As of March 11, 2025, my novels Sorcerer of the Realm and Blood of the Sorcerer are perhaps my best work yet. They are military science fiction.
The world is very much like our own… yet quite different. Speech was never confounded into languages. Contagions are unheard of. Weapons of mass destruction are obsolete.
The history is very much like our own… yet quite different. The continents are named after the sons of Noah. The Confederacy won the War Between the States and became the Empire of the Golden Circle. Adolf Hitler is Adolphus Wolf and takes over the European Union in a 1930s that are the modern day.
The universe of the fiction is White Empires. The world is ruled by six powers, five of them of the race of Japheth, white people. The sixth is Japanese as the Empire of Dawn.
Britain is Albion. The United States and Confederate States are of New Japheth. The Soviet Union is still the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The European Union as the 3rd Reich is the Great Realm of Japheth.
I love strategy games, especially as world conquest scenarios. Though I created White Empires as a setting for prose, I did have such games in mind.
The Sorcerer books are pre-war stories about covert operations and counter-insurgencies. The inevitable war shall be between the Axis and Allies. The Axis powers shall be the Great Realm of Japheth, the Empire of Dawn and the Confederate States of New Japheth. The Allies shall be the Albish Empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of New Japheth.
The Axis shall be outnumbered and outgunned. Its only advantage shall be taking the initiative. Once is makes its move it must win quickly. It cannot conquer the Allied empires, mind you. The Axis can be conquered by them, however, though not easily.
The Realm invades the Soviet Union from the west and the Empire of Dawn invades from the east. The Albish Empire and the United States declare war on the Realm and the Empire of Dawn. The Confederacy invades the Midwest region of the United States. The Axis hopes to conquer the Soviet Union quickly then sue for peace. The Confederacy shall relinquish its gains for recognition by the United States of Missouri and Kentucky as Confederate states.
If the Axis wins…
The Soviet Union is divided into new regions of the Great Realm of Japheth and the Empire of Dawn. The United States normalizes diplomacy and trade with the Confederacy.
If the Allies win…
The Empire of Dawn falls and Dawn is reduced to a vassal state. The Realm and the Confederacy are dissolved, their states small and weak divided and kept that way.
Good explanation of this story and where it came from.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I wanted the world of it to have depth. The stories are especially meaningful if they effect a universe with actual consequences.
DeleteThis alternate history is an intriguing one. Those who have a liking for examining what happened might find it to be an interesting take. There is a lot to digest for those with an appetite for such things.
ReplyDeleteI could have easily made it "more realistic" by including languages and weapons of mass-destruction... but then the fiction would be as uninspiring as the reality. My White Empires universe is a "if I was God" version of our world.
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