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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...

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...

"Stay in your place, you dirty animal!" the order was followed by a push that sent me crashing into one of the alley walls. Looking away from my attacker, I observed my surroundings: I was in one of the many alleys of Randgriz, the capital of the Principality of Gallia, which I had taken as a...

I do not own any of the Star Wars and DC characters and ideas represented in this work. "Everybody thought of Darth Vader as this big evil guy, that he had no heart, that he was just evil. But in the end it's not that at all. Here's a guy who's lost everything." - George Lucas Space. An...

Maester Donel, "A History of Kings: Targaryens, Part Four" 415 AC (After Aegon's Conquest) The Iron Circle, Highgarden "Slates at the ready, please. Our lessons for the week will center on Queen Rhaena I and the beginning of the Plague Years. And don't think I didn't notice that you've lost...

Eve was dreaming. She was diving in the ocean; the sun's red rays pierced the darkness around her. She twisted and turned, pushing at the salty water surrounding her. In her mouth, she held a blissfully ripe apple, its juices flowing as she bit into it. It was warm outside. Eve looked back at...

Arms to the Toga: The Alternate Careers of Many (Author's Note: This series was inspired by a TLIAW on alternatehistory.com called 'Nor the Battle to the Strong'. It's a very good read. I highly recommend it.) What-if amirite? What if Harold Ford never became president? What if Steven Seagal...

On July 1st, 2024, on the outskirts of every single country's capital, a kilometer wide portal opens up. These portals lead to an Earth where in 2003, a deadly virus escaped from a lab in the united kingdom and resulted in the death of 95.8% of humanity in a matter of 10 months. The 95.8%...

Hello, and thanks for checking this out. This is an alternate-history story using elements from Azur Lane. It follows the career of Anderson L. Stevens, an American who is thrust into the second World War with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The questers will be in control of his actions, and his...

Hello Guys! It's me, Mr Morbius, ie. the Guy from AltHist.com Since recently there have been.... um, let's just say disagreements between me and that board's moderation, I have decided to move some of my older works here just in case things were to escalate. Original Date Posted : August 8th...

Unending ocean Riding the waves forever Who will I become? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1JjOpXsJ7A To Whomever Finds This Message: I do not know who I am. I have given myself my own name: Nathan Farman, a generic pseudonym well suited for the multifaceted being I have become. And yet it...

So when we think about the Entities from Worm, we usually think about two well-known Greater-Scope Villains of the series: Zion The Warrior and his late partner Eden The Thinker. After all, they're the ones who caused the entire Worm series to happen in the first place. This does not happen...

You have surpassed the broken narrative through sheer will and determination. Your trust in your bonds created a path for you to escape a fate worse than death. Truly, you are the core of this world, even when an outsider interfered with the narrative! A main character that fell on their own...

In 262 AC, Westeros stands on the cusp of a new era as Aerys Targaryen ascends the Iron Throne as the 17th King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men and Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, donning the regal mantle of Aerys II. His father, King Jaehaerys II's short, but impactful reign saw House...

January 1st, 2011 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time The sun was low in the sky, the seas were rough, and the bows of black ships that oozed evil and hatred dipped and rose through the heavy surf as they approached their launching points. Already, Battle Squadrons and Divisions, along with their...

The Kings Will After fifteen years, the king was finally dying, and the queen could not even enjoy the sight. It was not that she was repulsed by the scene. The boar had opened Robert from the groin to the chest and the wound was festering. The stench was overpowering. Easily worse than even...

You step out of the Asagi trim '88 Shebi Frigate, closing the door carefully as the 32-year-old limited edition sports car settles, the skirt resting gently on the ground. It's a 32-year old classic with a rarely-seen indigo scaling pattern and bright orange skirt designed to mimic a rare and...

I'm a long-time lurker of the website known as Alternate History Discussion and over the course of five years I've read some pretty outstanding timelines in my opinion which are gap80's Kentucky Fried Politics (The Colonel's son surviving and him becoming President of the United States), Geekhis...

Tymanther, the land of the free, spoken in hushed whispers among the various slaves in the dregs of Abeir, who doesn’t know of the defiers those slaved Strixiki who rebelled against their cruel draconic masters and created a nation of their own. Who despite attempts of the Dragons, remains...

I had previously mentioned this TL, written by JesterBL and posted at both AH.com and the Sea Lion Press forum. It's an engrossing and highly original take on what is already an interesting question in and of itself: what would a Socialist America look like in practice? So I'd like those who...

Hello there! I've been posting this story to AH.com and AO3, but I decided to share the love here, too. Now, I rather suppose you're wondering what this all is, right? Allow me to explain. I was pondering in my chair one day, as I am wont to do. I thought about 1986. Star Trek: The Next...

Doctor Who: A Deal with Time Those who take from Time, from mere travellers to wielders of paradox, must give back to Time, else Time will take from them. For us runaways from grand but stagnant Gallifrey, we cannot help but be reminded of this debt of ours, having abandoned the smothering...

In our timeline, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a Hellenistic kingdom ruling over Egypt, ruled from 332BCE, just after the death of Alexander the Great, to 30BC with the death of Cleopatra. While the first three kings, all named Ptolemy, can be considered good rulers, the subsequent generations proved...

Note: This Quest has since been restarted and rewritten as a regular Fic, which you can find here: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doctor-who-a-deal-with-time.115071/ Doctor Who Quest: A Deal with Time Those who take from Time, from harmless travel to heinous paradox, must give...