#alternativehistory — Public Fediverse posts

For the evening crowd (well, in Ireland):

Nobody knows how the "Fomorians" first appeared in Ireland in the 1840s. Until a dwarven scientist runs an illegal experiment to find out.

It blows up in his face.

https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered

#scifi #alternativeHistory #dieselpunk #indieWriter #writingCommunity #newRelease

For the evening crowd (well, in Ireland):

Nobody knows how the "Fomorians" first appeared in Ireland in the 1840s. Until a dwarven scientist runs an illegal experiment to find out.

It blows up in his face.

https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered

#scifi #alternativeHistory #dieselpunk #indieWriter #writingCommunity #newRelease

For the evening crowd (well, in Ireland):

Nobody knows how the "Fomorians" first appeared in Ireland in the 1840s. Until a dwarven scientist runs an illegal experiment to find out.

It blows up in his face.

https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered

#scifi #alternativeHistory #dieselpunk #indieWriter #writingCommunity #newRelease

For the evening crowd (well, in Ireland):

Nobody knows how the "Fomorians" first appeared in Ireland in the 1840s. Until a dwarven scientist runs an illegal experiment to find out.

It blows up in his face.

https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered

#scifi #alternativeHistory #dieselpunk #indieWriter #writingCommunity #newRelease

For the evening crowd (well, in Ireland):

Nobody knows how the "Fomorians" first appeared in Ireland in the 1840s. Until a dwarven scientist runs an illegal experiment to find out.

It blows up in his face.

https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered

#scifi #alternativeHistory #dieselpunk #indieWriter #writingCommunity #newRelease

What happens when a corrupt dwarven scientist in pre-WW1 Ireland cheats his Fomorian/orcish suppliers? They raid his lab. What happens next?

Fomoritis Uncovered is now out! https://aceade.net/2026/05/01/fomoritis-uncovered-is-now-out/

#AlternativeHistory #BookRelease #dieselpunk #HistoricalFantasy #IndieWriters #indieWriters #scifi #Writing

What happens when a corrupt dwarven scientist in pre-WW1 Ireland cheats his Fomorian/orcish suppliers? They raid his lab. What happens next?

Fomoritis Uncovered is now out! https://aceade.net/2026/05/01/fomoritis-uncovered-is-now-out/

#AlternativeHistory #BookRelease #dieselpunk #HistoricalFantasy #IndieWriters #indieWriters #scifi #Writing

https://www.ufofeed.com/241977/gobekli-tepes-twin-pillars-explained-archaeology-prehistoric/ Göbekli Tepe’s Twin Pillars Explained #archaeology #prehistoric #AlternativeHistory #History

https://www.ufofeed.com/241977/gobekli-tepes-twin-pillars-explained-archaeology-prehistoric/ Göbekli Tepe’s Twin Pillars Explained #archaeology #prehistoric #AlternativeHistory #History

#PennedPossibilities
Tell us about your WIP. What is the genre or genres?

I'm finishing my #steampunk #SciFi series of novellas (last seconds on #Kickstarter if you're interested)

Also working on a #AlternativeHistory #AltHistory #FaeVSMachines #LightningPunk Don't really know what to call it, but set in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the empire is taken over by feminist witches. It's a lot of fun.

#PennedPossibilities
Tell us about your WIP. What is the genre or genres?

I'm finishing my #steampunk #SciFi series of novellas (last seconds on #Kickstarter if you're interested)

Also working on a #AlternativeHistory #AltHistory #FaeVSMachines #LightningPunk Don't really know what to call it, but set in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the empire is taken over by feminist witches. It's a lot of fun.

#PennedPossibilities
Tell us about your WIP. What is the genre or genres?

I'm finishing my #steampunk #SciFi series of novellas (last seconds on #Kickstarter if you're interested)

Also working on a #AlternativeHistory #AltHistory #FaeVSMachines #LightningPunk Don't really know what to call it, but set in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the empire is taken over by feminist witches. It's a lot of fun.

#PennedPossibilities
Tell us about your WIP. What is the genre or genres?

I'm finishing my #steampunk #SciFi series of novellas (last seconds on #Kickstarter if you're interested)

Also working on a #AlternativeHistory #AltHistory #FaeVSMachines #LightningPunk Don't really know what to call it, but set in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the empire is taken over by feminist witches. It's a lot of fun.

#PennedPossibilities
Tell us about your WIP. What is the genre or genres?

I'm finishing my #steampunk #SciFi series of novellas (last seconds on #Kickstarter if you're interested)

Also working on a #AlternativeHistory #AltHistory #FaeVSMachines #LightningPunk Don't really know what to call it, but set in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after the empire is taken over by feminist witches. It's a lot of fun.

Die Astronauten von #Artemis sind vom
#Mond sicher zurück auf der Erde und die #AppleTV Serie „For All Mankind“ geht in die fünfte Staffel!

Zeit also sich zu überlegen: Was wäre wenn #MartinHorn sich tatsächlich so engagiert für kostenlose Kitas eingesetzt hätte, wie er sich für sein Insta Auftritt engagiert? Oder überhaupt mehr als nach 5 Jahren einen Brief schreiben, gemacht hätte?

Hier ein kleiner Ausflug in die #AlternativeHistory.

Mehr auf meinem Blog: https://sbamueller.com

#artemis #mond #appletv #martinhorn #alternativehistory #freiburg #forallmankind #obwahl

📚 Son of Nobody by: Yann Martel

Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.

In ...

https://bookblabla.com/book/son-of-nobody

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #alternativehistory

For All Mankind Season Five Review

#ForAllMankind #ForAllMankindSeason5 #scifi #scifitv #alternativehistory #tv #tvreview

https://popculturemaniacs.com/for-all-mankind-season-five-review/

https://www.ufofeed.com/214749/btk-dennis-rader/ #BTK Dennis Rader? #AlternativeHistory #History

https://www.ufofeed.com/214749/btk-dennis-rader/ #BTK Dennis Rader? #AlternativeHistory #History

I've started working on a new #HeartsOfIron4 mod for playing as Ireland - or rather, the "dwarves" of Ireland. Basically, infantry equipment is *much* cheaper but less performant.

I'll be adding more to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRHG7FCr7c

#hoi4 #gameMods #dieselpunk #alternativeHistory #strategyGames

An old YouTube series of mine where I waffle on about a dieselpunk series I have set in Ireland, while filling in some related artwork. Thinking of restarting/rebooting it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8SUm0Qu0fGVbZl8c0ydhYC-4Vy_tRdqz

#worldbuilding #mastoArt #dieselpunk #alternativeHistory #artistRambles

@jbenjamint There is clearly a split in space time involved here! Apparently the United States landed boats on Greenland prior to the Icelander, who, if I remember correctly, was Bjarne Hereulfson, landed, so basically half a millenium before the US was created.
#Greenland #Trump #Norway #Denmark #AlternativeHistory

Two kidnapped teenagers. A dwarven megacorporation illegally experimenting. An answer to how the Fomorians appeared. Coming 14th of March 2026.

Fomoritis Uncovered Release Date https://aceade.net/2026/01/10/fomoritis-uncovered-release-date/

#AlternativeHistory #BookRelease #CreativeWriting #dieselpunk #fantasy

"Oh that's the hospital ... Yeah Tuesdays they burn cripples, the terminally ill. Drag on the state."

Highway cop, The Man in the High Castle, s01e01

Neoliberals just close hospitals, or starve them of funding, and cut disability benefits, so they die of their illness, or abandonment, or despair in their own homes. Saves the taxpayer the costs of jackboots and furnaces. More civilised, and so much more efficient! : P

#TV #SciFi #AlternativeHistory #TheManInTheHighCastle #fascism

Free Fiction Monday: The Last Surviving Gondola Widow

In an alternate post-Civil War Chicago, the citizens still remember the day the Gondolas sent by the South died and the city burned—again.  Lou, a Pinkerton detective, uses magic to hunt down the Gondola pilots, now called Gondola widows.  She…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/25/free-fiction-monday-the-last-surviving-gondola-widow/

#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alternativehistory #CivilWar
@indieauthors

I'm reading "The Challenge of the Computer Utility" by D.F. Parkhill, 1966, which was referenced in "Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer" by Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith, 1980.

It's a book which attempts to "...facilitate [the] growing discussion [of computer utilities] by providing a broad examination that will reveal something of the history, technology, and economics of the computer utility and explore some of its possible implications for our society." In modern terms, it's an attempt to describe what became networked and cloud computing.

There's a wonderful digression imagining an alternative history for computing if Babbage had succeeded in building the Analytical Engine. Here is that section in full:

It is fascinating to speculate how the course of human affairs might have been changed if Babbage or his son had actually succeeded in completing a working analytical engine. Admittedly, given the primitive state of precision mechanical technology before the twentieth century, it is doubtful that even a working machine would have inspired many attempts at direct duplication. On the other hand, the electrical relay in the form of the Morse telegraph was in general use before Babbage’s death, and there is no reason why large electromechanical analytical engines based on relays could not have been built by the end of the nineteenth century. Primitive as such computers would have been by our standards, they still would have represented an astronomical addition to the scientific resources of their time. Furthermore, in the familiar bootstrap action that has played such an important role in our own scientific progress since World War II, successful analytical engines would have spawned further improvements in themselves.

In electronics, for example, it is possible that the vacuum tube might have found its first large-scale application as a switching device in computers rather than as an amplifier or detector in communications systems. This in turn would have opened up computational and control horizons before World War I that in reality did not appear until the 1950’s. If this had happened, would automation and its first offspring, technological unemployment, then have added their fuel to the fires of economic collapse in the 1930’s? How much faster would aviation have developed? Possibly the jet engine, the guided missile, and the supersonic aircraft would have been commonplace long before the beginning of World War II. What about the atomic bomb? At this point the mind boggles, for the thought of Fascism, in all its hideousness, armed with nuclear weapons, is enough to shatter the complacency of even the most optimistic believer in human progress.

On the other hand, there was nothing inevitable about the political and economic events that have hitherto convulsed the twentieth century. In fact, given the more rapid rate of scientific and economic progress that would have followed an earlier introduction of the computer, it is extremely unlikely that the pace of political change would have remained unaffected.

The book: https://archive.org/details/challengeofcompu0000park

#computerhistory #counterfactual #alternativehistory #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Reminded of Archie comics while buying groceries today. Trying to imagine what that series would look like trying to address today's issues.. Who is being deported? Who lost their degree for speaking up? Who voted for idiocracy?

(edit: spelling fix)

#archie #comics #alternativehistory

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale of the Yugoslav Wars. War Three: Bosnia and Herzegovina Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Andrew Anzur Clement Rating: 5.0/5 (5 Reviews) #AlternativeHistory #Kindle #Books #YugoslavWars #Book #Recommendation #BookSky

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale o...

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale of the Yugoslav Wars. War Three: Bosnia and Herzegovina Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Andrew Anzur Clement Rating: 5.0/5 (5 Reviews) #AlternativeHistory #Kindle #Books #YugoslavWars #Book #Recommendation #BookSky

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale o...

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale of the Yugoslav Wars. War Three: Bosnia and Herzegovina Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Andrew Anzur Clement Rating: 5.0/5 (5 Reviews) #AlternativeHistory #Kindle #Books #YugoslavWars #Book #Recommendation #BookSky

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale o...

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale of the Yugoslav Wars. War Three: Bosnia and Herzegovina Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Andrew Anzur Clement Rating: 5.0/5 (5 Reviews) #AlternativeHistory #Kindle #Books #YugoslavWars #Book #Recommendation #BookSky

Tito's Lost Children. A Tale o...

What would computers be like if, in the early days, focus hadn't been on clocked logic but fast self-contained serial arithmetics on self-synchronising signals? :blobcatthinking:

Could the avoidance of nanomanagement permit the creation of tinier, faster, and more massively parallelisable computational cores by the time three megahertz, the traditional boundary of High Frequency, started to look like low frequency?

#retrocomputing #alternativehistory

@mike805

#project2025 "#alternativehistory"

Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson, 2011

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived?

@bookstodon
#books
#AlternativeHistory
#WhatIf

Hello Lovely Peeps!

I thought this was interesting* & will be a springboard down a rabbit trail, I can already tell! 😄

What if all the states in America (or anywhere, really) were configured around principal watersheds?

How would this increase efficient use of water? Of land spaces? Developing urban & agricultural areas? Determining what food can be grown?

I love how this map put things so immediately in context for me & how I 'get' the concept so much more.

This will definitely be a springboard of research for me.

Relatedly, I am currently reading @r_emrys 's 'A Half-Built Garden' (which seems structured around watersheds) & I am seeing things in a whole new light.

(It is a story of first contact with an alien species, & while I am only a few chapters in, I am *loving* it so far! 🤩)

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/what-if-states-had-developed-around-watersheds

(* Written by @sgoodyear who is no longer here, but am tagging in case she comes back.)

#Watershed #Water #Agriculture #AlternativeHistory #Sustainability

Could there be a hidden city of gold in the Amazon, where prosperity and cultural interconnection defied conquest? Explore this vision of resilience and imagine an alternative history. What if it were true? Link: YouTube #CityofGold #AmazonMystery #AlternativeHistory #CulturalLegacy

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfition

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

Wasn't there a Philip Dick #book with #AlternativeHistory where the #US was #nazi? The man in the high castle? I read it over 10 years agoand don't really remember it at all. I think I have this book at my parent's. I wonder if it's relevant to the current situation any way. It would be easier if I remember what was in the book.

#PhilipDick #TheManintheHighCastle

Wasn't there a Philip Dick #book with #AlternativeHistory where the #US was #nazi? The man in the high castle? I read it over 10 years agoand don't really remember it at all. I think I have this book at my parent's. I wonder if it's relevant to the current situation any way. It would be easier if I remember what was in the book.

#PhilipDick #TheManintheHighCastle

Wasn't there a Philip Dick #book with #AlternativeHistory where the #US was #nazi? The man in the high castle? I read it over 10 years agoand don't really remember it at all. I think I have this book at my parent's. I wonder if it's relevant to the current situation any way. It would be easier if I remember what was in the book.

#PhilipDick #TheManintheHighCastle

Wasn't there a Philip Dick #book with #AlternativeHistory where the #US was #nazi? The man in the high castle? I read it over 10 years agoand don't really remember it at all. I think I have this book at my parent's. I wonder if it's relevant to the current situation any way. It would be easier if I remember what was in the book.

#PhilipDick #TheManintheHighCastle

"The Historic Kentucky Kitchen" (2013)
Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813142494
#Art #MastoArt #Book #Books #BookCover #BookCovers #CoverIllustraion #CoverArt #AlternativeHistory #UniversityPress #AcademicPress #Bookstodon