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Just out at most bookstores is Robert Conroy's new book 1862. Billed as "What if England had joined America's Civil War - on the side of the Confederacy?". Conroy is also the author of 1901 an AH novel of a German-American War in the early 20th century. I haven't gotten that far into, tho...

Here is a link to the website for the young adult fiction ATL of Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. Since I'm reading the book right now I can identify a few things that are different and luckily I read the interview with the author to figure out an important point. The time is the early or mid...

The anime movie Steamboy opened this past week. I was fortunate to see the Japanese version, as opposed to the English dubbed version, this weekend. Its interesting and its fully steampunk. The whole of the story takes place around the London Exhibition of 1866. Tho there are a few errors...

Came across a mention of this book by G. Etzel Pearcy on s.h.w.i. and I took a look in my university's collection to see if we had a copy. Fairly interesting for an idea proposed in 1973. Pearcy sets out a list of 9 criteria for shaping each 'new state' and even suggests names for the new...

Consider this a work in progress. From Britain’s Greek Empire by Michael Pratt (1978) By the beginning of 1815 Castlereagh had told the Cabinet of his intention to open negotiations on the fate of the islands. Bathurst at the Colonial Office might want to retain them, yet the Foreign...

I very recently received a copy of Dreadnoughts: A Great War at Sea Scenario Book from Avalanche Press. The book centers about the great dreadnought Rio de Janeiro AKA HMS Agincourt and the very interesting topic of capital ship sales by Minor Powers to Great Powers. The writers at Avalanch...

This is an ATL inspired by Peter Tsouras' entry in Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War titled "Confederate Black and Gray: A Revolution in the Minds of Men". The general gist, which I will be following through with, is Patrick Cleburne's proposal to emancipate slaves in...

Dixie Victorious, An Alternate History of the Civil War edited by Peter Tsouras Greenhill Books Ten AH essays by various authors. This is the first book of Greenhill Books Alternate History series that I have read and was very much impressed with the scope and execution. For the most part...

Just picked the first two issues up today of an AH comic titled Alternation from Image Comics. Its an interesting cross of dinosaurs, zeppelins, steampunk, Confederacy gets revenge and whatnot. There are alot of historical individuals making an appearances. The timeline for the entire world...

What If? Alternative Historical Time Lines, by Robert Blumetti. iUniverse Inc. 2003. $12.95 I just received this book from Amazon and have only spot read a few of the timelines which include: WI Napoleon was born in America WI the Allies won World War One in 1916 WI Bismarck had created...

The BBC Radio 4 history show What If? has returned and this time they're covering the following: Programme 1. Nazi Occupation What If Hitler had successfully implemented his plan for the occupation of Britain in 1940. Would we really have fought them on the beaches? Would there have been an...

This is a seperate thread from the other similarly titled ATL since it uses a different POD, that of no War of Spanish Succession. Young Joseph Ferdinand, Electoral Prince of Bavaria, lives to succeed King Charles II of Spain. Throughout the 18th century there are small changes in how...

This is an ATL resurrected from the Archives. The dynasties are being presented first since that part was cleaned up and rethought first. The ATL itself will be worked on the next few days. The main idea of this is that Bonnie Prince Charlie successfully lands and retakes the throne of...

I was just steered to this website by uchronia.net. It appears to be a website about the ATL stories of Thomas Harlan, the two major series being: The Time of the Sixth Sun and Oath of Empire. There is a rather detailed history for Time of the Sixth Sun of the arrival of the Japanese in 1200...

For those of you that have access to it, I point out that the September 2003 issue of History Today (vol.53, no.9) has a short articled titled: What if Napoleon had Landed? by John Cookson.

This is entirely out of my league, but what-if Constantine the Great rather than dividing the Roman Empire into two and creating a new capital out of Byzantium, divided the Empire and set up court and capital in Alexandria? One thing I'm thinking about is - and its fairly filled with large...

THE NORTHWEST CONFEDERACY 1858 Clement Vallandigham of Ohio elected to the US House of Representatives. 1860 Outbreak of the American Civil War 1861 Vallandigham, in a letter published in the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer states that the South should not be coerced into reentering the...

For those of you that like Crimson Skies, Paramount is coming out with a movie that is right up your alley - well maybe the next block over. Giant robots, sleek airplanes, airships, art deco 1930s or 40s New York - who can as for more? see: www.skycaptain.com

From the Los Angeles Times, December 20th, 2003, section B, page 5 The Two and Only? Meet Marshal Tito Puente, the Man Who Should Have Been By Crispin Sartwell, Crispin Sartwell's latest book is "Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives" (Suny Press, 2003)...