Photos from Alternate Worlds
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Something from my Sparrow Avengers universe :
1999 Slovak language edition of the famous Silesian alternate history thriller, The Junebug Buzzes in the Air.
Written in the mid 1960s by the Silesian writer Tomasz Grzyb-Hoffmann, the novel imagines a world where the Falangist Party of Free Silesia (FPFS) never took control of the Kingdom of Silesia in the 1930s. The basic POD and premise of the book is that a group of the kingdom's secret agents and police detectives uncover the FPFS's dastardly plot against the Silesian monarchy in time, thwart it and after a long struggle, hunt down and arrest all the FPFS conspirators. After the events, the Party is banned and the conspirators jailed for life or expelled permanently. While the novel ends on a high and optimistic note, the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, with the author hinting that some of the Falangists might crave retribution or be up to no good in other parts of the world...
Besides the anti-FPFS alternate history plot, the novel also serves as a rebuttal and indictment of the ultranationalist ideology of the Silesian Falangists. Namely, it mocks the Party's many forgeries purported to be Silesian historical documents approving of their ideological course, as well as the Party's near-worship of the "Silic Chronicle", a forgery of a supposed early medieval chronicle proving Silesian autochtony and ethnic superiority (created in the late 19th century by fanatical Silesian patriot Heinrich Slawomir von Bielau).
Translation of the front cover :
The Junebug Buzzes in the Air
Tomasz Grzyb-Hoffmann
A novel about a world where the falangist coup d'état in Silesia failed
P.S. The title kind of parodies the novel-within-a-novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy from Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.
1999 Slovak language edition of the famous Silesian alternate history thriller, The Junebug Buzzes in the Air.
Written in the mid 1960s by the Silesian writer Tomasz Grzyb-Hoffmann, the novel imagines a world where the Falangist Party of Free Silesia (FPFS) never took control of the Kingdom of Silesia in the 1930s. The basic POD and premise of the book is that a group of the kingdom's secret agents and police detectives uncover the FPFS's dastardly plot against the Silesian monarchy in time, thwart it and after a long struggle, hunt down and arrest all the FPFS conspirators. After the events, the Party is banned and the conspirators jailed for life or expelled permanently. While the novel ends on a high and optimistic note, the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, with the author hinting that some of the Falangists might crave retribution or be up to no good in other parts of the world...
Besides the anti-FPFS alternate history plot, the novel also serves as a rebuttal and indictment of the ultranationalist ideology of the Silesian Falangists. Namely, it mocks the Party's many forgeries purported to be Silesian historical documents approving of their ideological course, as well as the Party's near-worship of the "Silic Chronicle", a forgery of a supposed early medieval chronicle proving Silesian autochtony and ethnic superiority (created in the late 19th century by fanatical Silesian patriot Heinrich Slawomir von Bielau).
Translation of the front cover :
The Junebug Buzzes in the Air
Tomasz Grzyb-Hoffmann
A novel about a world where the falangist coup d'état in Silesia failed
P.S. The title kind of parodies the novel-within-a-novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy from Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.
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Just a little GIMPing when I was bored:
A propaganda poster depicting "Comrade" George Patton, first Premier of the Union of American Socialist Republics.
A propaganda poster depicting "Comrade" George Patton, first Premier of the Union of American Socialist Republics.
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A sketch of the wreck of the RMS Titanic, made by famed German oceanographer Klaus Vonsinkenquicken after the joint US/German 1985 expedition found the wreck of the legendary liner:
A full-colour photo of the wreck of the RMS Titanic taken by famed German oceanographer Klaus Vonsinkenquicken during the second 1985 joint US/German expedition to the wreck. This confirmed that the famed ocean liner had indeed sank intact:
The first photo taken of the RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean in 85 years. This was taken shortly after Solstice Technologies raised the legendary liner from the bottom of the Atlantic:
A full-colour photo of the wreck of the RMS Titanic taken by famed German oceanographer Klaus Vonsinkenquicken during the second 1985 joint US/German expedition to the wreck. This confirmed that the famed ocean liner had indeed sank intact:
The first photo taken of the RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean in 85 years. This was taken shortly after Solstice Technologies raised the legendary liner from the bottom of the Atlantic:
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A cool picture that looks like minimal editing was required
From a world where Narnia is real and many Narnians emigrated through the wardrobe into Britain. In the early 21st century far right groups such as the EDL see Narnian communities in the UK as a threat to Britain and British people.
Titanic and Olympic together, circa 1924. The two ships had been returned to Harland and Wolff to be upgraded after the sinking of the Lusitania a few months earlier.
No it's not.
Someone edited it (you can tell by the weird "N"), and it took a minimal amount of searching to find the original image. It fits the thread though.
I stand corrected. That's admittedly somewhat disappointing as UAF are using it as a genuine pic to portray the EDL as illiterate. They shouldn't be falsifying photos though.
Re-posting from the propaganda thread 'cause this is a moving video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIZSyDD9YQ&feature=youtu.be
I made a rally video. It actually has an alternate history speech that I made by splicing together various Harry Truman lines. A guy even rushes the dictator and they all "Hail!" "America! America!" as the goons beat the guy to death. And yes, those are USA flags, with stars depicting the countries that "should" be in the Republican Union. Think of them as the emblem of Manifest Destiny in my TL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIZSyDD9YQ&feature=youtu.be
I made a rally video.
It actually has an alternate history speech that I made by splicing together various Harry Truman lines. A guy even rushes the dictator and they all "Hail!" "America! America!" as the goons beat the guy to death. And yes, those are USA flags, with stars depicting the countries that "should" be in the Republican Union. Think of them as the emblem of Manifest Destiny in my TL. - Status