In the book, the United States managed, with foreign support, to reassert its control over the breakaway nations, and embarked on a Freedonia-style centralization of authority (notably, the author described that the flag of the Union of American States was identical to that of Freedonia). The scenarios are in the typical grid layout, and will be described below.Īuthor Thomas Kirkwood was one of the first truly prominent authors of this kind of alternate history genre, although this prominence was not as a result of the book One Nation, Indivisible (published 1958) that this map is taken from.
I mean, in our world a very common althist is "What if the South won the Civil War?", so it's logical to think that in T元1, people would think "What if the United States didn't completely fall apart?" This might also be referred to as a "Double-Blind What If", but I personally prefer "recursive alternate history". This is a set of 12 recursive alternate histories, alternate history scenarios as envisioned by those writing from within Timeline 31. This isn't just a map of alternate history scenarios for the United States. I've never seen any for just the United States, though. Examples have included California, the CSA, Queensland, and others. Usually it's just 12/16/6/whatever number of small one-shots of alternate histories with flags, maps, names, and a brief explanation of what the scenario is, centering around a state/region/nation, etc.
The concept behind this is a bit interesting, for what the template normally is.
If the "12 one-shots of alternate histories of a country/state/etc" meme is dying out, I'm gonna make sure it goes out in style.
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