Articles and Background

The background to the East Berlin Series and the Reim Series

Politics

• Are Referendums Democratic?
• Constitution of 1990
• Could the GDR have survived? Part I How Plausible is Stealing The Future?
• Could the GDR have survived? Part II – the Economics of Stealing the Future
• Could the GDR have survived? Part III – the Geopolitics of Stealing the Future
• For Our Country
• Point of Divergence – when history splits
• Political Structures in Stealing the Future
• Spelling – how to spell West Berlin, Westberlin, West-Berlin…
• Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung

Contemporary Documents

• For Our Country
• Für unser Land
• Verfassung der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik – Entwurf 1990

Tours around the East Berlin of Stealing The Future

• Introduction

• Top Ten GDR Museums in and around Berlin
• Tour 1 – Martin’s Kiez
• Tour 2 – Prisons, Factories, Russians and the Stasi
• Tour 3 – Cops and Squats
• Tour 4 – Tram through the Forest

Articles about writing, editing and publishing

• An East German Glossary
• Cold Island – a preview
• Contemporary fiction set in the GDR
• How realistic is Deutschland 83?
• Map for Book 1 of the East Berlin Series, Stealing the Future
• Map for Book 2 of the East Berlin Series, Thoughts Are Free
• Map for Book 3 of the East Berlin Series, Spectre At The Feast
• Operation Oskar – a preview
• Rostock Connection – a preview
• Spectre At The Feast – a preview
• Spelling – how to spell Street Names, Streetnames, Street-names in German
• Spelling – how to spell West Berlin, Westberlin, West-Berlin…
• Spelling – Introduction
• Stasi Vice – a preview
• Thoughts Are Free – a preview
• Writing the Stasi – guest post by Fiona Rintoul

Fillers, Fun articles, and stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere

• Martin’s Music – Introduction
• Martin’s Music Part I – Das Buch by the Puhdys
• Martin’s Music Part II – Not Fade Away by the Amiga Blues Band

• How realistic is Deutschland 83?
• Are Referendums Democratic?