Tag: iffy history
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June 09, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
We had a recent discussion in POD, the alternate history magazine about what it would have taken for the Germans to have knocked Great Britain out of the war in the summer of 1940. I want to start . . .
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September 03, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
The era of battleships overlapped the era of biplanes from shortly before World War I until maybe early1942, when all of the major combatants except to some extent Italy had phased out biplanes, and battleships . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:15 PM EDT --
What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world. The US had enough powerful modern . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Yet another entry into the “Roosevelt provoked the Japs and knew about Pearl Harbor in advance” genre. It differs from many of the earlier books in that genre in that it says that Roosevelt’s . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I had been toying with the idea of doing a book on demand for several years. About four years ago I took the plunge. The concept seemed so logical. Produce just the number of books that people . . .
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March 17, 2007 07:10 AM EDT --
1. What if Turkey had entered World War II in mid-August of 1944? Turkey stayed neutral in World War II until late February 1945 when Germany was definitely beaten. What if . . .
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December 21, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is a brief excerpt from my Nanowrimo novel. For those of you who aren't familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I . . .
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March 12, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
You don’t give an old line-hopper like Tim “Blarney” Smith an opening to get going on a story or you won’t get away from him until the bar's about to close, . . .
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March 14, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
I would love to get your comments and ratings on the first chapter of my novel 'Char'. I'm not trolling for high ratings or feel good comments, though of course they are welcome. 'It . . .
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March 17, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
One of my major interests is alternate history (What if the South had won the civil war--that sort of thing). I'm interested in both fiction and factual approaches. I couldn't find . . .
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March 23, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
Review:The Sky People (Book By Steve Stirling, Review By Dale R. Cozort)
I'm going to try really hard to keep the sour grapes out of this review, but I suspect that a little might slip through. . . .
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March 29, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Scenario Seeds are brief ideas that may eventually develop into background for Alternate History short stories or novels. Right now they are just ideas. Ideas can't be copyrighted . . .
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April 05, 2007 12:33 AM EDT --
Note to gather people:I originally wrote many of the articles I've posted in the alternate history and scitech for writers groups this past month for a print zine that I publish as part of an APA (Amateur . . .
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June 06, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
Review By: Dale Cozort
This is the second book in a series updating the old tradition of adventure stories set on inhabitable Mars and Venus. Stirling sidesteps the fact that we know those . . .
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June 05, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
( Warning: This is not real history. It is iffy history speculaiton)
The south's early lead in HIghWheeler or bicycle technology was doubly ironic, first because the first recognizable bicycle . . .
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June 05, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
What Has Happened So Far : Spain enters World War II on the Axis side in mid-June, trying to pick up some loot from the defeated French and from the British. That changes the dynamics of . . .
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May 16, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
This started out as a comment in one of the First Chapters rant threads. I decided to expand it and make it a seperate article.
What makes a good writer? What makes a successful writer? . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
This is the first part of an on-line group writing experiment that we did for POD a few years ago. I made up a situation and some characters, wrote a few pages and posted them. People then jumped in and . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
I just got to thinking about the lifespan of various leaders. There is a lot of potential for Alternate History in how long various leaders lived. Here are just a few to get the creative . . .
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March 14, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Just wanted to introduce myself. I've been a Doctor Who fan since college. I really enjoyed the early Tom Baker. I also enjoyed some of the Silvester McCoy (spelling) stuff. . . .
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