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Checking originality of concept

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-28 23:54

Hey guys, I'm starting up a piece of fiction here, but before I get deep into it I need to make sure I'm not ripping off someone I've never heard of.  So has there ever been a novel based around the essential concept that the American Revolution failed, and that England controls the USA even today?

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-03 8:31

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I doubt it. Africans may have reached the Americas before Asians did. Also, Africans were really advanced around the time of the black plague. If the black plague had not happened, Africans probably would have been the first to colonize the Americas.

You see, before the black plague happened, Europeans all feared what was outside their little township, and were suspicious of everything (excluding maaaaybe the Vikings). Ever wonder why all fairy tales are like "don't go on your neighbor's property" (Rapunzel), "don't remarry" (Cinderella), "don't go in the forest" (Hansel and Gretel), "don't go to other towns" (Musicians of Bremen Town), etc? It's because Europeans were afraid of everything. The black plague came and made them stop being afraid. Without the plague, they would have stayed afraid of the outside world long enough for the Africans (who were a seafaring continent already) to discover the Americas.

The only country in Asia powerful enough to make it to the Americas was China (they did make it to the Americans in 1427), and there were a lot more Africans than Chinese (continent vs. country).

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