two Nations

d.) Aoreatoa: The History of Zealandia and its People

e.) The United Kingdoms of Ternate, Tidore and (most of) New Guinea

f.) La Quintrala de Manila

g.) The Borgias of America: The Story of Grand Duchy of Ecuador

 

[Pesigalam]

La Quintrala de Manila

A TL that explores what may have happened if the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines never ended. No exact POD is given, but it is know that never lost power and died in office. Following this, his wife Imelda Marcos takes control of the country. Although the Phillipines are just as corrupt and more authoritarian Imelda works hard to build a façade of modernity, wanting to turn Philippines into the "Japan of the South" by attracting investment via various means (such as no workers rights (well, even less than OTL at least)). By 2015 she is known by her enemies as the La Quintrala de Manila, a nod too Catalina de los Ríos (Imelda coloured her hair red in this TL)

The Hyenas of the Balkans -- Executive Outcomes and the Yugoslav Civil War

OR

Beetles and Bedouins

OR

The Australian Ayatollah

OR

"East of the American Empire stands the Fortress of Freedom..."

 

[OldNavy1988]

A TL that explores what may have happened if the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines never ended. No exact POD is given, but it is know that never lost power and died in office. Following this, his wife Imelda Marcos takes control of the country. Although the Phillipines are just as corrupt and more authoritarian Imelda works hard to build a façade of modernity, wanting to turn Philippines into the "Japan of the South" by attracting investment via various means (such as no workers rights (well, even less than OTL at least)). By 2015 she is known by her enemies as the La Quintrala de Manila, a nod too Catalina de los Ríos (Imelda coloured her hair red in this TL)

The Hyenas of the Balkans -- Executive Outcomes and the Yugoslav Civil War

OR

Beetles and Bedouins

OR

The Australian Ayatollah

OR

"East of the American Empire stands the Fortress of Freedom..."

The Australian Ayatollah

An ASB of an otherwise implausible Iranian invasion of Australia, where a puppet Ayatollah is unleashed onto the unsuspecting Australian people by 1983. As a result, Rupert Murdoch and other wealthy Aussies are exiled to other countries, while back home, alcohol, fast food, casinos and video games from the West are banned from entering the land down under.

A Family Tradition: An Alternate history of The Walt Disney Company

Order Up: An ATL of Denny's aggressive European expansion

16 Bit Mayhem: The Alternate beginnings of the ESRB

Or...

An Irresistible Force: An Alternate evolution of Star Wars

 

[Historyman 14]

An Irresistible Force: An Alternate evolution of Star Wars

In this, Star Wars was not made by George Lucas, but by a female another named Maya Rees. In this TL, Star Wars are first a 3 part novel series in the 1980s about coming of age heroes and they role in the last days of a evil Empire full of action, love, lies, and etc. The TL next move was Maya Rees doing the Prequel movies as books too that makes it into the spotlight big time. Although the original was poorly done, a Mark 2 was made and was done much better.

Gods of Old Awaken: on the return of the ancient Gods in the Morden Age

Persian Sunset: American Invasion of Iran in 1979/1980.

By Ra's Light, I Stand Once More: A longer lasting Ancient Egypt.

 

[Miss Teri]

Gods of Old Awaken: On the return of the ancient Gods in the Morden Age

In a world where magic and gods of all religions exist simultaneously, there had been a conflict in the late 1400's, early 1500's between the Greco-Roman Gods and the Gods of the Americas over who shall reign over the Americas. Eventually, as colonization continued, the Greco-Roman gods managed to win the conflict, and drive the indigenous gods into hiding. Now, as older pagan gods begin to reassert themselves in Eastern Europe, destroying the Greco-Roman stronghold, weakening their power over the Americas. This allosws the native gods of America to emerge from their hiding, and battle for supremacy. The gods from all the pantheons form an alliance to drive the Roman gods out. They gain enough converts to formally reestablish control. However, the ending implies that the alliance is slowly falling apart...
How the Martian Frontier was Won
or
Rhapsody in Red

 

[shiftygiant]

Rhapsody in Red

An experimental Timeline that portrays the Labour Party collapsing in the 1930's, and the Social-Unionist Party that takes it's place. Considered a fairly bog standard timeline, what made it interesting was its presentation, told entirely as a poem. This gave it some acclaim, although as the 1980's come and the SUP are in power, the plausibility has been thrown into question.

'Tunnock's Tea Cakes would be fine, Jack'
or
O' Lord Direct us
or
April is the Cruelest Month
or
To Live and Die in Warsaw

 

[orwelans II]

April is the Cruelest Month

After two decades of unrest and economic decline, Germany and Austria are occupied with little resistance in 1940 by the ever growing USSR. At first the population of Vienna isn't overly hostile to their new overlords, hoping that the political change and economic ties with the east might improve their lives. After a few years under the new opressive regime and almost no positive changes, they begin to overwhelmingly despise the Soviets, but most are too afraid to show it.

In early April, one of the city's most famous painters (we all know who this is) paints a protest mural overnight in the city centre. In the morning, as he is standing in front of it before the curious passerbys, he is taken away by the security forces.

A few weeks later he is reported to have hanged himself on his 55th birthday while in NKVD custody. Soon, the city erupts in spontaneous protest, but the protestors are soon killed in their thousands by the Red Army.

The painter's dog dies of starvation soon after.

(I hope this April was cruel enoug)

To Cree or not to Cree
or
Allies with Negritude

 

[Historyman 14]

After two decades of unrest and economic decline, Germany and Austria are occupied with little resistance in 1940 by the ever growing USSR. At first the population of Vienna isn't overly hostile to their new overlords, hoping that the political change and economic ties with the east might improve their lives. After a few years under the new opressive regime and almost no positive changes, they begin to overwhelmingly despise the Soviets, but most are too afraid to show it.

In early April, one of the city's most famous painters (we all know who this is) paints a protest mural overnight in the city centre. In the morning, as he is standing in front of it before the curious passerbys, he is taken away by the security forces.

A few weeks later he is reported to have hanged himself on his 55th birthday while in NKVD custody. Soon, the city erupts in spontaneous protest, but the protestors are soon killed in their thousands by the Red Army.

The painter's dog dies of starvation soon after.

(I hope this April was cruel enoug)

To Cree or not to Cree

A Before 1900, it is about the Cree of Canada slowly coming together and build they own nation. By the time of 1492, they are more like the Mesoamerica civilizations in ways of building and so on. Although still conquer by th French and British, (A bit bloody) they carry on in fighting the Europeans for a time, and keep they culture.

Although the start and events later on are a bit or more ASB, it is a good and thought-out TL on Native Americans.

The Galaxy Divided: A Star Wars TL.

Is London burning?

The Orange Lion and The Rising Sun: A Dutch/Japanese TL.

 

[Pesigalam]

Is London burning?

During the First Gulf War the Iraqis manage to sink the Royal Navy's flagship in the region, HMS London, with a luck missile strike. The war has the same outcome as OTL but the burning & sinking of London is caught on camera and is used for propaganda reasons by Saddam and his supporters. Posters showing the smoking ship and the words "Is London Burning?" appear all over Iraq. The humiliation of the event causes the UK conservative government to loose their re-election in 1992 but they manage to come back to power in 1997 with Iain Smith becoming PM. The UK government is eager to avenge their earlier humiliation and ends up going to war with Saddam together with Jordan (the Kingdom of Jordan and Iraq have boarder skirmishes in the 1990s of this TL, resulting in war). The TL was considered unrealistic by some but was considered great as a techno-thriller, particularly the passages describing the Victor bombers being brought back into services and being sent on bombing runs or Bagdad and the parts written from the POV of Iraqi Republican Guard SCUD operators.

The Hyenas of the Balkans -- Executive Outcomes and the Yugoslav Civil War

OR

Beetles and Bedouins

OR

"East of the American Empire stands the Fortress of Freedom..."

OR

Yesterday's Yeltsin is Tomorrow's Tymoshenko

 

[Shiva]

Yesterday's Yeltsin is Tomorrow's Tymoshenko

The sequel to the AU 'Fast Times in Gorbachev's USSR' in which the Soviet Union was successfully reformed into the Union of Sovereign States (USS). It details the brief presidency of Boris Yeltsin (Union Party) that ended in drunken failure and economic disaster followed by the presidency of Yulia Tymoshenko (All-Republics Party) from the Ukrainian Republic.

President Tymoshenko was presented as more successful in guiding the USS through the pressure to completely abandon Socialism in favor of Capitalism, however the growing failures in the former USSR republics that became capitalist states helped vindicate her 'Policy of Economic Logic' that was effectively European Social Democracy with more controls.

President Yulia continued the social liberalization policies of the first USS President, Mikhail Gorbachev, ending the last USSR controls on culture.

She also fought against the 'Russian Mafia' that had emerged during the Soviet Period due to endemic corruption with mixed results.

Tymoshenko was elected to two terms before her government was brought down in 2001 over questions regarding several scandals from members of her cabinet and the TL ends with a promise for a forthcoming third part in the 'Reformed USSR Trilogy'.


The Drink of Champions

or

The Rise of the House of Guise

or

Ex-Models, Now Terrorists

or

The Triumph of the Light: The Rise of Manicheanism in the Middle East

or

Hear the Plantagenet Lions Roar!

or

Butterflies in the Hague

 

[Emperor Norton I]

The Drink of Champions

An alternate history of the United States where alcohol consumption remains rampant as it was prior to Prohibition. Alcohol is viewed as a mainstay of the common American diet, with all that entails. Vignettes include Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon hammered, the administration of Billy Carter, and an end to the Cold War as done via a drinking contest.



Three Terms For The Dullard

Lion Fire

We Die On A Rock

 

[Kibbutznik]

An alternate history of the United States where alcohol consumption remains rampant as it was prior to Prohibition. Alcohol is viewed as a mainstay of the common American diet, with all that entails. Vignettes include Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon hammered, the administration of Billy Carter, and an end to the Cold War as done via a drinking contest.



Three Terms For The Dullard

Lion Fire

We Die On A Rock

We Die on a Rock

A pseudo-comedic Pre-1900 TL, We Die On A Rock's main POD is that instead of facing execution, King Louis XVI is imprisoned on the island of Elba.

The Napoleonic Wars continue as OTL, with the Congress of Vienna, possessing an appreciation of cruel irony, forcing Napoleon to share a cell with last French king of the 18th century.

The TL transcribes the reconciliation of the two rulers, who, having nothing else to do, begin to lament their mistakes and theorize of opportunities missed.

As The Argonians Say, "Cagatio!"

The Jew in Berlin

A House Painted Black

The Fool and I

 

[Emperor Norton I]

We Die on a Rock

A pseudo-comedic Pre-1900 TL, We Die On A Rock's main POD is that instead of facing execution, King Louis XVI is imprisoned on the island of Elba.

The Napoleonic Wars continue as OTL, with the Congress of Vienna, possessing an appreciation of cruel irony, forcing Napoleon to share a cell with last French king of the 18th century.

The TL transcribes the reconciliation of the two rulers, who, having nothing else to do, begin to lament their mistakes and theorize of opportunities missed.

An AH "Waiting For Godot"? You should write this.

 

[Miss Teri]

The Fool and I

Bob Hope never makes it big as a comedian, and remains doing vaudville shows into the late 30's. This AH short story revolves around an unnamed visitor watching one of Hope's shows in 1938, and meeting him backstage. They have a very long conversation about the nature of comedy, and what it means to have fame. Hope talks about his aspirations of breaking out of performing these shows, and how he has been trying to do so. While having his OTL comic style, there is a clear tragic tone in his voice over the way his career has been going. The story ends with the protagonist and Hope agreeing to continue corresponding. Praised for its look into how fame can easily be taken away.

How the Martian Frontier was Won
or
The Hottest Spot North of Havana

 

[Historyman 14]

The Hottest Spot North of Havana

A TL dealing with a US Invasion of Cuba in the late 1980s. The cause of it was when US citizens are killed by Cuban spies when said Spies are founds. Things quickly get out of hand, but what truly starts WW3 is when it was revealed that Cuba still had nuclear weapons from 1962, hidden away, which are used on US forces in Cuba itself, and Florida. Headlines take over the USSR, and the Third World War breaks out.

Although ASB in cases such as the nuclear weapons, and the Invasion, it is well liked by the POVs, from American citizens in Florida, to Cuban soldiers fighting the Marians.

Children Of Hades.

To The Land of Ra: A Ancient Egyptian ISOT.

Woe is to Dixieland.