Something a bit silly

The Fabian Aces! A slightly silly but entertaining alternate-history site. Excerpt: AD 1937 BARCELONA, SPAIN — Civil war rages in Spain. The battlefields of Catalonia are a world in microcosm, a crucible testing the twentieth century’s grand ideologies. The Fascist governments back Franco, the Socialists back the Republic, while Liberals dither, fearful of another world war.

Meanwhile, radio listeners and newsreel-watchers worldwide thrill to the exploits of ex-Royal Indian Air Force pilot Eric “Dusty” Blair, Frenchman Antoine “Santo” de Saint-Exupéry, and the rest of the international rogue’s gallery of volunteer aviators known as the Fabian Aces.

With the help of two-fisted American mechanic “Papa” Hemingway, the Aces are the backbone of the Loyalist resistance...