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  1. Adding books to the Bible

    In the book "Fitzpatrick's War", the footnotes mention a Biblical book known as the "Book of Joel". While I don't know the ins and outs, I am curious as to how exactly a new book could be added to the Bible and be generally accepted by the Christian community. Is it impossible to do after 400...

  2. What's in YOUR AH collection?

    Pretty much everyone on the board has amassed a collection of alternate history-based materiel over the years, myself included. It's now time to see who has what. I'll go first. BOOKS - What If? - What If? 2 - What Ifs? of American History - The Years of Rice and Salt - The Peshawar...

  3. AH for Civilization III!

    Who here liked The Years of Rice and Salt? Who would like to play it? Yes, someone has taken Kim Stanley Robinson's novel, and turned it into a Civilization III scenario. Personally, I found it quite enjoyable, though I thought that Mecca as the capital of "Dar al-Islam" was a poor...

  4. Fitzpatrick's War - Read it?

    I found this book while browsing through a nearby bookstore. The premise (a memoir from the future with historical criticism) looks very interesting, and I was wondering if anyone here has read it.

  5. AH Tech Challenge - No WWI and Tanks

    Before the outbreak of WWI, most of the major European powers were developing armored vehicles that would be an effective counter to the machine guns being developed at the time. Generally, these tended to be just armor-plated cars. With the outbreak of war, it was realized that something more...

  6. The Peshawar Lancers - Questions

    Okay, I FINALLY got ahold of this book, and am slowly working my way through it. I am wondering about a few things though. *Why is there so much cannibalism? It seems like those in the British Raj view those left behind in Europe and America as thirsting for another's flesh. Are there any...

  7. Anglo-Japanese Treaty Renewed

    In 1902, Britain signed a treaty of alliance with Japan, mostly so the Japanes Navy could act as security for Britain's eastern possessions. By about 1921, Britain was trying to get on the good side of the Americans, one of whose demands was the scrapping of that treaty. The British did so...

  8. Sliders - Remember it?

    Anyone remember this show? It was the first (and only) show on a major network with an alternate-history based premise. All I ever aw of it was most of the first season when I was about 10, and according to my reading, after that season FOX found out what they wee doing and proceeded to...

  9. A question on the superiority of free-market economies

    One of the things that pretty much everyone in the West takes for granted is the superiority of a free-market economy over a state-controlled command economy. And, in fact, nations with market economies do perform better in various areas than command economies. However, I'm not certain whether...

  10. No Cold War - The Middle East

    After looking at some of the preliminaries to Gwen's "Soviet Deng Xiaopeng" timeline, I began to wonder about what effects signifigantly reduced tensions would have in the Middle East, one of the main fronts of the Cold War. My own readings suggest that the Arab nations were receptive to Soviet...

  11. Curious Notions

    This is the thread for the discussion of Turtledove's new book, Curious Notions, the sequel to Gunpowder Empire. More info about the book can be found at Amazon.com here. Thoughts?

  12. AH Challenge: Public Transit to the Max!

    I was sitting on the bus, stuck in traffic, and was musing about how much I, and many others, loathe gridlock. So now I'm wondering: is there any way, with a POD of no earlier than 1850 AD, that public transit would become the norm in North American cities, with cars still existing, but not...

  13. Bad AH you just HATE!

    I'm certain that all of us here has come across some form of alternate history with some type of idea so fundamentally flawed it makes you want to scream. My question is: what is it, and why? For me, it's anything involving a long-term Nazi-Soviet alliance based on cooperation. Both of...

  14. The Missiles Aren't Snuck In

    On reading a biography of Khrusechev, specifically the part dealing with the set-up for the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the points the author made is that the Soviets didn't have to make the missle placement in Cuba a secret. Apparently, even Castro himself thought that, as this was a...

  15. <DB> America Wins the Cold War

    The last thirty years have seen a massive change in the balance of power in the world. With the Great Crash of '73 and the race riots and War Measures Act of that decade, the United States just bowed out and slipped away from the Cold War. With the formation of the European and Asian Defense...

  16. America stands alone

    I was watching the intro movie for the game "Freedom Fighters", and was reading the little historical blurbs that popped up on the screen. In this game's universe, the Soviets developed the A-Bomb first, and used it to wipe out Berlin in 1945, forcing a surrender of the Reich to them. By 1953...

  17. On Invading America

    One of the things that pops up in quite a few AHs is the invasion and conquest of the United States by a foreign superpower (generally a surviving Third Reich or an gigantic Soviet Union). However, many of these scenarios have problems in their logic (namely that the USA could nuke the...

  18. Flying carriers

    I saw a trailer for "Skycaptain" yesterday, and I was much impressed by the giant British "airships" that were launching swarms of planes. Is there any way that a sort of "flying aircraft carrier" could be built, or is the whole idea too fraught with technical and military problems?

  19. Dropshot, or If We're Lucky, We'll Win

    I've managed to (finally) find a copy of a publication of the Dropshot plan in my university library. The plan is a hypothetical scenario developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1948/1949 describing how the United States could fight and win a war with the USSR. So far it's pretty dry (like...

  20. Bush hits Al-Qaeda early

    Now, I might be wrong about this, so bear with me... In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by what we now know were Al-Qaeda operatives. At the time, though, the identity of the attackers was unclear, and the presidential election in the USA probably tied Clinton's hands somewhat...
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