Tag: history
member name: Dale C.
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June 09, 2008 07:39 AM EDT --
We had a recent discussion in POD, the alternate history magazine about what it would have taken for the Germans to have knocked Great Britain out of the war in the summer of 1940. I want to start . . .
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September 03, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
The era of battleships overlapped the era of biplanes from shortly before World War I until maybe early1942, when all of the major combatants except to some extent Italy had phased out biplanes, and battleships . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Yet another entry into the “Roosevelt provoked the Japs and knew about Pearl Harbor in advance” genre. It differs from many of the earlier books in that genre in that it says that Roosevelt’s . . .
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January 25, 2009 10:45 PM EST --
One of my wife's GreatGreat (and probably another couple of Greats) Grandfathers was on a wagon train to California during the gold rush. He kept a diary of the trip, and copies of it have . . .
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June 03, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
This was inspired by some notes I came across that I made in 1979 or 1980. At that point I was very young, naïve, and thoroughly convinced that solar power was the wave of the near future. Here . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I had been toying with the idea of doing a book on demand for several years. About four years ago I took the plunge. The concept seemed so logical. Produce just the number of books that people . . .
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September 26, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
Help! My Author Left Me Stuck In A Pickup Truck In Another Dimension With Some Guy Named Leo!
This is a character blog for Sharon Mack, the main character in Bear Country, my entry . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
I've wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old. I started a lot of stories through the years, but only got serious about writing in the summer of 1994. As the fourteenth anniversary . . .
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June 14, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
One of my uncles died a few years ago of prostate cancer. He had been in the Korean War, but up until about a year before he died he didn't say much about what had happened there. Suddenly . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:07 PM EDT --
Going through some old notebooks I found some journal entries from when my daughter Jackie was 5 months old. I'm an infoholic so I talked about world politics as well as what was going on in . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:15 PM EDT --
What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world. The US had enough powerful modern . . .
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December 21, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is a brief excerpt from my Nanowrimo novel. For those of you who aren't familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
The Power of ‘Get Over It’
By: Dale Cozort
As a general rule, Americans don’t care much about history. Those Americans who are fascinated by history find their . . .
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June 06, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
Review By: Dale Cozort
This is the second book in a series updating the old tradition of adventure stories set on inhabitable Mars and Venus. Stirling sidesteps the fact that we know those . . .
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June 14, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Listed below are 5 statements, four that are TRUE and one that is FALSE. Your job is to guess which one is false. After the first 10 guesses, I will come back and reveal which statement is the FALSE one. . . .
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January 27, 2009 02:56 PM EST --
May 15 : Made about 10 miles today. Followed up the Lou Forded the stream without accident after waiting abo, hour or more to find a shallow place, This stream is about 50 rods wide interspersed . . .
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March 17, 2007 07:10 AM EDT --
1. What if Turkey had entered World War II in mid-August of 1944? Turkey stayed neutral in World War II until late February 1945 when Germany was definitely beaten. What if . . .
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March 29, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Scenario Seeds are brief ideas that may eventually develop into background for Alternate History short stories or novels. Right now they are just ideas. Ideas can't be copyrighted . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
I just got to thinking about the lifespan of various leaders. There is a lot of potential for Alternate History in how long various leaders lived. Here are just a few to get the creative . . .
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March 12, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
You don’t give an old line-hopper like Tim “Blarney” Smith an opening to get going on a story or you won’t get away from him until the bar's about to close, . . .
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