Killing Hitler

[andrewducker]

As they seem to be making the rounds of the cooler bits of my friends list, I'm picking these two time-travel short stories off of andyduckerlinks:
What if history was like wikipedia.
and
Alternate History Search Results.

Both of which are variations on the "What if Hitler was killed by a time-traveller?" meme.
And both of which are very funny.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I picked up on that too.

They'll be sitting together on the next linkfrenzy

Actually, I often find that, quite independently, you'll get a few interesting things of a similar theme bog along together. Steam-engine time, I guess.

[matgb]

I got Scalzi's story as a comment to my link to the first, which I saw when looking at your link to Boing Boing on the A C Clarke post. We all go around in circles it seems.

I'm surprised I hadn't already read the Scalzi story, must've been busy when it came out.

[andrewducker]

We're all parasites on each other, churning the links round and round, and only rarely producing anything other than commentary on the world.

I use TheWeaselKing, JWZ, you, LinkFrenzy, WarrenEllis and others. And my friends use me :->

Still, passes the time.

[tisme.livejournal.com]

I just read a whole book on this kind of thing...
http://www.buy.com/prod/one-lamp-alternate-history-stories-from-the-magazine-of-fantasy/q/loc/106/33862166.html#

which I think had the latter one you posted in it. They weren't all great, but some were just lovely :)

[andrewducker]

Cheers for the recommendation - I've snagged it from Amazon UK :->