We'll be in our bunk.

Wash ,'War Stories'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Laga - Jan 28, 2008 2:09:52 pm PST #4940 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm in the milk and the milk's in me!


Laga - Jan 28, 2008 9:25:02 pm PST #4941 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Is there an alternate history writer whose works are based on a world where the south didn't lose the civil war but which take place more recently than 1916?


DXMachina - Jan 29, 2008 1:53:25 am PST #4942 of 28343
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Harry Turtledove, maybe? Most of his stuff seems to start with the South winning the war, but I'm not sure how many of those make it past WWI.


Fred Pete - Jan 29, 2008 5:04:00 am PST #4943 of 28343
Ann, that's a ferret.

I think at least some of Turtledove's work did, but I can't remember any titles.


Laga - Jan 29, 2008 11:52:13 am PST #4944 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

My Dad and I were discussing how the world wars (especially world war 2) would have been different had the south won the civil war. Now I want to read a story that takes place in that world... maybe I'll have to write it myself.


lisah - Jan 29, 2008 11:53:18 am PST #4945 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate

would have been different had the south won the civil war. Now I want to read a story that takes place in that world... maybe I'll have to write it myself

Isn't there a movie with that premise? I want to say The Confederate States of America ? Maybe?


Laga - Jan 29, 2008 11:56:28 am PST #4946 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

This movie looks very interesting. Not exactly what I was looking for but I'm gonna have to check it out. I'm going to look up Turtledove too. Thanks, guys.


-t - Jan 29, 2008 11:57:04 am PST #4947 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I know I read a short story that had, no, the North still won but won faster so the US wasn't so war-weary after and entered WWI earlier. And then there was time-travel. Good story, I wish I could remember the title.


Hayden - Jan 29, 2008 12:22:51 pm PST #4948 of 28343
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

The movie's a bit silly, but not terrible.


Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2008 2:48:55 pm PST #4949 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I'm going to Borders after work to buy Midnight's Children, but in order to use a coupon, I need to buy something else. Quick, recommend me books worth owning that I should read.