About Doug Hoff's Empty America

[james_davis_nicoll]

I can't seem to find the first entry. What prevented anyone from migrating to the New World before the Vikings?

[Answered in comments: It's not specified in the initial post]

If you prevent anyone from coming over the top of the world it won't prevent the Polynesians from colonizing the Americas (Sweet potatoes got to Polynesia from the New World Somehow). Well, it won't unless you have extremely well aimed butterflies, able to use the secondary and tertiary effects of whatever the barrier to colonization is up north to prevent anyone from using the trans-Pacific route.

Comments

[tomscud.livejournal.com]

I'm actually thinking of similarities to a certain science fiction TV series featuring the Confederacy without slavery. Transposed into SPAAACE.

[avram]

With the slavery transposed over onto the Union-analog side!

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Hey! The one ethnic group Firefly DID have is african americans - admittedly they were all (except for one nice one who was never really developed as a character with a past and history) villains who worked for the Evil Empire Union against the heroic freedom loving confederate analogue characters.

Okay, the first rule of Firefly is not to analyse it too much, but still Oh Joss Whedon No.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Are you forgetting Zoe?

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Did zoe ever get any more backstory than "she was Mal's buddy from the war who's married to wash"?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Is that notably less than the others got?

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Or, if not Zoe, Book?

Book always gets forgotten. Including by me.