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    WI: No Yeltsin in Late 1980s?

    (Content Warning, just in case: mention/discussion of suicide) Another idea based off recent reading: In November 1987, while he was a Politburo candidate member, and under fire from Gorbachev and the Central Committee for his pushing of faster reforms, Boris Yeltsin was rushed to hospital...
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    Summer Sale!

    Just looked thru the collection, for fun, and noticed that "If We'd Just Got That Penalty" is apparently not included; has it not been shared on Smashwords yet?
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    Saved Post Drafts?

    How long are drafts of posts saved in the forum's system? I had a lengthy one I was putting together for the Book Bistro, and can't find it any longer.
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    If those who had died in "their time" had lived longer (if Oscar Wilde had seen WWI and other ideas)

    (Random thought; inspired by hearing part of Prokofiev's music about him on the radio) What if Alexander Pushkin doesn't die in his duel with Georges d"Anthes? If he kills his opponent, what's his likeliest punishment given Tsarist Russia's ban on dueling and his previous exile? If it ends with...
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    British Empire Post-Napoleonic Invasion?

    (Inspired by present reading, like so many others) Obviously a very handwavey scenario/question, but one that nonetheless intrigues: If Napoleon had somehow invaded and beaten Britain in the Napoleonic Wars (pick your likeliest POD for this), what would've been the fate of Britain's overseas...
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    WI: Lincoln Doesn't Pick Johnson?

    Reconstruction might have turned out better, but I have the sense/fear that the South would sooner have rebelled again than tolerate "Beast Butler" as President. This could certainly lead to far stronger crackdowns on ex-/neo-CSA whites and maybe greater/more-enforced protections & rights for...
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    WI: Lincoln Doesn't Pick Johnson?

    (Inspired by current reading; may have already been discussed elsewhere, but felt like doing so here) Since the end of the Civil War (even before then, for quite a few contemporaries), it's been a common belief (which I emphatically hold, too) that Andrew Johnson was the worst possible choice...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    All great advice; thanks, everyone! Right now my top choices are removing "FSAC" altogether or altering the "Historical Note" afterword I had at the end to better indicate the qualms/opinion changes I've had since the work was released in 2016; happy to share the latter if anyone's interested in...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    (Not sure if this is the right thread for such a question, but here goes): I’m currently preparing for a low-key event where I’ll be discussing my writing experiences and published works. One of those works, a short AH story titled “For State & Country” (in brief, VA remains neutral—for a...
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    Tippecanoe And...Who?

    I have the sense Texas annexation would still happen at some point within the 1840s-1850s. Given the bulk of Anglo settlers in that region being slaveholders, their fear of reinvasion by--and the flight of slaves to--antislavery Mexico, and the South's ever-growing desire to expand slavery given...
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    Tippecanoe And...Who?

    (Just a random speculation, courtesy of recent reading): Following Whig President William Henry Harrison's death a month after inauguration in 1841, VP Virginian John Tyler (who was primarily chosen at the 1839 convention for regional balance and to supposedly appease other Henry Clay...
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    "What If It Happened To White People Though?"

    An excellent article all around! Little surprised no one's brought up the Lion's Blood duology by Steven Barnes (wish it could have been a trilogy, as once planned, but haven't heard any news on that for a while).
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    That era’s version of PKD’s Solarcaine, maybe? 😆
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    AH Italian Fascism Post-Mussolini?

    I am sorely tempted to use Ciano; I simply have another story I'm pondering where he would play a prominent role, so I'm a little wary of having him at the forefront too often in my works. May end up using him if no other "authoritarian/maybe monarchist/ostensibly fascist"--or just suitably...
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    AH Italian Fascism Post-Mussolini?

    POD for my story makes Balbo too late; it could be shifted a bit, ala Heydrich's death in Harris's Fatherland, but I'm inclined not to. Maybe one of his kids? (Can't find any info on them as yet.) Borghese would probably make another good "hardliner" choice, opposing the "Fascist/Monarchist in...
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