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Everyday life during the Canadian Civil War.

It would have been fun if they'd stuck with the original lyrics.

I've been wondering about that too. In fact there could have been a way for the Free French to take Dakar without even having to fight for it, if the colonial governor had sided with De Gaulle rather than Pétain. Let's say, for example, that due to other factors, the governor-general of French...

Ahead of its release, the movie by Alex Garland about a second US civil war has been widely panned in alternate history circles for the implausibility of its premise--indeed, it is virtually impossible to think of a realistic scenario in which Texas and California take the joint leadership of an...

I wonder to what extent the idea that "medieval people thought the Earth was flat" has lingered into modern pop culture because of Tolkien's own hesitations about the shape of Middle Earth, as though, to make his worldbuilding look more "medieval", he had to set it on a flat disc. Something that...

Don't worry, I did get your meaning, that was just a specific detail of the TL that caught my attention.

Yes, he stopped being quite as fond of fascism once they were done with the socialists and moved on to the Jews. A certain poem comes to mind. But anyway, the point I was making is that I don't find it implausible that Mises, given his views that capitalism sometimes needs dictatorship to defend...

Well Mises did say that sometimes you need a little fascism to keep the lower orders in their place.

Well it is a song about waking up.

My go-to recommendation if you want to learn more about computer networks in the USSR is How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters.

In The Years of Rice and Salt, uranium is called alactin, but I don't recall if nuclear weapons themselves get a name of their own--trying to preempt their development once physicists from various parts of the world have figured out their feasability is a plot point in a late chapter. In Red...

Following WW2, wargaming became a favorite hobby of middle-aged British ladies.

Does Aeneas count? :unsure:

This video by Bullets & Blockbusters explores the various ways The Empire Strikes Back might have turned out. There was the low-budget Plan B in case Star Wars didn't recoup its costs, which became Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Allan Dean Foster; the collaboration with veteran screenwriter Leigh...

And perhaps later on it might be moved to, say, Columbus.

Before he became the de facto leader of the Muppets, Kermit was a supporting character in Sam and Friends. Apparently he wasn't even a precise species until becoming a frog.

This is a splendid project and it's a great idea for SLP to support it. Looking forward to seeing it completed.

One clever way in which the dichotomy between the imperial core and the periphery is rendered is wear and tear. The core gets the shiny, pristine, "classically SF" looking technology, while in the periphery people make do with secondhand or jury-rigged equipment. Luke needn't have said "If...

I would say it's part of the long term societal trend towards shielding ourselves from the sight and even the thought of animal suffering, which, while arguably hypocritical, is not really a bad thing. We do still--uneasily--live with the reality of industrial livestock rearing and slaughtering...

Indeed, the "set your blasters on stun" thing is probably one of the most overt Star Trek references in the Star Wars universe, and I'm not aware of the "stun setting" on blasters showing up ever again (how can a bolt of energy be set to stun anyway?). This begs the question, can the Force...