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Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen.

In this satirical alternative history, Professor Jeronimo Herodotease and his team of documentary filmmakers and reenactors revivify the dark days of the Grim Depression and Amerika's descent into dictatorship. In the chaos and strife that followed the assassination of President-elect Frankie van Rosenvelt, General Jackson and a cadre of Forcist-minded cockroaches swarmed the stage, gnawed away at democratic norms, and declared martial law under the guise of restoring "Law and Order."

Cosa faresti se fossi Dio? Pirjeri Ryynänen, gruista di Helsinki, una risposta l'avrebbe trovata nei quotidiani monologhi di protesta che in cima alla sua gru rivolge all'Onnipotente: eliminerebbe fame e povertà, proteggerebbe l'ambiente e garantirebbe a tutti pace e felicità. Ma il lavoro da fare è infinito. Forse è per questo che Dio è così stanco e depresso: non ne può più dell'umanità, delle sue iniquità e delle sue guerre, e se non ha ancora distrutto la Terra è solo perché è tanto bella, e poi che colpa ne hanno gli altri animali?

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En la Praga de 1939, la joven Eva sabe que la única manera de salvar a su pequeña Miriam de los nazis es enviándola lejos, muy lejos, incluso si eso significa no volver a verla jamás. La niña, sola, sube a uno de los trenes que la alejará, como a muchos otros, para siempre de su familia. En Londres, Pamela no siente que la guerra se acerca. La ciudad es como una isla en medio de la ola de terror que empieza a recorrer Europa. Pero pronto los rumores llegan hasta ella y decide implicarse como voluntaria, buscando familias a los pequeños procedentes del continente.

David Fisher pushes paper for the EPA in a world that's a lot like ours...only different. In this California - and throughout the alternate United States - all gods are real, science doesn't exist, and magic rules everything, running imp-driven computers and creating anxiety-inducing bumper-to-bumper flying-carpet rush hours. Unfortunately, unchecked magic use can leave dangerous residues, creating hours of mind-numbing deskwork for David and his fellow bureaucrats at the Environmental Perfection Agency.

He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican rsum. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There’s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft...and he was already president a hundred years ago.

Was wäre mit den Beatles geschehen, wenn John Lennon nie Yoko Ono kennengelernt hätte? Der eingefleischte Beatles-Fan Friedrich Wilhelm Schiers aus Hamburg-Altona unternimmt eine Zeitreise aus dem 21. Jahrhundert ins London der Swinging Sixties im Jahre 1966, um genau dieses erste Treffen der beiden und damit das Auseinanderbrechen der Beatles zu verhindern. Doch leider kommt alles anders als gedacht, und anstatt den ersten Kontakt der beiden zu verhindern, erleidet John Lennon einen Autounfall.