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	Alternate history
		Alternate history is a type of science fiction in which the basic premise is that some specific historical event never happened, or happened differently (compare future history).
		In 1995, The Sidewise Award for Alternate History was established to recognize best Long Form (novels and series) and best short form (stories) within the genres.
		For alternate histories which some assert to be factual rather than speculative, see conspiracy theory and historical revisionism.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alternate_history.html (1037 words)

	Sidewise Award for Alternate History: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Sidewise Award for Alternate History was established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.
		The award takes its name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.
		At their discretion, the Sidewise Award judges (a panel of five) may elect to recognize an individual or work with a Special Achievement Award.
	www.encyclopedian.com /si/Sidewise-Award-for-Alternate-History.html (247 words)

	ego stuff
		The Sidewise is not one of the better-known awards; which is a shame, really, not because it's the one I won a couple of times (well, OK, that too) but because it represents an authentic labor of love on the part of the people who do it.
		Alternate history is a huge branch of SF nowadays; just reading what's been published has got to be hell's own job - and as for judging, I wouldn't take the job on a salary.
		Anyway they're good people and they work hard at what they do and their award deserves to be better known; it is certainly judged more fairly (and competently) than some of the more famous ones, and the nominees are treated with far greater courtesy and respect.
	www.sff.net /people/sanders/ego.html (261 words)

	Alternative history fiction - ExampleProblems.com
		For a variety of reasons, alternate history is generally classified as a subcategory of speculative fiction.
		Secret history, which gives an account of history at odds with our general understanding, presenting its own account as having been lost or forgotten, is not alternate history.
		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.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Alternative_history_fiction (4506 words)

	Learn more about Alternate history in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The key change between our history and the alternative history is known as the "Point of divergence"(POD)." In Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle", the POD is the attempted assassination of Franklin Roosevelt in Miami in 1933.
		Making History (1996) by British actor, comedian and novelist Stephen Fry is set in a parallel world in which Adolf Hitler was never conceived, let alone born.
		In online alternate history, the timeline is usually referred to by the abbreviation ATL (Alternate Time Line), as contrasted with OTL (Our Time Line) which refers to real history.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/al/alternate_history.html (1505 words)

	Alternate History : Sirchin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		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.
		Alternate Historian's Note: Thank goodness for Stephen Payne, who is providing the alternate history for us as we continue to recover from a bug – from a particularly plague-ridden alternate universe, we're sure.
	www.sirchin.com /?topic:alternate-history (505 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?".
		Secret history, which gives an account of history at odds with our general understanding, presenting its own account as having been lost or forgotten, is also not alternate history.
		The late 1980s and 1990s saw a boom in alternate history, fueled by the emergence of Harry Turtledove, the steampunk genre and two series of anthologies— the "What Might Have Been" series edited by Gregory Benford and the "Alternate..." series edited by Mike Resnick.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1203 (3247 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about H.N. Turteltaub
		He is probably the best-known and most popular author of the genre of alternate history.
		Alternate History â” The South have won the US Civil War, what would then happen over the next century.
		Alternate History â” The Japanese have gained the initiative in the Pacific War by invading and occupying Hawaii.
	www.quicknation.com /H.N._Turteltaub.htm (645 words)

	Thinking Sidewise - 4/1/2004 - School Library Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Alternate history is a subgenre of science fiction that is often ignored during collection development.
		This annual award is named for a 1934 short story, "Sidewise in Time," by Murray Leinster, who is considered the father of modern Alternate History.
		An alternate assignment might be to have students work on a computer to map out an alternative time line that would include hyperlinks that give small blurbs about the changes.
	www.schoollibraryjournal.com /article/CA406675.html (1576 words)

	Alternate history fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 French, alternate history novels are called uchronie.
		However, in the Capra film the angel shows Jimmy Stewart an alternate history in which he was never born—the changes in his home town are serious and far-reaching, creating a much darker reality for his neighbors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternate_history_(fiction) (5564 words)

	Lorem Ipsum: Sidewise
		During the nine years of this award’s lifetime so far (counting this year), there’ve been six works by women nominated (three of which were published in 2000), and sixty-four by men, so 91% of the nominated works have been by men, and 87% of the winning works have been by men.
		Maybe alternate history shouldn’t be a sub-genre; maybe it should just be another tool in the kit, like mythological motifs and cognitive alienation and giant space squid.
		Note their Oldest Alternate Histories page, which lists only the AH works written "before the genre could be considered a genre"; the list owner notes several possible starting dates for the genre, but chooses 1939's "Lest Darkness Fall" as the start of AH being considered a sub-genre of sf.
	www.kith.org /journals/jed/2004/06/11/2081.html (7178 words)

	A Tribute to Harry Turtledove
		Turtledove won the HOMer Award for Short Story in 1990 for "Designated Hitter", John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction in 1993 for Guns of the South, the Hugo Award for Novella in 1994 for Down in the Bottomlands.
		This novel along with Turtledove's other work of Civil War alternate history fiction, 'How Few Remain,' should be read not only by fans of science fiction, but by anyone interested in the people, events, and politics that made up this pivotal time in American history.
		Alternate history buffs will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time.
	www.wesleylowe.com /dove.html (2019 words)

	Aio Publishing: books to stir the soul
		The Summer Isles is short-listed for the 2006 GLBT Spectrum Award...
		The novella went on to be nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award and won both the 1999 World Fantasy Award and 1999 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, but until now the novel has not been published in its original form.
		It has recently taken home the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (best novel) and was named as the second runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel.
	www.aiopublishing.com /Readers/TheSummerIsles.htm (291 words)

	Sidewise Award for Alternate History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The award was created by Robert Schmunk, Evelyn Leeper, and Steven H Silver.
		Over the years, the number of judges has fluctuated between three and eight, including judges in the UK and South Africa.
		At their discretion, the Sidewise Award judges (a panel of six) may elect to recognize an individual or work with a Special Achievement Award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidewise_Award_for_Alternate_History (244 words)

	SIDEWISE AWARDS FOR ALTERNATE HISTORY, 1996-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best "genre" publications of the year, and the first awards were announced in summer 1996.
		To be considered, a work must have either first English-language publication or first American publication* in the calendar year prior to the year in which the award is to be presented.
		In other words, awards announced in 2002 honored works published in 2001 and were called the "2001 Sidewise Awards".
	home.comcast.net /~antaylor1/sidewise.html (239 words)

	William Sanders Interview
		William Sanders is best known for his alternate history SF, but that is only a small part of a writing career that spans three decades.
		Two-time winner of the Sidewise Award for alternate history, Sanders has also been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.
		It's simply a history of the Hernando de Soto expedition of the sixteenth century, and I'm unreasonably proud of it.
	www.sff.net /people/sanders/int.html (2733 words)

	alternate history - Unified Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums
		I'm reading a book now called "The Year the Cloud Fell," which is an alternate history in which the time is not long after the Civil War and the American Indian has not been conquered.
		The premise was that one of the Kings of England decided to patronize and advance the use of magic instread of technology and science.
		I found this website this morning that has short stories written with alternate timelines as the key focus.
	www.shadowdark.org /ib/alternate-history_255-1.php (720 words)

	s h o t g u n r e v i e w s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A vast number of alternate history novels are set in (or based on) World War II, the American Civil War, or prehistoric times.
		But the Civil War is the great chokepoint of U.S. history; we are what we are, for better and for worse, because of what happened and how it happened in those four crowded years.
		It seems to me that one of the most difficult parts of writing alternate history would be extrapolating the results of a single change, while keeping your story believable, especially considering how many improbable and unbelievable events have occurred in “real” history.
	www.shotgunreviews.com /bigq/bigq042601.html (1726 words)

	Aio Publishing: books to stir the soul
		The Summer Isles is shortlisted for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History...
		The novella also won the 1999 Sidewise Award for Alternate History and was a finalist for the coveted Hugo Award.
		The novel edition is currently under consideration for the 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History in its long form category.
	www.aiopublishing.com /Press/Releases/DesignAward.htm (661 words)

	The Philip Roth Society
		The book won him critical recognition, including the National Book Award for fiction, and along with that, condemnation from some within the Jewish community for depicting what they saw as the unflattering side of cotemporary Jewish American experience.
		It is an alternative history whose premise is the 1940 election of Charles A. Lindbergh to the White House.
		His latter fiction is arguable his best work, as demonstrated by the succession of awards he received in the 1990s.
	orgs.tamu-commerce.edu /rothsoc/bio.htm (1460 words)

	Anno-Dracula series
		The Anno-Dracula series by Kim Newman is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which vampires are a common and more-or-less accepted part of society (as a result of Dracula's reign in England, depicted in Anno-Dracula, the first in the series).
		Entries in the series have won awards from the Dracula Society, the Lord Ruthven Assembly, and the International Horror Guild, and been short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
		The Bloody Red Baron was shortlisted for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Long Form.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/a/an/anno_dracula_series.shtml (814 words)

	Harry Turtledove - Turtledove - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After flunking out of his student#yearsfreshman year at Caltech, he attended UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history in 1977.
		His dissertation was on The Immediate Successors of Justinian: A Study of the Persian Problem and of Continuity and Change in Internal Secular Affairs in the Later Roman Empire During the Reigns of Justin II and Tiberius II Constantine (AD 565–582).
		He won his second Sidewise Award in 2003 for the novel Ruled Britannia.
	turtledove.wikia.com /wiki/Harry_Turtledove (404 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Harry Turtledove
		Harry Turtledove (born June 14, 1949), is a historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works.
		(1990) - In this alternative history story, the 4th planet of our solar system is larger and named Minerva instead of Mars.
		A joint USAlternate History â” The Confederate States Army is supplied with AK-47's by early-21st century Apartheid time-travelers.
	www.quicknation.com /Harry_Turtledove.htm (713 words)

	Harry Turtledove
		Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949), is a historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works.
		The Guns of the South (1992) Sci-Fi/Alternate History — The Confederate States Army is supplied with AK-47's by early-21st century Apartheid time-travelers.
		Ruled Britannia (2002) Alternate History — The Spanish Armada conquers Britain and forces Shakespeare to write a play about Philip II.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Harry_Turtledove.php (916 words)

	Inside Wall Street
		Robert Sobel puts the turmoil in perspective with capsule histories of the origins of the stock exchange, investment banking, and mutual funds.
		Robert Nathen Sobel was a professor of business history at Hofstra University for more than forty years and held a Ph.D. from New York University.
		In 1998, Sobel was the recipient of the second Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History for this book, which was republished in 1998.At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's magazine He died Wednesday, June 2, 1999 of brain cancer.
	www.beardbooks.com /beardbooks/inside_wall_street.html (402 words)

	Mary Gentle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Her ability to blend adventure, history, science fiction and fantasy has made Mary Gentle one of Britain’s most outstanding writers of imaginative fiction.
		Cartomancy is her definitive collection of stories and novellas, many previously uncollected or published in book form until now.
		Ash: A Secret History is that rare and wonderful thing: a book which is almost indescribable and totally unputdownable.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/marygentle.html (887 words)

	The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History
		Notes: Prior to the 1997 awards, the short list of finalists was not announced in advance, and runners-up were simply listed as "honorable mention".
		The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History website is an Amazon.com associate.
		The commission we earn on any order which you might make will be applied toward the cost of plaques or other physical momentos given to the Sidewise Award winners.
	www.uchronia.net /sidewise/complete.html (231 words)

	Alternate History Month Contest
		Who wrote "Sidewise in Time," the 1934 story for which the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are named?
		Before Harry Turtledove wrote The Guns of the South, author Ward Moore wrote a time travel novel in which the South was victorious.
		It is written as an history text, not a novel.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/october.html (236 words)

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