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What's the most Cringeworthy Alternate History you've ever read?

CompassJimbo said:
Which I wouldn't object to more of. Light rail would be a nice thing where I live, though the planned expansion to the buses don't seem too bad.
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They probably fuck it up with horrendous inefficiency and crowding. Basically every negative depiction of the bus in media along with 70s new york subway
 
pterynxli said:
Here's another one to add to the discussion: a future history novel titled People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter. It's all about how the Blue States turn into hellholes (or at least Schlichter's idea of a hellhole) when they choose to secede from Real America. Witness the horrors of cities running solely on public transit and the terror of the PC police, all while our brave protagonist goes in to rescue a Real American's daughter from the Snowflake Hordes.

Low-hanging fruit, to be sure, albeit still worth mentioning.
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Kurt Schlichter has also written an alternate history future of an attempted "left wing" coup which ends in a glorious dictatorship for the Trump.

He's a character.
 
The Stuart Slade of today and the man who wrote The Salvation War are very different people, and not in a good way.

And I say that as someone who has spoken to the man numerous times, and witnessed the transition.

I'm not joking when I say he got a bad case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. His politics got weird.
 
Sulemain said:
The Stuart Slade of today and the man who wrote The Salvation War are very different people, and not in a good way.

And I say that as someone who has spoken to the man numerous times, and witnessed the transition.

I'm not joking when I say he got a bad case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. His politics got weird.
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I haven't interacted with him as much, or at all after he flounced away from Stardestroyer.net in a huff, but I'm not so sure his politics changed so much as he got more careless about keeping the full extent of them out of the public domain.
 
Jake said:
I haven't interacted with him as much, or at all after he flounced away from Stardestroyer.net in a huff, but I'm not so sure his politics changed so much as he got more careless about keeping the full extent of them out of the public domain.
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Possibly. I no longer interact with him. And I on my read TSW after he finished it. And the comments he wrote outside the story itself seemed reasonable enough.

Its what happened elsewhere that made me go "hang on a minute".
 
Sulemain said:
The Stuart Slade of today and the man who wrote The Salvation War are very different people, and not in a good way.

And I say that as someone who has spoken to the man numerous times, and witnessed the transition.

I'm not joking when I say he got a bad case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. His politics got weird.
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Weirder, because The Salvation War was pretty damn off to begin with.
 
Space Oddity said:
Weirder, because The Salvation War was pretty damn off to begin with.
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As a concept sure, but at the time I read it I thought it was a pretty cool take on the whole Christian Endtimes subgenre of literature.

I do have suspicion that if I went back and read it now I'd have a different take on it.
 
Sulemain said:
As a concept sure, but at the time I read it I thought it was a pretty cool take on the whole Christian Endtimes subgenre of literature.

I do have suspicion that if I went back and read it now I'd have a different take on it.
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Besides being terribly written (and holy shit is it terribly written), the Salvation War repeatedly holds up a neat idea, then either utilizes it in the least interesting way possible or casts it aside because Slade is a talentless hack who's got a hard on for megadeaths.

We're talking about someone who turned a story about mankind literally Cancelling The Apocalypse, where you need to wear tinfoil hats to prevent demons from mind controlling you and where the legions of hell deploy Kaiju's against major cities, and instead uses it to write at length about the superiority of the CRM-114 Radar system.
 
Arthur Frayn said:
Besides being terribly written (and holy shit is it terribly written), the Salvation War repeatedly holds up a neat idea, then either utilizes it in the least interesting way possible or casts it aside because Slade is a talentless hack who's got a hard on for megadeaths.

We're talking about someone who turned a story about mankind literally Cancelling The Apocalypse, where you need to wear tinfoil hats to prevent demons from mind controlling you and where the legions of hell deploy Kaiju's against major cities, and instead uses it to write at length about the superiority of the CRM-114 Radar system.
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I was like, what, 20 when I read it. So my standards were a lot power.

His later books have been terribly written at the very least.
 
Arthur Frayn said:
Besides being terribly written (and holy shit is it terribly written), the Salvation War repeatedly holds up a neat idea, then either utilizes it in the least interesting way possible or casts it aside because Slade is a talentless hack who's got a hard on for megadeaths.

We're talking about someone who turned a story about mankind literally Cancelling The Apocalypse, where you need to wear tinfoil hats to prevent demons from mind controlling you and where the legions of hell deploy Kaiju's against major cities, and instead uses it to write at length about the superiority of the CRM-114 Radar system.
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Ah, that's a shameful waste of a good premise.

Glad I never wasted my time reading it.
 
It was an interesting concept and a potential "fuck you" to the "Christian" Evangelists who are pushing hard to Make America Faithful Again. Unfortunately, the tech wank quickly got out of hand, and as I read on, some of the stuff felt off to me.
 
Mental Omega said:
Anglo-German Empire
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Wow, they must really hate the French. What happened, Saxe-Coburg unified Germany then died out, leaving the Winsdors heirs to both thrones?

Mental Omega said:
Byzantine Congo
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That's... almost possible? The most plausible for any of these, for sure. But the borders were super-sketchy when the British and Belgians drew it, why would it be so similar here?

Mental Omega said:
Imperial Japanese Ethiopia
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Whelp. I'm not even sure.

Mental Omega said:
Judaslamic Randomid Zionist Caliphate
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Peak, uh, badreligion? I don't even know. How?
 
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