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Anybody else ever read "Down in the Bottomlands" by HT? It's one of his best works, actually won a Hugo. It's about essentially that: POD: mountain range in the Straits of Gibraltar. Neanderthaals still exist (or at least their descendents do, co-existing w/ homo sapiens. The Med is a big...

I would think he might just keep the old title, president. With as comparatively few people that were allowed to vote back then, I doubt many people would even notice the difference as long as he keeps the rights from the Bill of Rights in place -- even if he officially does away with the...

I do recall that a possible mission for Andrew Jackson after his incursion into, and essentially seizure of, Florida was to likewise annex Cuba. Cuba could then be a staging point for other similar incursions into Spanish-held islands in the Caribbean in the early-to-mid nineteenth century...

I take it he was assassinated?

President George Marshall. He handled the last few years of the Second World War remarkably well after the disastrous invasion of Japan that cost MacArthur his career and forced Truman not to seek election in 1948. Sure, Marshall didn't prevent the partition of Japan between the US and the...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, and I didn't want to rake through the three pages between this post and the end to see if anyone had. If Secretary Chertoff can have a segment on the daily show devoted to him when he calls Louisiana a city . . . Tell me Leo, when did New York...

How far down on the chain of command (if at all) is the register of the treasury? In other words, I don't think it would be possible to have an African-American elected president or even appointed to a high office in the late 19th century (unless you made the POD so far back in history that...

Yeah; I keep reading them hoping for an off-shoot in a different direction, but the more I read, the less likely that looks. I was personally hoping for a successful assassination of Featherston by Potter, perhaps in consert with NB III, after which they make peace with the USA and end all of...

IMO, this belongs in ASB (they can change the laws of physics, right?) You could also have a concerted effort by the scientists working on the bomb projects in the US and the UK to just deny that it was possible and spare the world the horrors of the bomb. Operation Olympia (or was it...

Just wondering: how come Rehnquist is a Dem instead of a Republican?

The first TL I posted, in which Robert E. Lee takes Porter Alexander's advice at Appomatox as the POD does involve a victorious Germany in the First World War, though that isn't really the focus of the TL.

When did Connecticut make its way to the other side of the Mason-Dixon line?

Oh ... okay. I must have been confusing it with Resident Evil.

I haven't seen it either, but I believe that the virus, in addition to killing people, resurrects them ala zombies, so the waiting around for everyone to die wouldn't quite work, as they'd just come back to life and try to eat you. I might be wrong about the nature of the virus, though.

I believe, though I may very well be incorrect, that African-Americans started voting Democratic during the FDR presidency. I remember a section in my 8th grade US history book entitled "Blacks Vote Democratic" or something to that effect. However, what really solidified their vote was the Civil...

Nope. UBL's primarily a money-man. Kahlid Shaik Mohammad (don't know if I spelled any or all of that correctly) was the mastermind behind the attacks, and even if you get rid of him, that's not to say similar attacks would not have happened -- maybe on 9/11/2001, maybe some other time. It's...

You could have the replicants come into use in a similar manner to the robots in Asimov's universe: used by the off-world colonists because of the relatively low population, but unnecessary on earth.

I've been thinking about this some over the last days. I would propose it might just cause Zakaria to lose credibility in the Muslim world, considered therein as a "traitor" to Islam.

I mentioned in an earlier thread about this series (before the 3rd installment came out) that I didn't expect the South to win, as I once read an essay written by Forstchen in Alternate Gettysburgs whose thesis was that even if the South had won at Gettysburg, they probably would have lost the...

I am familiar with some of his writings. I have his book, The Future of Freedom, but my poli sci prof convinced me to read The Pentagon's New Map instead. TFOF essentially states that liberty and democracy do not necessarily go hand-in-hand and that the latter can even work to the detriment...