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I think it's more that the type of intellectuals that achieve power are the wrong sort of intellectuals - the sort that prioritises theories over facts. IMO the more "scientifically-minded" intellectuals avoid careers in politics because they don't have the people skills that go with the...

For US liberals: You know those maps of who voted for Bush/Kerry in the last election, with virtually the entire country coloured Republican Red? Well check out these maps.

Information on creating these types of maps is available here. It would be beyond me, but I'm thinking it might be good for creating those "the world according to" maps. You could increase the size of the important countries and every other country would automatically shrink to leave the...

Well, I didn't mean ASBs and I didn't mean alternate alternates with the same POD as the original alternate like in The Man in the High Castle and I didn't mean timelines that are only mentioned in passing or undeveloped and I didn't mean the alternate Draka timelines - if they are the same ones...

I have trouble imagining Oswald Mosely and Winston Churchill working together, seeing as how in OTL Churchill was a "classical liberal" who believed the free market was better than state interference, while Mosely was, in economic terms, a left-wing socialist. Also because they were both people...

Maps of the world, with the size of countries distorted to reflect various statistics (e.g. population today, population in 1 AD, emigration, immigration and so on). Makes it easier to intuituitively grasp the differences between countries. Worldmapper

(All numbers are approximate) According to Wikipedia, the most efficient form of biofuel at present is biodeisel, which is 85% as efficient as regular gasoline. The US consumes 20 million barrels of oil a year, or 3 billion litres. A hectare of farmland can produce a thousand litres of...

Is there such a thing as a blank map of India with its pre-1947 internal borders? I looked on the internet for one a while back*, but no luck. And all the non-blank maps of pre-1947 India just lump all the small princely states together as, er, nameless lumps. In short, I reckon what this...

"My name is Marshall Teller. Not too long ago, I was living in New Jersey, just across the river from New York City. It was crowded, polluted, and full of crime. I loved it. But my parents wanted a better life for my sister and me. So we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky clean, you could...

Some of these work better than others. IMO, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Greece look quite stylish. Denmark's looks like it could be a Japanese flag (the Swastika - in reverse - is a buddhist symbol in Japan). Croatia's looks like something a Nazi family might pack in a picnic basket. Most...

Is there any such thing as an alternate alternate timeline? I mean, a timeline which is the same as an existing alternate timeline up to a point, but then diverges from it? An example would be a timeline based on Turtledoves "Great War" series, but in which the Reds succeeded in establishing...

Now that AH is, er, more popular than it was, it's a pity that publishers haven't reprinted more of the good stuff that's gone out of print. I've seen King of the Wood recommended by quite a few people but the only chance I have of getting hold of it is via Abebooks, and the same with some other...

But to me, there's no difference between "It's all right" and "If you've nothing better to do". Whereas everybody knows that 2 is a bigger number than 1. I see your point, but I don't think it matters what people think the numbers mean as long as they rate the better books higher than the...

Prunesquallor, read the first post in this thread. The reason why I suggested rating books with numbers from 0-10 is so that all the ratings people give to a particular book can be used to create an average rating for that book. For example, if there is a book, The Germans Won! and one person...

I've also been wondering about a Heath victory in the "Who Governs Britain?" election of 1974. Suppose Heath won with a small majority (say, 20 seats). His big problem would be the unions. Supposing Heath, now that he has won the election and shown that the British people are on his side...

The idea of this thread is that people post scores, on a scale of 0-10, for AH-related books they've read. Then when enough people have posted (when we have more than one page?), someone can work out the average score for each book (to 2 decimal places) and start a new thread, with the books...

Some good ones no-one's mentioned yet: The Children's War by J. N. Stroyar Collaborator by Murray Davies Making History by Stephen Fry GURPS Infinite Worlds, GUPRS Alternate Earths and GURPS Alternate Earths 2 These are role-playing game sourcebooks set in a universe where travel...

Presumably you've heard of Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman. Not a Soviet invasion novel, it's a not-entirely-serious collection of short stories set in a Twentieth Century where the histories of Russia and America are swapped, so the USA gets a communist revolution, and the...

My favourite AH novel! I read it twice so far. There is a nice undercurrent of humour in it, particularly when Peter and Karl try their respective propaganda offensives in America. I didn't feel it dragged at any point. Did you know there is a sequel? A Change of Regime. It is shorter but...

I've read the first two volumes. The story is good but the artwork is fairly bland, and each volume is £8.99 for 100 pages which IMO is a total rip-off. It would probably make a better TV series than a comic. The death of men leads to society collapsing. For example, there's no power...