Name: The Gladiator
ISBN: 9780765314864

Harry Turtledove

In an alternate-world Milan in which the Soviet Union won the Cold War, teens Gianfranco and Annarita despair when their favorite gaming store is abruptly shut down, until they discover that the store was operated by a time traveler from a democratic worl

The Gladiator

A decent thought experiment. I feel like I would need to read more of the Crosstime Traffic series to tell why Eduardo and his home timeline would care about the changing this particular timeline, but I also don't know that I actually care it enough to pick up the rest of the series. I did appreciate that Turtledove acknowledged that capitalism has its faults and that the US "winning" the Cold War didn't create a utopia even if it was better than this world where Soviet communism was the only option. The home timeline might be slightly better than this timeline, but it's still not the best option either.