Search results

A continuation of Pharaohs in Europe with events already hinted in that TL. During the late Fourth Intermediate Period of Egypt mariners from the successor states on the Atlantic coast try to a way to trade with India or China without Arab intermediates. They managed to circumvent Africa during...

What if ancient Egypt was never conquered? What if the Pharaohs of the 26th dynasty managed to create an empire? This Egyptian empire (called the Fourth Kingdom of Egypt) replaces the Roman Empire of OTL controlling mostly the same territories but it took them several centuries to achieve this...

Sorry, I really do not believe that this description fits its title... A very strange mystery thriller about a young woman stumbling across an app that turned her smart phone into the ultimate skeleton key. This app allowed her to open every lock, even if their are purely mechanical and to...

In order to circumvent the Lex Salica Joan, the only surviving child of King Louis X of France, was raised as a boy by her uncle Duke Odo IV of Burgundy. King Philip V was enraged but died before he could do anything against it. Duke Odo managed to convince the Estates General to accept Joan and...

After Sean Connery decided not to reprise his role as James Bond for Thunderball and not replacement for him could be found Eon Productions sold the rights of the franchise to CBS, who began to adapt Ian Fleming's stories into a TV show. At the same time Mel Brooks developed his secret agent...

A satire in style of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Here a dog, Laika, the first dog in space, is promoted to the hightest positions although it is, being a dog, not even remotely qualified for being premier of the Soviet Union. Soon even the other 'elective' positions in the government is filled...

The Kamikaze, the 'mystical' thyphoon that destroyed the Mongolian-Korean invasion fleets in OTL and ended both invasion attemps of Japan (1274, 1281) prematurely, failed to achieve this thec socond time in this TL. So Kublai Khan managed to conquer most of Japan and to dispose the japanese...

A satirical TL about the Race to the Moon during the Cold War loosely based on Stanley Kubrick's classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Here both the US and the USSR experiment with nuclear drives and use them in literal race to the moon. But unbeknownst to...

In 1914 Grigori Rasputin persuaded tzar Nicholas II of Russia not to prepare for war and thus The Great War was avoided until the next crisis on the Balkans. In the following four years he managed to survive several assassination attempts by Russian nobles, who begrudged him his influence on the...

That's awful! It seems that you know nothing about Roman history. :( This is reason why I've always said: do your research before starting to write.

Roosevelt's New Deal adopted several ideas from Huey Long's Share Our Wealth and managed to end the great depression and the mass poverty. But Long was still not satisfied. He wanted more and he wanted to be more than just a Senator. But Roosevelt saw him as a dangerous radical and wanted him...

A Clockwork Punk Fantasy about a group of explorers who discover the Inner Earth, a hollow world on the inside of our Earth. This world is ruled by five powerful and ruthless masters who rule their realms with an iron fist. For them the explorers are extremely dangerous because their enlighted...

A satirical TL with a twist about the Paul is Dead conspiracy theory. The TL is written from the perspective of a young American journalist who investigates the rumour that Paul McCartney had been replaced by a doppelganger. During his investigation he uncovers not one but several very...

Sometimes it is only the name which determines one's nationality.

The reason is simple. He thought that pretending to be German would be advantageous.

It's the kind of stupid every one in this time period would have done. (And it is the kind of stupid some some nations would still do today in OTL).

It doubt that it would change much, except that Prussia would not annex Hanover in 1866 because that would mean war with Britain. It would also mean that Brunswick would not become part of the German Empire if Duke William did not have a legitimate heir (something he did not have in OTL because...

After a slightly different and much more bloody World War I the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire are the only two superpowers left. All others did not survive. Germany and Austria-Hungary were partially conquered by Russia, and both France and the US did not survive the post-war economical...

A short TL about a fundamentalist evangelical preacher who gained quite a lot of followers after correctly predicting several islamic terrorist attacks on US soil between 1997 and 2007. Bu the last one, a biological attack on Washington D.C. on December, 1st 2007 did never happen. While many of...

I don't want to rain on your parade but liberal USSR is an oxymoron, because the only thing keeping the USSR together was the oppression of all opposition and minorities. In OTL Gorbachev believed he could reform the USSR but he did forget that except Russia no one wanted to be a member of the...