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  • YASID: $24 Manhattan

    From Default User@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 4 03:07:59 2023
    No, not a pricey cocktail. There are a few instances where I remember
    almost nothing about a story except one little bit. Here's one:

    Probably a short, around 80s or 90s most likely. It's an alt-history
    setting where most of what is the US now is occupied by native peoples.
    That is, except for Mahattan.

    Somehow the famous sale of the island for $24 was legitimate. How that
    was decided, and whether the rest of the area was evacuated or never
    populated, idunno. It's about our equivalent time, at least in tech. So
    that's the only place with European settlement.

    Apparently it's sort of an Arab/Israel tense situation. At the start of
    the story, a plane with the protaganist is coming in, and fighter jets
    zoom up from the island to sort of challenge/escort to make sure no
    funny business is going on.

    That's literally all I got.


    Brian

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Default User on Sat Jun 3 21:45:36 2023
    In article <u5gv6e$3rcm6$1@dont-email.me>,
    "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

    No, not a pricey cocktail. There are a few instances where I remember
    almost nothing about a story except one little bit. Here's one:

    Probably a short, around 80s or 90s most likely. It's an alt-history
    setting where most of what is the US now is occupied by native peoples.
    That is, except for Mahattan.

    I might have read this. The name Howard Waldrop comes to mind (though
    perhaps because the setup sounds like something he might write).

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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  • From Kevrob@21:1/5 to Robert Woodward on Mon Jun 5 12:20:45 2023
    On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 12:45:41 AM UTC-4, Robert Woodward wrote:
    In article <u5gv6e$3rcm6$1...@dont-email.me>,
    "Default User" <defaul...@yahoo.com> wrote:

    No, not a pricey cocktail. There are a few instances where I remember almost nothing about a story except one little bit. Here's one:

    Probably a short, around 80s or 90s most likely. It's an alt-history setting where most of what is the US now is occupied by native peoples. That is, except for Mahattan.
    I might have read this. The name Howard Waldrop comes to mind (though perhaps because the setup sounds like something he might write).

    --

    Is it "Red Alert" by Jerry Oltion from analog {Oct 1991} ?

    I think I read that issue, or the anthology "Alternate Americas"
    which was edited by Benford and Greenburg.

    https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?47796

    [quote]

    “Red Alert”, Jerry Oltion -- Essentially a joke story with Red Wing, Sitting Bull, and
    Geronimo as fighter pilots combatting other pilots like George Armstrong Custer.
    There’s also the clever pun of the title and non-lethal coup missiles (air to air) used
    by the Indians. It’s too long too be carried by its jokes, and its too implausible.
    We’re not only asked to believe a level of American technology accelerated a hundred
    years ahead of our timeline but that Indians developed a scientific culture that matched
    that rate.

    [/quote] - https://www.librarything.com/work/20541

    --
    Kevin R

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  • From Default User@21:1/5 to Kevrob on Mon Jun 5 22:02:34 2023
    Kevrob wrote:

    Is it "Red Alert" by Jerry Oltion from analog {Oct 1991} ?

    That sounds highly probable, from what I can find out it. It's the
    right time frame and I was an Analog subscriber then.


    Brian

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