Search results

Hm. Great update!

Barry Goldwater makes a brief appearance in one of the books about the interwar years as a Congressman from "Tucson, New Mexico" who gets into an argument on the House floor with a Mormon representative from Deseret. He gets dragged off the floor by the Sergeant-At-Arms as he is yelling...

Yeah, she was very much alive and well when Armstrong Grimes' platoon passed her farmhouse. IIRC, he makes the observation as they are tromping past her farmhouse that "she saw American soldiers coming this way in 1914" (or words to that effect) and Yossel Rosen then replies that "her husband...

Do we have a Wikibox entry for Clarence Potter? At the end of "In at the Death" there is one last scene with him talking to an ex-Confederate Army sergeant in Capital Square in Richmond. By that point in the timeline, he is described as being in his sixties, which would mean he was born...

He's described as being rather on the young side when we first meet him in "How Few Remain" so I would take "young" to mean he was in his early twenties at the most when he meets Abraham Lincoln. He's also described as being almost twice Flora Hamburger's age when they first meet. I would...

Why, it's almost as if they're fighting a war against the Germans or something like that. The nerve of those Tommies! Trying to stop the Germans from winning the war. [/sarcasm] The Unmentionable Sea Mammal was doomed from the start. There is essentially no way it could have succeeded...

This was the POD of a short story written by Lois Tilton in 1991.

edgeworthy pointed it out upthread. Peter G. Tsouras's Gettysburg: An Alternate History ended with exactly this scenario. (I can't remember if it is explicitly stated in the text that the war ends earlier than in OTL, but it is strongly hinted that the war ends a lot earlier than OTL, for the...

Interesting thread. Offhand, the version of the CSA in David Poyer's novel "The Shiloh Project" is a pretty close runner-up to the dystopian vision of the CSA that is presented in the TL-191 series. The major difference is that the POD in "The Shiloh Project" is a Confederate victory at...

For me, there are two cliches that keep showing up in just about every "The South Wins the Civil War" novel I've ever read or seen, which I mentioned in this post, from another thread 1) Robert E. Lee becomes Confederate President upon the South winning the war and succeeds Jefferson Davis...

I'd recommend "The Shiloh Project" by David Poyer, first published in 1981, and now available on Amazon (in an updated version) for Kindle. It was one of the first AH novels I read and it was a very, very unsettling read. Basically, the South wins the Civil War (by way of a Union defeat at...

IIRC, there was a brief scene in David Poyer's novel, The Shiloh Project, in which one of the characters (I think it was one of the African-American characters, but I can't remember now) stops for a moment at the base of the War Memorial in Richmond to read the inscription thereon, which was...

Excellent update, Mac, I think there is a typo in the last paragraph. I think you meant to type "attack" but typed "attach" instead.

Very interesting thread. Offhand, the only example in AH literature I can think of that even touches on this idea is this one, written by Lois Tilton, which story I read when it came out in Asimov's back in 1991. Interesting idea, but as has been pointed out upthread by others, probably not...

Featherston's Corpse I have a question for the thread. I don't recall it being mentioned or talked about anywhere in this thread. What became of Jake Featherston's corpse? Turtledove does not discuss Featherston's mortal remains after he's killed in the middle of "In at the Death" other...

Yeah, that was something I'd been thinking about off and on for the past few months. Dr. O'Doull could easily have become TL-191's version of Dr. Richard Hornberger, the author of the novel that became the movie "MASH" which then of course became a TV show after the film's success.

Famed stage and screen actor Alan Alda with co-star Jamie Farr on the set of the popular TV show PORCH (PORtable Combat Hospital), a show based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, released in 1965, which was itself based on the posthumous memoirs of Dr. Leonard O'Doull (1891-1955)...

Rest In Peace, Robert Conroy 1901 was his first novel, if memory serves correctly. I very much enjoyed that book. Rest in peace, Robert Conroy.

That is an interesting map and quite an interesting idea: A version of Syria, a "Greater Syria" taking up a good bit of the Middle East in this TL. The only question I would have about that is what about Kurdistan? Is it a sufficiently large enough power, military and economically, to hold...