The More Things Change...

"The more things change, the more they stay the same" is a popular epigram by the nineteenth-century French writer  speaking about the fact that changes do not affect reality and human nature on a deeper level. Alternate history is almost an embodiment of this quote, in which major sweeping changes can affect the globe to the point where the world is rendered almost unrecognizable on first glance, until you see that, on a closer glance, that much is still the same, in spite of a nail. This alternate history explores a scenario where many PoDs, both small and large, create a world that is both strikingly different and eerily similar to our own.