Recent content by Hendryk

So did I, in fact when I read it I wished Spufford had done more counterfactual exploration of a Soviet command economy that managed to keep its promises. I'm intrigued to see he has also written bona fide AH.

Something that comes to mind is that Giraud was a huge fan of Miyazaki, later in life they would do joint exhibitions and he even named his daughter Nausicaa in reference to the movie. Perhaps in a TL where Franco-Japanese animation is bigger one could see him turn to Japan rather than the US...

I've always wondered how long it would have taken the rebellious authors to reconcile themselves with Goscinny, Gotlib in particular. I grew up on Franco-Japanese animated series and it would be interesting to imagine the cooperation becoming big enough to be self-sustaining.

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.