…I’m not sure whether they would’ve painstakingly re-named all of Manhattan, but the idea is certainly interesting. Strange Maps dug up this artist, Melissa Gould, who tried to imagine what would’ve happened. Here is a snip from the project’s statement:
NEU-YORK is a cautionary meditation, suggesting what the local geographical reality might have been like had victorious Nazis succeeded in bringing the Third Reich across the Atlantic Ocean in 1945. At the same time it is an exploration of psychological transport, place, displacement and memory. This re-imagining of the city plays with comparison and misrecognition, exploring the coexistence of past and present, fiction and reality.
Isn’t that something? The project’s website has a ton of info on this and if you are interested in alternative history scenarios, take a look at Robert Harris’ Fatherland or Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. Both are good, but if i remember it correctly, I liked Fatherland more. And now I’m off to watch Iron Man.
UPDATE: Well, Iron Man was good, but it didn’t really keep me on the edge of my seat. The effects are neat, but the story doesn’t seem to hold somehow and the evil guy is E V I L and you know from the first moment on what’s going to happen. But Robert Downey jr. really elevates the movie, I loved his acting and character in the movie. It’s a nice popcorn movie and those are rare enough to come by these days, so… it’s one thumb up for Iron Man.
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