alternate history

The year is 2020. The US stands as the world's sole superpower, maintaining its grip on a world where neoliberalism stands as the dominant ideology. The nations of Europe and Asia are protected under the US umbrella, while the threat of American retaliation stymies Russia and China's...

SMASH EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM! A Business Plot Timeline By Prexy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HcGfj-i7L0 "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is...

The revolutions of 1848 were way more successful in maintaining proletarian power, even if they still failed at establishing republican governments. Unions and leftist groups grew, culminating in the International Workingmen’s Association, which then goes on to build major parties and unions...

-=-==-==-=- CHAPTER 1: THAT'S LIFE -=-==-==-=- The Mountains of Japan are a sight to behold. Too bad it was in the hands of the Japanese for now. I like to think that if the Emperor had seen them before, he would have invaded sooner. Maybe he did and that's why he invaded, if it wasn't for...

Gameplay Normal Turns At the start of the game there are three factions - the Ulama, the Tujjar, and the Ojakat. Please select a faction and then write-in three policies for them to propose in Parliament, using the example format below. Please keep your policies to one sentence, and put any...

"No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water...

"Captain Log, star date 12554.37. The Morning Star is being sent to investigate an anomaly that has appeared in orbit above Pluto. Within the hour, we will have more information for Starfleet command. Captain Amin out." ... This would be the final log entry of Captain Ravi Amin of the Miranda...

It is April, 2020. Covid 19 has been raging across the United States, with the economy in freefall due to the death of the Saudi Arabian monarch, and the subsequent civil war. With tensions rising in Russia following the unexpected resignation of Vladimir Putin, and China militarizing the...

SLUGBLASTING! A misnomer that drives concerned parents insane with God-fearing fervor to protect their impressionable teens from what they don't understand! In the 1990s humanity discovered alternate dimensions that can be punched through using the right math and technology. Math and tech that...

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...