"The League of Nations Triumphant!"

An Alternate History

(c) 2001, 2012

by

Jordan S. Bassior

Introduction:

This timeline is taken to 1964, and it details a world in which the League of Nations was an effective organization and, as a result, there was no global Second World War. The League of Nations dominates the world of 1964, though it is challenged by ( Read more... )

Introduction

I recently read Kristine Kathryn Rusch's short story "G-Men," which is an alternate history murder mystery set in October 1964 -- an important month indeed, when I personally entered the world. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, his personal assistant and possible lover Clyde Tolson, and three other FBI agents have been murdered outside a ( Read more... )

Published a revised version of my short-short "Reflectons on a Reign (copyright 2009) on Fantastic Worlds. Includes a short comment on my inspiration for the story ( Read more... )

1942

Sitting in the place of honor among his court, Tsar Nicholas II, Autocrat of All the Russias, reflected on his long inglorious life. Following giants like his father and grandfather, was it inevitable that he was dim in comparison?

The war with Japan in 1904, had been a disaster. He might have gained glory defending Serbia in 1914, but he ( Read more... )

The demonization of the state of Israel, is truly strange and wonderful to behold. Israel is expected to suffer insults that no other nation of equivalent strength relative to her attackers would suffer without fighting back. And if she does fight back, she is expected to constrain herself by rules of engagement by which no other nation ever has ( Read more... )

Some people have argued that we should have simply tried to deal with Al Qaeda through "police work" -- arresting terrorists when we found them, and not attacking Afghanistan. And certainly not Iraq. So I'm going to speculate how this would have worked.

( What If America Acted MATURELY? )

Introduction

One fascinating counterfactual is the possibility of a German victory in the Great War. Here is my attempt to portray the best German chance of achieving such a result, despite the superiority of the British Navy and its ability to blockade the Central Powers.

Notes: ATL = Alternate Time Line, and OTL = Our Time Line.

( How Can Germany Hope To Win? )