Stanley G. Weinbaum THE WORLDS OF IF - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22890/pg22890-images.html

 I'd been a favorite of his back in the college days of 2014 I missed the airliner, of course. I was still on the Staten Bridge when I heard the roar of the catapult and the Soviet rocket Baikal hummed over us like a tracer bullet with a long tail of flame.

what New York would have been like if England had won the Revolution instead of the Colonies