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If you do not know about it, might try looking up Harry Turtledove, he write alternative history and does a pretty good job at it too. Alternative history is always an interesting subject I have, and one of his more recent books is about how what if the Roman Empire never fell. It is more or less present day for us in that it would take place around the 2000s, but with the Roman Empire still intact.
However, that is not the only thing, they have the ability to travel dimensions so they can go to alternative realities. This explores some of the concepts you are talking about. It does make for some very interesting historical and archeological studies seeing as with a different history and events you can see what happened if something went different.
There is also the interesting concept that the movie The One had, in that power was even across all realities, but with the death on a single person in a reality, the others become stronger since the power is spread across fewer of the same person. This does make for an interesting concept in that one can grow stronger by the death of alternative realities of yourself. But since strength is equall across all, it still means that it is an even fight of power, though strength is determined by skill and abilities.
But one of the more interesting alternative histories of Turtledoves was the Civil War, he made some changes, in that someone from the future brought back weapons, AK-47 I think, giving them to the Confederate Forces. The south won independence and the US became divided. But not nearly as interesting as that was that he went to write later an addition to that one book a series of books dealing with what would happen when World War I broke out with that timelime. The North being on the side of England and France, with the South being on the side of Germany, a new war between the North and South breaks out. Seeing as there has not be a war on American soil in a century, this makes for a very interesting read.
I have not had the opportunity to read those books, I read his alternative history of World War II, what would happen if the world war was put on hold due to an even greater threat and they were all force to work together. An alien force comes in to attack and conquer earth, they say them as an easy planet, unfortunately for them their data was 400 years old. They got their data from when Earth was in the middle ages and they had the assumption that their development would be slow like their own and the other civilizations they conquered, unfortunately two things happened. They invade during a World War, meaning the entire world was mobilized for combat and prepared to fight, plus the Earth developed technologically a lot fast then than predict. They also tried to use electromagnetic pulse to knock out their communications, but since we were using vacuum tubes and electronics was not around yet, it had no effect. It ended up being like the 2000's Earth military strength with a few stronger technological advances, going and making war on the 1942 Earth.
But since the war was put on hold, you end up with the Nazi controling all of Europe still and many other things that are not the same as today. It makes for very interesting read.
Oh and Horyo write more in your posts, this is the Intellentual Forums afterall, more content and some thorough reasoning would make the thread stronger.
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