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  1. A WWI weapons system breakthrough?

    One of my (many) pet hates on this site is the secret weapon or technological breakthrough. You know... "what would have happened had the Australian Army in 1937 not rejected the design for the new Mark Three Combat Boot with its built up heel and slip on facility? Would Singapore still have...

  2. Ernest Rutherford POD

    Health warning (meant to annoy)- this POD has no sudden acquisitions of weapons systems, no German invasion of Britain in 1940, and no sudden changes in mentality which allow a government to adopt a policy totally alien to its mind set. Proceed at own risk- In 1895, the 24 year old New...

  3. Turtledove's Derlevai/Darkness series

    I've just finished the final volume of Turtledove's DARKNESS series and had a horrible, sinking, feeling as I neared the last page that he's getting ready for another sequence set in this world, one about their equivalent of the Cold War. Would people agree that he is vastly overproducing? I...

  4. THE OCCUPATION

    About 15 years ago a lot of my AH books were destroyed when when some shits broke into the place where my stuff was being stored. Among them was a paperback, THE OCCUPATION. Unusually, no author was credited. It's about life in German occupied England. I got the impression that it was the work...

  5. The Tizard Committee- a genuine POD. Hill and Blackett don't join.

    I tend to get rather fed up with some of the threads posted. A completely implausible POD is suggested and when its weaknesses are pointed out more and more suppositions are added- which turns it into fantasy. So here's a plausible one- if perhaps one of limited interest. Suppose either Patrick...

  6. Drake Flint Belisarius

    I finished the first two of the BELISARIUS sequence by Eric Flint and David Drake. Frankly I hadn't been expecting too much from it. I'd never read any of Flint's solo efforts (I live in a town without a bookshop, an abysmal library, and although there are two science fiction shops in towns...

  7. What if Wilfred "Mouth Organ" Paterson had stayed on in the Australian Army?

    "In the last week of October 1918, Paterson was camped by a billabong. He had been avoiding the haunts of men since the failure of his novel, "Daisy and Me" (1st ed, 1913, standard edition, University of Queensland, 1996). Not sensitive to many things, Paterson was sensitive to jeers aimed at...
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