Nearly a month ago, we commemorated the centenary of the Sarajevo assasination. On Monday, the whole world will commemorate the beginning of the First World War, The Great War, World War One. The war that, sadly, wasn't really the War to End All Wars. And for good and bad, it's legacy is still with us today, a century later.
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And therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...
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For the entirety of August, we'll be using this thread to commemorate historical and especially allohistorical fiction dealing with the era and topic of the Great War.
We'll reminescence about AH.com's WWI timelines and stories, past and present, we'll discuss and criticque the state of AH fiction about WWI, we'll talk about WWI-related concepts that haven't been tried yet in AH literature and other works.
There is lots of room for various WWI stuff this month. Make a suggestion, and we might try it. How about:
- Voting for the "best WWI timeline of AH.com".
- Voting for the "best WWI story of AH.com".
- Spiffying up the WWI-related databases on the board and the wiki.
- Reviews, personal or collaborative, of published WWI AH works.
- And anything other that comes to mind.
Whichever of the many theatres of the war we discuss, and whichever nation's role in the war, big or small, we ruminate over, let's dedicate this whole month to the memory of the First World War. And let's do it in style !
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Also, in the coming four years, we'll organise several follow-up projects and threads to this one, offering various different outlooks on the topic of WWI and WWI-related AH. This might be the first centennial, but there will be several more until we hit November 2018.
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Partner threads and sites:
WWI Centenary Thread
Early 20th Century Timelines
WWI PODs
WWI Resources
War Memorial Thread
Collecting War Stories
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And therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...
The Timelines of August
a.k.a.
A very AH.com
Centennial Commemoration
a.k.a.
A very AH.com
Centennial Commemoration
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For the entirety of August, we'll be using this thread to commemorate historical and especially allohistorical fiction dealing with the era and topic of the Great War.
We'll reminescence about AH.com's WWI timelines and stories, past and present, we'll discuss and criticque the state of AH fiction about WWI, we'll talk about WWI-related concepts that haven't been tried yet in AH literature and other works.
There is lots of room for various WWI stuff this month. Make a suggestion, and we might try it. How about:
- Voting for the "best WWI timeline of AH.com".
- Voting for the "best WWI story of AH.com".
- Spiffying up the WWI-related databases on the board and the wiki.
- Reviews, personal or collaborative, of published WWI AH works.
- And anything other that comes to mind.
Whichever of the many theatres of the war we discuss, and whichever nation's role in the war, big or small, we ruminate over, let's dedicate this whole month to the memory of the First World War. And let's do it in style !
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Also, in the coming four years, we'll organise several follow-up projects and threads to this one, offering various different outlooks on the topic of WWI and WWI-related AH. This might be the first centennial, but there will be several more until we hit November 2018.
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Partner threads and sites:
WWI Centenary Thread
Early 20th Century Timelines
WWI PODs
WWI Resources
War Memorial Thread
Collecting War Stories