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Watched an interview the other day with the author of a new biography on Monash. He said one of the things he wondered about whilst writing the book was what would have happened if Monash had lived another 20 years - to 1951. Admittedly he would have been 74 at the start of WW2, but what...

Does anyone know if The second Civil War by Benjamin Stein has ever been anthologized? If the title doesn't ring any bells its a short story written as if it were the diary of a tank crewman during a civil war set in 1970s/1980s between the (US)north/east and south/west. Any help would be...

Just re-reading Stirlings On the Oceans of eternity. How many times do you think he watched the movie Zulu before he wrote it? The O'Rourkes Ford scenes are almost word for word in places!

What if when East Timor was granted its Independence as a result of the 1999 referendum, the military launched a coup against Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) in say January 2000. As the former leader of Nahdlatu Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organisation he had, at that time...

What if Pope John Paul (Albino Luciano) had remembered to take his medication, and served as pope for maybe 7-8 years? He would probably have been more sympathetic toward liberation theology than his successor, and I doubt we would see Opus Dei having the influence it does today, and I can't...

Not sure whether to put this one under chat, ASBs or Books, but here goes. A number of Scifi authors, including Alien Dean Foster and to a lesser extent Harry Turtledove, together with several movies (Independence Day for one) have humanity more or less uniting to fight a common enemy - putting...

Is there any way cricket could be a world sport at say the same level as Basketball, other than the British Empire being larger or holding onto the US for longer?