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The second one I'm confident isn't in an Osprey book. I own everything they've published in which it might be (e.g. all the Central Asian, Chinese and Japanese-centered books), and it isn't in any of them. Some guys on another forum suggested they might be Heinz Ranitzsch's The Army of T'ang...

I've run across illustrations on a few boards lately that seem similar to those from Osprey books, but they're not from any Osprey title I'm aware of. I haven't had any luck tracking down where they're from, which is a bummer because some of them look interesting. This is one: I'm...

Well he and Stirling will just have to settle that with a cage match, won't they?

I was hoping for pictures. :(

The Mohole project was a bust- they only got about 200 meters below the seafloor, though they were drilling in 3,500 meters of water in the open ocean. They did get some useful info about the seafloor, though, and it was a technological proving moment for deep-ocean drilling. The Kola...

+1. It's the only MACHINE TOOL you would need to make another lathe. You can use hand tools for the other stuff like casting/forging, welding, cutting, filing....etc.

You know, when I was a wee one, some particularly sadistic uncle of mine gave me the Castafiore Emerald to read. That was my first exposure to Tintin and it put me off the whole thing for ages.

The Venture Brothers? Tom Swift Jr?

Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler from "Bottom," because they're each both apparently completely indestructible and capable of inflicting ridiculous amounts of violence....

IMO it's more of a secret history than alternate history..... Though Prince Ludwig the Indestructible could be a good POD.

Consider how much of the Gulf region's potable water comes from desalinization plants or needs other chemical treatment to make it drinkable. Woops, necro-thread-bump without realizing it.....

I didn't like it much. It reminded me of Mother of Storms (decent book) in that it tried to show a broad spectrum of stuff all happening at once, but it neither made a case for plausibility nor just flatly asked for a suspension of disbelief like DtF did.

I heard that the government can identify people as dissidents through their tin foil purchases, in order to send the black helicopters.....

Hannibal Lecter?

There were pretty severe losses in Syria, actually. I don't know about the rest of the Middle East.

Heaving bosoms. :D

Police Constable Nicholas Angel......

Yeah, that's why I get a little stuck.... most of the fantastic/surreal/paranormal characters written about these days aren't set in the present day. That's what makes the 4/1 80's parody so hilarious. For here-and-now people, you have Hellboy, Harry Potter, Doctor Who (who all overlap...

This comic is one of the highlights of my Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays....

Sounds like Discworld dwarf bread.....