"I warned the Romans about their aqueducts. They called me a madman. They flooded. I warned the Mesopotamians about their grain. They called me a fool. They starved."John has been alive for five millennia. He isn't a hero, a villain, or a god. He’s just the only one in the room who knows how the math works.After five thousand years of being thrown out of the best rooms in history, John finally finds a generation that will listen: The 1940s. From fixing the Manhattan Project...

What happens when an immortal chaos gremlin decides to fix your civilization — whether you asked for help or not?President Robert Strickland thought running a country was hard. Then he stepped through a portal into a parallel universe and discovered his world was the dysfunctional one.In this other reality, hunger is gone. The oceans sparkle. Wars are rare. A penguin runs an underwater city. The economy is backed by environmental credits, gold, and — somehow — chao...