Thanks UM! That was what I was going for - this TL is one of those second-order jobbies (150 years of divergence and Gary Lineker is still best known for advertising crisps). It's a slightly more utopian world than OTL - a narrowly averted American Civil War was the initial POD.
I was also...
Damn, the Tube's gone down the tubes. Good stuff Roem, showing us what might have been had the lurch to road transport gone even harder after the war.
I wonder, would British car manufacturing have prospered more had public transport been less popular?
One of the regular punters gave the barman a nod as he chugged his lager.
“Turn it up mate, the Germans are on!”
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(inaudible) Well there lies the big question...
(inaudible) … They have a wily old manager...
(inaudible) Bit of a lack of resilience, this Brazil side, at times?
The BBC’s...
Aha! Good stuff. Thande, and thanks for the link. A bit more green than I had imagined - Plaid's local machine must be working well these days on the island (their support correlates somewhat with the Welsh language). The canolbarth (the large landlocked chunk, which includes Llangefni, seat of...
... so I'm not the only one who would have liked to have seen a ward breakdown of my home county of Anglesey (hi Analytical Engine, where are you from?).
As a Parliamentary constituency Anglesey has been a battleground between Labour and Plaid Cymru since the 90s (Ieuan Wyn Jones, former leader...
Love it, both the ATL and the image. I like how you've used the old Welsh counties for what in OTL were essentially the last of the "lost lands" (the literal translation of Welsh's name for England, "Lloegr") - Caerlleon, Pengwern and Ergyng.
Just a note on some of the county names -...
With a PoD in the 30s? Sure, why not.
Oh, the 1930s, not the 1830s. Nah.
The OP's hypothesis is technically conceivable if the entire industrial capacity of Europe and Asia circa 1943 is thrown towards this goal (under some nebulous and entirely ASB Nazi-run world government) but when the...
Well done to all entrants. Especially Martin, because, well... phwoar, nice map.
Honourable mention to Kaiphranos for his inventive take on ideologies... and rvbomally for yet another intriguing and believable parallel universe.
Martin23230 got my vote this round.
Just.
Well done to all the entries. I loved them all - Kaiphranos's entry in particular made me laugh, "Molded-plasticware Culture" indeed!
I can't believe my sports idea got used. Now you sneaky bastards have left me with but 48 hours to make a map. And I can barely use Paint, let alone Inkscape/GIMP. AAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Good book actually. Spiritual (if not actual)* sequel to Snow Crash, which I thought was a lot more fun although not necessarily higher in quality (it was madcap).
Enjoyed the concept of phyles and Neo-Victorian technopunk,
I will have to check out Stephenson's other works at some time or...
For the game, for the world
Show a map of a sports competition in an alternate universe. The league may be of an existing sport, or of a sport that developed differently from OTL.
Examples include a successful league in a country not known for success in the sport in OTL, the alternative...