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Generic AH: After the Soviet Victory

Communists Do better

12 deviations
Literature

Generic AH: Qing China survives Part II of II

*** THE EMPIRE OF THE QING Much has changed in China since 1898, even if the monarchy still exists and bureaucrats wear robes. Despite being an authoritarian, nationalistic government with strongly statist economic policies the Qing Empire isn't just a rightwing version of OTL's People's Republic of China even if there are similarities such as having a large secret police[1], an economic agenda focused on modernization to name two examples. One of the biggest differences in China's retaining confucian-style "collective responsibility' and using the bao jia/household system as the means for surveillance/taxation/distributing welfare. Anoher strong difference is that China is structurally theoretically[2] an abolutist monarchy, as opposed to a party-state. Despite no communism, China's economy is only relatively as large as OTL's due to the United States not seeing any reasons to let east asia's exporters run one-way trade wars combined with the Qing favoring

Chinese worlds

8 deviations
Literature

Earth/Mirusev 3 1962

THE WORLD IN MID 1962 It has been 18 years since the treaty of Casablanca that acted as a ceasefire between the independent powers of Earth/Mirusev 3 and the Shushruar Imperium. Much has changed in the intervening years in both human and Lizard lands. The shocking to lizard sensibilities of levels of wartime innovation has only continued in human lands. The original three nuclear powers of 1944 have been joined by a fourth in Imperial Japan while the British's own nuclear project is making progress at a decent clip. The three powers with nuclear weapons are also the same three doing large space programs too, to further annoyance of the Liza

Nazis, Nazis and more nazis

6 deviations
Semper Fi

Extra states beyond 50

6 deviations
Literature

Bubble

Usually I don't do cultural PODs as descriptions but here's a piece requested by one of my friends. Yes, it's another scenario suggested by Mako-chan, the same person behind "Crazy days". This one has been sitting in the archives for something like 7 to eight years. The divergence is that the fashion designer who in OTL discovered "Twiggy" in 1966 instead in 1958 finds someone else. He notices an overweight 18 year old redhead who he describes in his private journal as having "a slight double chin, smallish breasts, a bubble butt and baby face" but "still very pretty in kind of a harmless girl next door sort of way. Kind of cherubic I guess."[1] As a bet with one of his friends, he decides to recruit her as a model, using the name "Bubble". Surprisingly she is popular and that fashion designer's works sell. His friend is out a few grand. Within a few years, other designers pick up on it. Think of it as a cultural shift paralleling OTL's move towards thinner and thinner girls in

Modern politics-related

19 deviations
Literature

5500 AD

It is somewhere in the middle of what, in some calendars is the middle of the 6th millenium. Somewhere between 5350 and 5650 if you must have exact dates -- given the differences between timeframe involves the locaiton of the furthest out colonies/places with robot terraformers and some worlds have fallen from civilizaiton this isn't hugely important unless you're on one of those worlds that fell in between those two years. On the upside, it's not a dystopia per se. On the downside... no singularity. It's one of those futures, the ones without FTL or aliens. No transhuman singularities or AI smarter than the theoretical human maximum, and wh

Retrofuturism

19 deviations
SF Setting: Of man and lizard I of II

The worlds of SF

20 deviations
Kaiser Fred's Germany

Britwanks

7 deviations
Literature

Radical America

Progressivism A shortlived political movement from 1890 to around 1903 that fizzled out. Center-Left to left reformism was taken up by the shortlived Liberal era in the republicans from 1915-1927 and during the Radical Era of 1933-1949. Progressivism was known for it's favoring trusts, strong but regulated corporate power, a strong focus on middle class uplift of the working class's behavior, new expanded morals legislation. It is the consensus of most historians that Progressivism, along with the Populists/Bryan's factions in the democrats represent the last serious efforts at social reform involving moral reform as the focus. The "Chicago School" of historians starting in the 1980s has made the case that Progressivism influenced the Fascist movement in italy and the soviet union, making the implicit argument that both fascism and communism would have been worse had progressivism become a serious faction in the United States. Most popular culture references of progressivism involve

Text only

39 deviations
Kaiser Fred's Germany

The white man's burden continues

17 deviations

PODs by period

79 deviations

Types of AH

81 deviations

PODs by geography

64 deviations
Literature

SF Setting: Of Man and Lizard II of II

THE FREE HUMAN POWERS Seventy years after the treaty of Brisbane, the free human powers still stand in opposition to the Lizards. Not standing united since humanity remains quarrelsome and divided as ever. Human technology hasn't closed the gap with their adversaries, but in many ways isn't that far behind the lizards. There are clunky fusion plants, human military technology has caught up with then and they're only a few years away from making spacecraft capable of in-system activity as fast as lizard craft: starships are well beyond current capabilities[1], but the scientists are talking generations or more optimistic, decades and not centuries at this point. The fine details are of course either expensive or at this point impossible to keep up although, human scientists already point out what strides have been made so far since it's essentially a series of extremely complicated engineering problems as opposed to inventing NEW solutions. If the LIZARDS could invent this, catching

The classics

9 deviations
Literature

The Anomaly

In most of the connected multiverse, Octover 29 1962 is not a particularly important date. On a small band of 61 worlds, it stands out as quite possibly one of the most important ones of  history, since on that day in 61 different worlds a strange anomaly appeared on the horizon on 12:00 AM GMT. The difference between these worlds, as discovered through intra-universal communications is which second of that minute the mirror cube appeared in Earth's sky from 11:59:59 to 12:00:60. Following phone calls or other notifications, the leaders of nations on 61 earths turn their eyes skyward to the mirrorcube. This is just in time to see the shock a

Anomaly

1 deviation
Literature

Travel Guides #9 to #12

9) Non-Colonized The exact divergence is unclear, but this is a world where more states than OTL managed to avoid European domination. Theorists from Center believe that the POD happens to be napoleonic, although the success of the Boer republics due to increased population also indicates a mid 18th century POD. At any rate, divergences began appearing in the early napoleonic wars -- Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo all won independence 1800-1810 while elements of the French royal family pulled a Brazil and fled to a Haiti that was somehow spared revolution. The 19th century from then on followed a trend much like OTL, with the notable d

Crosstime

4 deviations
Literature

Generic AH: Qing China survives Part II of II

*** THE EMPIRE OF THE QING Much has changed in China since 1898, even if the monarchy still exists and bureaucrats wear robes. Despite being an authoritarian, nationalistic government with strongly statist economic policies the Qing Empire isn't just a rightwing version of OTL's People's Republic of China even if there are similarities such as having a large secret police[1], an economic agenda focused on modernization to name two examples. One of the biggest differences in China's retaining confucian-style "collective responsibility' and using the bao jia/household system as the means for surveillance/taxation/distributing welfare. Anoher strong difference is that China is structurally theoretically[2] an abolutist monarchy, as opposed to a party-state. Despite no communism, China's economy is only relatively as large as OTL's due to the United States not seeing any reasons to let east asia's exporters run one-way trade wars combined with the Qing favoring

VIP QUALITY

6 deviations
Literature

5500 AD

It is somewhere in the middle of what, in some calendars is the middle of the 6th millenium. Somewhere between 5350 and 5650 if you must have exact dates -- given the differences between timeframe involves the locaiton of the furthest out colonies/places with robot terraformers and some worlds have fallen from civilizaiton this isn't hugely important unless you're on one of those worlds that fell in between those two years. On the upside, it's not a dystopia per se. On the downside... no singularity. It's one of those futures, the ones without FTL or aliens. No transhuman singularities or AI smarter than the theoretical human maximum, and wh

Sixth Millenium

1 deviation