Tuesday May 14, 2013.  Four days ago:  sleet in the morning.  Today:  Over 90 degrees F.

***Read:  Ken MacLeod, The Human Front.  Alternate history, beginning in 1963 with the news of Stalin's death.

Very good use of the author's childhood memories (adapted for the story, of course.) 

In my opinion, the protagonist's political beliefs are junk magic.  But they're close to MacLeod's own views, which can be a great advantage in writing a character.

Note:  The point of divergence is something which never actually happened, happening differently than the conspiracy theories say it did.  This might offend purists.

Skimmed:  Victoria Blake (ed.), Cyberpunk:  stories of hardware, software, wetware, revolution and evolution.  I was struck by how old-fashioned these stories seemed, including the recent ones. 

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***Comment I made on Facebook:  If we're living in the future, where are the flying cars which were supposed to completely replace groundcars right after WW II? We were supposed to have cities well-established on Mars by 1970! Where are the British and Soviet interstellar empires?