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Green Antarctica
An ASB timeline written by DValdron, in which Antarctica never fully glaciates. The wildlife that evolves there, along with the later appearing local human civilization, is inventive and unique, bizzarely adapted to the extreme conditions… and often incredibly disturbing to the rest of the world.
You can read it here (if you have the guts, since the whole timeline can get pretty eerie at times). Alternatively, you can use the chapter guide available below (it is currently under construction, please be patient).
A nice review can also be found here, on the Alternate History Weekly Update blog. The timeline also has its own Tv Tropes page.
Chapters
Prologue: Introducing the premise
Chapter 4: From the Journals of Captain James Cook (approx. July 1774)
Chapter 5: "Invasion: How Species and Peoples Have Transformed the World" by Jared Diamond (2012)
Chapter 6: The Human Era Begins
Chapter 8: Early Human Expansion
Chapter 9: A Written Geography of Antarctica
Chapter 10: Tsalmothua, Near the glacier (circa 18,000 BCE)
Chapter 11: Prehistoric Agriculture Among the Tsalal
Chapter 12: Principle Tsalal Crops
Chapter 13: Early Domestications - Monkeys and Penguins
Chapter 14: From the Journal of Captain Cook
Chapter 15: Tsalmothua, Circa 17,000 BCE
Chapter 17: Mothbeasts and domestication
Chapter 18: Tragedy and Transformation - The Tsalal Middle Era
Chapter 19: Tsalmothua, Circa 8000 BCE
Chapter 20: Birthplace of Tsalal Civilization Uncovered, New Register, April 17, 1966 (AP/CE)
Chapter 22: Predator Domesticates - Daggerfoots, Hoppers, Shupa and Devils
Chapter 23: Significant Events in Tsalal History Revealed to Date (First Update)
Chapter 24: Yag Country, National Geographic
Chapter 25: Tulu, the Calendar Man
Chapter 26: The Yag Proto-Civilization
Chapter 27: The War Against the Water Kings, and the Flood
Chapter 28: Yag II - An Overview, 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago
Chapter 29: Warlord of the Tsalal - Story of a Yag Mythic Hero
Chapter 30: "Getting High the Tsalal Way", part 1
Chapter 31: Innovation and Social Transformation among Primitive Tsalal Cultures
Chapter 32: The Birth of the Zhu people - The Suffering Path
Rest of the chapters : TBA soon.
Literary allusions within the timeline
The Tsalal natives themselves take their name and some aspects of their culture from Edgar Allan Poe's famous novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Jules Verne later wrote an unofficial sequel to Poe's creepy adventure novel, the Sphinx of the Ice Fields.
An alternate version of Howard Phillips Lovecraft appears in the timeline as an intrepid journalist and adventurer who travels Antarctica in order to study the bizarre history and culture of the Tsalal. Many subtle and overt references to the themes of OTL Lovecraft's fantasy/sci-fi horror works appear throughout the timeline.
TL-related media and trivia
A map of Green Antarctica, courtesy of Rubberduck3y6 - The map uses the place names described earlier by the TL's author. There are two narrow channels completing the Polar Channel (Khihrul Lul) and linking it to the Sea of Discord (Tsaotuhgua Lul).
Face of an average Tsalal male (early concept), courtesy of Danbensen
Face of an average Tsalal male (finished concept), courtesy of Danbensen
Animals typical of the biotops around the sunken city of Tcho-Tcho, courtesy of Danbensen
Various mammals of the timeline's version of Antarctica, courtesy of Danbensen
Tamed and armour-equipped giant sloth carrying harness with Tsalal rocket artillery (early sketch), courtesy of Danbensen
Tamed and armour-equipped giant sloth carrying harness with Tsalal rocket artillery (early concept), courtesy of Danbensen
Tamed and armour-equipped giant sloth carrying harness with Tsalal rocket artillery (finished concept), courtesy of Danbensen