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  1. Dungeons and Dragons never invented

    Hi, so my question is regarding alternate social and cultural history, instead of the political and military stuff that dominates on this forum. Let's say that the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons was never invented. Gary Gygax was run over by a car, Dave Arneson's family moved to...
  2. Disney shuts down its animation division in the 80s

    I know Disney was thinking of shutting down its animation division in the 1980s, which was probably the low point of Disney cartoons. I don't know how seriously this plan was being considered, but let's say it happened. Obviously there's no Lion King, no Aladdin, etc. The what-ifs in regard...
  3. The Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis

    Nazi supermen vs British warlocks. That's basically the series in a nutshell but it certainly rises above its pirates vs ninjas description. In fact, it's pretty damn good and especially interesting in the alternate history it covers. Anyway, the book's world is the same as ours until a mad...
  4. Valladolid debate

    Some few of you might know of the Valladolid debate: namely, the Catholic Church sponsored a disputatio on whether or not the Indians (i.e., the indigenous peoples of the Americas) had souls. What even less people know of is that the Indians also had their own debates on the nature of Europeans...
  5. A Study in Emerald and assorted fanfiction (spoilers)

    Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald (full version, PDF) is an alternate history set in the 19th century where humanity SPOILERS lives under the yoke of the Old Ones from H.P. Lovecraft. The story itself is about how Professor Moriarty and whatsisname, his ex-soldier dogsbody, track down...
  6. Kage Baker's Company series

    So, anyone out there read Kage Baker's Company stuff? It's not strictly alternate history per se, since history in the books is pretty much the same as ours up to the present time, except that throughout human existence there has existed a secret organization of immortal cyborgs created by time...
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