What if Europeans had Discovered America?

 

 

Among the (unexplicated, not made explicit) fantasies of science fiction is the plot line/scenario of an alternative history: what if Europeans had discovered America (first).  I mean other than in the sense one "discovers" a new restaurant,  or book store.  Naturally it didn't mushroom up over night, other customers were there. But I mean, instead of the Asians, who did discover it, them, North and South, America being the both of them, both Americas?

 

A pristine continent, often located on distant, re-located, planets.  Around other stars.

 

Possibly in an alternate time, space-time, line.

 

A common male fantasy:  the lone male left after a universal, or world wide apocalypse, left with a small harem of females. Is another scenario.

 

Less literary, more science fictiony than a Lord of the Flies island with boys who will be boys. Scenario. It is. 

 

The pristine planet.  

 

That American Indians are so conspicuously absent in any large way, from the classics of the golden age of science fiction reinforces the view that it is (there yet is) something unsaid.  But present. Even so.

 

A more direct alternative history approach would simply take the point of view, the Asians (who did first discover) as protagonists.  Likewise, Australia, the first Australians:  it would have been the greatest of all possible adventures.

 

Along with the Pristine Planet scenario (a North and South America perhaps located in another solar system without Indians), was the not entirely unstated Paul Ehrlich Problem:  it's getting really crowded around here.

 

Most of the religioso jiggery pokery was simply rationalization after the fact:  we don't like crowds.  The anti-this and anti-that and anti-the other sentiments are simply pretexts.

 

A Citty on a Hill, a Promised Land, without people.

 

That's the Science Fiction twist. And of course New Zealand was that very thing only in real life.  Giant Moas.  Pristine North and South Island.

 

Not fiction.

 

Is it any wonder Hercules, the Legendary Journeys was set there (in actual life)? 

 

 

 

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