Yes, it's been said... over and over... and over...

[mmoa_writes]

You know what would make a truly 'divergent' history of the Americas?

An America that no Europeans managed to find.



Is it because History seems to have done alright for them, that so many white speculative fiction writers cannot think the unthinkable (and, considering the plethora of alternate histories there are, and then the amount in which the Europeans are not natural world leaders, pointing one or two out to me is rather the exception that proves the rule)? Is there actually, as deeply ingrained as white privilege, the feeling that this world dominance was truly the white man's Destiny^TM?

Talk about the bloody anthropic principle.

Mammoth/Racefail is sad anyway, but - to me anyway - so much worse because it's within the speculative fiction genre. Speculative. SPECULATIVE.



You know that speculating thing? You fail at it.

Link for the day:
Cry for the Forgotten Continent

Comments

[halialkers]

Actually, what would make an even more divergent history of America is one where the Indians leave the American camel and horse around. When Columbus comes calling, the Indians of such a world (who would be linguistically poorer, but much more formidable) would give right back to Eurasia the present Eurasia gave them.

For a time the big centers of human population would be Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. O.o Eventually Eurasia and America would bounce back, but the potential impact of devastating such small areas as Britain or Iceland that way and what that could mean for the future would be very interesting. In one possibility, Irish could settle Britain or Britain might become a spread zone of Manx....hmm...Manx-speaking British Isles? Sounds wacky....