literature

Not sure if this should go here or on the Writer's Forum, but I digress The earliest example of alternate history that I am aware of is "Ab urbe condita" by Livy However reading about it made me think that there were many scenarios that were implied or referenced by ancient authors both older...

Pardon the clickbait-y title; I am not saying Atlantis is real, or that it was in the US. This scenario is sort of about the opposite. According to Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the mythical land of Atlantis was a great continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules (i.e., the Straits of Gibraltar)...

IC: Alright people, how would life change in the past 10-15 years, if the Ruby Dixon series Ice Planet Barbarians never became popular outside a Tik Tok niche. One has to ask, especially after Avatar and Twilight franchises, having werewolves, vampires, zombies and now aliens being turned into...

Warday was a novel published in 1983 that might now be considered an alternate history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warday Written in the form of journal entries and interviews, it details the state of the USA after a "limited" accidental nuclear exchange. It suggested a divided USA being...

Empress Theresa by Norman Boutin has emerged as one of the biggest novels since the Harry Potter franchise by J.K. Rowling. It has been adapted into a film starring Scarlett Johanson, and turned into a TV series by Netflix, and all in the space of 7 years since its publication in November 2014...

In 1973, Stephen King wrote Carrie, his breakthrough hit. Overnight, he went from having to give up on phone service to save money to being one of hottest new American authors. Ever since, he's been a major part of the landscape of horror literature. However, this was by no means guaranteed...

As I'm sure many posters might know, the 1990s in America saw the burst of the comic speculator market and the near-collapse of the US comic book industry. Collectors who bought up comics because they thought their value would increase with time suddenly found out that their "investment" was...

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” - Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) was a brilliant Elizabethan playwright who rivaled Shakespeare during his short life. In fact, Marlowe was England's preeminent...

I'm a bit interested in small obscure genres or subgenres, whether films, games, music, or literature. The goal of is to make up one of these, kind of like my Whateverpunk thread. Gathering Metal: A genre combining metal with indigenous american instruments, typically drums, and highly...

While reading various histories of the Middle Ages, I have occasionally come across references to the Homeric works (mentions of romances that alluded to Ulysses/Odysseus, for example), but not in a way that would imply familiarity with the actual texts of the Iliad and Odyssey. So, how familiar...

So personally i think if i have to guess from what i know of ancient times that back in the day it was mostly man that had a strong interest in literature and knowledge about history and that studied history and litterature etc, am i wrong or right about this?, what do you guys think?.

There has been a recent dystopia novel written about the period after the Great War. Germany comes under the control of a dictator named Heinrich Zimmer. Zimmer is violently anti-Semitic and anti-Slavic. The first thing he does is build up the German military almost to an insane amount. He then...

Could Shakespeare have written novels? Perhaps after the Globe goes poof? I know. This presupposes that he had enough exposure to the concept and that he was willing to. Since it's safe to say that OTL Shakespeare didn't have had much (if any) exposure to the modern concept of a novel, as the...

Growing up in Hungary, this was my favorite work from Jules Verne, resonating well with experiencing occasional hardships in countryside life in Central Europe, and in spite of this, remaining optimistic, resourceful, and co-operative while trusting God. The novel is still an obligatory reading...

There's already threads for movies, games, and TV shows. Why not literature? The Sandals of Perseus - A 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury about a federal agents working for a semi-dystopian future US in the year 2003, with their current assignment being to stop a right-wing anarchist known only as Mr...

Another offshot of all the "Top X Never Made." Only this time with books. Ranging from fiction to even books detailing various AH events.

This is sort of a spin-off of @The Director's thread Pop Culture Oneshot Scenarios. Only now, it describes various aspects of what ever it is you can think of as if it was on a series of TV Tropes articles. YMMV, Nightmare Fuel, WMG, the works. Fire away, all.

James MacPherson produced one of the greatest forgeries in history when he passed off his own writings as "discovered" antique Gaelic poetry, by a blind bard named Ossian. Ossian was praised by figures as distant as such as Jefferson, Goethe, Napoléon, etc. However, on the discovery that Ossian...

Dr. Seuss aka Theodor Geisel (1904-1991) almost didn't become a writer/illustrator of children's books. In 1936, he tried to sell a manuscript titled A Story No One Can Beat to publishers who rejected it for many different reasons (some didn't like the cartoon art, some didn't like the verse...

Akin to its movie and gaming related counterparts, here you can put down your ideas for the best books/novels (i.e. graphic novels, comics, etc.) never written.