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    Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus
    Threadmarks: Intro sequence

    Quick links to published parts Volumes I-V (currently) available for purchase as eBooks(with accompanying media and bonus features) from Sea Lion Press via Amazon and other online purchases. Direct links: Volume I: Diverge and Conquer Volume II: Uncharted Territory Volume III: Equal and...
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    Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk
    Threadmarks: Frontispiece

    Quick links to previous parts Volume I: Diverge and Conquer & Volume II: Uncharted Territory Volume III: Equal and Opposite Reactions (formerly "The World Turned Upside Down") Volume IV: Cometh the Hour... Volume V: To Dream Again & Volume VI: The Death of Nations Volume VII: The Eye Against...
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    The Sixteen States of America

    As noted below, I used to do this a lot. Check out my old thread here for more (I'm not bumping it as it hasn't been active for 2 years). As periodically happens about 14 months, possibly driven by the fact that US states count their votes so damn slowly I can't finish all the Super Tuesday...
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    ATTENTION AUTHORS: Sea Lion Press World War One Anthology call for story submissions!

    Crossposted from the Writer's Forum with the permission of mod @CalBear. Dear all authors of AH.com, Are you interested in the First World War? Do you like writing short stories? Do you want to combine these two interests? Sea Lion Press, the home of Alternate History Publishing (founded by...
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    Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism
    Threadmarks: Title page

    Quick links to previous parts Volume I: Diverge and Conquer & Volume II: Uncharted Territory Volume III: Equal and Opposite Reactions (formerly "The World Turned Upside Down") Volume IV: Cometh the Hour... Volume V: To Dream Again & Volume VI: The Death of Nations Without comments (not yet...
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    What if a Black-Yellow coalition was possible in Germany in 2005?

    In the 2005 German federal election, as the campaign began the CDU/CSU under Angela Merkel had a clear lead and it was initially expected that Schroeder's SPD (currently in government as part of a coalition with the Greens) would take significant losses, leading to a conventional Black-Yellow...
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    Thandean Representation: The 2010 and 2015 UK Elections under a New Voting System

    "Thandean Representation" is a voting system (or family of systems) I developed primarily for LTTW, so that a parliament formerly elected from multi-member bloc vote constituencies* could be converted over to a form of proportional or pseudo-proportional representation without actually changing...
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    AH Vignette: The Longest, Hardest Road

    The old man stood on the stage, trying to ignore the twinge in his back. Where have the years gone? he thought bitterly. He spared a glance for his three fresh-faced rivals, those who conventional wisdom had suggested should be leagues ahead of him in the final vote. But then, conventional...
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    TLIAW: The Unreformed Kingdom

    Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time once again, we’ve got— What are you doing? The whole bold text normal text thing, obviously— Well we’re not doing that this time. Spoilsport. Ahem. Foreword As alternate historians we are used to the idea that things in history can be changed. It...
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    AH Vignette: The First Debate

    David, Nick and Gordon walked onto the stage and took their positions at their lectern. Well, that was how David called them in his head. His advisors had assured him that no matter how bitter partisanship might get, mentally referring to his opposite numbers by their Christian names would lead...
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    Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Let's get all of the links out of the way first Volumes I & II Volume III Volume IV Without comments (not yet fully updated) Laconic chronology ("Date: Stuff Happens") version And now... Look to the West A Timeline by Dr Thomas W. Anderson MSci MA (Cantab) AMRSC VOLUME FIVE: TO...
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    Partying Like It's 1999

    This was originally posted in the ASB forum here and is here reposted without comments as requested by some readers. Well... Go on, you know you want to. Are we doing the whole bold text normal text thing? This is the ASB forum after all. They make their own rules there. Come on...
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    TLIAW: The Curse of Maggie

    Cover image by the Rt Hon J. Tindale, Lord Roem of Barnsley Bold text bold text Normal text normal text. Bold text bold text? Normal text normal text! Bold text - wait, what's going on? Just checking to see how many people just scroll past the Obligatory TLIAD Intro Duologue. Well I didn't...
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    TLIACOH: Shuffling the Deck USA Edition (with apologies to Meadow and Roem)

    I haven't posted one of these for a while, but I just had a notion. Some may recall a while back that Meadow and Roem did a very amusing TLIAD called "Shuffling the Deck", about Britain having the same people as its postwar Prime Ministers but in a different order. They also referred to the US...
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    TLIAD: Be Careful What You Wish For

    Make your choice, adventurous Stranger Strike the bell and bide the danger Or wonder, till it drives you mad What would have followed, if you had… - C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew October 30th, 2007 Big Ben was not the name of the tower, or of the clock. It was the name of the bell. This...
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    Earlier party leaders' debates in the UK

    As we all know (or at least all of us who follow current British politics), the 2010 general election saw the first ever series of televised debates between party leaders. It is very arguable how much importance the debates had on the ultimate election, though the media (unsurprisingly given...
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    What if the US Constitution explicitly discouraged urbanisation?

    The early United States was subject to a lot of Physiocratic influences that viewed a rural existence as being inherently superior to an urban one. Thomas Jefferson's influential "Jeffersonian democracy" view outright stated that the yeoman farmer was the ideal republican and city dwellers were...
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    What if earlier ideas of political term limits were still common?

    A rather vague question, so let me outline what I mean. In the ancient world through to early modern times, elected offices tended to be either: 1) For life, or 2) For a very short term by modern standards, like six months or one year. Also, instead of having an absolute term limit like...
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    Some alternate scenarios for the UK general election of 2010

    As we know, there are several excellent timelines about the UK general election of 2010 on the site (such as The Fourth Lectern and Were you still up for Balls?, both of which I highly recommend). This is not a timeline but just a discussion of some alternate scenarios I have developed quite by...
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    US: If Carter won in 1980, who would be the candidates in 1984?

    Seems like we should have discussed this one before, but I can't remember it ever coming up. Although the US 1980 presidential election was a landslide in the electoral college, this represented a development in the formerly close polls in the last few months, and it's not inconceivable that...
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