Decades of Darkness and For All Time out-bleak my work by a wide margin.
I haven't read For All Time, but I would like to change my Dystopia vote to Decades of Darkness.
Decades of Darkness and For All Time out-bleak my work by a wide margin.
Which one, it had three...although I always liked "I'll be in Charge"
I mean, it has a massive, militaristic, Germanophone USA that gradually turns quasi-socialist state
My vote for Dystopia would have to go to For All Time and the Cuban Missile War for reasons already mentioned. As Chet Arthur once said, "It's not a dystopia if someone wins, after all."
Heh. I may just have to sig that...
As for Utopian TLs, I must admit I've seen nary a one. Is it even possible to do a realistic Utopian timeline, human nature being what it is?
On one hand, TL 191 (apart from the obvious ones) would actually count as one of the most dystopic (for me at least). I mean, it has a massive, militaristic, Germanophone USA that gradually turns quasi-socialist state that totally rapes Canada together with a Victorious Whilhelmine Germany and Austria Hungary that then both go on to destroy the British Empire and nuke London, Paris and St Petersburg (three of my favourite cities).
Agree on the Dystopics.
Eckner's Zeppelin President/Zeppelin Legacy TL has certain Utopic trends in avoiding WW2, ending nearly all 20th C. dictatorships in the cradle, and appears at the moment ot be moving towards a more stable Middle East. Plus a more congenial space race between neo-Imperial Germany and the US. Note though that it's a plausible TL and not IMO a wank (well, a Zeppelin wank certainly, but that's pretty much as labeled on the tin)...and it's certainly not boring!![]()