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  1. modelcitizen

    Galaxias by Baxter, literally chilling to read. There will be spoilers, probably.

    So, Baxter has written another utterly terrifying book examining the what-if of if something Awful happens to earth. I just started reading it. And I am shivering. Something something sun goes out and the world deals with it to the best of its ability. I'm leaving this thread alone until...
  2. modelcitizen

    The Boys alt hist?

    So wi "supes" are almost plentiful to the point where you literally cannot get out of their damn way as they race about beleaguered urban locales? It seems to go back to about fifty years before viz POD. Blame Amazon prime for my access to it. I read the comic book by way of Amazon prime...
  3. modelcitizen

    Behold a prodigy, a female child's inspiration

    So the daughter of a sportscaster up and created her own twist at the Americas. One of us! One of us! https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/13/us/high-school-student-map-ohio-2-trnd/index.html
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    SM Stirling does alt WW1!

    I learned he was doing this when I saw Black Chamber and Theater of Spies on our library's new fiction shelf. Apparently it's quite new. "Jun 2019" stamped inside the cover. Some claptrap comparing it to James Bond in a couple blurbs. Stirling did a shout-out to Ian Fleming in Marching...
  5. modelcitizen

    Okay, do you know where your copy of Flood is?

    If you don't, I can guess who got their hands on it. Floating cities. Yikes. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/floating-city-sustainable-eco-friendly-un-technology-a8860116.html
  6. modelcitizen

    found a Watership Down/Watchmen crossover fan-fic

    and it's not bad! I thought it was shorter than I expected it to be, but I liked reading it. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5757347/1/Foxglove I came across it when someone referred to it in the comments on a clip from the bbc Watership Down adaptation, fwiw. So I figured I'd mention it in this...
  7. modelcitizen

    Remember and Read 667: a "review"

    Yeah, I joined smashwords and bought Saxon Dog's ebook 667 for two bucks. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/20863 Worth it!!!!!!!!! Sure, in PDF form it's 49 pages, but there is stuff in it new for readers of his 667 material on this site...
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    David Frum asks, WI allies lost WW1

    In Atlantic magazine, writer David Frum asks, what if the allies lost World War One? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/world-war-i-legacy-democracy/394616/ Frum brings up the Legacy of Democracy. So, Anglo American French Legacy of Democracy, or skipping the whole...
  9. modelcitizen

    Just read Long Cosmos

    Anyone read or reading Long Earth, Long War, Long Mars, Long Utopia, Long Cosmos? I read it slightly out of order, that is, Earth, Mars, Utopia, then War, then Cosmos.
  10. modelcitizen

    Shout Out To P&S "Last Flight of XM594," swan song for XH558

    Shout Out To P&S "Last Flight of XM594," final year for XH558 I spotted at http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-last-flying-vulcan-bomber-put-on-this-breathtaking-1724387121 an item about "the last flying Vulcan bomber" which included this video...
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    Re-Reading "Protect and Survive: A Timeline"

    I know, hanging out with my wife while she recovers from surgery would likely indicate a cheerful literary diet, that is, something less inclined to hack large vital blocks off the body of my mental health/well-being. But screw that. There's the venerable stand-by of alt-history and sci-fi...
  12. modelcitizen

    TLIAD: This Is Not Your Fault!

    Oy, wtf what are you doing? Huh? YOU DON'T BELONG HERE! Go hump yourself. No, really. Don't you have some Draka to shove into another mole-hole? Some poor sap of a freely-elected leader to possess with a "demonic" hand? You should leave me alone. I feel like I'm being watched...
  13. modelcitizen

    If Rasputin Survives, What Effect On Bolshevik Revolution?

    An ally on the Bloc game website asked us a question on the thread where we were discussing alternate history. I thought it was interesting and so I put it here so that folks who know more than I do can look at it. "If Rasputin had survived, do you think the Bolshevik Revolution would have...
  14. modelcitizen

    AHC: WW1 Becomes "Hundred Years War"

    The continent has seen Hundred Year Wars before. Maybe a "bi-partisan" soldier uprising inspired by a Christmas Truce gets brutally put down, and forms of martial law are declared. USA involvement is purely optional. A century of hell, ongoing development of weapons including larger...
  15. modelcitizen

    Collaborative! Keep Chernobyl "On Ice," after April 26 1986...

    Apparently, Chernobyl was the catalyst to “Glasnost” and the resultant end of the USSR and so forth. I did not know that. (See a bit further below for source of my “discovery.”) After a moment of "wow," I thought a WI could be pretty neat to have us put together. (That could just be my...
  16. modelcitizen

    Gattaca; Daaamn! (Spoiler alert)

    Am (re)watching Gattaca (on BBC America), and, like, wow. In the interest of avoiding spammage, I searched the site for threads with "Gattaca" in the title, and found only this, a 2006 "could it happen" discussion, https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=26248 For those...
  17. modelcitizen

    SciFi/AH Parallels To "Engineered" PRC Society?

    A thing about history is that "real life" circumstances sound like something an author would have to stretch somewhat imagination-wise to portray in a work of fiction. This could go for examples including Cambodia's "Year Zero" and the Khmer Rouge's set of goals, Shining Path and its being...
  18. modelcitizen

    Nighthawks, film, lovely 1981 NYC (London and Paris)

    I just watched it for the first time in a few years, it's one of my favorites. Stallone and Billy Dee Williams play NYC street crime unit cops in a delightfully 1981 NYC, very very pre-Giuliani, I highly recommend it. Oh yeah, Rutger Hauer plays a terrorist ;D
  19. modelcitizen

    Calling Fellow Copycats: Fifty Years Unofficial Bootleg! Collaborative TL

    So I saw this "50 Years" collaborative timeline and went for it with salivation-rate escalated. And I discovered that the boat had more than sailed, it had gone around the world a few times and all the staterooms on it were booked and what-not. I became envious. I coveted. I bet I am not...
  20. modelcitizen

    Spoiler "Five-Minute" Versions Of "Crucial" AH Books

    Some books are part of an "automatically understood" background of knowledge presumed of fellow ah.com posters. For myriad reasons, not everyone has read all of these books. Sure, research on wikipedia is always a way to bone up fairly quickly on the who what what-not of these books...
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