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    Appropriate names for emperors in a 'Meiji China' scenario?

    Hi all, A friend and I just stared an alternate history detective story set in a world where the Qings are overthrown by the Taiping (themselves soon defeated) and a new Han Chinese dynasty rises and manages to 'pull a Meiji' (to an extent) so that present day China is a constitutional monarchy...
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    Night Mares (fictional TV show)

    Still working out the details and fine print on this one, but comments/questions/whatnot would be appreciated. *** It's all because of cosplay. I should have started with Night Mares on the ground floor. The premise - occult investigators in the Old West - is right up my alley, and Molly...
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    brainstorming Beyond the Gap (another fictional TV show)

    I've got it in mind to make another fake TV show, this time a sci-fi/martial arts action thing inspired by Babylon 5 and the more mystical Shaw Brothers movies, along with a dash of Firefly and the underworld bits of Star Wars. It ran for three seasons on Syfy between 2017 and 2020. Set in the...
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    The Adventures of Aella the Amazon!

    In case you don't remember it - and I'll be honest, it's not hard, there were a lot of Xena knock-offs in the late 90s and early 2000s - The Adventures of Aella the Amazon (Les Aventures d'Aella l'Amazone) was a French and Canadian co-production that ran from 1998 through 2004. It starred a...
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    The Hibernian's Revenge

    Roman Province of Iudæa The Ninth Year of the Reign of Emperor Nero (AD 63) Ya’el stood alone at the empty tomb, her head bowed, her hands clasped together so tightly her nails drew crescent moons of blood from the backs of her hands. She wept openly, her tears cold as they made trails down her...
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    The Third Crown and Other Weird Tales - short story/novella collection

    Hey all. I recently published a new collection of eight short stories and one novella - the bulk of the book is two AH short stories and the AH novella, Murder in Hitlerstadt, set in the In and Out of the Reich setting. You might enjoy it! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV7DZ1ZV
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    Unified self-promotion and hype thread?

    I was wondering if it might serve the community if there was a single thread for self-promotion (of newly published books or an article written for a journal or another site or whatnot). What do The Powers That Be think?
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    WI Lenin is assassinated in 1918?

    I'm reading Antony Beevor's history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and just got to where Fanya Kaplan tried to assassinate Lenin without any success. But what if she had managed to kill him? I can't imagine this results in a White victory, but it might delay their defeat a little...
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    D-Day 1945 speculation

    I don't know what put the idea in my brain, but it's been bouncing around inside there for the last half hour or so. 1) How do we contrive a situation where the Western Allies hold off on invading NW Europe until 1945? Do the Germans do better in the East (say the Sixth Army manages to extract...
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    Japan doesn't 'pull a Meiji'?

    There's thousands of TLs where Country X 'pulls a Meiji' and successfully modernizes to the point where it can fend of Western imperialism (sometimes engaging in some imperialism of its own, to boot). But has anybody ever examined the opposite premise - a 19th century Japan that remains...
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    Alternate outcomes to the 1925 German presidential election?

    I don't know much about Weimar politics, I admit, but it seems like 1925 is ripe with AH potential - what if the BVP backs the Zentrum's Wilhelm Marx instead of Hindenburg? What if the KPD's Thälmann drops out after the first round? (I guess either POD leads to the same result, doesn't it?) What...
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    A 600-ship Navy in an Axis Cold War TL?

    Inspired by a thread (USN vs Kriegsmarine in 1950) I posted at the other place, I'm suddenly imagining a '600-ship Navy' being proposed by a newly elected US President /consults In and Out of the Reich for the list of post-POD presidents... 1940-1948 Thomas Dewey (Republican) 1952-1960 Estes...
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    Post-Ming musing

    The ATL "Yan" Dynasty replacing the Ming instead of the Qing is still bouncing around my brain as it often has for the last few months. Today, while reading a book about the military collapse of the Ming, I came across an interesting passage ripe with WI potential. Li Zicheng being the most...
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    Consequences of an ROC Hainan?

    Suppose that the Nationalists, by some stroke of luck and skill, are able to fend off the Communist assault on Hainan. Then Korea happens and the US becomes more active in the region again. What effects will having a second Nationalist stronghold off the coast have on China and East Asia in...
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    Alternate outcomes to the fall of the Ming?

    First off, I admit I don't know all that much about the Ming-Qing transition beyond what I've read in a few general histories of China. But is there any way to have the fall of the Ming result in a different outcome - could the Shun Dynasty somehow survive? Is there any way for Wu Sangui to fend...
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    Kung Fu Antipopes and Other Strange Stories

    My latest collection of genre short stories is now available in Kindle and POD. If you're like me, and I know I am, it might appeal to your interests. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098G94T54 Kung Fu Antipopes is the latest collection of short stories from Paul Leone, the author of The Mysteries...
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    “Inevitable Cities” of the West Coast?

    Hello all, I’m in the early stages of planning an alternate history map where imperial China colonizes the West Coast of North America in The Past. (I know the entire premise is unlikely, given China’s historical continental focus, but roll with it, please!) That got me wondering what spots...
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    Catholic Denmark

    The thread about a Protestant Bavaria got me wondering - is there any way for Denmark to remain Catholic?
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    The Mysteries of Zillah Harvey

    Zillah Harvey was once just another faceless worker in the grimy underbelly of Victorian London. A chance encounter with a knife-wielding madman almost ended her life... and awoke the preternatural powers in her blood. Using those powers to become a medium, communing with the spirits of the...
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    The Hungry Dead of Yü-ching and Other Stories

    Hello all. I've got a new collection of short stories available in paperback and Kindle format. For twelve thousand years, a war has been fought in the shadows of our world, a war fought with fangs and malice, against the souls and courage of man... In the darkness of the deepest forests and...
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