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  1. Leo euler

    Eric Harry's Arc Light--20 years later

    I am re-reading Eric Harry's book Arc Light again after 15 years (the book came out in 1994). It's the best military thriller I have ever read. I'll post spoilers for the whole book, so don't read this thread if you want to read the book fresh, but in short, the summary of the book is: It...
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    The REZ: A Native American economic powerhouse

    I was driving through some reservations the other day and got to thinking about them a little. Does anyone think it could have been possible for a reservation, or a tribe in general, to have become an economic powerhouse? Or at least a model? There are serious roadblocks to this, of course, as...
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    John Birmingham's Axis of Time has been optioned

    For those who don't know, Axis of Time is about an American carrier battle group from 2021 that gets thrown back in time to the middle of World War II. It's like that movie The Final Countdown, but much better. It doesn't just go into the military effects, but the social effects. Anyway, go read...
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    Migrating for unusual political reasons?

    Every American knows the story of the Pilgrims, right? They came to America so they could practice their religion the way they wanted to. I was just thinking recently about situations where people might migrate for very unusual, or even really wacky, reasons. This could also refer to future...
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    Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery

    I think I may have posted a thread about this a long time ago, but it's been a while. Here is the link to the game. Here is a playthrough of the game if you would prefer to watch that. It's about an hour. This game has recently been on my mind and I wanted to share it. It's a relatively...
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    Could the Jin and/or Song have defeated the Mongols?

    I was thinking about this today. I'm sure this has been discussed before on the board, and if anyone knows of any threads to link to, I would appreciate it. The truth is that off the top of my head, I don't know if they could have done it. When I say, "Defeat the Mongols" I either mean that...
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    Modern foods that could have been wildly popular in the past?

    I was thinking about pizza (specifically, the way it is made in America, but pizza in general) and how it has become such a hugely popular food around the world. Although there were sorts of proto-pizzas thousands of years ago, making "real" pizza would not really have been possible until...
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    An unlikely video game success story: Action 52

    Action 52 (Wikipedia link) was a game designed in the early 90's. It's main draw was that it was actually 52 games in one cartridge; the developers suggested that the game sell for $199--hey, that's only four dollars per game! What an amazing deal! The trouble was...it was one of the...
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    The origin of the universe, from Stephen Baxter's Exultant

    The following is from the book, so don't read it if you don't want it spoiled! It's basically a history of the early universe. The passage is spliced from the interstitial passages in the book. I got it here.
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    Likelihood of a world dominated/conquered by authoritarian regime(s)?

    One of the unsettling unanswered questions of history is the likelihood of the entire world being conquered by an authoritarian regime, or dominated by a collection of them like in the book 1984. To you, how likely would it be? Or what paths do you think might lead to that sort of scenario...
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    The Christ Clone Trilogy

    Has anyone else read this? Wikipedia has a pretty long summary of the three books. It starts out with a scientist who takes cell samples from the Shroud of Turin in the 70's (there was actually a real study of the shroud during this time, I believe) and finds out that they have extraordinary...
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    China Tidal Wave (Yellow Peril)

    China Tidal Wave (titled Yellow Peril in Chinese) is a book by Wang Lixiong published in 1991. Unfortunately it seems kind of hard to find; I had to get it off Amazon. It's a sort of political thriller that talks about a civil war in China after a period of unrest and conflict between several...
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    Amoral/utilitarian dystopias

    Does anyone know of any books that are amoral/utilitarian dystopias? Off the top of my head, I guess a lot of dystopias are in some sense like that, but I was thinking of more of a "soft" dystopia that is more culturally utilitarian. One of the guiding principles might be something like...
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    Chung Kuo reboot/prequel: Son of Heaven

    I never really got into David Wingrove's Chung Kuo books; I read about half of the first book and never finished it. Of course, I have a habit of reading about books without reading them, which I have done with this series. It seems kind of interesting. A reboot of the series, along with two...
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    "L'espirit de L'escalier"--The infinite descending staircase

    This is a story I read a few weeks ago, and I was very intrigued by it. It's not very long. It's about a guy who descends an infinite descending staircase in honor of his dead girlfriend. Read it here...
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    Old but cool strategy game: Command HQ

    When I was in eighth grade, I picked this game up out of the bargain bin--it was already six years old or so. By that time, the graphics were quite obsolete, but it was actually a very entertaining game. The concept is simple: capture cities using various units. The gameplay is in realtime...
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    A homeland for _________

    Note: this thread could also be in "before 1900" and possibly even in the "future history" section. There have been a few times in history where specific groups have been given, or conquered, places that they consider specific homelands. The most famous example, of course, is the...
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    Harry Turtledove's nonfiction

    Out of curiosity, I searched my college library to see what books by Harry Turtledove were available. It had one of his nonfiction books (published 1982). The Chronicle of Theophanes An English translation of anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813), with introduction and notes by Harry...
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    AH scenarios from headlines in The Onion's "Our Dumb Century"

    If you don't know, The Onion is a fake news site that writes humorous fake news. They have made a book called "Our Dumb Century" which has fake news stories from the 20th century. Some examples of headlines: "OJ Catches Real Killer", "Religious Right Ascends with Jesus into Heaven" (for the...
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    The Aswan High Dam is destroyed by a nuclear weapon

    Bit of background: the Aswan High Dam was a dam completed in the sixties by Egypt at the first cataract of the Nile. It is 3.6 km long, almost a km wide at the base, and generates up to 2.1 gigawatts of power (the Hoover Dam has a capacity of 1.3 gigawatts). It's construction created the giant...
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