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+ | Of course, the ASB forum offers many more ISOT timelines and stories, older and newer, with varying premises (and at varying levels of completion). A good place to start looking for interesting ISOT timelines is to visit the ASB sections of [[alternate_history: | ||
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+ | ==== Types of ISOT scenarios ==== | ||
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+ | Similarly to other ASB scenarios, ISOTs have gradually developed into something of a mini-genre, big enough to even have subgenres of its own. Here are some of the popular and common types (or subgenres) of ISOTs: | ||
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+ | - **ISOTing small pieces of territory**, | ||
+ | - **ISOTing entire sovereign countries** (or other self-governing areas), either individually or in groups, to a different historical era (commonly also from the future to the past), or a different timeline, or a fictional world | ||
+ | - **ISOTing a group of people**, either purely civilians or military personnel or even both, to a different historical era, different timeline, or a fictional world, usually with enough equipment for basic survival and getting by in the early days after the ISOT | ||
+ | - **ISOTing individual items** (tools, machinery, plans and blueprints, textbooks, powerful artefacts, etc.) rather than people from one era to another era, or to different timeline or fictional world | ||
+ | - **personal ISOTs**, where only a single person is ISOTed to a different era, or a different timeline or fictional world, instead of a whole group of people (usually, the individual gets ISOTed with minimum possessions) | ||
+ | - various plausible **combinations of the above** scenarios | ||
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+ | Many of these ISOT types are not unique to AH.com works, having also appeared in many published non-AH.com works by various authors of speculative fiction. However, some occur on AH.com scenarios, timelines and stories with much greater regularity than in non-AH.com works. | ||
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==== See Also ==== | ==== See Also ==== | ||
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**[[Max' | **[[Max' |
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