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  1. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    It's good to hear more about the Sikh polity, the Sikhs are so fascinating as the first religion founded in the post-medieval to really hit big numbers, it's a wonder that there's not more alternate history content made about them.

  2. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    Found this a bit alarming until I remembered that that's a contingency baked into the French constitution in this TL. Mercier has a very poetic style to her diary, good job on depicting that.

  3. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    Glad to see the return of Charles and Amy. Regarding the broadcast quote, this is exactly what worries me about Diversitarianism. I can think of no other reason why some American nationalists should be violently opposed to a manifestation of "foreign contamination" as benign as freaking...

  4. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    I'm ashamed to say I snorted at this before remembering the Karen are a real ethnic group. I'm too online... The sort of "planned obsolescence" of the propaganda sequent is really creative and interesting. I mean, it's insidious obviously, but it's just cool conceptually. Is that based on...

  5. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    So glad to see this is back! Very excited to learn where the story goes from here. I have to say, I respect your decision to have the pandemic going on in the framing device. It could have been easy and forgiveable to just handwave it and say "It's OTL except without current events" but I think...

  6. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    Nice to finally see what's going on down under. Can't wait for the next volume! I assume from the letters that one of those ads was referring to marmosets, and in OTL the marmoset (or at least the common marmoset) is classified by the IUCN Red List as "of least concern." So I wonder if ITTL the...

  7. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    Thande, you probably ought to know that on Amazon LTTW Volume IV is listed as being from the wrong Tom Anderson. This appears to be the case in both the US and UK pages for it.

  8. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    Damn, the terrible fate of New Guinea's diversity really stings. And even outside the moral implications, that'd be a huge lose to fields of linguistics and anthropology.

  9. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    Fascinating stuff, but what I found most interesting is "civic steam" as a concept (though, as is pointed out, not very efficient in practice.)

  10. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    Wow, there's a lot about the history of the Congo region I didn't know about, and have learned from looking up some of the things this update referenced. Quite an unsung civilization!

  11. Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism

    You know, I find it interesting that the Flippant movement seems to be present in China, like it has taken OTL Japan's role of "culturally distinct from the West but sharing Youth Culture with it nonetheless."

  12. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Hmm, I wonder what in a hundred years will tip Germany over the threshold into one last struggle for supremacy?

  13. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I've finally gotten caught up with this: Excellent work, Thande, I quite look forward to reading it all in one go when you come out with the eBook. It's nice to see this world "from the ground," so to speak, and I'm having quite a bit of fun guessing whether any given person mentioned is "real"...

  14. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Really excited to see the world of LTTW "from the ground" so to speak, with this new format. I liked the bit with the courier especially. California looks like a very promising country, I hope it turns out okay in the end. Also, that Caro Deakins, a sharp young woman on a bicycle in an...

  15. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Wow, those Moronite marriage chains sound like a logistical nightmare. Is that based on something from the OTL Tierro del Fuegan people, from some obscure misinterpreted Bible passage, or is it invented whole cloth?

  16. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I laugh every time I see "12 Inventions That Changed the World" and we're on what feels like the 25th. Excellent running joke. Edit: Never mind, apparently you're only on number 9, if I've counted right. Odd, it feels like so many more.

  17. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Interesting bit of information on the fate of Japan, particularly Korea's involvement. And the destruction of the Taj Mahal is quite sad to me.

  18. No Harry Potter

    Lord of the Rings actually entered production around the time Harry Potter was published. I think YA and Children's literature will be less likely, in this scenario, to see a Renaissance then the Fantasy genre in pop culture. Harry Potter did strike a goldmine in combining the Fantasy Adventure...

  19. Was Agriculture Inevitable?

    Agriculture developed independently at several locations around the world, within the same time frame of several thousand years, relatively close together chronologically when you consider our species' timeframe of hundreds of thousands of years. Does this mean that agriculture is inevitable for...

  20. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I always find these scientific interludes fascinating (as well as the cultural interludes). It really illustrates the idea that talking to someone from an ATL about something as simple as high-school level science could easily require a translator as if they're speaking a foreign language.
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