Alternitech

Kevin J. Anderson

Summary

New York Times–bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson presents a collection of parallel reality stories in this imaginative collection.  Alternitech is a company that sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines where tiny differences yield significant changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease, where a struggling author really did write the great American novel, or where a freak accident reveals the existence of a serial killer.  Alternitech finds those differences—and profits from them.

Available since: 07/01/2011.

Print length: 129 pages.

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