This lovely little story won the Hugo Award in 2007. It's about a man who wanders into a video store from an alternate universe for a short time. Enjoy!
http://web.archive.org/web/20070422075939/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Impossibledreams.shtml
Consumerist, IMHO, it really depends on the scenario you come up with. After the late 1970s, there's enough delivery vehicles around to pretty much wreck the world if you imagine anything but the most limited wars imaginable.
One scenario that I haven't seen done is a NATO-Warsaw Pact...
Cuban Missile War v1.8
Here's version 1.8, incorporating the latest updates and changes based on new information and further research. A partial list of changes follows:
New ICBM targets to reflect air defense information.
Removed IRBMs targeted on Alaska, as none were within range at the...
I'd recommend it for the simple fact that it avoids most alternate history cliches. It's an alternate history that focuses on the characters, and I don't regret having read it. It's not Just Another WWII Alternate.
That's startlingly good, Khazar. I could see it benefiting from some of the more recent studies on secondary burning effects pointed out earlier in this thread, but that would deal with climate effects only. If you haven't read what's behind that link, I'd definitely recommend it.
He did have to deal with political repercussions of the attack, however. The Soviet Union was quick to capitalize on the “frightful escalation” of the war on the Korean Peninsula, and several countries that had considered contributing soldiers to the UN effort rescinded their offers of...