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By Vilhelm Bergsoe. Originally published in Dutch, translated for Steampunk II. This was a remarkably funny story set in an alternate 1969, with the protagonist a Dutch engineer invited to attended the opening cermonies of the Panama Canal, recently completed by the American Empire (this was...

Something just struck me. Why is that the only portrayal of a gay man in the West Wing was a Republican? For a liberal fantasy portrayal of the Clinton Administration, I find it curious that there wasn't a single Democratic character who was gay. Wouldn't even have had to be a main cast...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/8045793/Channel-4-to-show-drama-imagining-Prince-Harrys-capture-by-Taliban.html Interesting. I wonder, would GB be willing to employ the ultimate sanction as a threat to ensure his safety. Would the British government treat the...

Don't know if anyone's seen this. Found it while scrolling around looking for modern military miniatures. It's a game blog, set up to look like news reports and updates. Amazingly entertaining. http://englandprevials.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html The idea of wargaming a modern...

Just finished After America. Overall, I liked it; it kept me entertained. Disappointed that I now have to wait another two years for the next book. I'm not convinced that the East Coast would be as lawless and prone to piracy/looting. I would have expected the US 6th Fleet and the...

Just finished Directive 51 by John Barnes. Truely a masterpiece. It is what Dies the Fire would look like without the magic and mysticism. The title of the book is derived from President Bush's Continuance of Government directive. Two story plot lines are brought together throught this...

Something I've been wondering, would a war between the US/NATO and the Soviet Union have ended up in a whole 'The Day After' and 'Threads' level nuclear exchange, or could it have been possible for a 'less than thermonuclear' war to take place? Other than a brief occupation of Siberia in 1919...

I've read several books years ago that I'd like to track down again. Unfortunately, I can tell you in great detail what they were about, just not the name or author. Does anyone know of any database or resource for tracking down books? Some of the one's I'm looking for include a...

Watched this finally (thanks Netflicks!). Oh. My. God. I haven't been suckerpunched like that since the end of The Mist. I litterally can't slip from the images rolling in my head. Anyway, seeing as how this is an alt-history board, I was thinking how the world ended up like it did. I'm...

Lost a whole day to this book. An island inhabited by Cthulu's worst nightmares crossed with biological imperatives. Things that evolved from the earliest life on Earth, with a biology alien to our own, share our world. The US Navy, NASA, and cast members of a reality TV show are devoured in...

Was at dinosaur museum with son and got to thinking. Dinosaurs like T-Rex and Allyosaurus and Velociraptor were all two legged. Fast, binocular vision, viscious. How come mammels haven't developed a similar phenotype? Why are all mammelian predators four legged pouncers? I'm not including...

It was a series from the 1980s I think. Set in space, but was basically a retelling of WW2. Japanese empire in space with samaris against a United States (planets had names like New Wyoming and New Washington, etc). Travel was via warp gates that were propegated by slower than light Von...