# Good parallel universe stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143 "2008-09-18T14:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/41 "2008-09-20T09:45:59Z")
If you want to strike out in a totally different (and very silly) direction, then why not try Kim Newman’s [Anno Dracula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Dracula_series). > [@](#): > > 1. Dracula has married the widowed Queen Victoria, and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires have come out of hiding and gained new social status. But all is not going smoothly for the new regime: Jack the Ripper stalks Whitechapel, murdering vampire prostitutes. Charles Beauregard, a (non-vampire) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula’s rule. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/42 "2008-09-20T17:08:13Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > If you want to strike out in a totally different (and very silly) direction, then why not try Kim Newman’s [Anno Dracula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Dracula_series). I very much liked it but I haven’t tried the sequel; any good? Part of the fun was looking up the various vampires. They even mention Blackula! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/43 "2008-09-20T17:18:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just about every alternate-history novel or story ever written in or translated into English is listed [here.](http://www.uchronia.net/) Which is why I mentioned it in post #7. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/44 "2008-09-20T17:36:51Z")
You might want to try out [this](http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter2007/fiction-missives-from-possible-futures-1-alternate-history-search-results-by-john-scalzi/) search engine. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/45 "2008-09-20T22:54:38Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > If you want to strike out in a totally different (and very silly) direction, then why not try Kim Newman’s [Anno Dracula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Dracula_series). This reminds me of another one … “Queen Victoria’s Bomb” by Ronald Clark - what might have happened if the Victorians had invented the nuclear bomb? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/46 "2008-09-21T01:41:54Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I very much liked it but I haven’t tried the sequel; any good? The _Bloody Red Baron_ (WWI) wasn’t too shabby, but _Judgement of Tears_ (1950’s) was a bit of a let down IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/47 "2008-09-21T23:32:03Z")
> [@Buran](#): > > ‘Hitler Victorious’ is a nice collection of short-stories concerning a Nazi victory in WW2, some are better than others and most are fantastical rather than realistic but worth reading for that. My favourite has the oddest premise, ‘Thor Meets Captain America’. ‘Thor Meets Captain America’ is available online at [http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html](http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/48 "2008-09-22T00:30:36Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > ‘Thor Meets Captain America’ is available online at [http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html](http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html) Thanks, I’ve recently read another of David Brin’s short stories and I’m going to have to check out more of his work, he displays an optimism and sense of hope that’s missing in so much of current science-fiction in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/49 "2008-09-22T01:16:20Z")
> [@Buran](#): > > Thanks, I’ve recently read another of David Brin’s short stories and I’m going to have to check out more of his work, he displays an optimism and sense of hope that’s missing in so much of current science-fiction in my opinion. Yeah, I really like his work too. He’s got a few other stories online at his website. I meant to mention that “Thor meets Captain America” has been expanded into a graphic novel called “The Life-Eaters”. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/50 "2008-09-22T01:29:10Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > ‘Thor Meets Captain America’ is available online at [http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html](http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.html) Nice. Thanks for the link. I find it ironic, though, that given the title references, he ended up adapting this story for DC (and indeed, used only DC characters’ names in the main body). ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143/51 "2008-09-22T01:31:26Z")
The Watchmen. Superhero driven universe, but the superheroes (specifically, Dr. Manhatten) allow the U.S. to win Vietnam. Nixon remains in power through the 1980s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-parallel-universe-stories/464143.md?page=2)