For All Time

For All Time (abbreviated to FaT or FaTL) is a work of alternate history by President Chester A. Arthur (real name Mike Davis), written and published between 2001 and 2002 on the Usenet group soc.history.what-if. The alternate history depicts the hellish world that may have resulted if U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died of a stroke on December 20, 1941, leaving his Vice President, Henry Wallace, with the task of guiding America through World War II.

Running from 1941 until 2002, For All Time depicts the world's deterioration into a dystopia pervaded with hatred, unrest, brutality, war, poverty, disease, conflict, death and destruction, stretching plausibility to its breaking point. It is often referenced as an authoritative example of a dystopian alternate history: a scenario which produces a profoundly negative, hostile, and unpleasant world. The main story, which contains over 119,000 words in 128 parts, can be read here on the Wiki.