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Super-Detailed Synopsis: Boing Boing From Amazon's book description: I haven't read the book, as I just heard about it this morning. The premise sounds very ASB, especially since this alternate world mirrors our own in terms of events and people but roles completely reversed. Thoughts?

Book Synopsis Link SPOILERS AHEAD - for any Orson Scott Card fans or sci-fi readers in general, I recommend this book! *-----------* I really enjoyed this novel, though it did leave me with the feeling that the future depicted here - that is, OTL future - could happen to us...

I just finished reading this rather disturbing book, One Second After, a near-future novel that takes the question "What if an EMP goes off over the United States" and answers it by following a family in North Carolina from the moment it occurs to a year after what they called "the Day". I...

Perhaps China managed to work out a deal with Russia for the majority of their oil after the civil wars in the Middle East pretty much ended safe delivery of oil from there. Now, with the American economy struggling under the effects of ridiculously-high gas prices throughout most industries...

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According to wikipedia, the BMT always made a profit, up until they were purchased, and the IRT, although there was no indication of their financial status, was constructing several elevated tracks throughout Manhattan prior to their being bought out. The reason they were both purchased was...

With all the various subjects that involves world-changing PODs, I decided to throw my 2 cents into the fray. Of course, my entrant isn't as big as WWII PODs or anything close to that magnitude... or is it? I've always had a fascination with the mass transit systems of the world, New York City...

I used Impact, a standard font that should come with all Windows PCs. Using Photoshop, I applied the following enhancements (in case you're interested in making a similar effect): Stroke (Fill Type:color (black), Outside, 1px)- most important, as it will make your text visible on almost all...

"This is one of many variations of a poster in a popular ad campaign that's been pushed by the government for nearly 60 years now. As of 2005 over 50 million immigrants have been greenlisted and deported since the Language Cleansing Act of 1947 was passed. 'NEAT' stands for 'National English...

Well, not time travel in the conventional sense. More like one person (in this case, Reeves) being able to alter some aspects of future history (where Bullock resides, two years in the future), using the mailbox at the waterfront house as a communications portal between the time periods.

I'm actually pretty interested in this movie, specifically because of the time travel aspect. There's a scene in the preview where Reeves plants a tree for Bullock and, two years later, its grown really big. Yeah, it's minor things, but I'm still interested. :)

By Harry Turtledove I finished the book yesterday and overall I enjoyed reading it! I don't want to spoil the book for any Turtledove fans here, but for those that did read it, can you answer me this one question: Did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in this AT or not? I believe that if Pearl Harbor...

I will admit that I lost most of my interest in the show at the end of season 2, when they killed Arturo and went to some sort of uber-futuristic parallel earth. But IMO season 1 was the best season out of the whole series because most of the worlds they visited in those eps were believable...

http://www.earthprime.com/default.asp This Sliders ultimate fansite offers one thing that I found to be very interesting: The Travelogue. Here, hardcore fans of the show went through (apparently) every single world that the show created (even if they were on it for only the first or last 2...

Here is a flag of the American Empire, a flag that would symbolize the entire world under the rule of a highly aggressive and patriotic America: