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  1. Let's discuss the AH elements in "Fringe"

    (I have only watched the first two seasons so far, so please avoid spoilers about later developments if possible.) As much as I enjoy that series, I have to say that the AH elements in the other universe are poorly thought-out. Let's review those that have been disclosed as of the end of...

  2. Graphic novel: Jour J, "Vive l'Empereur!"

    I had greatly enjoyed the previous Jour J album, "L'imagination au pouvoir?" and was looking forward to reading the new one, "Vive l'Empereur!" I just have, and now it's review time. Perhaps we should have a variant of the Mohs scale of SF hardness for AH. At the hard end of the scale...

  3. WI no Apple: how long are home computers delayed?

    Steve Jobs' passing today raises some obvious counterfactual questions, one of which being the impact on the development of home computers if Apple had never been founded. So, let us assume that in 1974, Steve Jobs, during his spiritual pilgrimage to India, has a fatal accident while riding a...

  4. How long could the Kronstadt rebels have held out?

    In February 1921, large-scale workers' strikes took place in Petrograd over the continuously worsening plight of the population. The Kronstadt sailors rose in sympathy and, on February 28, held a meeting during which a 15-point resolution calling for an end to Bolshevik dictatorship was passed...

  5. Graphic novel: Jour J, "L'Imagination au pouvoir"

    Jour J is a counterfactual graphic novel series and "L'Imagination au pouvoir?" (Power to imagination?) is the sixth volume to date (a seventh one is scheduled for next October). Like most commercial AH, the Jour J series wouldn't meet AH.com's exacting standards, but most volumes are a fun...

  6. Digital artist imagines Paris cityscapes if Le Corbusier had had his way

    Between 1922 and 1925, Le Corbusier had, with the sponsorship of car manufacturing company Voisin, imagined a radical urbanistic overhaul of Paris, based on a core of concrete skyscrapers. The project is fairly well-known among AH historians, and I post a scale model of it for reference...

  7. Superpower Empire: China 1912

    (Link to the original thread) This is the story of a sleeping giant that shook itself awake. In 1911, China was called "the sick man of Asia". Its ruling dynasty was in a terminal state of deliquescence; its territory was being encroached on all sides by imperialist powers; it had lost...

  8. AH challenge: turbine engines more widespread

    In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a fair bit of speculation that turbine engines would replace internal combustion engines in land vehicles. The Chrysler company, in particular, tried to get on the market a line of turbine-powered cars. Here is the '61 Turboflite concept car: From...

  9. WI Göring dies and Heydrich lives?

    I know as well as anyone how hackneyed these WIs about high-ranking figures of the Third Reich are. But I'm curious anyway: on the one hand, Göring lived through an assassination attempt by the French resistance in August 1941; while Heydrich died from wounds received in that ambush by the Czech...

  10. "Red Plenty": When the USSR hoped to outperform the West

    Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream is a book by Francis Spufford which depicts, in semi-fictional format, that strange period in Soviet history when the country's leadership--and much of its population--actually believed that the USSR, thanks to technological innovation and the...

  11. How decisive was US support for the Soviet war effort against Germany?

    As the title says. All other things being equal, how would the USSR have fared from 1941 without American supplies? Let us handwave for the moment the political implications of a US that considers the USSR a co-belligerent rather than a full-fledged ally, or that for whatever reason is unable to...

  12. HPL (1890-1991) by Roland C. Wagner

    Has anyone read that novella? The title says it all: Lovecraft's cancer is taken care of in time, and he lives on until 1991. According to the reviews I've come across, it's very much an exercise in wishful thinking, not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Lovecraft eventually gets the...

  13. France Fights On now a published book

    The first tome of France Fights On a.k.a. the Fantasque Timeline has been published (in French). It covers June to December 1940, and four other books will be published at a later date.

  14. Posting "France Fights On" in extenso: would it be allowed?

    There have been several recent mentions of this excellent ATL, which too few people are aware of. Does anyone know whether it could be reposted here at AH.com?

  15. Could Germany have produced VX in militarily useful amounts during WW2?

    In OTL, VX was discovered in 1952 and initially intended for use as a pesticide. Its toxicity didn't go unnoticed and by 1954 research was underway to use it as a weaponized nerve agent. My question is, would it have been possible for a German chemist to have discovered it sometime in the...

  16. Alternate contemporary fashions

    This is something of a light-hearted speculation. Many fashions from OTL are quite silly--wearing one's cap frontside back, baggy pants that hang loose at thigh level, clothes worn with the price tags still on them, you name it. Can you think of other fashions that may also exist, all other...

  17. AH challenge: earliest possible development of smokeless powder, and the consequences

    Black powder is a relatively simple thing to put together, with the earliest recorded use by China in the 9th century, and plenty of ATLs in which this or that iron-age civilization chances upon it, like Robertp6165's "The Guns of the Tawantinsuya". Smokeless powder is a different animal, and...

  18. Fine weather in Geneva, summer 1816: no Frankenstein, no vampire

    The fuss around Twilight has brought back to mind this article from The New Yorker: So, what if the weather is fine, and they spend their time outdoors instead of telling each other ghost stories, coming up in the process with two of the most fundamental figures of modern horror (and, it...

  19. Plausibility check: to what extent could WW2 Japan have relied on synthetic fuels?

    Note that I am not phrasing this as "Could WW2 Japan have relied on synthetic fuels?" The question is to what extent a synthetic fuel program could have alleviated Japanese fuel needs. Could Japan have acquired by 1941 or so the capability to produce synthetic fuels in industrially meaningful...

  20. Would Walther Wever have made a difference for the Luftwaffe?

    This may not be a very original question, but I'd like to know the opinion of those more knowledgeable than myself on German military history: would it have made a difference in the Luftwaffe's priorities if Gen. Walther Wever hadn't died in a plane crash in 1936? The following is quoted from...
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