Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or...
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This is a list of alternate history fiction, sorted primarily by type and then chronologically. American Civil War alternate histories Axis victory in World...
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The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year. The awards take...
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Alternate Presidents is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books. There are 28 stories in the...
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Parallel universes in fiction (redirect from Alternate world)
to serve as a starting point for speculative fiction, particularly alternate history. One of the first science-fiction examples of a parallel universe...
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American Civil War alternate histories are alternate history fiction that focuses on the Civil War ending differently or not occurring. The American Civil...
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Alternate Warriors is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books. The anthology contains 29 short...
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variously called alternate history, speculative history, allohistory, and hypothetical history. An early book of counterfactual histories is If It Had Happened...
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Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an online general-interest book database containing a bibliography of alternate history novels, stories, essays...
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Parallel universe (redirect from Alternate universe)
hypothetical self-contained plane of existence, co-existing with one's own Alternate history, a genre of fiction in which historical events differ from reality...
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Harry Turtledove bibliography (redirect from Alternate Generals)
fiction and alternate history. In Worldwar, aliens invade during World War II in 1942. The Colonization trilogy deals with the course of history a generation...
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Stephen Baxter (author) (category British alternative history writers)
Baxter's blending of alternate history with science fiction. A more recent work in this direction is the Northland Trilogy, an alternate prehistory that begins...
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Roosevelt. In the alternate history short story "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" by David Gerrold included in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Stevenson...
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Uchronia (category Alternate history websites)
sometimes used in its original meaning as a straightforward synonym for alternate history, a genre of speculative fiction that reimagines historical events...
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the alternate history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History...
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S. M. Stirling (category American alternate history writers)
Stirling is the author of the Draka series of alternate history novels, the later time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and the Emberverse series...
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up alternate universe, alternate universes, parallel universe, parallel universes, or parallel world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alternate reality...
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element of dragons to create an Alternate History plot set during the Napoleonic Era). Counterfactual history (aka virtual history): This is a recent form of...
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Cahokia Jazz (category Sidewise Award for Alternate History–winning works)
Cahokia Jazz is an alternate-history detective novel by Francis Spufford released in Great Britain in 2023 and the United States in 2024. According to...
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Worldwar series (category Alternate history book series)
The Worldwar series is the fan name given to a series of eight alternate history science fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. Its premise is an alien invasion...
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The Berlin Project (novel) (category American alternate history novels)
The Berlin Project is a 2017 science fiction alternate history novel by American writer Gregory Benford. It was first published in May 2017 in the United...
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Alternate Heroes is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the second volume...
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Harry Turtledove (redirect from Alternate Generals (book))
work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He is a student of history and completed his PhD...
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Horror fiction (redirect from History of horror fiction)
onward). Horror elements continue to expand outside the genre. The alternate history of more traditional historical horror in Dan Simmons's 2007 novel...
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If the South Had Won the Civil War (category American Civil War alternate histories)
If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil...
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Thor Meets Captain America (category Alternate history short stories)
and alternate history novelette by American writer David Brin. The graphic novel The Life Eaters is based on the story. The work features an alternate history...
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Alternate Kennedys is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books. There are 26 stories in the anthology...
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Alien space bats (category Alternate history)
"Alien space bats" ("ASBs") is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to mean an implausible point of divergence. "Alien space bats" originally...
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If Israel Lost the War (category American alternate history novels)
If Israel Lost the War is a 1969 alternate history political novel written jointly by Robert Littell, Richard Z. Chesnoff and Edward Klein. The book's...
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Dread Nation (category American alternate history novels)
2018 young adult alternate history horror novel by author Justina Ireland. The book is set in an alternate version of American history, where the American...
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