Dale Cozort's Alternate History Newsletter

Fiction

Tanks & Armored Forces of Late World War II (6/45 - 12/46)

Stalin’s attempt to grab the spoils of Allied victory led to epic tank battles between the Soviets and the Western Allies. This is an overview of the role of armor in that war.

Dale Cozort's

Alternate History Newsletter

Volume 2: Number 3 --- May 1999

(The other two time winner of the clear cut award)

Scenario

Dunkirk Weather

For five days in late May 1940, an odd weather pattern bogged down German tanks, then grounded the Luftwaffe. Let’s try moving that weather pattern around a bit.

Mini Scenario

Pre-Columbian Colonies: Carthage colonizes Mexico

Hannibal flees to Mexico after losing the second Punic War?

Mini Scenario

The Great Australian Rainforest

What if Australia stayed wet and covered with rain forests like it was back in the Miocene?

Mini Scenario

World War II Starts In 1945

Delay World War II by six years and it would have almost certainly been fought with nukes.

Miscellaneous Musings

Alternate Paleontology and Islands

Miscellaneous brainstorming ideas involving extinct or never-was creatures on islands.

Challenge

Civilization 35,000 Years Early? You are the Time-Traveler. Make it Happen.

A challenge: If you could go back 40,000 years ago, could you start the locals on the fast track to civilization? If so, how?

Scenario

Spanish South Carolina

Between 1492 and 1607 (the time of the first successful English settlement in North America), Spain, France, and even Portugal made attempts to settle here. What if one of those colonies had succeeded?

I decided to once again post part, but not all of my contribution to Point Of Divergence, the Alternate History Amateur Press Association magazine, to my web page. Non-POD people get three out of the five scenarios and some commentary on last issue that may or may not be understandable without reading the part of POD they refer to.

I really am trying to keep the size of print version of these things down a bit. I went from a 12 point to a 10-point font, which made a dramatic difference in the page count, from nearly 60 pages down to a little over 40 pages.

Even if you aren't a POD member, you might enjoy the commentary this time. Some highlights:

I welcome new POD member Dale Speirs and his Canadian views of alternate history.
I chat with Andrew Goldstein about the alternate history of comic books.

In comments directed to David Freitag I talk about what might have happened if the South didn’t secede or the border states and Virginia declared armed neutrality in the Civil War. I also suggested mammal-like crocodiles as an element of his AH island of Kayada’s animals.

Ian Montgomerie is subjected to my opinions on the impact of war on technology, what would have happened if the Nazis had taken power in 1939, and gone to war in 1945, making the Great Depression small, and whether of not Reagan was just lucky on the Soviets.

Robert Alley and I chat about standard AH topics like sending Furbys back in time, moving the American Civil War forward to 1855, a Great Powers partition of China around 1900, Providence Island and the potential for Puritan ‘pirates’ off of Nicaragua in the 1640s, along with what would have happened if JFK survived.

David Johnson and I agree that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen deserves a thumbs-up, but disagree on whether or not diseases disprove Pre-Columbian contact theories.

I give Kurt Sidaway my take on Intuition and "psychic" powers.

I somehow get on the subject of Island life in the time of the dinosaurs with Wesley Kawato.