Alternitech Author:Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason ?Alternitech? sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines where tiny differences yield significant changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey Oswald wasn?t gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease, where a struggling author re... more »ally did write the great American novel, or where a freak accident reveals the existence of a serial killer. Alternitech finds those differences?and profits from them.« less