Branching Threads Scotland: An Alternate History Anthology

By Ryan McCall

In Branching Threads: Scotland, familiar moments splinter into startling possibilities. A leaked government report sparks independence decades early, transforming Scotland into an oil-powered economic powerhouse. A permanent environmental festival reshapes the nation into Europe's great green experiment, where wolves roam the Highlands and cities grow forests instead of skyscrapers. In another timeline, shipyards along the Clyde never fade, forging a maritime superpower whose industrial might rivals entire nations. Elsewhere, a terrorist campaign in the 1980s ignites a brief but violent Scottish Troubles that reshapes British politics.

Each story unfolds through unexpected lenses-court transcripts, travel magazines, corporate reports, television reviews, and fragments of everyday media-revealing worlds where history bent just slightly differently and everything changed.

From booming green cities to geopolitical oil alliances, from rewilded wilderness to nuclear shipbuilding empires, Branching Threads: Scotland explores the many futures hidden inside Scotland's past.

Because sometimes a single decision is all it takes for history to grow an entirely different branch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS9PWNJL
• ISBN13: 9798251739091
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"