Alternate History/Quotes

"The first rule of time travel is that any and all modifications made to the timeline result in Hitler winning World War II. Run over a hippy in 1968? Hitler wins."

- colonel_green, ScansDaily

""Somehow stories about what the South would do if they won the Civil War don't focus on the potential socio-economic effects of an independent Confederacy, or on how politics and civil rights would evolve in those two nations, or even how the two could come to a amicable peace. It's always about war and slavery.""

- Anon

""Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't'.""

- Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums

""What if the Germans had won the war, Lemon?""

- Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock

""Where were you when you heard the Mayans had The Bomb?"

- Print ad for a 4X game.