@fred – Why hasn’t Netflix picked up the options to make this a 10-part series:
“Jane’s Fighting Ships” by Esther Friesner
In 1798, Napoleon invades and conquers Britain. 13 years later, Jane Austen meets Davey Crockett and they find out that they have much in common, including a distaste for l’empereur’s ambitions.
@Fred: the ones with no synopses intrigue me more. Effinger in particular had a track-record for taking the piss out of high-concept editor-led anthologies and his title makes me wonder if the whole thing might not have been a sly dig at ‘Wild Cards’.
@fred: The Jules Verne vs. the Martian invaders one sounds like it could be fun. No waiting around for germs to do it, Jules can steampunk-weapon those Martians.
@fred: I read this one, back during a time I was reading pretty much any new alternate history I could find. I actually kinda like “The Firebringers”, even if the ending was sort of hackneyed: the notion of a “real life” Stan and Ollie working as munitions movers for the US army amused me, and I was downright tickled by the notion of the atom bomb being developed earlier than OTL by mad scientists Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
(Over all, Resnick’s AH collections were, alas, kinda crap.)
September 7th, 2021 at 9:46 am
Sweet Gandhi with a bazooka! Is he jumping a shark as well?
September 7th, 2021 at 10:23 am
And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln?
September 7th, 2021 at 11:27 am
Weird Al Yankovic was first! In his 1989 movie “UHF”, there’s a trailer for “Gandhi II”:
https://youtu.be/4ega5Rcct2s
September 7th, 2021 at 11:32 am
Sometimes, you want to back your words with something smaller and more personal than nuclear weapons.
September 7th, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Typewriting monkeys could come up with better scenarios.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Warriors
September 7th, 2021 at 2:23 pm
How to ostracise and anger entire nations in one easy step.
September 7th, 2021 at 2:40 pm
@fred – Why hasn’t Netflix picked up the options to make this a 10-part series:
“Jane’s Fighting Ships” by Esther Friesner
In 1798, Napoleon invades and conquers Britain. 13 years later, Jane Austen meets Davey Crockett and they find out that they have much in common, including a distaste for l’empereur’s ambitions.
September 7th, 2021 at 3:10 pm
🎶 I’m Gandhi with a bullet
Got my eyeballs on the Raj now
Gonna kill it 🎶
September 7th, 2021 at 3:13 pm
Who knew Fred Pohl was so buff?
September 7th, 2021 at 7:11 pm
The classic tale of a nation at war with itself, region against region, brother against brother. It’s “Gandhi With The Wind.”
September 7th, 2021 at 8:12 pm
@Fred: the ones with no synopses intrigue me more. Effinger in particular had a track-record for taking the piss out of high-concept editor-led anthologies and his title makes me wonder if the whole thing might not have been a sly dig at ‘Wild Cards’.
September 8th, 2021 at 2:06 am
Someone should tell him he’s carrying the wrong ammo for a bazooka.
September 8th, 2021 at 2:19 am
@TBAC: perhaps he has a machine gun concealed in his diaper?
September 8th, 2021 at 2:22 am
@Bruce: un-dhoti’dly.
September 8th, 2021 at 2:35 am
@fred: The Jules Verne vs. the Martian invaders one sounds like it could be fun. No waiting around for germs to do it, Jules can steampunk-weapon those Martians.
@ARY: Al is always ahead of his time.
@Francis: GSS for “Sweet Gandhi with a bazooka!”
September 8th, 2021 at 3:20 am
@fred: I read this one, back during a time I was reading pretty much any new alternate history I could find. I actually kinda like “The Firebringers”, even if the ending was sort of hackneyed: the notion of a “real life” Stan and Ollie working as munitions movers for the US army amused me, and I was downright tickled by the notion of the atom bomb being developed earlier than OTL by mad scientists Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
(Over all, Resnick’s AH collections were, alas, kinda crap.)
September 11th, 2021 at 3:17 am
@Bruce
Maybe he’s just glad to see me ?
*shivers*