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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Wasn't there some advanced soviet aircraft which, when a captured example was examined by the US, was using vacuum tubes (possibly to better resist EMP)? Again, no source, so probably me misremembering or a myth.
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    AH Challenge: What border quirks can you think of?

    They do it in Europe, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia%E2%80%93Serbia_border_dispute (including some more terra nullius (give or take Liberland))
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    Living room, sitting room, drawing room, lounge, front room, family room, "den": I think they all mean similar rooms which people do miscellaneous "stuff" in which isnt eating, cooking, sleeping or other essentials of life. Im not convinced there is a generational or regional split: I suspect a...
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    Alternate History in Star Trek part 14

    What is the long Nick Clegg story?
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    That would be it... funnily enough googling "Amtrack" didn't bring it up.
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    Wasn't there a post-apocalypse (book) series from the...80s? 90s? which featured the remnant US (I seem to recall the government having devolved in to a theocratic-personality-cult-dictatorship, but that probably doesn't narrow it down in these sort of stories) military traveling around in...
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    Has the grey mode UI just changed so that certain boxes are blue instead of black for anyone else?

    In Dark mode, the page buttons (<Prev, 1,2 Next> etc.) are now yellow text on blue background... I feel they were not that before?
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    Prequel Problems: Rogue One

    I may have said this before, but it turns out the thing what you need in a film for it to be a Star Wars film is a proper theme-tune-over-text-crawl and the contents of the rest of the film doesn't really matter very much. R1 didn't have one, therefore logically must be terrible and not worth...
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    Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

    I enjoyed these (and The Relentless Moon), but more for the "1950s America IN SPACE!" vibe than the "hard" AH (which I hadn't actually noticed, despite President Dewey). I did, unusually for me, listen to them first (actually, I'm not sure I have even read them as words). Audible has Koval...
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    Things that were invented at the wrong time and in the wrong order

    As a possibly interesting note, I understand that several of the ideas now thought of as "group theory" were also developed (and proven, for certain values of proven) independently in the context of English change ringing (which is quite concerned with the order bells of different notes ring...
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    Prequel Problems: Terry Pratchett’s “Night Watch”

    > Come on to the forum and comment if you want an article series titled something like “Thande Gushes About Discworld for 5000 words” instead… Yes please ;) I have to admit I have very rarely cared about continuity in Discworld, possibly because every* book is a standalone, and possibly...
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    Prequel Problems: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern

    On the other hand, I may have been wrong about the intro: see https://www.tor.com/2019/02/27/the-fantasy-roots-of-pern-dragonflight-part-one/ (especially comment 26) for discussion. On the subject of McCaffery and prequel / sequels, she also has the Dinosaur Planet -> Planet Pirates sequence...
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    Prequel Problems: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern

    Harper trilogy is how I was introduced to her work (and possibly Sci-Fi as a genre). I think I read the second one (Dragonsong?) first (as you do). Probably a better introduction to the series than Dragonflight (certainly less rape-y).
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    Prequel Problems: Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern

    I'm not sure if the early editions of Weyr Search / Dragonflight etc. had the this-is-a-colony intro. Moretta (and Nerilka's Story, which is set concurrently) has the most discussion of time travelling (and also demonstrates why it was discouraged / forgotten). (It is also has a plague.) Im...
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    The Advice and The Appellant, by SJ Reynolds

    Yes, I remember enjoying that, too!
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