~The Doctor~
Linkies: here, and here.
For All Time is one of the first alternative histories I read on the internet. I loved the depiction of an alternate WWII, the post-war settlements, and the depiction of the USSR slowly encroaching upon the West. Unfortunately, I could never finish it.
Maybe it's best I didn't. Because, from the Sixties onward, the entire World goes bat-shit insane.
Don't get me wrong; it's great reading. I was hooked, quite literally. I sat staring at the screen in horror when the first shipments of "Equatorial Meat" began arriving in Bokasso's France.
But this is whole problem.
Cannibalistic France?
A resurgent Scandinavian Empire?
England, leaving the Union of Great Britiain and Northern Ireland?!
The "Butcher of Rostov", leader of the Soviet Union???!!!
Jim Jones, President of the USA??????!!!!!!
And then a US General performs a coup d'etat, and America occupies Mexico, Canada, and nukes India. Not to mention 35% of Eurasia being infected with AIDs, due to a defective Soviet blood bank (IIRC). Russia and China glow in the dark, Europe is broken into a half-dozen French successor states and a resurgent Germany. Africa is divided between South Africa, the East African Union, and Colonial French states. Oh, did I mention Dr. Evil!Kim Jong-il, who threatens to detonate a 250,000 MT nuke if he isn't given control of Japan and Manchuria.
And L. Neil Smith is US President in 2005.
Personally, I'm wondering what AH.com has to say on this work. IMO, it's not bad. But it isn't exactly good, either.
(Forgive the n00b. I know there's a discussion thread on this, but it's nearly two years old.)
For All Time is one of the first alternative histories I read on the internet. I loved the depiction of an alternate WWII, the post-war settlements, and the depiction of the USSR slowly encroaching upon the West. Unfortunately, I could never finish it.
Maybe it's best I didn't. Because, from the Sixties onward, the entire World goes bat-shit insane.
Don't get me wrong; it's great reading. I was hooked, quite literally. I sat staring at the screen in horror when the first shipments of "Equatorial Meat" began arriving in Bokasso's France.
But this is whole problem.
Cannibalistic France?
A resurgent Scandinavian Empire?
England, leaving the Union of Great Britiain and Northern Ireland?!
The "Butcher of Rostov", leader of the Soviet Union???!!!
Jim Jones, President of the USA??????!!!!!!
And then a US General performs a coup d'etat, and America occupies Mexico, Canada, and nukes India. Not to mention 35% of Eurasia being infected with AIDs, due to a defective Soviet blood bank (IIRC). Russia and China glow in the dark, Europe is broken into a half-dozen French successor states and a resurgent Germany. Africa is divided between South Africa, the East African Union, and Colonial French states. Oh, did I mention Dr. Evil!Kim Jong-il, who threatens to detonate a 250,000 MT nuke if he isn't given control of Japan and Manchuria.
And L. Neil Smith is US President in 2005.
Personally, I'm wondering what AH.com has to say on this work. IMO, it's not bad. But it isn't exactly good, either.
(Forgive the n00b. I know there's a discussion thread on this, but it's nearly two years old.)
