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I Will Either Find A Way, Or Go Home
Sin, Sedition and the Silver Screen
The Red River
Crying For Reason
I Will Either Find A Way, Or Go Home
Sin, Sedition and the Silver Screen
The Red River
Crying For Reason
AH Title and Description Game
- Thread starter Emperor Norton I
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An alternate history version of "Inherit the Wind," set in a world where William Jennings Bryan won the 1900 US Presidential election, eventually leading to the US becoming a Christian theocratic dictatorship in 1940. A visiting English biologist (implied to be Julian Huxley, the descendant of Thomas Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog") is put on trial for advocating the theory of Evolution in public. Despite the fact that he knows he will lose the legal battle, the scientist puts up a valiant effort, trying to stand up for science,evolution, and rationalism, vigorously defending evolution, and denying the creationist leanings of the prosecutors. While he is convicted and jailed for his advocacy of "amoral teaching, the diplomatic fallout leads to his release, whereupon he puts down his defense in a book called A Defense of Evolution, which is distributed in the US following the fall of the Christian dictatorship.
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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The Corn Curtain
A Timeline about a divided United States into four countries. The US, The CSA, the Midwestern Alliance, and the Pacific Republic. After a devastating war between the four nations, split into the Eastern and Western Alliance, a so called Corn Curtain descended across the Continent. The Democratic US and CSA and the Socialist Pacific and Midwestern states. The so called Cold War lasted for 80 years as both sides threatened to destroy each other with their massive military forces and their Sunbombs. It finally came to an end when the US imploded, the CSA's racial tensions boiled over and the Pacific Republic and the Midwestern Alliance went to war. The Third Great War had begun.
I Can't Do this Anymore
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Blood in Death Valley
A satirical TL about the Trump administration in which Trump resigns in anger after the midterm elections which were won by the Democrats who now dominate the Congress. The TL describes how Trump's own policy of being a loose cannon led to this. "I can't do this anymore" is always given as the reason for their resignation by several members of his cabinet (including two vice presidents) during the two years of his presidency.
The Nude Society
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The Lords of the Horizon
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The Tea Wars
A TL on an alternative Opium War that has been widely controversial on AH.com. In TTL, ageing and increasingly delusional Emperor hiratus Qianlong lived 10 years longer than in OTL, but many speculated that he was already dead by then. While China officially refused to open up the market as in OTL, de facto ruler Heshen in TTL did his best to profit from state-sponsored tea trade with Britain, and in return China opened up the port of Shanghai to British merchants, so as to fund Heshen's corrupt dealing. In 1809, Emperor Jiaqing staged a coup against Hesheng, and he announced that his father has died, so that he would assume full duties of the imperial throne. Emperor Jiaqing banned tea exports to Europe, and closed Shanghai to British merchants. After fierce debate in both Houses of Parliament, Britain declared war on China, exploiting on the ban of tea export. China was badly defeated. The British were allowed to have monopoly on Chinese tea export, and they begin to exploit tea farmers in China. China was forced to open up earlier than in OTL. A revolt by tea farmers in 1841 would bring the 2nd Tea War, which was fought along the Sino-Indian borders.
Taipei Spring
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Miss Vientiane
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The Presidency of Stephenie Meyer
A future TL about Taiwan. As time progresses Taiwan grows increasingly authoritarian as the KMT consolidates power under their Party, eventually going so far as to abolish all offices of government except the President. This starts a student revolt starting in Taipei University in support of Kun Wang, a member of the opposition Taiwanese Democratic Party which was broken up by the Party in the 2030's. The US supported the budding Taipei Spring and sent the students moral support and pledged Wang recognition or asylum based on how things went. The TL ended with China stepping in during the Taipei Rebellion and annexing Taiwan.
Die Viet!
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Can't Touch This
A timeline where Dai Viet remains stable in the 1800's and industrializes. The British attack in the 1860's attempting to expand north from Malaya but eventually withdraw after being very badly bloodied. This is repeated by the French in the 1890's expanding from Cambodia, the Americans in the 1910's expanding from the Philippines, the Japanese in the 1930's, and the Communist Chinese in the 1960's. Each and every time the enemy is never conclusivley defeated but the attempt to take Vietnam is made so bloody that it is not worth taking.
Don't Let's be Beastly to the Germans
A TL exploring propaganda in an alternate World War I, where the Britain and Germany were allies against France-Russia-Italy. The propaganda villainizes France and Russia, whilst Germany was considered the paragon of western civilization, standing alongside Britain in its battle. In one poster the author drew himself, Germany is the knight St. George, fighting the two headed dragon Russia and France. The title is a reference to an OTL poster depicting Germany as a gorilla, and the ATL attitudes. The war is finished with an Anglo-German victory, and the alliance becomes a full-on union between the two countries.
The US vs. Hugh Hefner
Playboy is prosecuted for obscenity shortly after its founding in the 50's. The case is won by Hefner and it is ruled that all forms of pornography is constitutionally protected. The title refers as much to the ensuing political and social backlash as it does to the court case. Said case leads to an earlier sexual revolution, a 1980's style culture war in the 50's and a very different civil rights movement.
Turned out Nice Again, Didn't It
Yeltsin suddenly drops dead in 1992, leading to Alexander Rutskoy becoming President. This leads to a significantly less screwed up economy and little electoral fraud. Following the 2000 elections, Sergey Kiriyenko becomes President, continuing the reconstruction of Russia with significant economic reforms, and the 2008 elections are won by Alexander Lebed, who survives to present day as the Mi-8 incident doesn't happen.
Legacy of Lunatic Tsardom
(Here's me trying to get the ball rolling again)
Tsar Ivan the Fourth's sanity snaps after he accidentally kills his son and heir. Not long after, the now insane Tsar initiates a purge of anyone he suspects to be plotting against him; killing them in cruel and unsual ways. It would be the first of the many horrors commited by the Caligula of the Third Rome, or as history would remember him - Ivan the Terrible...
The TL is told through the POVs of a Nobleman, two of his sons, several palace servants and Ivan himself (with his parts showing surreal and terrifying view of his reign of terror)
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(And here's Four titles to choose from)
One with the Wind and Sky
Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kaiser!
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
Tsar Ivan the Fourth's sanity snaps after he accidentally kills his son and heir. Not long after, the now insane Tsar initiates a purge of anyone he suspects to be plotting against him; killing them in cruel and unsual ways. It would be the first of the many horrors commited by the Caligula of the Third Rome, or as history would remember him - Ivan the Terrible...
The TL is told through the POVs of a Nobleman, two of his sons, several palace servants and Ivan himself (with his parts showing surreal and terrifying view of his reign of terror)
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(And here's Four titles to choose from)
One with the Wind and Sky
Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kaiser!
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
The Austro-Prussian War ends ends with the conquest and annexation of Austria by Prussia and the Coronation of Frederick William V (TTL's son of Frederick William IV who had no issue in OTL). But a year later the Prussian-led newly founded German Empire attacked annexed the German (or Dutch) speaking parts of Switzerland, France and the Netherlands (there was no Belgian Revolution in this TL). The TL ends abruptly with the preparation of a war against Russia. At that time the hidden Nazi propaganda in the whole TL became so evident that the moderators had to act and close it. They also banned its writer and several of his most vocal supporters.
The Nude Society
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The Lords of the Horizon
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The Most Holy Roman Empire
A TL where the Santa Maria was put off course by a storm, causing it to land in what is known later in OTL as Colombia. Thinking he was in Asia, Christopher Colombus leds the surviving crew through the jungles. They brave the jungle, and lose several crew members to disease, starvation, and animal attacks. Finally, an Incan expedition finds and brings them back to Cusco. Impressed by the architecture, particularly Machu Picchu one of Colombus' men calls them "Señores del horizonte" or the Lords of the Horizon. The story ends with the Incans taking Columbus and his crew to the Pacific, with Columbus realizing that he hadn't reached Asia at all, but another place entirely.
Darwin in Australia
The Beagle gets damaged in a storm and is forced to dock in Australia for repairs, where a young Charles Darwin passes time studying the local fauna and flora, as well as the Aborigines. He takes a liking to them, and is left shaken after witnessing first-hand the cruelty of the British towards the indigenous tribes. He returns to England a changed man, and vows to dedicate the rest of his life to the cause of racial equality.
Two and a half decades later in 1860, Darwin is now one of Britain's most vocal advocates for native rights - championing the plight of Indians, Africans and other minorities within the Empire. But when his detractors begin making accusations of hypocrisy (citing the Origin of Species and his Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection), Darwin finds himself facing against his greatest challenge yet.
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(The ball moved a little bit, giving it another push)
Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
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One with the Wind and Sky
or
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
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A Civil War TL, Meade press the attack on Lee after Gettysburg. Even with suffering from exhaustion, Meade is able to cut Lee off, and force him to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to the Union Forces. With the lost of Lee, the CSA collapsed in on itself as Ulysses S. Grant and Sherman finished off the rest of the South, ending the war in late 1863. (With some still fighting up to early 1864.)
With the early end, the South is in much better shape, and Lincoln is able to send forces into Mexcio, fighting the Freach and monarchists. With this, the Freach and Maximilian are kick out of Mexico by 1865, and this leads to a bitter taste in France's mouth and a rivalry between the two for years to come as America become more Anti-European, or rather Anti Imperial.
Iron Rain.
Hail, Queen Alice.
Tales from Paris. A French Empire story. 1804 to 1904.
A TL set in an ASB Steam to Dieselpunk transitional period Europe (Circa. 1940). The continent has been locked in a Cold War between the Central Powers and the Entente ever since the Great War ended in a truce during the Winter of 1916. There has been a new arms race in the form of airships and battle-mechs, and the German Empire has now gained technological superiority to Britain.
The TL is narrated by a MI5 agent, who has been sent into Istanbul to track down a missing French scientist. There he unearths a shocking conspiracy, and soon finds himself on the run from German and Ottoman spies. It's a race against the clock as our lone agent searches for both the missing Frenchman and the secret of an elusive German weapons project called "Eiserneregen".
It is eventually revealed that "Project Eiserneregen/Iron Rain" is the German Empire's nuclear program, specifically a nuclear missle program. As for the scientist? He went rogue, and is planning to use Germany's latest weapon against itself, in order to avenge his son who died in the trenches of Verdun. With these two shocking revelations, the stakes are now dangerously higher than ever. Can our hero stop this madman and save millions of innocents from a fiery grave?
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Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
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One with the Wind and Sky
Hayao Miyazaki's Valley of the Wind gets a more faithful American translation in 1985. The critical acclaim results in Castle in the Sky getting an earlier American release. The result is an earlier Anime boom, and American companies begin to invest more for higher quality animation. Eventually, Adult Swim is founded earlier, and Warner Bros distributes Ghibli rather than Disney.
The Texas Missile Crisis
Texas stays independent, and eventually becomes friendly with the Soviets, who station nukes there.
Due to the previous post missing a title, here are a few to choose from:
Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
Sic semper Tyrannis! - A reverse Civil War TL
Of course I can, I'm the goddamn Shah!
The rise of Napoleon IV and the Third French Empire or : How I overthrew the Commune and learned to love the Bosch
Motherland: Legacy of the Cold War
Sic semper Tyrannis! - A reverse Civil War TL
Of course I can, I'm the goddamn Shah!
The rise of Napoleon IV and the Third French Empire or : How I overthrew the Commune and learned to love the Bosch
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