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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Are there many sports where Yugoslavia were actually better as a unit than the successors have been since breakup? Croatia reached a Football World Cup final in 2018, which Yugoslavia never did. Serbia went back to back at the Basketball World Cups in 1998 and 2002, which Yugoslavia never did...
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    Tales From Development Hell: Jurassic Park IV

    Another fascinating Article, particuarly on the paradox of all sequels of needing to be different but also not too different. I had missed the leaks and wow human dinosaur hybrid hit squad is a mad concept.
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    I am on an indefinite fishing trip from the Pub so if any of you quote me or tag me in there, I...

    I am on an indefinite fishing trip from the Pub so if any of you quote me or tag me in there, I can't see it, I am not deliberately ignoring you. Unless the tag is because your team has just beaten Sunderland at football in which case I am deliberately ignoring you.
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    Review: The Climax

    I've mentioned it a few times on here, last being when @The Red said he'd pay to watch a Burr musical written by me and I said this would be the source. But honestly the Diaries are much better. Read them first. Goes all the way back to Livy. I wrote an article about it once and yeah, you can...
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    Review: The Climax

    Sadly, given how interesting Charles Pidgin actually was (he patented a way of displaying dialogue in silent films, in which the actors would inflate balloons with text on them to recreate the act of speaking), not really. There is a subplot about Burr's humble farmer friend and supporter who...
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    Could The British Car Industry Be Saved?

    I think when doing AH speculation, you want the biggest possible changes so there's often a resistance to the conclusion that larger forces are pushing so much in one direction that we're going to end up there however much you change the details but ultimately thats often the only conclusion you...
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    Tales From Development Hell: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiin

    I thought Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice was of the same quality of the direct to video sequels Ryan talks about, tbh. Like it wasn't offensive but probaly the worst film I've seen in the cinema in the last 12 months and I'm not sure it deserved to have a cinematic release (if in the streaming age you...
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    Tales From Development Hell: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiin

    Does this mean Ryan is going to turn up at Charles' house and force him to marry him? Save him some money on transatlantic fliggts, I suppose. I liked the observation about the changing perception of sequels (I was thinking the other day about series where the most popular pop culture moments...
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    A Giant Hidden in the Shadow of Giants - Arthur Greenwood and the Alternate History Genre

    Do a 'we're the millers' meme. 'You guys are getting biographies?' Anyway, I've got to say 'A giant hidden in the shadows of giants' is a superb article title @Skinny87, top marks. Like that's super poetic.
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    A Giant Hidden in the Shadow of Giants - Arthur Greenwood and the Alternate History Genre

    Wonderful article @Skinny87. I knew very little about Greenwood and I thought you made the argument for his importance very well. The ultimate conclusion, that historical fiction allows you to spotlight figures who are not sourced enough to be covered in biographical form is very insightful and...
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    Caribbean Cold War: It's Jihad, Then

    Well it has. In that the French Caribbean is primarily funded by tourism rather than agriculture and imports most of its food with most of its employed people working in services. That is also true of the British Caribbean. But it wasn't true so much at the time of independence when both...
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    Caribbean Cold War: It's Jihad, Then

    I think the West Indies Federation was a British attempt to avoid the inability of most of the islands to fund themselves by making the oil fields of Trinidad fund them. It's uncertain why Trinidad would ever go for that. The crippling lack of infrastructure of countries that were only ever...
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    Caribbean Cold War: It's Jihad, Then

    One of the most notable thing about this article to me is I literally don't mention Tobago once. I hadn't realised just how unbalanced in terms of population the two islands are until I started writing about it, Tobago has 60,000 people living there and Trinidad has 1.4 million. As a result...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I suspect there is also an alternative place that would accept reviews of AH books were you so inclined.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    @MAC161 There are plenty of writers, especially self published ones, who remove 'old shames' from market. If you think its not up to standard then the question is whether you think it damages your reputation more than enhances it. But I don't think there's a morally bad call. Its whatever...
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