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  1. Continuous Democracy - The Best Plausible Timeline?

    Continuous Democracy - The Best Plausible Timeline? This timeline might be the best plausible one - or, at least, it's probably as good as you can get. Most of you have been aiming for nasty TLs. This tries to be the TL with the best tech and general prosperity. It's not just about ballot...

  2. An Americas' World?

    An Americas' World? I had this idea while rereading Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" a year or so ago. It struck my fancy because I kind of liked the idea of having the Americas come out on top instead of OTL's Europe. He wrote that one fatal disadvantage for the Americas was that all...

  3. Hitler's Republic

    Hitler's Republic This TL is, I think, the most scarily successful Hitler we could realistically have. Mind you, that means a pretty different Hitler than ours, and so the POD is early, when he was a teenager. This timeline meets all standards for humane primary character treatment, as its...

  4. How Much Earlier Current Tech With Continuous Freedom In World?

    A question's arisen in my mind from working on TLs with substantial-sized free governments lasting continously from democracy's invention. That question is, in such a TL, how much earlier would recent and today's inventions of nuclear weapons, computers and computer networking have arisen...

  5. Why the Roman Empire Can't Conquer the World

    This is a thread just on why the Roman Empire HAD to be slow to innovate and incrasingly closed socially, and slowly lose both turf and cred, as it was OTL. It's partly a continuation of an earlier argument on this Archimedes Invents Gumpowder thread here, and partly a response to this new...

  6. Was Chinese Emperor Ch'in The Evillest Emperor Ever?

    (Crossposted here). While visiting Atlanta, we visited an exhibit that's a selection of some of the thousand statues found in 1974 in Ch'in's grave, which inspired me to write this. On the one hand, he had fewer citizens available to kill, and we have no idea what his casualty rate was, though...

  7. Challenge: Make The Flying Aircraft Carrier Happen

    Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to make the Flying Aircraft Carrier a reality. It must both have seen serious use and at least one fight. Bonus points for making it the only kind of aircraft carrier in use.

  8. How Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Would REALLY Have Gone Down

    When I was a teenager, I liked reading these for guilty pleasure, and The Mote in God's Eye because it was really good. But they include some pretty nasty and IMHO unlikely ideas - the US voluntarily choosing to give up many freedoms to dominate the Earth as pardners with the USSR, and then all...
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