alternate history

CHAPTER 1: A FACTORY GUTTER "We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman." -The Futurist Manifesto, F. T. Marinetti, 1909 There is no need for names in the New...

How would you have written Timeline 191/ Southern victory series by Harry Turtledove? Or failing that, what parts of it would you have done differently/fixed? As for myself: Overall: The sex scenes. We don't need them. They are gone. Change or outright remove the plot point of Mormons...

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to my very own discussion thread relating to my magnum opus, Welcome To Earth Abaddon, an AU in which Abaddon is the one to commence the Cycle on Earth Bet instead of Zion and Eden, and his arrival is taken place in the early 21st century. So, canonicity is out...

Hey everyone. So, I'm not fully out of my hiatus just yet. Still need to handle a few things on my end, but I'm finally at the point to where I'm comfortable balancing my time writing and time with my GF and her devil child (know that I say that with all the love in the world dear). Currently...

For about two months now, I’ve been posting various alternate history vignettes and outlines over on the Sea Lion Press forums. Since most of that’s been in the members-only section, I thought I’d start crossposting it here, also as a means of soliciting more feedback. I'll start out by laying...

Chapter 1: In the Days of Past April 21, 1896 The carriage wheels rattled against the cobbled streets of Rostov-on-Don, the rhythmic clattering a counterpoint to the low rumble of the nearby Don River. Grand Duchess Xenia, nestled within the velvet-cushioned interior, felt a thrill of...

Chapter 1: A Woman out of her Time Alexandra Karoline known formerly as Miya, inhaled sharply. The evening air, heavy with the scent of blossoming linden, was a stark contrast to the icy chill snaking into her heart. Shanghai, her Shanghai, with its teeming streets, the horns of cars, and the...

You were Star Avarius, and you weren't happy. You don't know how things got to this point. You trusted Toffee, that two timing snake! Well, he was more of a lizard, but whatever. When you went to regain your castle, reluctantly teaming up with your hated foe Ludo Butterfly, you really thought...

First of all. I would like to congratulate our Great and Almighty Evil Genius SI that is the Evil Maykr, for he has graduated from the P.A.I.N train as the One True Muse has now taken an interest in him and his story. Which means that his story will no longer be updated in [Preserved Archive of...

Introduction In 1912, the world ended. Massive extraterrestrial craft descended upon the Earth, millions of bizarre life-forms and an army of bizarre machines conquered the world and reshaped entire continents, and then simply pulled out after nearly twenty-five years of resistance and rebellion...

INTRODUCTION I've been itching to run a zombie apocalypse quest for awhile now and with Diogo Nogueira's The Dead are Coming rulebook I think I've found a great array of mechanics that are both minimalistic and able to scale upward in regard to forming communities. The setting for Fear the...

Eccentric Enlightenment The unusual reign of Frederick Augustus II. An 18. century Self-Insert Compared to other 18. century enlightened monarchs, Frederick Augustus II. was very eccentric and had many strange ideas. His radical ideas confused and irritated the entire Holy Roman Empire. Even...

When the Europeans colonized the New World, they transmitted many different diseases to the Indigenous Americans. This led to massive depopulation of the Western Hemisphere that the Europeans exploited. ROB changes the diseases that the Europeans transmit. Whenever a Native American got sick...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eik-R_OMM4Y&pp=ygUPY3VsdCBiYWQgdGhpbmdz (Theme song of this TL, for maxinum effect while reading) "There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that...

Her mind split as she felt a sudden pain in her head, the locker still fresh on her mind. Taylor had just woken up in the hospital, and while her body was weak, she felt that could easily change with just a thought. She was a parahuman now, one with the ability to split into multiple weaker...

What is this? A quest set in the world of The Widening Gyre, an alternate history timeline which explores a different Great War in which an America led by William Jennings Bryan stays neutral, causing the conflict to last a year longer. In the timeline, this ultimately leads to successful...

Letter to Munich November 5 1918 Hugo Zimmerman 05 Deichstraße Hamburg Salutations Felix I hope this letter finds you quickly. As I hope you heard, Hamburg has risen up against the Kaiser. There has been mass mutiny among the soldiers and the high seas fleet. The workers have joined them...

Aside from the obvious, I was wondering what unforeseen, creative and quirky sociological and psychological trends might emerge in a human society where gender was variable and you could switch after sexual intercourse like the 2005 movie Zerophilia What are some of your ideas. You don’t have...

Realized SV didn't have this thread either, so putting up the links now. So, didn't realize until someone asked for links that I hadn't posted a compilation thread for links on SB. So I'm correcting that now. I'm going to go ahead and copy-paste my setting explanation from the BTech...

“So, I heard on 60 Minutes that they’re pretty dangerous. Is that true?” The lady at the front desk of the store, held a purse in both of her hands, her brow furrowed. The smiling Marathon rep chuckled, like he’d heard the question a hundred times a day. You were lounging in the seat by the...

By the way, if a Modern Version of Operation Market Garden, since I already watch a movie of "A Bridge Too Far 1977", what are the chances for a Modern U.S. Military and its allies will liberate Netherlands and prevent another mistakes be repeated like their predecessors? Instead of C-47...

this a timeline i've been developing for some time it is inspired from a similar timeline called From Tokyo With Love created by reddit user u/misterspooks it has the same premise but i made my own version with some changes of the original timeline the concept of this timeline really seemed...

July 7, 1943 began as usual. Speer, Gobbels and Goering were summoned to the Chancellery to communicate information about the war and listen to the Führer's reactions. I am still not sure what Morell injected him with that day, but it must have been something stronger than usual. He kept...

"Earth is too small a basket for mankind to keep all its eggs in." Robert A. Heinlein The Year is 1950, and the horrors of war have been washed away in an economic boom the likes of which could not have previously been imagined. Humanity has conquered the land, the seas, and the skies and now...

Prologue; Discoveries Helm: 3028 Grayson Carlyle was almost boiling within his mech when they managed to gain access to the Brian Cache on Helm. There was not much time left before House Marik forces managed to find and breach the facility themselves, and so he set about the task of copying...