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Turtledove, Harry. Powerless. CAEZIK SF&F 2025.

Turtledove, Harry. Powerless
Divergence: c 1863 CE
What if: The Confederacy won the American Civil War, and the United States became a fractured nation.
Summary: A century or so later in the Communist West Coast People's Republic, a shopkeeper refuses to display a poster. Chaos ensues.
Published: CAEZIK SF&F 2025 (1647101492BUY, 1649731876BUY).
Published: Expanded from the novelette "Powerless", in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2018.