Bakers Dozen

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. 1632 by Eric Flint - Small West Virginia mining town in 2000 is transported whole (and without explanation) to 1631 in what would have later been central Germany.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)
  10. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. FDR loses the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh and America becomes antisemitic and fascist.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)
  10. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. FDR loses the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh and America becomes antisemitic and fascist.
  11. Back to the Future. Marty McFly travels into the past and messes up the meeting of his parents. he has to fix that and then get… back to the future.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)
  10. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. FDR loses the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh and America becomes antisemitic and fascist.
  11. Back to the Future. Marty McFly travels into the past and messes up the meeting of his parents. he has to fix that and then get… back to the future.
  12. Elleander Morning by Jerry Yulsman (a time traveler kills Hitler while he’s still a starving young artist in Vienna and thus averts WWII)

The mechanism of time travel is left pretty vague, but it’s a very interesting, well-written novel.

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)
  10. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. FDR loses the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh and America becomes antisemitic and fascist.
  11. Back to the Future. Marty McFly travels into the past and messes up the meeting of his parents. he has to fix that and then get… back to the future.
  12. Elleander Morning by Jerry Yulsman (a time traveler kills Hitler while he’s still a starving young artist in Vienna and thus averts WWII)
  13. The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad (Hitler immigrates to the US after World War 1 and becomes a science fiction author.)

New Topic:

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
3. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
3. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.
4. Open doors for her and let her go first unless she asks you to stop

Alternative histories and their premises

  1. Fatherland by Robert Harris (Cold War is between U.S. and Nazi Germany by 1964)
  2. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (America is partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire and resistance is forming based on an alternate history in which America won)
  3. Stephen King’s 11/22/1963. What happens if someone goes back in time and tries to stop the Kennedy assassination?
  4. The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp. North America is colonized by the Vikings.
  5. The Peshawar Lancers, by S M Stirling. (The Earth is hit in 1878 by a series of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994.)
  6. The Southern Victory series by Harry L. Turtledove. Eleven books that start when the Confederacy win the Civil War, and continues up through WWII era.
  7. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. An alternate North America discovered by African explorers, settled in part by Czarist Russia and ruled by an aristocracy
  8. Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (the American Civil War as we know it IS the alternative history)
  9. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in a limited nuclear war and the United States is a poverty-stricken nation under martial law.)
  10. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. FDR loses the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh and America becomes antisemitic and fascist.
  11. Back to the Future. Marty McFly travels into the past and messes up the meeting of his parents. he has to fix that and then get… back to the future.
  12. Elleander Morning by Jerry Yulsman (a time traveler kills Hitler while he’s still a starving young artist in Vienna and thus averts WWII)
  13. The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad (Hitler immigrates to the US after World War 1 and becomes a science fiction author.)

New Topic:

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Same applies to meeting a guy.

Romantic Advice (fixed to add #2 from Dendarii Dame)

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Same applies to meeting a guy.
3. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
4. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.
5. Open doors for her and let her go first unless she asks you to stop
6. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you over the phone.

Romantic Advice (fixed to add #2 from Dendarii Dame)

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Same applies to meeting a guy.
3. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
4. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.
5. Open doors for her and let her go first unless she asks you to stop
6. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you over the phone.
7. No matter what your father told you, the three words a woman most wants to hear from a man are not “pull my finger”.

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Same applies to meeting a guy.
3. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
4. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.
5. Open doors for her and let her go first unless she asks you to stop
6. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you over the phone.
7. No matter what your father told you, the three words a woman most wants to hear from a man are not “pull my finger.”
8. Nothing says “I love you” like a canned ham.

Romantic Advice

1: If you meet a girl, and you want to take her out, and she says she wants to go clubbing, make sure she doesn’t mean baby seals.
2. Same applies to meeting a guy.
3. Remember that a lot of things that are romantic when a good-looking actor does them in a movie will get you in serious trouble in real life.
4. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you on the first date.
5. Open doors for her and let her go first unless she asks you to stop
6. It’s a lousy idea to ask her to marry you over the phone.
7. No matter what your father told you, the three words a woman most wants to hear from a man are not “pull my finger.”
8. Nothing says “I love you” like a canned ham.
9. Asking your date if he or she has any hot friends who are single is always a bad idea.