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- New Amsterdam
How about these ones? Do they work?
Great! Parts of the PDF are messed up format-wise. I tried to fix it but it got messed up when I uploaded it.They do for me.
Would @Lord Roem know about them from when he did his unofficial continuation as a smol Uhura's Makemakean lad?Those updates won't load Because Google, and I didn't know they existed until now - I thought it ended in 78. Would you mind posting those updates here?
Yeah, it does feel kind of disappointing that Venezuela became so prosperous and wealthy only to be nuked to oblivion off-screen. I would have at least thought it would be an emerging superpower in the alt-21st century, perhaps projecting the same kind of power over South America the U.S. does over, say, Europe in OTL.Looking back, that Venezuelan sub-plot didn't have much pay-off after all that build-up, I guess because finding a replacement for Super-Delgado* wasn't possible. It doesn't even say who nuked them in the post-script updates, although the implication would be Haig.
I don't know—China, Korea, and Asian Russia may be rather desolate, but things certainly seem rather lively on the Subcontinent.Also, Asia must be really empty.
If you can't use AH to make awesome and obscure people both awesome and not-obscure, what is it even good for?*Then again, haven't we all been guilty of stacking the deck in favor of an obscure historical character just because it's Our Guy or Our Find?
Would I recommend it as a first read? Maybe if you know the historical figures in it, some of whom are very obscure.
As for the story itself, I think there's two things that make it stand out from the descendants. There's a sense of sort of "snowballing dominoes" that comes across very well in the early installments as one bad thing after another happens, and it actually feels like a logical (by the story standards) progression. Then the later total nightmare, while gratuitous, is at least a "payoff". In later TLs in contrast it's more often just "A bunch of stuff happens on the author's whim, and it feels like the author's whim" and then "WHAM! Dystopia! "
I think toward the end, Chet couldn't decide whether to replace OTL people born after the POD with doppelgangers or just have them exist as normal, so he did both. A few OTL figures from the 1990s have their names changed (John Travolta is Joe Travolta, Martha Stewart is Marge Stewart, Robert Torricelli is Roger Torricelli), but for the most part they are the same.This sums up my feeling well. The snowballing dominoes was what I liked about it.
This site has a very British politics bias, seeing as the kernel of grit at the center of this pearl was a story about Harold Wilson, and most posters here take it for granted that stories like Thaxted and Gordon Banks are interesting because they're full of 70's-80's British politicians. FaT has a similar rogue's gallery appeal for 60's and 70's global figures, not necessarily all American or all political, and half the fun of thinking about it is wondering where X would have ended up. The story makes sense ending where it does because the majority of people really affecting the plot after 1980 are so were either born post PoD or were very young at the time and likely to have ended up differently (I know a few people like Bill Clinton pop up in the 70's but not many).
Do you know where "A Shot Heard Around the World" might be hosted, by any chance? I tried finding it, even PM'd EdT on AH.com to see if he could link it to me, but to no avail.Ed Thomas' 'A Shot Heard Around the World' had two short 'Where are They Know' segments acting as interludes half way through the story, but only included half a dozen people each.
That one also had its own site, which might be partially recoverable through the wayback machine, if memory serves me right.
I believe I already tried that, but all I found was this one, which announced how the timeline had been moved to a new website—one that had broken down by 2010 and is still unavailable.Check his old threads. Should be in one of the 2007-06 ones.
I take it, then, that this is your first time reading For All Time?My reply to this thread needs to be long-thought-over, well-considered, taking in to account historical figures and unknown-before historical events encountered in the reading, and personal actions taken.
Not at all, Roberto, I have read it once and re-reading it in chunks. One of my future art projects is drawing and colouring with ink Lord Roem's rendition of "We Didn't Start The Fire", sung by a Mr. Springsteen at the end of his "Well Enough Alone" thread. I want to make sure all the information concerning the people, events, and countries is accurate, and I cannot wait to begin it.I take it, then, that this is your first time reading For All Time?
When you complete it, please post it here. I'd love to see the finished product!Not at all, Roberto, I have read it once and re-reading it in chunks. One of my future art projects is drawing and colouring with ink Lord Roem's rendition of "We Didn't Start The Fire", sung by a Mr. Springsteen at the end of his "Well Enough Alone" thread. I want to make sure all the information concerning the people, events, and countries is accurate, and I cannot wait to begin it.