Dropped a project. Gained a saga. In this alternate Earth, King Cnut’s empire survives, Gunhilda marries Henry III, and their kids birth a Viking dynasty into the 13th century. Now Cnut III sends Rådulv to Tsushima… to start Ragnarök.
https://vikingsvssamurai.com/the-viking-empire-of-king-cnut-iii/
#AltHistory #VikingsVsSamurai #Ragnarok #KingCnutIII #SpecFic

The Free People's Village (Sim Kern) – Twenty years ago, Al Gore won the election and declared a War on Climate Change instead of the War on Terror. The United States led the charge on a green transition that transformed the country. That is to say, an eco-capitalist transition which did little to ultimately reduce carbon emissions but did plenty to shift the burden onto the poorest while the rich rake in subsidies. Minority neighbourhoods previously bulldozed as ghettos are now targeted as inefficient and wasteful as its residents lack the capital to invest in the latest technology and cash in for it.

One such neighbourhood is the Eighth Ward of Huston, Texas where Maddie crashes at The Lab, her boyfriend's warehouse venue. There she joins a queer punk bang and falls for the trans guitarist, Red. Yet with her boyfriend as everyone's landlord, she treads on eggshells to keep the rug being pulled from under their feet. When the venue slated for demolition, along with much of the neighbourhood, Maddie throws herself into the grassroots campaign group led by the neighbourhood's Black residents who resent The Lab's gentrifying role in the area.

The book really targets Maddie with a bullseye. While she starts to grow beyond her naivety, her ignorance, cowardice and privilege is very much on display as the movement grows. She is caught between the those with a desire for radical direct action that triggers brutal police crack downs, and a tempered campaign movement that becomes throttled by an influx of white cis male activists who drown out the voices of the original black residents.

Maddie as a character could have landed far flatter if she had been given more sympathy or just deployed as a punchbag. But she does seem to serve as a good character to show the slow radicalisation of someone who struggles to truly appreciate her own privilege before she wallows in her own white guilt. She also provides an outsider pov as the infighting consumes the campaign at it's core, and the hopeless nihilism that embeds at its fringes.

While Sim gives little in the way of happy endings here, that in itself gives a strong message that while it can feel hopeless against constant set backs from the capitalist machine of government, every small act of resistance plants a seed for the next. In part through this, it speaks volumes to the importance of solidarity and community.

#Bookstodon #Books #QueerBooks #Queer #LGBTQ #TransBooks #Trans #AltHistory

Starting another Hearts of Iron 4 playthrough as a united Scandinavia...with America going fascist.

Totally not inspired by recent headlines. :eyetwitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VafpgEv1dwo

#hoi4 #heartsOfIron4 #altHistory

KA reviews "Forecast" by Aaron Ryan:

"I was eager to read Forecast because of this intriguing premise: what if an everyday person was granted the knowledge about the tragedy in advance, and the power to stop it?... Forecast brings the world of the early 2000s back to life, creating a vivid and compelling “what if” timeline of that dark day of American history. 5 stars."

https://www.limfic.com/2026/01/22/review-forecast-aaron-ryan/

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #AltHistory #911 #BookReview #Review #bookstodon @bookstodon #book #books

Meanwhile in an alternative universe:

Mark Carney: We need Alaska. We need it for national security, we need Alaska!

#greenland #alaska #usa #antitrump #greenlandisgreenland #denmark #alternativehistory #althistory #politics #nato

#bookchallenge #alphabetchallenge Y is for The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson #AltHistory #TheBlackDeath #plague #plaguetales #14thcentury #Worldbuilding #ReligiousHistory #religiousevolution #colonialism #IndigenousPower #technology #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

#alphabetchallenge #bookchallenge X is for Xena: Warrior Princess - All Roads #graphicnovels #xena #fantasy #RedemptionArc #AltHistory #paxromana #romanempire #CycleOfViolence #personaldemons #loyalty #sapphicromance #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

With his new novel "Burning Night," author Alan Smale is concluding his alt-history / hard sci fi series "Apollo Rising." In this exclusive interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced both this series and this conclusion, as well as his expansion plans.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-burning-night-author-alan-smale/
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#AlanSmale #AlanSmaleInterview #AlanSmaleBurningNight #AlanSmaleApolloRising #AlanSmaleHotMoon #AlanSmaleRadiantSky #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardScienceFiction #HardSciFi #AltHistory

#alphabetchallenge #bookchallenge D is for Druid's Blood by Esther Friesner #AltHistory #sherlockholmes #baskerville #byron #oscarwilde #pagan #fantasyreads #MysteryReads #booksky #booktok #bookstagram #druids #magicalacademy #lovecraftian #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

Next up: 4K UHD

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

As Hollywood's Golden Age is winding down during the summer of 1969, television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.

#AltHistory #PeriodDrama #ShowBizDrama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7131622/plotsummary?item=po3613481

If you're looking for a good old game, try TimeShift.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/timeshift

I originally played this on XBox360, I think. It's not the best FPS ever, but it's solid.

#GOG #FPS #Shooter #Timelines #AltHistory

I just finished reading Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. It's set in an alternate 1920s USA in the state of Cahokia. It's centered on a detective relatively new to the city of Cahokia, so you are learning the city through his coming to terms with it. The start is somewhat grisly, but worth getting past that for experiencing the setting. For my part, I enjoyed the atmospherics more than the story itself, but you may feel different.

#MurderMystery #AltHistory #books @bookstodon

I'm sort of wondering now if Clinton had been removed after his impeachment, and we had a President Gore, what that timeline would have looked like. I think probably that Dubya Bush would not have won, as the most immediate consequence. #USPol #AltHistory

#bookwyrm 30 Day Book Challenge - Day 7 - Favorite Genre - The Black God's Drums - P. Djeli Clarke (Spec Fic!) #Pdjeliclark
#Fantasy #althistory #steampunk #dirigible #blackfantasy #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub #booktok #booksky #bookstagram https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

New video: playing Hearts of Iron 4 as Peru, and restoring the Incan Empire in 1936.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AUkKJhH0UY

#hoi4 #gaming #historicalGaming #altHistory #letsPlay

T-10 mins till my first panel: Alternate Histories in RPGs, moderated by the one and only Ken Hite! I’ll be joining Charles Gannon to explore the what-ifs and wild twists of history. Can’t wait! #RPG #AltHistory #TTRPG
#GameHoleCon

#beatthebacklist Day 3: Stand Alone Debut - R.F. Kuang's "Babel" #rfkuang #darkacademia #magicschool #althistory #fantasyreads #bookstagram #booksky #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

3rd October is a public holiday in Germany. The Day of German Unification.

To commemorate 35 years of utter failure to unite anything, and through willful ignorance and inaction creating a new popular Nazi movement, I created this alt-history map of the North German Federation with some background info if this fictional new country in Central Europe.

#AltHistory #maps #Germany