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  1. Fanny Kaplan kills Lenin, 1918

    So what happens if Lenin is suddenly erased from history in August of 1918? If we (or rather Phillip K. Dick) can spin a successful assassination by Giuseppe Zangara into a nightmare Nazi-world, what can we do with a dead Lenin? What if Stalin becomes leader that early?

  2. Dr. King dies in 1960; Malcolm X becomes civil rights leader

    Okay, so Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and five other early civil rights worthies die during a bus crash in 1960. Although it takes a few years for him to build his base to Dr. King's level, by 1964 Malcolm X is the civil rights leader in the United States. Note that this is Malcolm before his...

  3. Pacific Disaster: Little Boy detonates on Tinian Island

    What would happen if Little Boy exploded on the Northern Marianas Island air base on the evening before it was to be loaded onto the Enola Gay? Louis Alvarez thought this was possible, although a long shot. If the uranium rings all slammed together at once, fission would begin; this might...

  4. The new Canaanites: a history of the Dutch-nation-in-exile

    I had the idea of the forces of Spain finally solving their problem with the troublesome northern provinces by simply shipping off the rebellious Protestants and then trying to establish full hegemony over the Netherlands and Frisia via Catholic settlement. My first idea was to have the...

  5. Frederick Barbarossa doesn't drown in that stream...!

    Okay, so what if Freddy Barbarossa actually made it across that Anatolian stream? What if he manages not cling to life for (let's say) another three years? And what if the man who unified the middle east--Saladin--dies instead, of natural causes? I'm used to thinking of Saladin as being...

  6. Dracula, the Scourge of God defeats the Ottomans

    Europe--perhaps Eurasia in general--maybe dodged a major bullet in 1462, when Sultan Mehmet II himself invaded Wallachia to deal with an uppity local named Vlad Tepes. Technically Mehmet's invasion was a failure, since he really did little other than burn a couple of cities and failed to get...

  7. Mongols defeated in Russia

    The Mongols named Kozelsk (located about 140 miles SW of Moscow) "the City of Woe" because of the difficulty they had conquering it relative to the other Russian cities. The Kozelski even managed to defeat a Mongol vanguard army, something that had been rarely done up until that time. In the...

  8. Consequences of no Native Americans

    The latest re-evaluation of the Younger Dryas Event seems to make the "comet" hypothesis unlikely, but the idea that the earth experienced a "super-Tunguska" event between 12,900-10,000 BC could apparently have occurred without altering earth's ecology too much--but for the purposes of this...

  9. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2010:

    This little announcement (dated April 1st) is pretty awesome, and it's started me thinking... http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/01/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988/4 Decades past are all well and good, but who would be the Gentlemen of today? I can think of...

  10. The "Stamboul Sweat" strikes in 1485

    "It is to be noted, that this mortalitie fell chieflie or rather upon men, and those of the best age as between thirtie and fortie years. Few women, nor children, nor old men died thereof". In the real world, there was a mysterious "sweating sickness" that struck England during the reign of...

  11. John Lennon, post-Yoko: what happens?

    Taking as my starting point a joke from Dennis Leary: What happens if Chapman was indeed off his aim, and shot and killed Yoko instead of John? How would John recover from this loss? How would you envision the next few decades of Lennon's life?

  12. Challenge: the pagans turn it around--weaker Islam AND Christianity

    POD: I'd think during or after Charlemagne would be the best time for this to work, maybe some scenario involving Widdekind. Alternatively, I guess we could see an ascendance of the Magyars, Avars, or the Prussians/Lithuanians in this TL... How to do it?

  13. No Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Civil Rights Movement

    I'm not a believer in destiny. I'm not necessarily a supporter of the idea that people, if they lived in timelines different from ours, would necessarily wind up occupying the same 'niches' than they did in OTL. So, for the purposes of this scenario we're assuming that MLK is alive and...

  14. The Great Divorce: Fundamentalists and Republicans, 1998

    i didn't know until recently that the so-called "Protestant Pope" Dr. James Dobson of Colordo Springs, CO had threatened to use his considerable clout to move American fundamentalists away from the Republican Party in 1998. Since they weren't doing anything to curl back abortion rights or gay...

  15. The assassination succeeds--no FDR for WW2

    Giuseppe Zangara's bullet hits home, and he becomes a name infamous in American history, like Lee Harvey Oswald. But unfortunately Zangara kills a highly capable president-elect just before the greatest crisis of the 20th century. So diminutive Texan (5'1") John "Cactus Jack" Garner...

  16. Helugu Khan defeats the Mamluks in Egypt

    Helugu Khan was an interesting guy--Persiaphile, pagan but friendly to the Crusaders, and decidedly unfriendly to Muslims. He was the Mongol responsible for the obliteration of Baghdad and the conquest of Syria and--if his brother Mongke Khan (current head of the whole Mongol Empire) hadn't...

  17. The consequences of no Polynesians

    Whatever forces drove the ancestors of the Polynesians into the Pacific do not occur, leaving the Pacific beyond the Solomon Islands virtually unpopulated as of say, 100 A.D. Who picks up the slack? My pick is the seemingly highly mobile Hindu civilization of Indonesia, creating a vast...

  18. The most unlikely war of all: USA versus....Israel?

    This is potentially the sort of thing that could kick off such a war, though still highly unlikely (it worked for the Spanish-American war, anyway): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident Assuming this happened in the 60s, what would American-Middle East relations look like these...

  19. So how did this board manage to avoid discussing...World War Z?

    This is Max Brooks' follow-up to his Zombie Survival Guide, a novel (constructed rather like Studs Terkel's "oral histories") detailing the global war against the zombies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z

  20. world war Z--anybody read it?

    Subtitled an "oral history of the zomibe war." Contains some nice little bits where Simon Cowell and Larry the Cable Guy blow themselves up whle wrestling over a handgrenade as "Fortress Hollywood" is overrun by normal folks trying to escape the zombies. Half of the Chinese population is...
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