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From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut)
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Subject: Alternate time zones
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 23:29:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 23:29:55 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Aug-83 08:04:27 EDT
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   All this talk of alternate worlds has got me re-reading "Paratime" by
H. Beam Piper.  There is a very good introduction by John Carr, and the
stories are concerned with what happens when small (or large) changes
occur in what we consider "history".  For example, what if Benedict Arnold
is shot in Quebec and this results in the 1776 revolution failing.  And this
in turn doesn't exist to excite European political sentiments which means that
there is no French revolution and thus Napolean remains a gunnery officer.

Other interesting stories have been written by Robert Silverberg (Spanish 
Armada wins); Harry Harrison (American Revolution fails); L. Neil Smith 
(American revolution succeeds but results in a Libertarian state); Fletcher
Pratt (deals more with how to change history).
-- 
Stephen Perelgut    Computer Systems Research Group    University of Toronto
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