- Magnificent Bastard: William Stendhal in Usher II.
- Values Dissonance and Society Marches On: Due to being published in 1946, there are still very traditionalist views of women, most people apparently still wear fur in the fake 1999 and in 2003, anti-lynching laws and civil rights acts for African Americans and other minorities are barely being passed.
- While manned space flight to a habitable Mars is common. It's clearly a differnet universe than ours, but one that arguably (at least in most elements) could have existed.