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Good article. Puts me in mind of a quote 'The future ain't what it used to be.' I wish I could remember who said it... The short stories of Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov (most of them published in the 50s and 60s and which, as a young teenager in the 70s, I read in a lavishly illustrated...

Love this book. Thank you Liam Connell for reminding us of it!

The ascension of the United States, to the status of the world’s unchallenged hegemon was caused, in no small part, by the American biker gangs. This may seem an extraordinary claim at first glance, but causality in this case is clear and inarguable.

With the possible exception of Israel, no country was as profoundly effected by the multiple crises of 1973 as Japan. The ultra nationalist Yukio Mishima stirred right wing sentiment into a frenzy. Protests marches involving as many as a third of a million people brought cities to a standstill...

The Crisis Cascade of 1973. Top picture: USS Ranger on fire after a Korean air attack in the Tsushima Strait 12th October 1973. Middle picture: Harold Wilson, prime minister of the UK, speaks with Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel, 24th October 1973. Bottom picture: John Farley, mission...

Four leaders of the USSR in Drake's Drum:Horizon of Our Hopes. Clockwise from top left. Lazar Kaganovich 1943-1952, Nikita Khrushchev 1952-1964, Alexander Yakovlev 1975-1978, Leonid Brezhnev 1964-1975.

Skylon

In other news there is a new update to the Drake's Drum website which includes the addition of password accessible content. It consists of Annex 19, which is a complete Drake's Drum timeline and an Interlude chapter which was an attempt at comic relief, but didn't really propel the plot...

There have been far too few pictures of enormous warships in this thread lately, so here's two images of Montana class battleships modernised for service with the USN in the 1980s.

A big update to the Drake's Drum website has just gone live. Photographs from Part 4 Drake's Drum: Horizon of Our Hopes have been added. Just as a taster, we have a photograph from the time of the Crisis Cascade of 1973. An RAF Hawker-Siddeley Hotspur fighter intercepting a Soviet Tu 95 bomber...

Incognitia, firstly, thank you for reading the Drake's Drum series and I'm sorry if parts of it were disappointing. Thank you also for your comments here, but I must take gentle issue with some of your criticisms. At no point in Drake's Drum do the Republicans win the US Presidency five times...

'Oh, they have a cave troll.' Sean Bean, the third time he ventured onto the internet.

Some flags from the Drake's Drum timeline. The flag of the Islamic republic of Aceh from 1966 on. The flag of the Kingdom of Kashmir, 1943 - 1961. The flag of the Islamic Republic of Kashmir, from 1961 on.

As of just now 71% of the ratings for DD4 are 4 or 5 stars. Pretty chuffed...

Four Presidents of the United States L to R Adalai Stevenson (Democrat) in office 20/1/53-20/1/57. Earl Warren (Republican) in office 20/1/57-20/1/61. Joseph P. Kennedy (Democrat) in office 20/1/61-20/1/65. Barry Goldwater (Republican) in office 20/1/65-20/1/73.