Hi All,
A blurb for one of my 'alternate history sci fi' adventures
In 1956, the cold war raged between Capitalism and Communism: between an American led bloc and an a Russian led bloc. Then came the Suez crisis, a throwback to older and more certain times, in which the now eclipsed and former great powers of France and Britain, along with the new state of Israel, tried to reverse Egyptian Arab nationalists from nationalising the Suez Canal. The then President of America, popularly called IKE, hated this whole affair and forced France and Britain into a humiliated defeat, not by military might but by making sure France and particularly Britain became economically bankrupt. History diverged when the British decide to leave NATO as a consequence: the French taking up the 'special relationship' and noting that it was France who helped America become independent in the first and gave America the 'statue of liberty' and the only nation who could truly be the European voice to America. Then ,when the seven days of world war three occurred over the Danish Virgin Island missile crisis in 1962- Cuba was a US state and had been since 1960 - much of Europe, The Soviet Union and Communist Asia was slaughtered in the nuclear fire : America survived but at a great cost. In the aftermath the remains of humanity, led by an intact, but starving, Britain and what was left of the Empire-Commonwealth, under Lord Hume (later the second President of the EU), created what was seen as previously impossible : a liberal democratic world government called the Earth Union. Man landed on the Moon by 1966, landing on Mars by 1970- almost triggering a Homo-Martian war- Alpha Centuari by the time of President Thatcher in 1980 and by the time of President Delores across the galaxy . By 2020 humanity has spread throughout the galaxy and encountered numerous alien races... an emerging power, youthful in being and not yet certain on her own place in the galactic scene...
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