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| - | [[GURPS]] writer and creator Kenneth Hite had this to say about the phenomennon | + | [[GURPS]] writer and creator Kenneth Hite had this to say about the phenomenon |
| "//All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin traffic. Changing history may produce Zeppelins as an inevitable by-product, much as bombarding uranium produces gamma rays. Often, the quickest way to tell if you are in an Alternate History is to look up, rather than at a newspaper or encyclopedia. From this premise, it is not outside the realm of Plausibility that our history between 1900 and 1936 was, in fact, an Alternate History. It would, at least, explain a lot.//" | "//All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin traffic. Changing history may produce Zeppelins as an inevitable by-product, much as bombarding uranium produces gamma rays. Often, the quickest way to tell if you are in an Alternate History is to look up, rather than at a newspaper or encyclopedia. From this premise, it is not outside the realm of Plausibility that our history between 1900 and 1936 was, in fact, an Alternate History. It would, at least, explain a lot.//" | ||
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| It soon became known as **" | It soon became known as **" | ||
| + | True to his word, of the twelve TLs featured in the two Alternate Earths book, several feature airships - Dixie, Reich-5, Gernsback, Cornwallis, Ming... | ||
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| + | Note: An ATL [[Nazi Germany]] with airships would be unhistorical, | ||
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| ==== See Also ==== | ==== See Also ==== | ||
| - | **[[Battleships]]** | + | The [[AltHist Fandom Wiki]] has a number of pages [[https:// |
| - | **[[Airship Day]]** | + | **[[Battleships]]** |
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