AH: Alternatives

[jrittenhouse]

My usual noble call in the case of ‘too many of the Same Thing in the alternate history genre’ is usually responded to with ‘yeah, well, this stuff you sneer at sells, so there.’

And you can’t argue sales.  People do the same old same old because they’re trained to and it’s familiar to them.   WW2 is plenty fresh in a lot of minds, and the US Civil

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[shsilver]

I think I've mentioned my idea for Zheng Ho colonizing Australia to you in the past.

[jrittenhouse]

Yes. I honestly think that one of the areas of AH that has been horribly ignored in AH is the Indian Ocean (traffic, littoral area, and so on) as a source of material.

[jrittenhouse]

And, for that matter, the whole Zheng He expeditions in general. I have a copy of what can best be called 'Chinese National Geographic' (in Chinese, of course) with a profusely illustrated issue on that topic - breathtaking stuff. (Just happened on it in a Chinese-language bookstore in Westmont, IL.)

[shsilver]

And the issue of Argentus I'm currently laying out has an article about Zheng Ho by Taral Wayne.

[jrittenhouse]

*drool* I have a posting on the whole matter coming out around noon.