{"quotes":[{"text":"A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes.","author":"Stephanie Osborn","tags":["alternate-history","alternate-universe","displaced-detective","mystery","science-fiction","sherlock-holmes","the-arrival"],"id":261,"author_id":"Stephanie+Osborn"},{"text":"Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.","author":"Robert Ferrigno","tags":["alternate-history","civil-war","death-and-dying","war"],"id":3375,"author_id":"Robert+Ferrigno"},{"text":"Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.","author":"J.A. Willoughby","tags":["alternate-history","dystopian-fiction","politicians"],"id":11013,"author_id":"J.A.+Willoughby"},{"text":"That's one of our speculations, by the way. That the prior version of history that this one overwrote was horrible. Complete geopolitical mayhem; half of New York City is underwater. The United States is headed toward civil war, or ruled by an artificial-intelligence construct, or some such other thing. Real end-of-days stuff. That the instances of ourselves who existed in that history figured out what we have: that the invention of the causality violation device was the cause. That in that prior version of history, Rebecca did not die in a car accident. That she went back to the past on a mission, as a volunteer, well aware of her sacrifice.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["alternate-history","dexter-palmer","dystopian","science-fiction","time-travel","version-control"],"id":16024,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"Tom . . . Is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.","author":"Sara Douglass","tags":["alternate-history","christ","christ-like-love","love","theology"],"id":33109,"author_id":"Sara+Douglass"},{"text":"The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA building with its bright red logo at Rockefeller Center, and farther south, the Empire State Building with its illuminated set-backs. At the tip of Manhattan, the twin towers of the World Trade Center -- which were over 1,100 feet tall themselves -- flanked the mile-high Space Trylon. It was clear as well as cold, and as I looked toward Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, it seemed to be poijnting to the stars. This, of course, was the idea, since it embodied the joint American-Soviet space exploration program that settled the Moon in 1955, and, twenty years later, Mars.","author":"Lou Antonelli","tags":["alternate-history","space"],"id":33117,"author_id":"Lou+Antonelli"},{"text":"Shitting fucking bastard! Fuck off you massive cockwank!’ - Misty Meanor, during a particularly stressful encounter.","author":"Matthew Sylvester","tags":["alternate-history","dieselpunk","dystopian","science-fiction","world-war-1"],"id":43774,"author_id":"Matthew+Sylvester"},{"text":"Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria 'Smythe.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["alternate-history","gothic","gwenn-wright","historical","mystery","von-strassenberg","ya","young-adult"],"id":85745,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.","author":"Sara Douglass","tags":["alternate-history","gifts","love","parallel-universe","soulmates"],"id":144512,"author_id":"Sara+Douglass"},{"text":"They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["alternate-history","dysfunctional-relationship","peter-strauss","von-strassenberg-saga","vssaga","ya"],"id":148607,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}