Just came home from Bolivia (where there are very few freeways) and saw this...great! I've been telling people about this for ever, that the real conspiracy in Los Angeles was not to rip up the Pacific Electric, but to build the freeways. I helped an author research the construction of the Harbor Freeway (book was…

How many speculative fiction books have come from these arguments? I'll throw in two from the excellent book If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II by Harold C. Deutsch and Dennis E. Showalter.