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I ran across Harry Turtledove's Twitter feed and it turns out he is an Trump hating super liberal loon. He just accused Sen Josh Hawley of being a Nazi and that was the final straw for me. I am pretty sure most (probably 90%) of his reading audience aka customers tend to be men who fall on the right of the political spectrum. Stop making this liberal and other liberal scum any money. So if I may humbly ask for a boycott against Harry Turtledove. I won't post links to his Twitter and I am pretty sure it is his...

The story: President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market crash still casts its dark shadow over the country. Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates—New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steele—can get the nation on the road to recovery. But fate snatches away one hope when a mansion fire claims the life of Roosevelt, leaving the Democratic party little choice but to nominate Steele, son of a Russian immigrant laborer who identifies more with the common man than...

"They're in love, and they want to tell the world about it. W is tall, in a conservative-compassionate, oh yes, but conservative-gray suit with television-blue shirt and maroon necktie. O is taller, and his turban lends him a few extra inches besides." ... "They stop. They turn so they're face to face. They gaze into each other's eyes. Now they have both hands clasped together. Anyone can tell it's love. "We need each other," W says. Even if he doesn't talk real well, he gets the message across. "My infidel," O says fondly. "My little terrorist." W's eyes glow. You've...

Have you ever lamented the road not taken, the kiss not stolen or the harsh word spoken? If so, and who hasn't, you understand on a personal level the appeal of a category of speculative fiction, or science fiction, known as alternate history.There are no mulligans in the real world, no do-overs in the game of life. But what if there were? What would you do differently and how would it change who you have become?Alternate history asks the same sort of questions on a grand scale.What if Hitler had survived and Germany had won World War II? What if...