Re:What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
by mark-r on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:49AM
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I dimly remember a story about a wrong number phone call connecting a man with a woman in an alternate universe where the Japanese won WWII. Unfortunately both my memory and my Google-fu are failing me on identifying the source.
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Re:What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
by ctchocula on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @07:49AM
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A wild guess but "The Man in the High Castle"? I could be wrong, because the phone call doesn't happen in the novel by Philip K. Dick that the Netflix show is based on and I haven't watched the show. However, the premise is alternate history of Japanese winning WWII.
Re:What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
by mark-r on Friday December 31, 2021 @10:18PM
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In the story I remember, the parallel universe is discovered when they agree to meet at an important landmark building in New York - but they never meet, because in her universe the original building was destroyed by a bomb that hit New York and the building was rebuilt in a new location.
Re:What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
by ctchocula on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:02AM
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"Out of this World" (1964) by Alfred Bester. Here's a stackoverflow post: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251779/phone-calls...