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  1. Without Warning

    So, has anyone read it? (apologies if there's already a threat about this, I did a search but it turned up no results) Personally I thought it was great. Although I do have a problem suspending my disbelief when it came to John Birmingham's scenario of what would happen to Europe...

  2. What if ROBOT was implemented?

    "Conservatives of the fifties have had a particularly bad press for their willingness to stick with the Attlee consensus, allowing the UK's underlying economic weakness to worsen. Yet there was one moment when Britain might have experienced a Thatcher-sized jolt, a British revolution thirty...

  3. WI Macmillan had managed to convince France to allow us into Europe in 1961?

    I've been watching the Andrew Marr documentary on BBC2 and it made me think. Once Britain entered the EEC in 1973 our basic economic position began to improve (despite the financial crisis that were yet to come in the mid-70s). Our Balance of Trade began to look more rosy, our exports finally...

  4. Anyone read Off Armaggeddon Reef by David Weber?

    I read it a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised. It had flaws of course, the main one being Weber's inherent inability to write believable characters. The main POV is of a woman who wakes up in a cybernetic body on an alien planet 800 years after her entire civilisationa and everyone...

  5. Capitalist syndicalism 1945

    WI the labour government of 1945 begins implementing economic reforms based on capitalist syndicalism instead of socialism? So, for example, certain nationalised essential industries (transport, mining, etc) are divided up into companies, their ownership formally ceded to their workers, with...

  6. Is Niall Ferguson a member of AH.com?

    We were having this discussion in Chat, but it might have more of a reaction in the proper AH forums... What do you guys think? He's a renowned historian with a very real interest in Counterfactual or 'Virtual' history. Are you out there Niall Ferguson? Although...if he is, he probably...

  7. Two more years of Thatcher?

    WI, Maggie gets five more votes in the leadership challenge of 1990 and wins the first round? Do you think she would be shocked into making concessions in the party for the next two years? Or continue her autocratic leadership style and perhaps face another leadership challenge? What do...

  8. The logical conclusion of Battlestar Galactica

    So, we all know that Earth is the lost 13th colony. We know that the fleet is heading our way, chased by the Cylons. Taking the current, new version as our starting point (not the travesty of what the original series came up with), what happens when they get here? How do they introduce...

  9. Cool Online Alternate History Story...

    That You Probably Won't Want to Read. One of the reasons I wasn't around much on the weekend was that I got totally addicted to a novel I read online. It's basically a time-travel/alternate history story, but it's extremely well-written and thoughtfully done. The main character is a...

  10. A Message from Albia - Blogspot

    Just something I came across and thought it might interest you guys.

  11. Newest Member

    AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board Statistics Threads: 9,181, Posts: 110,160, Members: 625 Welcome to our newest member, joatsimeon@aol.com That couldn't be...? Could it...? If it is...and he discovers the chat forum...and decides to take an interest in the politics threads...well...

  12. Weapons of Choice

    I'm guessing a lot of you have read this one. A US/UK/French/Australian fleet from 2021 is ISOTed just outside Pearl Harbour in 1942. Initial chaos ensues, followed by a hasty understanding and then troubled acclimatizations on both sides. My question is, what would you do if you were the...

  13. WI the Pill had never been invented?

    How important has the Pill been to women's liberation over the last few decades? Is it the major factor in the successful march of feminism since the 1960s? Or is it one factor among many that has led to greater equality? If the Pill had never been invented, what would the world look like...

  14. The Last Train

    This wasn't really strictly AH, though as the POD was in 1999 I suppose it could be considered. Did you get it in the States/Australia? It was broadcast in Canada under the title 'Cruel Earth'. It was a 6 part mini-series about a civilistation destroying asteroid hitting the earth. The series...

  15. WI the 60s never happened

    Not literally of course. But what if the social changes that exploded in the 60s did not occur in that one decade? 1. Rock n' Roll developed slowly from the late 40s along with other types of popular music. It never attained a generational iconic status. 2. Birth control gradually becoming...

  16. The Children of Men

    Anyone read this book by P. D. James? It was written in 1992, and set in the future, but it counts as Alt Hist now, although I've never seen in mentioned in any Alt Hist forum. It's set in the year 2021, and it opens with the main character, an Oxford history Professor, describing the news...

  17. Yellowstone Super Volcano

    Yellowstone has long been known to be volcanicly active. However, it wasn't until the last few decades, that we found out just how active it is. For years scientists were puzzled because they couldn't find any cauldera (the familiar volcano shape we all know) in the landscape. It wasn't until...
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