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Probably more likely to be a neo-nazi/white supremacist group launching a terror attack at the inauguration.

Presuming dogs remain just as popular as pets, there could be problems - majority of dogs tend to regard rabbits as prey. (unless they're brought up with them as puppies, like with cats)

I've recently finished it A good read, but there should've been a proper map locating all the settlements, rather than just a rough one of the island and its position on the cover. I also can't help but wonder how the positioning of a large landmass in the middle of the Atlantic might've...

The New York Times 27 February 1993 Unprecedented Horror - Towers Collapse in Terrorist Bombing! America in Shock

I think the PMRC in the 80s helped increase the popularity of more extreme heavy metal (black, thrash and ultimately death and grindcore), by making it 'bad' and consequently popular with rebellious youth, like punk in the late 70's. Nirvana opened the door for more alternative and...

It was suggested in the chapter that the humans that survived the chaos of the mid 21st Century were abandoned feral 'sewer' children who had learnt to survive away from adults by fending for themselves.

Has anyone else read this book? Not explicitly alternate history, but this book traces the history of the primates (in 'Walking with Dinosaurs' like chapters) and the evolution of humans, adding some some speculative stories that could be turned into AH (but then again could've really...

About 98% of the island is permanantly covered in ice, and mean summer temperatures are believed (not that there are any stations on it) to be only a few degrees above freezing.

I could imagine the 1854 Eureka stockade leading to civil war, at least in Victoria (Australian states were separate colonial entities in the 19thC). The civil war would most likely take the form of ethnic Irish settlers (many of them ex-convicts) rising up against thier hated English overlords.

In Evolution by Stephen Baxter, humans have abused the planet and their resources so much, so that when a volcano (Rabaul in Papua New Guinea) erupts on a scale much larger than Pinatubo in 2031, that is the final straw. World civilisation goes downhill into chaos after that; eventually a war...

I've just finished reading this book. I enjoyed it, but couldn't help thinking how the Kaiser's Germany could've remained an all powerful totalitarian world power. I believe that by the time of WW1, Germany, while more authoritarian than France or the UK, at least some some semblance of...

What I'm curious about is what would be the major news events of the period from 9-11-01 to now, if the 9-11 attacks were called off and Al Qaeda decides to 'lie low'. I'm assuming unrelated or only distantly related attacks, esp in Chechnya and Russsia, still occuring. I could imagine the US...

One problem here - in 330BC I believe the Carthaginians still controlled southern Iberia/Strait of Gibraltar, and most probably wouldn't have wanted Greeks (as economic competitors) gaining influental access to the Atlantic. Didn't Pytheas have to sneak discretely through the strait to travel up...

Imagine if Bin Laden & co. decide that that a big attack on the US would not be in their interests then, and instead decide to lie relatively low, ie no major attacks for the next several years (up to at least now), so that can plan for effectively for future plots. How would world events shape...

I've somewhere (probably Nat Geographic or Time) that Sudan had liberalised (its Islamist tendencies) considerably by the end of the 90s, so maybe it wouldn't be so hospitable to extremists within its borders.