DBWI: Have you read the Alternate Wars series?

(OOC: ITTL, the Alternate Wars Series is a series of novels that details OTL. It is not based on any AH series IOTL)

What do you think of the Alternate Wars Series? I just finished it, and I enjoyed it. Also, the last book was published in 1981. What if someone made a continuation that lasted until the present day? What would happen to the United Amerigan States and the Socialist Union? (I think I got those names right.)
 
I'm sure Tom Selleck getting re-elected to a third term would lead to some more stuff being blown up over oil supplies, or not.
 
I'm sure Tom Selleck getting re-elected to a third term would lead to some more stuff being blown up over oil supplies, or not.

I don't remember Selleck being mentioned in this series. I think you're confusing Alternate Wars with a different series. The president of Ameriga was named Roald Ragan or something like that, and he just got elected in 1980.
 
Personally, I think some of them are a little improbable. Like those stories about the Third Empire. Come on, who can believe that in 5 years you can create an army capable of conquering half of the world. Not in industrial age, my friend. You would have to destroy you economy to do that, and even then your neighbours would be prepared too.
And that Holocaust thing. Impossible. Any army with even basic sense of honor would refuse to do that, not to mention how many resources it would take. And voluntarily slaughtering your own citizens? Potential soldiers, workforce, scientists? In the eve of conquest of the world? Total nonsense.
 
I don't remember Selleck being mentioned in this series. I think you're confusing Alternate Wars with a different series. The president of Ameriga was named Roald Ragan or something like that, and he just got elected in 1980.


wrong actor, my bad.
 
i have never heard about this series. who is the author?

Jimmy Carter. He made himself the president of a country as a little joke. In real life, he lives in the Thirteen Colonies, and he's really old.

By the way the "Second World War" I think was supposed to be a larger version of the North Amerigan War which Carter fought in. The Third Empire is Mexico, Nippon is Canadia, The UAS (?) is Luisiana... see if you can figure out the rest.

(OOC: Was this an IC comment, or do you not know what a DBWI is?:confused:)

EDIT: I didn't realize that Ronald Reagan was based on a real person! I'll research this more on the InterWeb.
 
That Russian socialist state (whatever the abbreviation) is another quite unlikely event. I mean, all the socialist theories dictate that you need a strong proletariat to achieve a successful socialist revolution (just like OTL France). Still, Russia is shown as a semi-agrarian country, unable to produce even own tanks. Revolution is impossible in such countries, at least witthout some foreign aid.
 
Exactly. The series was quite probable till that Great War of theirs, although I think someone read too much about Hannibal inventing that French Sardinian guy (or maybe Corsican?). Anyway, after their 1920 it went downhill. I have to admit, though, it was very well written and stories themselves were often fantastic fun, with emphasis on fantastic.
 
The politics are kind of screwy, but I guess that makes sense. Some of the things Europeans write about the Americas are pretty dumb, too (and not that the ATL United States is doing pretty well, I mean, it even elected the author :p ) But I think he's building up to a Ragnarok kind of ending. What other reason for stockpiles of tens of thousands (!) of nuclear arms? This Frigid War scenario can't end except in a cataclysm, his Reagan comes across as the kind of guy to start it, and he's already established that he likes his war scenarios unrealistically big and total. I suspect the whole 1945-1980 timeline was just the buildup to the third great war. I wonder if he has some moral lesson to impart again. His earlier two wars were rather anvilicious (don't be a greedy imperialist; don't be a nasty racist dictator).
 
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