History Fanfic / SlippingBetweenWorlds

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Some of the main characters show bigoted opinions of the Irish.

* MenInBlack: Vetinari's Dark Clerks, Assassins in government service, sent out to assess rumours of an alien visitation and to monitor public unrest at this news.

* PistolWhipping: Philip Holtack performs a variant of this when seriously provoked, to emphasise that the British Army is enforcing law and order, whether or not the natives want it. It knocks his rifle barrel out of true and has potentially fatal consequences.

A critically acclaimed Fan Work by author A.A. Pessimal in which two worlds collide - ours (the Roundworld) and the slightly bizarre flat earth called the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Terry Pratchett's creation is used as the mirror to reflect concepts, issues and social unrest in the world we inhabit.

Pessimal, who in a previous life served in the British Army, started the tale by writing slightly embellished SliceOfLife fiction, based partly on his own experiences and on the related experiences of others. He viewed this work as partly an attempt to break out of merely pastiching Pratchett and writing something original to himself in his own voice. Another spur was to get some of his own experiences of [[StrokeCountry Northern Ireland]] down on paper, or at least as a digital file, before they're lost. He also asked the question - what would you see if you were suddenly catapulted into the Discworld and fiction became reality? How would an average British person cope in a strange new place? Which occupational group in British society might assimilate and blend in best, and make the most of the situation? What would you do, what would you see, how would you know you weren't on Earth any more? How would different people rationalise it to themselves? How would this hypothetical person cope with a world where there is more than one sentient species - several of whom hate each other as deeply and abidingly as Irish Catholics and Protestants appear to?

* StrokeCountry: the initial setting in London/Derry.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: In StrokeCountry, this depends what side of the River Foyle you're standing on.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Even more than in canon: Ankh-Morpork seems to be england, Howondaland is styled south-african, llamedos is ireland...

* FantasticCounterpartCulture: Even more than in canon: Ankh-Morpork seems to be england, Howondaland is styled south-african, llamedos is ireland...

* Snipe Hunt: The elusive Mrs Tachyon is the snipe, vainly hunted by both soldiers in Northern Ireland and the Watch in Ankh-Morpork.

A critically acclaimed Fan Work by author A.A. Pessimal in which two worlds collide - ours (the Roundworld) and the slightly bizarre flat earth called the ''{{Discworld}}''. Terry Pratchett's creation is used as the mirror to reflect concepts, issues and social unrest in the world we inhabit.

* Flying Saucer: AMUFORA believe this is how Holtack and the other Visitors arrived in Ankh-Morpork. It was more like Shopping Trolley And Mysterious Old Bag Lady - but AMUFORA refuse to believe this, calling it yet another government cover-up.

* Flying Saucer:

* EnsignNewbiew: Philip Holtack is just experenced enough not to be this. The Batallion ButtMonkey is Second Lieutenant Rebecca Trett, Captain Band's deputy. She is brand new, completely inexperienced, and Ground Zero for every put-on and practical joke going.

* VampiresAreSexGods: and at least minor goddesses. An unprepared Holtack, who starts of by not even believing vampires exist, is powerless to resist Sally von Humpeding.

* YouHaveToHaveJews: Corporal Greenberg and Fusiler Cohen, whose JewishMother gives Holtack an administrative issue to deal with. Also CSM Weissmann, the Army Rabbi who helps resolve things to Mrs Cohen's satisfaction.