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From: brucec@tekecs.UUCP (Bruce Cohen)
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Subject: Re: alternate universes
Message-ID: <1931@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 19:54:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 19:54:37 1983
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The story describing the difficulty of changing history is called,
appropriately enough, "Try and Change the Past," by Fritz Leiber.  It's
one of a series of stories about what Leiber calls the Change War, a
battle between two groups known as the "Snakes" and "Spiders" (for reasons
which no one in the stories ever discovers, as far as I remember).
The war is fought throughout time and in every solar system in at
least two galaxies.  Other stories in the series:

	Damnation Morning (short story)
	The Big Time (novel - barely)
	The Oldest Soldier (short story)

There's another story, whose title I can't recall, though I read it
more recently than the others.  It involves some of the characters
from "The Big Time" in a plot to kidnap Queen Elizabeth I and replace
her with a Spider agent.

				Bruce Cohen
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