The World of Crosstime Traffic

[Marius Mazzini]

Inspired by this: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=337904

While the "Home Timeline" of Crosstime Traffic is obviously our world in the 2090s, large-scale changes appear to have occurred in several areas that one can do a FH setting. Among other things off the top of my head

-There was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the 2020s or '30s that made several areas in both countries uninhabitable due to use of biological weapons
-There were two "interventions" by the US and NATO in Iran with the ultimate result that the Shah was restored to the throne
-Large-scale resource crisis up to the 2040s when interdimensional travel was invented
-Korea seems to have reunited
-A restaurant called "Tapas Tuesday" has become popular at least in Southern California
-The United States has gone metric

Any further speculations? Thoughts?

 

[Zoidberg12]

My thread inspired this? I'm flattered.

I've never read the Crosstime Traffic books myself, but I do know quite a bit about them from the Turtledove wiki.

Here are some other things according to the Turtledove wiki.

-Damascus is destroyed in 2033 by a nuclear terrorist attack. Syrian rebels, Israel, Turkey and the US all suspects, implying Syrian Civil War is either still going on or had just ended but instability remains.
-Palestine still troubled region. Whether conflict with Israel resolved or some other conflict not made clear.
-European Union is single state by 21st Century, made up of many constituent nations.

 

[Marius Mazzini]

-Damascus is destroyed in 2033 by a nuclear terrorist attack. Syrian rebels, Israel, Turkey and the US all suspects, implying Syrian Civil War is either still going on or had just ended but instability remains.

That's actually pretty prophetic since Turtledove wrote these books before the Syrian Civil War broke out.