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	Alternate history fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or some would say of science fiction) that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known.
		While to some extent all fiction can be described as "alternate history," the subgenre proper comprises fiction in which a change or point of divergence occurs in the past that causes human society to develop in a way that is distinct from our own.
		In both science fiction and fantasy, whether a given parallel universe is an alternate history may not be clear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction) (5564 words)

	Alternative history (fiction) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Alternative history or alternate history is fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known; more simply put, alternate history asks the question, "What If?".
		While to some extent all fiction can be described as alternative history, the genre proper comprises fiction in which a change happens that causes history to diverge from our own.
		In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1203 (3247 words)

	soc.history.what-if FAQ (November 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alternative history fiction, on the other hand, requires that the world described be visibly the same as ours up to some specific point in history, after which things begin to get different.
		The distinction between alternative histories that are explorations of "what might have been", and those that utilise devices from science fiction and fantasy is one that has caused tension on SHWI in the past.
		The other Usenet newsgroups with some level of official interest in alternative history are alt.tv.sliders (about the alternative-worlds TV show), rec.arts.sf.written (the correct venue for discussion of the plot, characters, or literary merit of most published alternative histories), and the specialty group alt.books.harry-turtledove.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a5918.html (5597 words)

	Alternative history (fiction) biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alternative history or alternate history is fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known, or simply put "What If?".
		While to some extent, all fiction can be classified as alternative history, this genre is used to denote fiction in which a change happens which causes history to diverge.
		For alternative histories which some assert to be factual rather than speculative, see conspiracy theory and historical revisionism.
	www.biography.ms /Alternative_history_(fiction).html (2843 words)

	OTL - Alternative History - A Wikia wiki
		OTL - Alternative History - A Wikia wiki
		Our Timeline or OTL, refers, in the Alternative History fiction genre, to events, situations and figures that exist in the history we know and live in, contrasted to the historical events, situations and characters of an Alternate Timeline (ATL), in which some thing or things have been changed.
		In fictional works, the phrase is often used as a "baseline" to illustrate changes in history caused by characters in a novel or story.
	althistory.wikia.com /wiki/OTL (148 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| Harmless History
		Scott’s point, if I understood it correctly, was that the genre of “alternative history” fiction, like some versions of marxisant cultural politics, manages both to repudiate and mimic the great man theory of history because it sometimes imagines that single consequential actions can utterly alter the course of events.
		The implication, I think, is that alternative histories are fictions needed to remind us of the hazards of history and the responsibilities of autonomous judgment.
		History implies events that affect large groups of people; reducing it to the personal history of the author is a trivialization.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/harmless_history (2697 words)

	Alternative history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternative history or alternate history develops out of historiography to identify historical points of view that have been ignored, overlooked, or unseeable.
		Such histories may tend to blame their lack of scholarship or documentation on a conspiracy to erase such evidence.
		The genre of speculative fiction includes the subgenre of fictitious alternative history, set in worlds in which history has diverged from history as it actually happened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_history (294 words)

	Histalt - Alternate History
		In the AH context, an alternate history chronicle or "uchronia".
		This is a favourite for alternate history buffs, for there have been many history-changing events that hinged on the outcome of a single battle improbably won.
		Rick Sutcliffe's Alternate History SF Rick Sutcliffe's alternate history fiction takes place on several such worlds joined via a medium called the Timestream, each alternate earth distinguished from the others by a decision or group of decisions (nexus triggers) that radically altered subsequent history.
	www.arjay.bc.ca /Fiction/AHF/index.htm (1532 words)

	Alternative History
		Alternative history straddles speculative fiction and the practice of asking counter-factual questions in the academic study of history.
		I believe that alternative history can be entertaining, but also useful as a tool to help separate the contingent from the necessary, the underlying causes of real historical events from the accidental ones.
		I am the FAQ maintainer for (and also a regular contributor to) the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if (shwi), the subject of which is alternative history.
	www.anthonymayer.net /ah/history.html (862 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Alternative histories, tales of Earth with usually one historical detail changed in the past, and chronicling the resulting effects today.
		Almost all the Alternative History computer simulations suggest that the Battle of Tours (AD 732) was one of the crucial disasters of mankind.
		The science fiction tradition of the alternative history and the time travel story often discuss the same set of hypotheses.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/262 (677 words)

	Alternative history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A history told from an Alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer.
		A genre of speculative fiction: see Alternative history (fiction) and uchronia.
		Such histories may tend to explain away their lack of scholarship or documentation on a conspiracy to erase such evidence.
	alternative-history.iqnaut.net (129 words)

	So, You Want to Write a Timeline
		Although the study of history is an international field and a great deal of material is published in English, the history of certain regions is still often covered mainly by research made on native languages.
		One such example is the history of Eastern Europe, still under constant re-estimation by the domestic scholars in the aftermath of the Communist rule.
		As long as the subject matter is history and the alternate possibilities which it offers, and as long as it is discussed in a balanced and serious fashion...
	www.anthonymayer.net /ah/writingGuide.html (5993 words)

	Reading Lists - Alternative Histories Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A fictional retelling of the story of mutineer Fletcher Christian considers what his life would have been like had he survived the South Pacific uprising and follows his romance with the beautiful Daphne.
		Determined to change the course of history, twenty-first-century jihad terrorists slip through a temporal hole, and three unlikely heroes, Marie Gauthier, John Conway, and David Ben-Dor, armed only with swords and daggers, are sent back in time to return the terrorists, but first they must survive the beasts and warriors of the ancient Roman arena.
		In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers--China, India, and the nations of Islam--battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order.
	www.mesalibrary.org /read_next/alternatehistory.htm (796 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Alternative History Booklist
		Continuing this popular vampire history with the heroes, heroines and villians from Anno Dracula, Newman presents an entertainingly chilling alternate 20th century, where high society is run by the undead and romance mixes with the bloodiest horror.
		LJ In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family--and for a million such families all over the country--during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.
		Hailed by USA Today as "the master of Alternate History", Harry Turtledove has re-created the War to End All Wars--a World War I where the Confederate States of America and the United States of America are on opposite sides, and all the viciousness of modern combat comes to the shores of North America.
	www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/history/althistory.html (2386 words)

	Amazon.ca: Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book 1): Books: Harry Turtledove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (American Empire) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with disturbing results.
		The Confederacy is better prepared for war than the U.S., and the conflict's initial stages develop in favor of the Confederacy; in tandem, Tom Colleton loses his sister but meets a formidable armored commander named Patton.
		Meanwhile, this alternate history's variation on the Holocaust marches forward, with Jefferson Pinkard simultaneously inventing new ways of executing African Americans and courting the widow of one of his guards.
	www.amazon.ca /Return-Engagement-Settling-Accounts-Book/dp/0345457234 (564 words)

	coconuts.com - Alternative History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this alternative history, during the hotly contested Presidential Election of 1824, Speaker of the House Henry Clay ruthlessly maneuvers events in order to emerge as the new President.
		In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the w...
		In this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without in the War of 1812.
	www.coconuts.com /subcategory.aspx?loc=46517 (208 words)

	Uchronia: The Alternate History List
		In an alternate history, one or more past events are changed and the subsequent effects on history somehow described.
		For more about alternate history and this bibliography, please read the extended introduction.
		Uchronia: The Alternate History List is copyright © 1991-2006 by Robert B. Schmunk.
	www.uchronia.net (176 words)

	AlternateHistory.com
		Alternate history is a small but fairly popular literary genre that has been around for some time.
		At the moment, Harry Turtledove is the best selling author of Alternate History novels, which are generally categorized as a type of science fiction.
		Other works of alternate history range from Robert Harris' Fatherland, to scholarly "counterfactuals" which are gaining some popularity with historians, to dozens of amateur alternate history scenarios and "timelines" on the Internet.
	www.alternatehistory.com /entry.html (378 words)

	The Tranquillity Alternative -- A Review
		The Tranquillity Alternative is based on a history in which Nazi Germany and the United States simultaneously launch manned spacecraft in 1944, almost twenty years before this feat was really achieved.
		The resulting change in history led to the creation of Tranquillity Base, the home of six missiles trained on Earth and ready to function in a second strike capacity if the need should arise.
		The Tranquillity Alternative is a high tech thriller that didn't thrill me. The technical detail was vivid and believable.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fantasy_and_science_fiction/9541 (428 words)

	Today In Alternate History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Missing are Emperor Hirohito and Prince Asaka who had escaped to the island of Formosa, where they formed an unlikely partnership with Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT government-in-exile to forge the first Asian Tiger in the 1950s using the entire gold and foreign currency reserves of China and Japan.
		The Johnson's place had a strange odor to it already; they all thought it was probably from all the blood that was still drying, but not a one of them was going to mention it.
		Alternate Historian's Note: Stephen Payne provides the alternate history, (although we have a post for Carl Sagan in tribute of the 20th anniversary of his passing), as we continue the second half of our NaNoWriMo novel.
	althistory.blogspot.com (5662 words)

	Entertainment & Arts, Humanities, History,
		The History of Art and Architecture from around the world and historical events that took place around them (or caused the art pieces to be made).
		The History Resource Webring is intended for academic history websites that cater to students and teachers in the public school system (K-12) and undergraduate level college students.
		The Living History is a webring to gather all the historical websites on the net, Civil War, Military History, historical events, pictures, family history, World War(s) etc. We welcome all types of Historical Websites.
	dir.webring.com /rw?d=Entertainment___Arts/Humanities/History (1034 words)

	Sci-fi - Alternative History Genre
		Alternate History is science fiction that asks what if a familiar fact from the past is not as we know it.
		It is not necessary to re-invent the wheel here, since an extensive bibliography of books on Alternate History exists thanks to Robert B. Schmunk.
		It is also hard to talk about Alternate History without mentioning Harry Turtledove and his A-H anthologies.
	personal.anderson.ucla.edu /eloisa.borah/egbscifi.htm (401 words)

	Heritage of Truth: A Post Noah Flood Story of Nvard The Seeker
		FICTION - [Alternative history, Speculative Christian Fantasy] Short story introduction to Nvard the Seeker based in part on ancient Armenian myth & legends of the Near East.
		As shemesh made a final descent in the sky, she told the children how Bel, the confounder fell, and of mankind's heritage of Truth.
		Quote From Summary: "Before the time of Darwin and Huxley, most history books started off with a brief statement about creation and the flood, and how the three sons of Noah went to different parts of the world, Shem to Asia, Ham to Africa and Japheth to Europe.
	www.seekerworld.com /fiction/heritage.html (2645 words)

	Alternative History By Topic History Society
		A forum for discussion of ideas, and a story workshop for Alternate History Writers.
		- An active alternate history E-Zine, Changing the Times is the largest repository of amateur alternate history on the web.
		- A British alternate history timeline, resulting from a different result in a 1970 football match, but leading to totalitarianism and war.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/History/By_Topic/Alternative_History (371 words)

	harrypotterfanfiction.com - fanfiction terms
		Fiction written by a fan of the Harry Potter Books (or others eg LOTR).
		Alternative History Alternative history fan fiction changes the original path of the book.
		Alternative Timeline A piece that breaks off rom a specific point of time.
	www.harrypotterfanfiction.com /docs/terms.html (1380 words)

	Amazon.fr : In High Places: Livres en anglais: Harry Turtledove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alternative history maestro Turtledove deals a tad heavy-handedly with the issue of slavery in his third Crosstime Traffic novel (after 2004's Curious Notions).
		In one alternative time line, the Black Death continued far longer than it did in the "home" time line with the result that Muslims occupy much of Europe, which is made up of small, insular principalities and kingdoms.
		When bandits in this medieval world capture 18-year-old Annette Klein (aka Khadija the oil merchant's daughter), she's separated from her parents, with no way to return to the home time line from which she and her family originate.
	www.amazon.fr /High-Places-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0765306964 (515 words)

	Reviews of Alternative History Fiction Novels -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		This appealing collection of short stories from master alternative history storyteller Harry Turtledove, author of The Guns of the South, provides entertaining historical plot twists for the reader.
		This massive work by leading alternative novelist Harry Turtledove postulates what World War I could have been like had the United States never joined together as one country.
		Believable characters and alternative historical accounts that seem like real historical events make the reader believe this could really have been the way it happened if our country had never united.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/oct98/fansf.htm (303 words)

	Amazon.com: Making History: Books: Stephen Fry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Twenty-four-year-old Cambridge University history scholar Michael Young has a penchant for the type of fictional embellishing that Edmund Morris was guilty of in his recent memoir of Ronald Reagan.
		Making History tells the tale of a young Cambridge grad student who teams up with a physicist to alter history in a "What if Hitler had never been born" tale.
		In the book Michael Young, a history student specialised on Hitlers youth, and scientist Leo Zuckermann, highly interested in WW II since his father was a Nazi doctor, decide to create a time machine (how else can you survive boring sunday afternoons?) so they can stop Hitler from being born.
	www.amazon.com /Making-History-Stephen-Fry/dp/1569471509 (2567 words)

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