The only way this could remotely even make sense is if he became a Communist pre-World War I. Say the starving artist befriends Stalin and/or Trotsky in 1913/4 when all three lived in Vienna and somehow joined the Bolshevik movement instead of moving to Germany, immigrating to Russia during the...
The most likely answers are boring ones like "domestication of a different canid or felid like a lynx or coyote or something". Pigeons are even easier since historically they were domesticated.
The dodo and/or the Mascarenes Giant Tortoise would be fun.
As for sugar gliders, iirc the main...
Some other bbs would replace soc.history.what-if as the water cooler of AH. Or maybe said community gathers on Friendster, Digg, or Orkut or something.
Less ASB than my idea of German soldiers crossing the channel by riding on the backs of trained sealions, at least. 😛
Seriously, building a land causeway over the channel is technically possible but doing so in the middle of a shooting war is infeasible unless the British sonehow collectively...
The point is they didn't. They made home computers, which totally aren't video game consoles, honest - William Shatner will gladly explain to you the difference (look up on youtube the ads he did for rival Commodore's VIC-20).
Sir Clive Sinclair was a slightly goofy British inventor and...
...the issue with this premise is that by far the easiest method of making a pop-cultural dystopia is to make an actual dystopia. Whether it's Nuclear War causing a civilizational collapse, or global domination of one or more horrifying ideologies (theocratic, fascist, totalitarian-communist...
.....this is entirely too vague to make much sense.
When would they win and what are the specific circumstances of the victory?
The Union of American Socialist Republics winning the Space Race against the Canadian Space Travel Office and the Republic of China? The Free Trade Agreement of the...
One example of a Draka-esque Dark Mirror:
France wins the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War or at least retains its North American territories, but still (handwaves) have a French Revolution a couple of decades down the line and becomes/remains Republican. A remnant of the Ancien Régime...
Pre-World War II POD would be needed, or having Disney open Disney World at least half a decade earlier than OTL. By the mid-1950s, open segregation of public facilities would have been controversial outside of the South and some rural/small town areas (e.g. "sundown" towns in the Midwest/West).
....I'm of the view that it would have made far more sense for the United States to join the Central Powers than the Entente in the Draka-verse, given the Drakian aid to the Confederacy (not to mention their very existence as a slaveholding power vs a US that actually had a more thorough...
Assuming there is no ceasefire or truce, about as long as it takes until the WAllies can manufacture hundreds of nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them into German cities reliably (given advancing technology and greater German air defense capabilities without an Eastern Front, this...
Do something to make and keep fuel prices sky-high in the United States starting as early as possible, preferably in the 1950s or earlier (I am not sure if there's a plausible method to do so without far-reaching global effects e.g. World War 3), or alternatively have the US government or state...
Many of the obvious "Worst Possible Timelines" follow the same basic script: "Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies". Two examples:
Star Trek Novels: In either The Entropy Effect or The Wounded Sky, the good guys don't manage to save the day and the universe effectively ceases to exist, either through...