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ficbot · 12-12-2009, 11:34 PM

I just got three seasons of the show Sliders on dvd for about $20 (total). It was a great deal, I used to watch this show and am enjoying rediscovering it. The premise is basically that they find a way to 'slide' between alternate versions of the same Earth. So on every episode, they are in a version of San Francisco that is identical to ours (every world has a version of the characters, a Golden Gate Park etc.) except that one tiny thing happened differently. So, for example, there is the world where the Russians won the cold war, or the world where they never developed antibiotics. I know there is a genre of sci-fi books like this. Any good suggestions?

12-12-2009, 11:34 PM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	Alternate history stories like the show 'Sliders'? I just got three seasons of the show Sliders on dvd for about $20 (total). It was a great deal, I used to watch this show and am enjoying rediscovering it. The premise is basically that they find a way to 'slide' between alternate versions of the same Earth. So on every episode, they are in a version of San Francisco that is identical to ours (every world has a version of the characters, a Golden Gate Park etc.) except that one tiny thing happened differently. So, for example, there is the world where the Russians won the cold war, or the world where they never developed antibiotics. I know there is a genre of sci-fi books like this. Any good suggestions?