All things considered, not a bad idea; considering that the real London was hit often enough during the war that 557 civilians were killed from the air, something had to be done...

Wrong war; von Hindenberg would have been the one sent back for the correct change...

If you wanted a subversive version of the Department of Silly Walks, may I suggest the Department of Administrative Affairs found on YES, MINISTER...

I actually used this the day of the quake; I went to USGS to try and confirm if what I felt was an actual earthquake as opposed to, say, a construction accident next door, and found the form right there.

Believe it or not, there were more historians who have revisited alternate versions of the Great War than SF writers. Niall Ferguson's VIRTUAL HISTORY goes into some alternative scenarios, and both WHAT IF? collections have four essays on alternate WWI.

My choices would include the following:

In answer to the later question first, the First World War is not exactly one of the easier periods to get a handle on from a writer’s perspective.

"By the middle of the '70s, people were getting tired. The economy began to collapse. Unemployment began to rise. Prices began to rise. Optimism gave way to cynicism and paranoia."

My guess is in the Doctor's room is tied to the fear that he's about to be grounded, unable to keep going through time and space. Consider the fact that the Cloister Bell was continually sounding as he was in there, which usually peels only in the most dire of emergencies; note also that the room number was "11"…

I may be a few iterations/crises/marketing gimmicks behind on what's going on on Earth-616.

I saw the Roxxon gas logo on the pump too; if they stay true enough to comic continuity, and this means we'll therefore see Hugo Weaving possibly playing Aleksander Lukin in the next AVENGERS film, this could be a really, really good thing...

And that, right there, taodon, sounds like a *great* conflict to work with in a post-apoc work, YA or adult: How does one deal with the potential for having to be forced to breed when it is such anathema to the character?

And here for the "Pics or it didn't happen!" crowd, your proof:

Yep, there's a good one missing:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there's a big mistake here: Simon & Schuster is actually a part of CBS Corp. After the divorce, the books went to CBS, not Viacom.

I am going to make like Uatu the Watcher and point towards a different path here...

Nice. I especially liked the color-changing LEDs on the bumps, and the moment when a Stormtrooper was guarding it, proving my suspicions that the Empire was for a time a tool of the Daleks when it served their interests...

SFX: Glass raised to TM

I had my full address appear in a letter I'd written to DC's BLUE DEVIL back in the 80s, and the practice was still in full force back then. I think the intent was to get the fans to start talking to each other directly; I got out of it a pen pal from Alaska where a few letters got exchanged between us...

Man, "T. M. Maple." Now *that's* a name I hadn't heard in years...