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Does the TL go past the 1970s?

Really depressing TL, even though it gets ASBish after the 50s.
 
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Does the TL go past the 1970s?

Really depressing TL, even though it gets ASBish after the 50s.

It does. If I remember correctly...


The United States is governed by a dictatorship headed by Alexander Haig from 1980 to 1993 (after Haig arranges for the disposal of his insane predecessor Jim Jones).

From 1993 to 2001, Slade Gorton is President. Gorton is succeeded by the ticket of Russ Feingold and Pat Buchanan.

During the Haig dictatorship, the USA nukes New Delhi to force the Hindutva-ruled India to give up on nuclear research.

Europe is a mess of dirt-poor microstates and recovering ex-Communist nations, governed by a European Union led by Jorg Haider; the infection rate for SPID (HIV/AIDS) is up to 35% in some places.

Canada and Mexico were both subject to military occupation by the USA during the Haig years; Quebec is independent, while, IIRC, Mexico has dissolved into a number of warlord states.

In the aftermath of the destruction of the Jerusalem League by the Soviet Union, a large number of American Jews, led by Meir Kahane and Ariel Sharon seized control of the Holy Land, and established a hard-right Israel.

Mongolia has expanded quite a bit with the destruction of both the Soviets and the People's Republic of China.

Britain is still divided between England the United Kingdom.

George H. Bush is described as "The first Texan Prime Minister of Iceland." Ross Perot is mentioned pondering a run for the Althing.

IIRC, Venezuela is mentioned as remaining the strongest nation in South America.

L. Neil Smith is the Governor of Nevada.

Newt Gingrich is a utopian-oriented science fiction writer.

Isaac Asimov dies after arranging a relief expedition to one of the Soviet successor states (complications from SPID).

No one has landed on the Moon yet (President Feingold doesn't think it's worth sparking a cold war with Europe and India over).


All in all, an extraordinarily bleak world.
 

Hnau

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Actually, L. Neil Smith became president in 2005, promising a renewal of the American Revolution. I believe President Chester A. Arthur (the author) desired his timeline to end with a hopeful president, similiar to FDR, who might just be able to put the world back together. There is a lot to deal with...
 
Actually, L. Neil Smith became president in 2005, promising a renewal of the American Revolution. I believe President Chester A. Arthur (the author) desired his timeline to end with a hopeful president, similiar to FDR, who might just be able to put the world back together. There is a lot to deal with...

I didn't read that part.

What else happens in 2005?
 

Hnau

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That's all that I can tell from a cursory glance... There is a download on that link I posted to the whole timeline. After the 1970s Arthur wrote much less, and there are hints scattered here and there about what happened that I might not have detected...
 
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