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  1. Born in the USSA

    The Alternate History Syllabus Challenge!

    This idea has been haunting me for literally years, so I decided to finally pull the trigger on it! Many years ago I read a vignette on this site with a really interesting structure: it was a fully conceptualized TL, conveyed entirely in one post in the form of a fictional academic syllabus...
  2. Born in the USSA

    Flag Challenge 274 Voting

    Flag Challenge 274: A Color Revolution Continuing my all-consuming obsession with ideologies and color symbolism, create a flag for a revolutionary state (an existing one or an AH creation) in a world where the dominant political color and symbol of the guiding ideology is different for some...
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    Flag Challenge 268 voting

    Flag Challenge 268: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!" This challenge comes in two parts: Pick a supernatural or sci-fi issue or setting detail. The setting should otherwise be recognizably the recent past or present. Create a flag for a government agency (secret or otherwise)...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge 266 Voting

    Flag Challenge 266: Lions and Tigers and Bears This one's pretty straightforward: take a country of your choosing and remake its flag to prominently feature the national animal. Countries with weird or cool animals are of course preferred and simply slapping an animal over the existing flag is...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge 262 Voting

    Flag Challenge 262: Say You Want A Revolution! Inspired by some talk about politics and ideology in the AH tropes thread I wanted to do another challenge about my favorite topic of all time, weird politics and revolutions! In the interest of diverse results I've split this challenge into a few...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge #260 Voting

    Flag Challenge 260: Let Your Freak Flag Fly!- Voting Have another nifty future history challenge, this one inspired by Transmetropolitan! Because the times they are a changin' and social attitudes with them your challenge is to create a pride flag for some future ethnic group or social...
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    The King in Yellow and Other Stories: A President Lovecraft Weird Fiction Timeline in Several Acts
    Threadmarks: The King in Yellow: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

    Act I- The King in Yellow: A President Lovecraft TLIAW Act II- A Wine-Dark Sea: An Atlantean Empire TLIAW Act III- Raise the Black Flag!: A Jersey Devil TLIAW Act IV- A Bolt From the Blue: A Vengeance Weapon TLIAW Act V- Illuminatus!: A Franco-British Union TLIAW Act VI- Invisible Amendments: An...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge #256 Voting

    Flag Challenge 256: Party like its 2099! Inspired by a fun idea I had for a future history American party system, my challenge to you all is to create a flag for a major 21st century American political party, combining my loves of weird politics, ideological colors and flag making. Is it a...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge #253

    FLAG CHALLENGE 253: The Great White South Here's the poll for my Antarctica flag challenge! It's a bit after 2 as I post this and I'll keep the poll up until 10 Central Monday evening.
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    WI: Goldwater in '64; LaRouche in '76?

    Anyone who's seen my other stuff will see a clear interest on the evolution of political factions and party systems, especially in the US, and there are few better examples of this evolutionary process than the 20th century party switch. This switch was a fairly drawn out process that would see...
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    Weekly Flag Challenge #249

    Flag Challenge 249: ALL THE GOOD THINGS OF THE EARTH FLOW INTO THE CITY For my challenge, inspired by BioShock, Pirate Utopia, Tomorrowland and the Kowloon Walled City your challenge is to create a flag for a city state or micronation. Your polity should be: At least de facto independent...
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    Anybody else read Summerland?

    I just finished Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland and was curious if anybody else had read it? It's an alternate history spy thriller about the hunt for a Soviet mole hidden high up in the British espionage establishment, with only one problem: he's already dead, which is going to make catching him a...
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    AHC: Create an exotic party system
    Threadmarks: The Challenge

    So the challenge, inspired by these two excellent examples (all credit to @Wolfram and @TheNixonator , respectively), is to create an alternate political party system for a country using obscure, defunct or marginal political parties or factions that existed in that country historically...
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    AHC: More durable Anti-Masonic Party?

    So my challenge is: create a scenario where the Anti-Masonic Party comes into existence in 1828 (the OTL founding year) and lasts (either in the first or second iteration) at least until 1900 where the stronger party either: survives into the twentieth century as a major player in a duopoly or...
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    AHC: Royalist President

    I know the title is a bit misleading, but I'm not looking for PODs for a monarchist America, I promise. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario where someone who (in OTL) was a hereditary monarch of a colonial power is elected president of an alternate United...
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    "Power Without Knowledge...": President Haig and the Era of Bad Feelings
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    *Editorial Note- Since this has been massaged as I've developed the concept I'll be going back through as I have the time to edit out typos and correct any mistakes that have cropped up!* "Power without knowledge is power lost!" - Montesquieu "Much has been said in these uncertain times about...
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    DBWI: AHC-Make a Bioshock game that doesn't take place in Libertatia?

    I recently decided to do a marathon playthrough of both BioShock games and I just can't get over how unique and immersive it is. I remember reading somewhere that the creative team kicked around a few different setting ideas before settling on the egoist union of Libertatia, and I was curious if...
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    Protector, a Future History from Simon Roy and Image Comics

    Has anyone read the new Protector series written by Simon Roy? In a future history in the wake of a climate related population collapse, the alien Devas are attempting to rebuild the biosphere, incidentally allowing their worshippers (the slaving descendents of Asian climate refugees) the...
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    AHC: A multipolar Cold War with alien value systems?

    I think I've made it fairly clear that I absolutely adore alternate ideologies, and I'm fond of scenarios where they feature prominently. From what I've seen, there seems to be two general scenarios where alternate ideologies often come into play on this site: Multipolar Cold War settings...
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    AHC: Can "A Crystal Age" pull off a "Looking Backward"?

    First a bit of context. The related genres of utopian and dystopian fiction experienced a literary surge from roughly the mid-19th century to the first decade or so of the 20th. Most were stand-alone works but some went on to produce numerous unofficial sequels, refutations, and even social...
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