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  1. Liv Stone's King of Scots : when chick lit meets alternate history

    King of Scots, by Liv Stone, is a romance in an 21st century independent Scotland created by Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory in 1746. In spite of the author's name and title, I'm afraid it only exists in French ? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199501925-king-of-scots Regards Gerald

  2. French sword-and-sandal fantasy anthologies

    Hello from France ! Some months ago, I was at a sword-and-sandal book fair, and acquired two fantasy anthologies, including, among others, some short stories with alternate history in them. The first anthology is Dimension Antiquité, edited by Meddy Ligner (Black Coat Press, 2014, collection...

  3. A new French AH book

    Luc Mary & Philippe Valode, Et si... Napoléon avait triomphé à Waterloo ? L'Histoire de France revue et corrigée en 40 uchronies. Paris : l'Opportun, 2011. Paperback : 2013. Slightly disappointing : first, the authors seem to believe that alternate history fans don't know anything about real...

  4. Übercliché map

    I've recently tried a map including the greatest clichés of alternate history. Here's the result about Übercliché Europe (sorry for the poor quality, I've tried to keep rivers and OTL's frontiers, but...) I'm currently working on an Übercliché North America. It could go well with an Übercliché...

  5. Terres d'avenir

    I just read Terres d'avenir (2009) by a French environmentalist author, Yannick Monget, who also published in the same spirit Demain, la Terre... in 2006. Both albums show views of famous places around the world, digitally modified to make them look as they supposedly would after environmental...

  6. A French radio play about Marie-Antoinette

    Just heard a French radio play, "Le Règne de Marie-Antoinette" by René-Nicolas Ehni. In 1793, the Allies take Paris (apparently because Dumouriez' treason successed) and free Marie-Antoinette from the Conciergerie. It's implied that Louis XVII is already dead and the Allies intend to put Louis...

  7. The eleven missed opportunities of French America

    A very serious French encyclopaedia (Quid, by Dominique and Michèle Frémy, 2001 edition), in its notice about USA, dedicates a whole and quite revengeful half-page to this question "could USA become French?" And lists the eleven missed opportunities: 1) 1559: Jean Ribault colonizes Florida. Had...

  8. What ifs in a French magazine

    A French weekly magazine (Marianne) has published this summer a series of eight what ifs: If Pilate had spared Jesus Pilate, considering his wife's dream as an omen (remember Caesar!) decides to spare Jesus. The Messiah continues to preach till his death, either in 40 during Caligula's...

  9. Joan of Arc vs the Vikings

    Last Sunday I was in Paris watching the finish of the Tour de France, just facing the statue of Joan of Arc there was a bunch of Norwegians chanting the name of Thor Hushovd with their flags, I said to myself, a luck Thor Hushovd isn't English, Joan of Arc wouldn't like that:D This gave me an...

  10. Real Risk

    Some silly idea I got finding my old Risk board game in my parents' attic: Here's a Risk board I copied on Wikipedia. What if it were the real map? So, we're somewhen in the 19th Century, and the countries are these: NORTH AMERICA 1: Alaska 2: Alberta 3: Central America 4: Eastern United...
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