[goldstategop]

Harry Turtledove is the acknowledged master in the "Alternate History" genre of science fiction. He's created believable parallel universes in which the South won the Civil War and the Nazis and Japanese conquered the world. Fascinating "if it had happened" speculation on what the world would look like if certain things changed. Quantum mechanics says parallel universes are not only possible but very likely.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[GeronL]

I wonder if it would ever be possible to get into an alternate universe/time line?

[risk]

It's also interesting to ask why things didn't turn out well for Hitler in this universe, such as it is.

Does it prove that Providence is looking after the good? Are we still deserving of its benevolence, if it were so? What must we do to maintain such a blessing? Or was it simply an accident of fate? Certainly for the millions who died in WWII, no amount of historic wrangling could erase their sacrifice.

Do evil leaders fail because to be evil is ultimately stupid? Now that we have mass media and weapons of mass destruction, does this rule still hold, if it did apply then?

The Fates by Vedder