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.