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LibraryThing has an "Unsuggestions" feature: Type in a book and it will tell you the "opposite" books i.e. the ones least likely to be owned by people who own the book you typed in. Here are some things I tried: The Bible (NIV) returns a lot of popular fantasy authors, top of the list is...

Charles Stross has written a short story set in Airstrip One. I haven't read it. Review from The New England Science Fiction Association's website.

Has anyone tried this? It's eerily good at predicting what books you will like based on what you already own. And it's a good site generally. Although it doesn't work perfectly in Opera (the browser I generally use). http://www.librarything.com/ One book I found on it was this one - Cross...

And here's another 9/11 WI from Newsweek.

Nineteen pages of speculation in New York magazine.

Another obscure future history book that I discovered on Wikipedia.

Just found a review online (from 1898) of a book about a Chinese invasion of Europe: The Yellow Danger by M P Shiel.

You're right, using Internet Explorer, all the links seem to work fine. I now agree that this is a great site!

Is there someone more competent than Mussolini who could take over Fascist Italy in the event of his premature death?

Until I clicked on the thread, I thought this might mean the South Island (New Zealand).

Many of the links seem to be broken, which is a pity, including the second link you posted. I have a book based on the same idea - The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution by Dougal Dixon (1988).

What about a later invention/adoption of gunpowder then? Even delaying it by, say, 75 years, could lead to a very different world.

How about Korea, or some SW Indian state? Or a Mexico that somehow remains dominated by natives, while adopting European technology? Or an Australian nation founded earlier by Asians (doesn't have to be SE Asians, could be Persians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese . . .) that conquers Polynesia?

I like all these ideas: Also these ones: And these:

I want to see a timeline with faster social change. Maybe . . . . . . a bigger or more radical Reformation. . . . a longer lasting post-ECW Commonwealth. . . . more or better revolutions in the 1770s to 1830s period. . . . more or better revolutions in the 1910s and 1920s. Other things I...

And another question: I'm planning to have Stalin die in 1949 (natural causes). Who would be in the running for the succession?

I'm currently toying with a timeline in which Japan does not attack Pearl Harbour, and I'd like some advice. America has not entered the war against Germany, but continues to supply Britain with Lend-Lease. Also, Britain and the USA have been co-operating to try and build an atomic bomb. The...

I can't remember where I read this - but how about Hitler becoming a set designer for the theatre, the opera, or the cinema? Alternatively, there are plenty of careers for competent artists other than "famous artist". Art teacher, postcard designer, children's book illustrator, cartoonist etc.

I would say, nothing in history is inevitable. Some things are much more probable than others, but nothing is inevitable. For example, regarding rates of technological advancement between the Old and New Worlds, the higher rate of technology in the Old World might lead to some event (such as...

Potatoes contain lots of vitamin C. Okay, I looked around the internet about whether you can live on potatoes and milk alone. I can't find anything definitive, but based on nutritional analyses I would say it is possible, provided you drink whole milk, not skimmed milk. I'm not sure whether...