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May 14, 20199 min read

Alternate Terminologies: Elementary, my Dear Mendeleyev

By Tom Anderson Look at a Periodic Table and you will see that many of the abbreviations of the chemical elements seem perfectly...

May 7, 20195 min read

Penny Arcade: How a 1950s Hip Infection in Leeds Created a 2009 Flu Epidemic in the United States

By Tom Anderson In this series of ‘Consequences in AH’ articles, we’ve already seen how an innovative word seen as cheap and tawdry at...

May 5, 201914 min read

First Chapters: Not An English Word

by Tom Anderson Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have Not An English Word, by Tom...

Apr 30, 20198 min read

Alternate Terminologies: Celeripedes, Selfmovers and Aerodromes

By Tom Anderson Three ubiquitous forms of transport we now take for granted are the bicycle, the car and the aeroplane (or airplane in...

Apr 23, 20195 min read

How Graham Chapman and Pornography Checkmated Garry Kasparov

By Tom Anderson The game of chess has captured the human imagination perhaps more than any other. Chess probably originated in India at...

Apr 16, 201910 min read

Alternate Terminology: Vinyl Destination - Phonographs, Gramophones and Fighting Over A Dog

By Tom Anderson Before the nineteenth century, there was no means to record a human voice, music or any other sounds. Clockwork...

Apr 9, 20196 min read

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Making History on the Toss of a Coin

By Tom Anderson This article on Consequences in Alternate History will be a little different: instead of following a chain of...

Apr 2, 20195 min read

Alternate Terminology: Radar Love and Microwave Dreams

By Tom Anderson In a previous article on alternate technology terminology, we looked at the technology of radar and went into some...

Mar 26, 20196 min read

From the Final Frontier to the Audacity of Hope: How Star Trek Voyager led to the Obama Presidency

By Tom Anderson For today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a...

Mar 19, 20196 min read

Alternate Terminology: Radio Killed the Telegraph Star

By Tom Anderson Few inventions have changed the world more than radio, and the multitudinous technologies it then gave birth to in turn,...

Mar 12, 20196 min read

From Bourbons to Viacom - How Louis XIV Created Nickelodeon

By Tom Anderson For the next article in our series looking at chains of consequences in history (and the implications for alternate...

Mar 5, 20196 min read

Alternate Terminology: Computers, Ordinators, or Ypologists?

By Tom Anderson In this second article on alternate terminology, we will explore the origins of the terms used in Our TimeLine (OTL) for...

Feb 26, 20196 min read

Harry Potter and the Panic of 1837

By Tom Anderson J. K. Rowling’s now-ubiquitous “Harry Potter” series is one of the great British cultural success stories of the...

Feb 19, 20197 min read

Alternate Terminology: Landships, Farseers, and Localnets

By Tom Anderson When writing alternate history (AH), an author's challenge is to hint to a reader that the world the story is set in is...

Feb 12, 20198 min read

The Impact of Command and Conquer: Red Alert

By Tom Anderson This is another article in which we’ll be looking at an unexpected chain of consequences in our timeline (OTL) and what...

Jan 29, 20196 min read

How the American Civil War Created Super Mario: ‘For Want of a Nail’

By Tom Anderson Consequences in Alternate History How do you get... ... from... For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe...

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