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One thing that has not been done often is an ATL focusing on the Southern Hemisphere. For the purposes of the ATL, the idea is starting in August 1945, have the Southern Hemisphere become a major power bloc. This includes Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East, China and...

Here are some upcoming films to flag for watching: Exodus (2021) Doors (2021)

This is a new alternate history with ASB elements covering the Cold War: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-World-Sean-Patrick-Hazlett/dp/1982124911 What if the United States had gone to war with the Soviet Union? What if these rival superpowers had fought on land, sea, air, and the astral plane...

On January 1, 2000, the world was changed forever, when the Internet surpassed Kurtzweil's theories on technological progress and singularity and became sentient and self-aware. In the 20 years since that moment, our lives have all been changed in dramatic ways. Contrary to much of the pop...

In China, there is an actual knockoff Disneyland that was popular throughout the 1986 and which lasted into c. 2005, when it was shutdown due to lawsuits regarding blantant intellectual property theft. See...

Hey everybody!!! The following ATL is an attempt to build a TL that reflects the full extent of how pop culture has affected the culture world we live. As such, please feel free to add your favorite PODs for film, sports, television, video games, and other forms of entertainment... POD...

Here is a fan-made ATL site thatI found, that I think may be of interest to fans. I am not sure of the continuity changes, but it certainly deserves a look at: see: https://earth27.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-27_Wiki Earth-27 is a dynamic reinvention of the DC Comics Universe, created by Roy...

POD: August 8, 1925,.... The Ku Klux Klan marched with impunity across Pennsylvania Avenue, and in front of the White House. It would be ironic to note that this event, would actually serve as the inspiration for the rise of vigilantes and superheroes in the United States and across the globe...

The Hays Code was a set of rules that enforced censorship on the American cinema in response to the increase of public complaints about the lewd content of movies and the scandalous behavior of Hollywood movie stars. The increasingly liberal content of Hollywood films, and the scandals...

Here is the latest for a time travel film coming soon in 2020 called Antebellum: The scary premise is that something is sending women back in time to the antebellum South. The scares come when the victims are African-American women. The problem being that no matter what they say or do, they...

IDEA: Imagine the fates of the series of Star Trek and Doctor Who are switched. One will continuously run non-stop for 4 decades, to be revived again in a film 7 years later, and complete revival in the 21st century, serving as the backbone for a network. The other series will run for 3...

Watchmen has officially joined HBO’s 2019 lineup. Here’s everything to know so far about Damon Lindelof's new series. What’s the story? Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Watchmen is set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws. And while Lindelof (The...

This is something that looks interesting!!! “Portals.” The film features segments directed by genre veterans Eduardo Sanchez (“The Blair Witch Project”), Gregg Hale (“V/H/S 2”), Timo Tjahjanto (“The Night Comes For Us”) and Liam O’Donnell (“Skyline”). Created by Chris White, the genre-bending...

We have all talked about it, but it has been done. Chip Zdarsky has written a nifty comic mini-series which details what would happen in Marvel characters didn't maintain their same age in a "sliding time scale". As such, the series details, "On this Earth, many Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man...

Believe it or not, the upcoming video game "The Outer Worlds" is an alternate timeline. According to its creators, "This is an alternate history,” says co-director Leonard Boyarsky. “There was a point where the timeline split off. It was at a certain point, around the time of Einstein. There was...

Ronald D. Moore, along with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, are working on a new series titled For All Mankind. Described by Deadline as a “space drama,” the series will explore a reality in which the mid-century space race “had never ended.” See: In the 20th century, the United States and...

The idea is that according to the trailer and press release, "Motherland: Fort Salem" is set in an alternate version of America where witches have agreed to fight for the United States in exchange for an end to their persecution. The series follows three young women from basic training in combat...

Here is an interview that I conducted for the news site that I run. David J. Butler describes himself as "A novelist living in the Rocky Mountain west. My training is in law, and I worked as a securities lawyer at a major international firm and inhouse at two multinational semiconductor...

Dinosaurs still roam forgotten corners of the land. Alien influences operate from the skies. Mystics wield ancient powers. Strange new sciences promise to change the world. The dead rise from the grave. All the while, modern movements sweep the globe, and bold explorers venture deep into the...

Here is the sixty-fifth draft of the ATL so far. Please feel free to add your PODs to the mix: POD: On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in New Mexico. The explosion ripped a hole in the fabric of space. Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's words "I am become death...