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It has occurred to me that the vast majority of TL's and AH fiction I have read always seem to end in a dystopia. In fact the only AH I have read that didn't turn out considerably dystopian were Ring of Fire books, and the Belisarius series(didn't read the last two books though). So it seems that short of ASB intervention any serious alternate historians seem to consider an altered history to be a worse one.

So are there any decently researched TL's or fictions that don't make the world a total crap hole to live in?

Also, why is it that so many people have this tendency to make things so much worse? Is it so hard to believe that the world could be a better place with a few changes to history?


P.S. I am excluding short time lines where somebody made it up in 20 minutes.
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