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  1. 1610

    Anyone read Mary Gentle's 1610: A Sundial in a Grave yet? I'm part-way through - it's quite a thick book. It's not AH as such, but there are some interesting allohistorical angles in Fludd's calculations for putting Prince Henry on James VI & I's throne, thus aborting the English Revolution...

  2. Homo Floresiensis

    What if Homo Floresiensis is discovered, not fossilised in a cave but alive and well, in the 19th century. After all they were still around only the day before yesterday, geologically speaking, so it's not out of the question. Let's say the "Beagle" brings a specimen or two back to Europe...

  3. German-Japanese partition of the USSR

    In the background of Stephen Baxter's alternate-space-program story "First to the Moon!", we learn: - http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/firstmoon.html What would it take to make this happen? A USA that sees the USSR as a greater threat than Japan in the 1930s and early '40s, and is...

  4. Baxter & Clarke "Time Odyssey"

    I recently thumbed through this in a local bookshop - "A Time Odyssey: Time's Eye Bk.1" by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575075309/qid=1090400412/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-1629230-0922828 It starts with a helicopter-load of peacekeepers...

  5. "A Dangerous Right-Wing Agenda"

    "What-if" historians are "reactionary and historically redundant" according to Tristram Hunt: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1187184,00.html Seems to be partly a response to the Simon Heffer article I linked to a few days ago.

  6. Article on Brighton bombing

    Short piece in the Guardian today speculating on the consequences of the Brighton bomb killing Thatcher: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1184173,00.html

  7. Cartomancy

    Saw Mary Gentle's new collection of short stories, Cartomancy, on the shelves for the first time today. It's not all AH, and several of the stories have featured in previous collections. However, it includes "The Logistics of Carthage" (set in the universe of "Ash": 15th-century African...

  8. AH Challenge: The Thracian Empire

    From Herodotos, Book 5: "The Thracians are the biggest nation in the world, next to the Indians. If they were under one ruler, or united, they would, in my judgment, be invincible and the strongest nation on earth. Since, however, there is no way or means to bring this about, they are weak. ...

  9. Independent ancient Spain

    Reading Appian’s Iberike lately, with his accounts of the Numantine war and Viriathus’ war, I was impressed with the ferocity and determination of Spanish resistance to Rome, and I was wondering what it would take to produce a unified, independent, Spain under native rule (so no Barcid or...
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