alternate history

Through the coincidence of recent events in my private life, a few weeks ago I got in touch with an old internet friend I had not spoken to for several years. In our first new conversations, we caught up on many things, but one point which she proudly informed me of stood out immediately: She...

I woke up with my head ringing aand the sound of someone crying. Not exactly the five-star hotel wake-up call I was used to, but then again, nothing about this morning made sense. My head throbbed like I'd downed a bottle of cheap $ 5 wine, and when I opened my eyes, I was staring at a ceiling...

In the early 2000's a game called Sid Meier's Civilization 4 came out, the fourth installment of the Civilization Series. It was a beloved game, but its memory has somewhat faded, which is perhaps natural given its age. Still the torch of CIV 4 has not yet died, and one of its lingering embers...

EVA system booting… Welcome Back, Commander Accessing Timeline…Stand By 1946: The Soviet Union invades Finland, a member of the European Alliance prompting the other nations of the Alliance to declare war 1948:Greece falls to Soviet forces prompting the United Nations to form the United Nations...

"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." ― Abraham Lincoln The United States of America, in the form of the creature of Henry Ford and countless others in his shadow and their successors since 1932, was losing the Great Confrontation, unable to stem the Red...

We were just trying to get through another summer—humid, slow, and full of broken animatronics. I'd been at Freddy Fazbear's for almost eight years by then, and I'd seen a lot of weird people come and go. But nothing weirder than Michael Afton our latest night guard, deciding he wanted to run...

JANUARY 3RD, 1953 01:53 HOURS SOMEWHERE OVER THE NORTH SEA "Skipper to cargo. We're ten minutes away from the European coastline; we'll be releasing you in five minutes. Do you copy?" The pod shudders as the bomber begins to accelerate, the roar of the engines to the sides of you nearly...

With the impending release of Sunrise and Studio Khara's collaboration on Amazon Prime, I decided to make a thread specifically for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. A synopsis from the official GQuuuuuuX website below: Source: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Official Website The anime is due to...

Podkomisarz Szczelaszczyk dismounted from their truck, snow crunching under his feet. He did his best to ignore the shouts and hungover grumbling as Przodownik Kwaśniewski got the rest of the squad off the back, bending all his attention on the buildings ahead of him. They certainly hadn’t...

The Cold War was one of the most significant geopolitical events of the 20th century, shaping the world through ideological conflict, proxy wars, and technological rivalries. However, what if history had played out differently? What if the balance of power had been reversed, with Russia emerging...

Chapter 1 - Exodus Britanniae AN: This story sees an AH version of the UK teleporting between in Runeterra after winning WW1. The timeline it comes from is the 'Quite the Age of Plenty', which you can read here. It is strongly advised new readers get to the original story and read up to Chapter...

Chapter 1: Recovering Special Order 191. - September 11, 1862 – 10:30 AM – Farmstead Northwest of Frederick, Maryland The Army of Northern Virginia advanced in a dispersed column formation, its three corps separated to facilitate rapid movement while maintaining mutual support intervals...

=== Prologue - Hail to the Kingfish === In 1936, America was on the brink of collapse. The economy had failed to truly recover from the recession of 1925 after the British Revolution. The fear that vast amounts of money loaned to the Entente during the war would never be repaid had caused a run...

Drifting in the silent void of space, just beyond the glow of Earth, a lone figure awakens. Confusion grips his mind as he finds himself floating above the Moon, his body weightless yet empowered. A golden ring glows on his finger, pulsating with energy he doesn't understand. As memories return...

Hello everybody. I'm a writer, mostly freelance, but I've been working on my own setting for a while now. So far it's some very raw ideas, but I'd like to share them for feedback and suggestions on how things can be improved. The first one is this world is very similar to ours, but in ancient...

This from an ASB thread I post in AH.com but considered SV a lot more knowledgeable about this sort of stuff I'll post it here. Anyway let's just say Marx and Engels after publications of Das Kapital Volume I (1867) there's conscious swap with Stalin and Trotsky a few days before 15th Congress...

Tomorrow, something crazy happens that doesn't directly affect anybody. Like let's say the Sun is replaced with a giant Triangle for a day (that still shines), and the moon is replaced with a giant cheese wheel oof equivalent mass. Or let's say that everyone on Earth has the film London After...

The Emperor is Dead, long live the Emperor, whoever they may be. It is the year 1028 (275 AD), and Emperor Aurelian is dead. They great unfier he broke the Gallic and Palmyrene empires, reformed the state, and rebuilt an empire in collapse. Having worked to stabilize the empire, he was to...

The Kaiser's New Clothes Prologue: Kaiser Gets Wet "Fenja deceased, CC-6." Kaiser's heart clenched, but he didn't pause the attack, instead continuing to spear blades from the sodden ground around Leviathan while Nessa let out a strangled scream. Leviathan carelessly threw her sister's now...

Memories of a Republic: A KMT Quest "You must make it the goal of your life to sacrifice everything you have for the Party." - Sun Zhongshan. The old man looks up at the ceiling of that Nanjing bedroom, eyes still as hardened as ever, as if attempting to solve yet another great mystery...

Earth is going to die. It isn't an if, it's a when. Maybe it'll be in ten years, maybe ten months, maybe ten days. If we're particularly unlucky, ten hours. But if history has taught us anything, it's that death doesn't arrive on a predictable schedule. It creeps up behind you with a smirk...

AN: There's alternate history here, but what's important right now is that the US includes Canada and uses metric, multiple wars were fought with France, the geopolitical situation is pretty different, and LotR is actual history. - The Eagle and Child, Oxford, England, 1935 Ten men sat around...

At the beginning of '93, Sega HQ magically recieves the Sega Dreamcast and a copy of every game released for it. They also receive the blueprints for how to make the console and its cartridges. Once Sega mass produces the Dreamcast, they will have a massive advantage. There console is far more...

Hong Xiuquan (later Emperor Taiping) remained active in his realm's administration throughout his entire war, frequently issuing decrees and seeking to increase the efficiency of his revolutionaries. Furthermore, he avoided extreme policies such as gender segregation, and successfully convinced...

Ethan Stephens Woodville was born in South McAlester, Oklahoma, on 28 October 1890, to a white father originally from Illinois and a Chickasaw mother who also had white relatives. Woodville's father worked at the McAlester Rail Depot. Woodville attended local schools in Pittsburg County, since...