Science Fiction - Cross Time

Cross time travel is a form of alternate history using some plot device to to move between our present world and another world with a different history. Probably the best known example of this is the TV show Sliders. Other examples are listed below:

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• S. M. Stirling
• Charles Stross
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S. M. Stirling

• Conquistador - A cross time novel. Guy comes back from World War II and accidently discovers a gate to an alternate time line Earth where North America was never discoverred or colonized by Europe. Similar results as in our time line in that the American Indians are wiped out by diseases and to a lessor extent drive away with WWII era and later weapons.

Charles Stross

• The Family Trade (#1) - Book one in a new series. There is an group of people, refered to world walkers, who are able to cross from our Earth to another Earth. The other Earth is midieval tech, with a very different history. Apparently the America's was settled by Vikings on the east coast, and Chinese or Japanese on the west coast. The world walkers are an extended inter-bred clan that has been doing cross world trading for almost 300 years. The world walking ability is genetic, so they have a strangle hold on the trade. This could make for a neat fantasy or even science fiction cross time gaming set up. Even if you didn't want to use the exact alternate world, the concept of a select family that could move between two worlds for the past few hundred years could be a great basis for a game.

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