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  1. For All Time (dystopian timeline from 2001)

    There have been a few threads discussing this old classic by Chester A. Arthur/gentboss, but they haven't really been all that long-lived and have mostly just discussed one aspect of the timeline or another, aside from this one from 2018 by the original author. I thought I'd try something that...

  2. What if the Germans (or someone else) actually bought Anticosti Island in Canada?

    Earlier this year, I read this document about the attempt by German industrialists to buy Anticosti Island in 1937 and 1938, ostensibly as a source of lumber and pulpwood. The plan ultimately fell through due to the obvious issues of national security. However, the impression I got from reading...

  3. 19th century "For All Time"?

    For All Time has been a classic dystopian alternate history tale for almost two decades by now. However, I don't think I've ever seen an attempt at transplanting the basic idea to different time periods, aside from the future, that is. Every now and then, I've been thinking myself what would be...

  4. Names of spacecraft for countries that didn't have/haven't had any

    I thought it might be interesting to brainstorm some potential names for satellites, capsules, orbiters etc. for countries that either never had those when they existed or have not launched any while still existing, plausibility aside. For an independent German space program (Nazi or otherwise)...

  5. Alternate history newspaper pages?

    Yea, are there any of those in any thread here? I would be willing to listen to some advice on what websites and/or software I should use if I ever wanted to whip up a Truman Defeats Dewey or whatever have you. I did do this front page of a fictional British newspaper from 1879 on ARTHR...

  6. Is a successful Port Essington possible?

    (No, not the Canadian one.) I consider myself something of an expert of the failed Victoria Settlement/Port Victoria/Port Essington (a beloved child has many names, a hated one even more) venture that took place in Cobourg Peninsula in North Australia between 1838 and 1849. After being whipped...

  7. "We never went to the moon" - North Korea edition?

    I was wondering, would it be possible for North Korea to fake a moon mission? Not that they could ever fool the outside world, of course, but as far as their own people would go, it might not even be too much of an effort. (I would actually be surprised if this has never been brought up before...

  8. How many alternate history books are available in your language?

    (Anglophone members need not apply.) I have been reading nigh every alternate history title I could get my hands on. It is interesting to notice that not only do S. M. Stirling and Harry Turtledove, the two alternate history greats, have no titles translated into Finnish, but there is seemingly...

  9. So, suppose the Brits exit the war in 1940...

    ...over a failed Dunkirk evacuation or whatever, what do they do afterwards? Assuming this does not change the general course of the war (Germany attacks the U.S.S.R. in 1941), would they re-enter the war at some point, a bit like what happened after the Treaty of Amiens in the early 19th...

  10. WI: L. Ron Hubbard died during WWII?

    What it says on the title. I don't have a specific PoD, but let's say that he contracts a tropical disease and succumbs to it or trips and snaps his neck while giving chase to a non-existent submarine, or something. Are there any tangible differences to the world by not having Dianetics or the...

  11. AHC: Yuri Gagarin as leader of USSR/Russia

    This came from a joke suggestion I made on another website. With a PoD after the flight of Vostok 1, have Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin become the leader of either the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics or a Russian successor state thereof. You are free to arrange whatever plausible...

  12. What else would the Nazis have banned?

    A couple of years ago I was planning a novel set in a world with a victorious Nazi Germany (very original...) with the main character being an American woman who travels to Axis Europe in 1951. On the Berlin main airport she sees a sign with a list of books that are prohibited in Nazi Germany. I...

  13. WI Queen Victoria dies in the Fenian bombings?

    The Fenian bombings of the 1880's were a terror campaign perpetrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood that mostly targeted infrastructure and military installations. I was thinking, what would be the repercussions if one of the attacks (deliberately or accidentally) killed HM the Queen? How...

  14. Nixon wins in 1960 - whom do the Dems nominate in 1964?

    Pretty much what it says on the title. Suppose that the PoD comes after both parties have nominated their candidates - maybe Nixon does better in the TV debates? - and Kennedy/Johnson loses to Nixon/Lodge. Do the Democrats now pick Symington? Smathers? Humphrey?

  15. Something I've been doing recently on Darkest Hour...

    Thought you might want to see this. The year is 1898 on the North American continent. Work still very much in progress, though I added Selfridge (weird that he wasn't in the original game) and this one guy named Custer... Closer, but still no cigar A nation needs people to...

  16. Can anyone draw me this ship?

    If there are any Shipbucket veterans here with too much free time in their hands, could you help me out here? I'd really appreciate a Shipbucket illustration of this beautiful thing. Keeping the same colour scheme would be cool, but not mandatory. And to answer your question, "What would this be...
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