What Might Have Been

The What Might Have Been timeline is a new and different type of Althist, the (I think) first of its kind to appear on the Althistory Wiki. What Might Have Been will be an "althist within an althist" - rather than describing the world that has taken place after its POD, it will instead describe our universe from its own perspective. Therefore, it will descrivbe what would have happened if the POD that did happen didn't happen, from the point of view of a world where it did happen. The history the world describes will be different, of course, from what really happened, just as other Althists are probably quite different from what would have actually taken place with that POD. An example of a similar concept would be in the novel The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. That novel is set in a world where the Axis Powers won the Second World War, and within that setting a novel is published set in a world where they did not win, though the history it describes is quite different to that which actually took place. I'm therefore open to suggestions as to what the POD might be that sends the WMHB timeline off on its tangent, and the lack of which inspires someone in that timeline to write their view of "our" history. I don't want to use WW2, for instance. What about a world where atomic war broke out, and the althist describes a world where it didn't. I'm open to ideas. Inspire me! Cprhodesact 10:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)