When You Wish Upon a Star: Comment Thread
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I wonder how the video game industry will develop... I hope that the Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. are still around.
Yes, I would also love an update on this excellent, nay, unparalleled timeline.
Scipio
Scipio
I devoured this entire story so far over the last few days, and actually registered on this forum just so I could tell you how awesome it was. I'm a big fan of alternate history, but the pickings of real quality work are pretty slim IMO (I even find a lot of Harry Turtledove's work to be pretty silly sometimes). But this is everything I look for: a single allowance of a far-out concept to get the story rolling, followed by a thoughtful look at what the repercussions might be.
A few others have asked what's happening with various real life figures, and there's one that hasn't been addressed yet that I'm a bit curious about: Alex Haley. His early successes (writing articles for Playboy (including an interview with George Rockwell!) and co-writing The Autobiography of Malcolm X) have already been taken from him, so there's no way Roots is in the future even without regarding the shattered race relations. But what has he been doing instead?
A few others have asked what's happening with various real life figures, and there's one that hasn't been addressed yet that I'm a bit curious about: Alex Haley. His early successes (writing articles for Playboy (including an interview with George Rockwell!) and co-writing The Autobiography of Malcolm X) have already been taken from him, so there's no way Roots is in the future even without regarding the shattered race relations. But what has he been doing instead?
pnyckqx
Banned
Seeing as how Springsteen is all of 12 or 13 years old at this time, he's probably not doing much. The Stones --if they're even playing under that name-- are in the UK, so they're not too affected. Dylan is the wildcard because the folk/protest movement is as dead as the civil rights movement.
Something I do wonder about... whatever happened to our old friend Dr. Seuss in this timeline? Is he still the author he was OTL, or has he taken on a new role?
The topic came too soon...if the author wasn't planning on at least releasing one more update since the initial post, he really shouldn't have released this one at all.
President Al Bundy
Banned
Maybe we should act like little brats and complain so long until he updates his TL. 