Aldiss, Brian W. "M.E.R.O's Sinai Project, 1957-1970" [vt "What You Get for Your Dollar"]
Divergence: 1956 CE
What if: The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in 1956, including an international reclamation project in the Sinai.
Summary: A man from a world beset by an energy crisis visits the utopian Sinai of another and describes its history.
Published: In The Shape of Further Things: Speculations on Change, Faber 1970 (0571094724), Doubleday 1971, Corgi 1976 (0552095338); and The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian SF (ed. Thomas M. Disch), Harper & Row 1975 (006011052X), Hutchinson 1976 (0091242002).
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Maxim Jakubowski as "Un Dollar ça Vaut Combien?", in Brian W. Aldiss: anthologie (ed. Maxim Jakubowski), Presses pocket 1982 (226601210X).
Translation: Italian by Tullio Dobner as "Che cosa ti danno in cambio dei tuoi soldi", in Domani andrà meglio, Longanesi 1977.