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I've just finished reading through as well. Missed it first time round, as I assumed (for some bizarre reason) that 'The Sport of Kings' referred to tennis, rather than warfare. :D Good stuff, GW! I'm very impressed - particularly like your vision of an alternate path for the papacy. Do you...

Sounds like an interesting POD, Dean. Someone should give it a shot. :)

As part of the research for the next stage of my Anti-Habsburg / Lantern Empires timeline, I thought I'd see whether you guys had any ideas as to the effects that the introduction of the optical telegraph / semaphore (a la Claude Chappe) would have on Central Europe, c. 1450-1500. Would it be...

Well, it's one of the four Home Nations. And, if it's a case of identity, then: And they're all unique situations, so saying that you can't draw a comparison is meaningless. Of course you can. It might be a comparison that reveals more differences than similarities, but it'd be a...

Get someone to dig a canal between the Qattara Depression and the Mediterranian, initally to aid irrigation projects. Later, have the Egyptian state use the heatsink and continuous evaporation to power a vast array of hydoelectric turbines, while the salt and mineral deposits left behind could...

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There's a good essay on this topic posted by Ian on the main site. - Plausibility

Phil Masters is now working on a 60+ page setting book for something with a similar premise to this one. Steampunk with a more Georgian aesthetic.

Learning and work keeps getting in the way! I'm going to do some more work on Lantern Empires next, and then return to this later. Hang in there.

Sounds like something for the Wiki.

Finally! A job for which I am qualified! :D Albeit non-paid. :(

Do you have that on some kind of authority? I want permission to be excited.

Severed Wing - in which a Jewish newspaper journalist from a world where the Holocaust never happened slowly starts to slip through into our timeline. It's not exactly a move from utopia to dystopia, but downright disturbing nonetheless.

For their pdf line of Infinite Worlds supplements. I think they're willing to pay you, as well. Thought some of you guys might be interested. http://e23.sjgames.com/gurps-wish-list.html

A single world polity would require immense repression of dissenters, and a permeation of communication technologies through all elements of international society. It's simply not plausible and, if it did happen, I don't think it'd last long.

A challenge from below, sousveillance, and - eventually - the Participatory Panopticon

Stranger things have happened in OTL.

Yup. Multiple times, as that wikipedia article explains.

So, assume this happens. What effects would a paralysed papacy have?

What about places with poor visibility, where straying from the road would end up with one drowning in a swamp?