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From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:14 1993
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From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (0/5)
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Message-ID: <C0pzow.DvD@rice.edu>
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Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
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Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:46:08 GMT
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The following 5 postings comprise the 13th posting of the Alternate History
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List. It includes 772 published English-language stories and books, plus 7
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whose publication is expected.
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A major restructuring of the list has been made since last posting. The
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division into vanilla alternate history, crosstime tales and change-the-past
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stories has been dropped.
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Also included is an appendix listing 88 Alternate Histories in non-English
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languages. This appendix is an experiment and will be included in future
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postings only if there is favorable feedback, and hopefully contributions.
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Added to the English-language list or published since last posting were:
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Aiken's DIDO AND PA
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Aldiss' "What You Get for Your Dollar"
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KJ Anderson's "Music Played on the Strings of Time"
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Attanasio's IN OTHER WORLDS
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Bohme et al's "Alternatives in Science"
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Borden & Graham's essays
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Bova's TRIUMPH (prev listed as APRIL 1945)
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Bowes' WARCHILD and GOBLIN MARKET
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Capek's "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
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Chamberlin's THE IFS OF HISTORY
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Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED
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Di Filippo's "Mairzy Doats"
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Dick's THE CRACK IN SPACE
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Disraeli's "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened"
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Drake's FORTRESS
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Erickson's TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK
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Farren's NECROM
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Ferguson's "The Monroe Doctrine"
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Fleming's OPERATION SEA LION
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Flynn's IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
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Friesner's "Jane's Fighting Ships"
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Gluckman & Guthridge's THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT
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Hamilton's "What If--?"
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Jackson's VALLEY MEN
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Jacobson's THE GOD-FEARER
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Jeschke's THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
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Koning's "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur"
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Levine's WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT?
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Livy's AB URBE CONDITA
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Lupoff's "At Vega's Taqueria"
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Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS
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Murrin's "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations"
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Pierce's "On the Edge"
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Pignotti's THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
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Reilly's "What If? Short By a Nose"
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Rutman's CLASH OF EAGLES
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Smith's BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR and TAFLAK LYSANDRA
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Toynbee's "If Alexander the Great had Lived On"
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Toynbee's "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On"
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Turtledove's "Down in the Bottomlands"
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Vanauken's "The World After the South Won"
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Waldron's "If Lincoln had Yielded"
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Wodhams' "Try Again"
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Womack's ELVISSEY
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Deleted were:
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Bisson's TALKING MAN
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Bretnor's "Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All"
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Cook's A MATTER OF TIME
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Dick's "Jon's World"
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Nolan's "Death Double"
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Dozois and Dann's "Playing the Game"
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Heinlein's THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS
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Reed's DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY
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Stevens' HEADS OF CERBERUS
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Thanks to Alan Beale, Thomas Cron, Beth Friedman, Evelyn Leeper, Andreas Morlok
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and Harry Turtledove for recent contributions.
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Enjoy,
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rbs
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--
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Robert B. Schmunk <schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu>
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SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA
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[He] turned back to the window and the opaque Houston sky. "You know, there
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isn't anything wrong with this town that a couple of really good hurricanes
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couldn't fix." --Peter Gent, THE FRANCHISE
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From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (1/5) (850 lines)
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Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:18 GMT
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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
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Version 13 - 12 Jan 1993
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Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
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InterNet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu
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USPS: 1648 W Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006
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"...I've come to the conclusion that the stupidest
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words in the language are 'What if?'"
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--'William Faulkner', in
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William Sanders' THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY
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"What's past is past...and cannot be changed."
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--'Robert E. Lee', in
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Harry Turtledove's THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH
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This is an annotated list of stories involving Alternate Histories (aka What-
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Ifs, Allohistory or Counterfactuals), stories in which a past event has been
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altered and its effect on later history described. The list is occasionally
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posted to the UseNet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written and most of its contents
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were contributed by readers of that newsgroup. Much has been extracted from:
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Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
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Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds
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Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86};
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Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS {George
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Prior/G.K. Hall 78};
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-----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977-
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1983 {G.K. Hall 84}.
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Alternate history (abbrev. "AH" below) criteria are generally the same as in:
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Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
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HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}.
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Thus, alterations affect more than fictional individuals, and the story is not
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secret history, does not rely on events entirely futureward of when the author
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wrote the story, etc. Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as
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are corrections to the old.
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Entries have been separated into three categories:
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Anthologies -- collections of genre short stories and/or essays, each of which
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is also listed separately;
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Alternate Histories -- what-if stories, essays and novels;
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Reference Materials -- discussions of the genre and/or specific stories.
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In the entries, please note that:
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The notation "W:" beginning a description stands for "What if:", and that line
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describes the divergence of that AH from ours. An "S:" means "Story:", and that
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line describes the plot. A "C:" indicates "Comments:". If none of these is
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present, "C:" or "S:" is assumed.
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If an author's name is replaced by dashes, the entry is a sequel to or in the
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same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within arrows, it is
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part of a series collected within the previous book entry. Double arrows
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indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.
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If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author
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to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.
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References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name
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only if different from the author of the story.
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Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here,
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and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited.
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Where the latter occurs, "etc" appears at the end of the book list. If you need
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more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above.
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Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
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<#AW> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim [& Saha]) {DAW #}
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<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}
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<AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
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<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) {Baen 89}
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<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
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<AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) {Tor 93}
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<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) {NAL/Signet
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87}
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<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) {Pocket 76}
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<f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) {Baen 91}
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<GS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) {DAW 86, 88-91}
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<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
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<IAsfm> = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine]
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<IHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) {Rowman &
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Littlefield 79}
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<IHO,X> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver X (ed Squire); ver A {Longmans,
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Green 31}; ver B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev Viking 31; Kennikat 64};
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ver C {exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74}
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<SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) {Heath 77}
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<WIA> = WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) {M.E.
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Sharpe 92}
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<WIE> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) {Lewis 82}
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<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed Silverberg) {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
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<WM#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Bantam 89-92}
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<YB#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois)
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{Blue Jay 85; St. Martin's 87-92}
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This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing
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help of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Will
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Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and the numerous readers of
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rec.arts.sf.written who have made submissions.
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And now, the list:
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Anthologies:
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Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 89}
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New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and
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Turtledove.
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Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT
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ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 87}
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Reprints of by Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and
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Piper.
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Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
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STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
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Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch,
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Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K Roberts and Shippey.
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Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
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1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES {Bantam 89}
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New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
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Niven, Pohl, Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove.
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---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
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2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 90}
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New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison &
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Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz,
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Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, WJ Williams and Zebrowski.
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---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
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3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 91}
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New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P Anderson,
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Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M Resnick,
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Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
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---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
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4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {Bantam 92}
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Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' first voyage by
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Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent,
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Silverberg, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
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Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
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{Heath 77}
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Twelve essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
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Chamberlin, J.E., THE IFS OF HISTORY {Atheneum 08}
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22 short essays.
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Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 29}
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Nineteen essays.
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Levine, Herbert M. (ed), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE
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DIFFERENT? {M.E. Sharpe 92}
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Essays on the effect of different US political structures (with minimal
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historical development) by Cohen, Esberey, Ferrell, Gentry, Jeansonne,
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Levine and Pitney.
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Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 76}
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New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson,
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Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, W Moore, Orgill, Percy,
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D Thompson and Zebrowski.
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Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
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{Lewis 82}
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Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long,
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Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and
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PM Williams.
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Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {Tor 92}
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New stories. AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold,
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Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr
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and Von Rospach.
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------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 92}
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New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J Carr, Chalker, G
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Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, King, Kube-
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McDowell, Malzberg, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R
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Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans.
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------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS {Tor 93, not yet published}
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New stories.
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Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
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{Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
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Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven.
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Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman &
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Littlefield 79}
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Corrections of decisions by 10 historical figures by Allen, Blakemore,
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Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R Thompson, Windsor and Wright.
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Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
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HISTORY {Longmans, Green 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74};
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rev as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking 31; Kennikat 64}
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The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
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Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps
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Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan.
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Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
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ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 86}
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Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin, Hale,
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Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference material
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by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.
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Alternate Histories:
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Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 79; Signet 82}
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W: Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451.
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S: Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in
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which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England.
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-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 85}
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The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high
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seas and to Ireland.
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-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS {Signet 86}
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-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS {Signet 87}
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-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS {Signet 88}
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S:
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Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 62; Doubleday 63;
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Hutchinson 75; Dell 81}
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W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
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S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess.
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C: Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
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-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA {Doubleday 64; Cape 65; Dell 69}
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Hanoverians plot against James III.
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-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 66; Dell 69}
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A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at St.
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James' Palace.
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-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 81; Delacorte 81}
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A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
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discovered in the Andes.
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-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 69}
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The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
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-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 71; Doubleday 71}
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Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
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-----------, DIDO AND PA {Delacorte 86}
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Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
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Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA {Random
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House 83; Vintage 84}; orig OSTROV KRYM
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W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
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the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
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S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
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re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
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Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY {Cape 76}
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W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
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S:
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Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct
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62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS {Faber 66; Gregg 81},
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NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 69, xx}, THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc
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In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
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dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
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Aldiss, Brian W., "What You Get for Your Dollar", in THE NEW IMPROVED SUN
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(ed Disch) {Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76}
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W: The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in
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1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai.
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S: A man from our world, beset by an energy crisis, visits the utopian Sinai
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of another and describes its history.
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Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 87; St. Martin's
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88}
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W: Churchill was killed during a visit to Finland in 1935. Later, Germany
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gobbled up W Europe but left the Zinoviev-led Soviet Union alone.
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S: A Finnish composer finds the body of a girl alongside the road, and
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inside her backpack is an SF thriller about a different WW2.
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Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941", in <IHB>
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W: The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's
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gains without forcing a war with the United States.
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C: Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect
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MacArthur in 44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes.
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Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 76; Viking 76; Panther 78}
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W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king upon
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the death of Henry VII. Later, Martin Luther became pope.
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S: A boy soprano in 1976 Catholic England tries to flee becoming a papal
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castrato.
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Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93
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W: Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths.
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S: A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers
|
|
comes across an album with his name on it.
|
|
Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 91}
|
|
W: US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
|
|
theirs.
|
|
S: An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and
|
|
she sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
|
|
Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
|
|
{Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81}, <WoM>, <AH>, <GS17>, THE TIME PATROL {Tor
|
|
91}, etc
|
|
W: The Scipios were killed at Ticinus and Hannibal later captured and
|
|
destroyed Rome.
|
|
S: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
|
|
Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
|
|
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME {Tor 90}
|
|
S: Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
|
|
Rignano (1137).
|
|
C: Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The
|
|
Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", "The
|
|
Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the Ransom".
|
|
All may be found in THE TIME PATROL {Tor 91} and elsewhere.
|
|
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) {Doubleday 67;
|
|
NAL 75}; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) {Fawcett
|
|
73} and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS {Berkley 81}
|
|
W: Alexander lived longer *or* Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
|
|
Magyar attacks.
|
|
S: A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
|
|
taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
|
|
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WM1>
|
|
W: Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before
|
|
Christianity could get started.
|
|
S: Adventures of a courier from North Markland (America) in an alternate
|
|
Israel/Palestine.
|
|
Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST {Doubleday 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/
|
|
Futura 75}
|
|
W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
|
|
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
|
|
S: In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince
|
|
searches for Prospero's isle.
|
|
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 71; Lancer xx; Berkley 78; Baen
|
|
xx}; rev of stories in <f&sf> Sep 56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69
|
|
W: Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical
|
|
technology ensued.
|
|
S: A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the
|
|
machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America.
|
|
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 61; Avon xx; Berkley
|
|
78; Ace 84}
|
|
A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
|
|
of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
|
|
Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WM3>
|
|
W: Lucien Bonaparte convinced Napoleon to consolidate the French hold on
|
|
Europe rather than invade Egypt. Later, the French won at Trafalgar.
|
|
S: In 1849, Sam Houston talks history with a French diplomat during the
|
|
battle for New Orleans in the 2nd French-American War.
|
|
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
|
|
W: The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a
|
|
man's being saved from drowning.
|
|
S: Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid
|
|
adherence to the scientific method.
|
|
Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 43}
|
|
W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
|
|
S: How the invasion was defeated.
|
|
Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
|
|
W: Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
|
|
result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
|
|
S: Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
|
|
nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president.
|
|
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY {J. CUrley 81}; rev of "The End of
|
|
Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 86; NAL/Roc xx}
|
|
W: Enrico Fermi had not become involved in atomic research.
|
|
S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
|
|
forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
|
|
C: Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in *far*
|
|
future.
|
|
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78,
|
|
3 BY ASIMOV {Targ 81} and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES {Doubleday
|
|
83}
|
|
W: Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
|
|
S: A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes
|
|
it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
|
|
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 57,
|
|
Abelard-Schuman 76}, <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) {Rinehart
|
|
74}, THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH {Doubleday 79}, etc
|
|
Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
|
|
similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
|
|
Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS {Morrow 84; Bantam 85}
|
|
W: WW1 led to a world gov't.
|
|
S:
|
|
Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 92 and <WM4>
|
|
W: North America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists.
|
|
S: A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter
|
|
on its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer.
|
|
Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
|
|
government? (1977)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: Itzhak Rabin was Israeli PM in early 1977 and while visiting Romania was
|
|
advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans.
|
|
C: Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan,
|
|
leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO.
|
|
Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun 64, THE BEST
|
|
OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Compact 65}, SF12 (ed Merrill) {Delacorte 68},
|
|
THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Panther 74} and <HV>
|
|
W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
|
|
S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
|
|
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 91}
|
|
A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
|
|
an immortal elven queen rules in France.
|
|
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS {DAW 80}
|
|
>------------<, + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 72}; orig L'EMPIRE
|
|
DU BAPHOMET
|
|
W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
|
|
S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
|
|
Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
|
|
>------------<, + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE {only Engl.-language
|
|
publ. is in omnibus volume}; orig CROISADE STELLAIRE
|
|
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
|
|
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
|
|
SILENCE {Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70}, MAURICE BARING
|
|
RESTORED {Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70} and TRAVELERS IN TIME
|
|
(ed Stern) {Doubleday 47}
|
|
W: Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education
|
|
possible if enlisted in the British navy.
|
|
S: A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850.
|
|
Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
|
|
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 71}
|
|
During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
|
|
where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
|
|
Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton
|
|
Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 68}; orig. WENN
|
|
DAS DER FUHRER WUSST
|
|
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
|
|
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
|
|
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 85}
|
|
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 88}
|
|
A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a
|
|
different future.
|
|
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular
|
|
Library 79}, <79AW> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN {Arkham House 83}
|
|
A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
|
|
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
|
|
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and THERE WILL BE WAR 8:
|
|
ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
|
|
Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when
|
|
asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
|
|
Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason
|
|
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IHO,ABC>
|
|
W: Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
|
|
S: Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
|
|
mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
|
|
Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in Saturday Evening Post 5 Oct
|
|
35; THIRTEEN O'CLOCK {Farrar & Rinehart 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin
|
|
Library 82}; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) {Doubleday 42} (aka GREAT TALES
|
|
OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 54}); <AH>; etc
|
|
W: Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
|
|
S: An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a
|
|
retired, frustrated French artillery major.
|
|
Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in <IAsfm> Oct 91 and <WM3>
|
|
W: Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
|
|
S: Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
|
|
Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE {Simon & Schuster 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92}; rev
|
|
of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH
|
|
(eds Silverberg & Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}
|
|
A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he
|
|
tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal.
|
|
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
|
|
A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of the
|
|
Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler.
|
|
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WM1>
|
|
W: Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the
|
|
1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
|
|
S: After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
|
|
and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
|
|
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... {Bobbs-Merrill 78; Ace 79}
|
|
W: Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an
|
|
explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco.
|
|
S: To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological
|
|
development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe.
|
|
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP {Warner 88}
|
|
W: The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed.
|
|
S: Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68.
|
|
C: Borderline AH, as all names have been changed.
|
|
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO {Ace 86}
|
|
C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
|
|
W: The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
|
|
assassinated in Jul 44.
|
|
S: A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another.
|
|
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
|
|
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
|
|
S:
|
|
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>; orig "Tijdstorm"
|
|
A man caught in timestorm discovers humanoid aliens tinkering with the human
|
|
past, encouraging the spread of war.
|
|
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58, THE DARK
|
|
SIDE OF THE EARTH {Signet 64}, COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart
|
|
& Winston 74}, THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds
|
|
Silverberg & Greenberg) {Arbor House 83}, THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE
|
|
FICTION (ed Hartwell) {Little, Brown 89}, etc
|
|
Due to his wife's infidelity, a Mad Scientist repeatedly goes back in time
|
|
to prevent her existence but can only affect his "personal" timeline.
|
|
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 64}
|
|
W: As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies
|
|
ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed.
|
|
S: An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of
|
|
the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer.
|
|
Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and <YB5>
|
|
W: Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world.
|
|
S: [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of
|
|
collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics.
|
|
Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS {St.
|
|
Martin's 87; Tor 89}
|
|
W: In a skewed world, Richard Milrose Nixon was elected to four terms as US
|
|
president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame.
|
|
S: Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia
|
|
and the moon in order to correct history.
|
|
Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN {Arbor House 88}
|
|
W: With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
|
|
(three months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion.
|
|
S: 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers
|
|
to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation.
|
|
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
|
|
STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) {Fredrick Fell 55}, SPACE BY THE TAIL
|
|
{Ballantine 64} and <BAW>
|
|
W: Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
|
|
the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
|
|
S: A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
|
|
must be returned to save the universe.
|
|
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IHB>
|
|
W: Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
|
|
disorder.
|
|
C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
|
|
right-wing takeover.
|
|
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60
|
|
S:
|
|
Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr),
|
|
"Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8; orig
|
|
"Alternativen in der Wissenschaft"
|
|
C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
|
|
the beginning of the scientific revolution.
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in <SAH>
|
|
W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe to end the French and Indian War.
|
|
C:
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in
|
|
<SAH>
|
|
W:
|
|
C:
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in
|
|
<SAH>
|
|
W: The Constitution was rejected.
|
|
C:
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in
|
|
<SAH>
|
|
W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson
|
|
when breaking the Electoral College tie.
|
|
C:
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in
|
|
<SAH>
|
|
W: Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
|
|
at a more opportune time.
|
|
C:
|
|
Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
|
|
<SAH>
|
|
W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the COmpromise of 1850 to fail and
|
|
the Civil War to start a decade earlier.
|
|
C:
|
|
Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH {Tor 93}
|
|
W: Churchill arranged for Stalin's assassination, and the Nazis won WW2.
|
|
S:
|
|
Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD {Warner 86}
|
|
--------------, GOBLIN MARKET {Warner 88}
|
|
Crosstime stories in worlds of a French Canada and a stalemated WW2.
|
|
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley 69; Penguin 78}
|
|
W: Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
|
|
S: 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
|
|
with a Poet.
|
|
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP {Ace 86}
|
|
W: Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
|
|
S: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
|
|
oversize racoons.
|
|
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN {Doubleday
|
|
53}, R IS FOR ROCKET {Doubleday 62; Bantam 65}, THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY
|
|
{Knopf 80}, CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) {Farrar, Straus &
|
|
Giroux 83}, <GS14>, etc
|
|
S: Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
|
|
repercussions.
|
|
C: A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really
|
|
AH since the only result shown is futureward (?) of the writing.
|
|
Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 91}
|
|
W: Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold
|
|
on Britain and its colonies.
|
|
S: A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting
|
|
the repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth.
|
|
Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
|
|
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
|
|
TIME {Bantam 87} and <HV>
|
|
W: Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the
|
|
Allies.
|
|
S: A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face
|
|
with the god of battle.
|
|
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 49; Bantam 50]
|
|
A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which match the stories
|
|
his magazine has been publishing.
|
|
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 69; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Times
|
|
Without Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 62}; rev of stories in Science
|
|
Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
|
|
W: The Armada conquered England.
|
|
S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-
|
|
travel.
|
|
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor
|
|
91}
|
|
C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
|
|
S: The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers
|
|
tell their tales at a Krakow inn.
|
|
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
|
|
A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
|
|
but that doesn't solve his problems.
|
|
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81}
|
|
W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
|
|
out by natives.
|
|
S:
|
|
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed Wilson) {Signet 73}
|
|
Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working
|
|
their way back from event to event.
|
|
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAsfm> 16 Feb 81
|
|
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 81
|
|
S:
|
|
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WM3>
|
|
W: Victim of a minor stroke in late 1941, FDR was unable to resist
|
|
congressional and public pressure for a Japan First war policy.
|
|
S: Japanese saboteurs land on Amchitka just as orders for a crucial American
|
|
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
|
|
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
|
|
Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
|
|
Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne
|
|
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 77; Dell 77}
|
|
W: The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
|
|
S: An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
|
|
Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
|
|
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <AP> and
|
|
<YB9>
|
|
W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
|
|
the 68 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
|
|
S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
|
|
1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
|
|
Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK>
|
|
W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up
|
|
going into politics.
|
|
S: In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
|
|
with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
|
|
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IHB>
|
|
W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
|
|
executed.
|
|
C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
|
|
Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
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APROCRYPHAL STORIES {Penguin 75}; orig "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
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S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
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Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 87}; exp of "Hatrack River", in <IAsfm>
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Aug 86, <YB4> and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR
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(ed Carr) {Tor 87}
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W: Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering
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English history and the course of American colonization.
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S: Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American
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frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake.
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-----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 88}
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Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved with
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Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe.
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-----------------, PRENTICE ALVIN {Tor 89}; rev of "Prentice Alvin and the
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No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR {Tor 90}
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Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
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"mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
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Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07", in <AP>
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W: When Congress broke the Electoral College tie of 1800, they made Aaron
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Burr president rather than Thomas Jefferson.
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S: Militant Burr begins the move to manifest destiny 40 years early, but he
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also shows no signs of leaving the White House.
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Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
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C: 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
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S: Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into
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Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
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Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr
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Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in Analog
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Oct 85
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W: What if there were no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election
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of '52.
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C: How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (Astounding Jul 39) came
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true.
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Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
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Del Rey) {Ballantine 81}
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W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 *or* Watergate was never
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discovered.
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S: Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third
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trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
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Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WM2>
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W: Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul 1863.
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Wasn't he?
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S: 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history explore
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the Great Man hypothesis.
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Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne
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Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER {Ballantine 79}
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A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel
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an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth.
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Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AW>,
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ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial
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78} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE
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TITANIC
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Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
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Maine and Nova Scotia.
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Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 85}
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A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
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and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
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Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night", in <AP>
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W: James Buchanan suffered a stroke in Oct 1856 and Millard Fillmore,
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candidate of the American ("Know-Nothing") Party, was elected president.
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S: When Fillmore upholds the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1858, rioting and worse
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commence in New England.
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Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 85}
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A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and
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eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia.
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Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81
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------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81
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W: Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management
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techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts.
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S: A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project
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managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next.
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Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR
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{Coward-McCann 69}
|
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W: While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces delivered a
|
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devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 1967.
|
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S: A day-by-day account of the 6-day fall of Israel and its repercussions in
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the US, USSR and the new UAR.
|
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Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots",
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in <IHO,ABC> and THE COMMON MAN {Sheed & Ward 50}
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W: As the title says.
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C: Essay on England's place in Christendom and whether it would have
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accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort.
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Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in Omni Nov 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26
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(ed Morrow) {HBJ 92}
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W: An older idea of cosmology were correct.
|
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S: After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault of
|
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heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through.
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Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky", in <BT>
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W: Observing the continued success of Stanley brothers in auto racing, Henry
|
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Ford brought out the Model A steamer in 1911.
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S: Congress investigates internal combustion engines when a kerosene
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shortage arises.
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Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS {Popular Library 76}
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W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated.
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S:
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Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 81; Tempo 84}
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Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman
|
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times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire.
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-----------------, NEW FOUND LAND {Dutton 83}
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The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers
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and Aztecs.
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-----------------, DRAGON DANCE {Dutton 86}
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The boys travel on to California.
|
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Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
|
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Scribner's Dec 30, <IHO,ABC> and <WM3>
|
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W: Jeb Stuart reached the battlefield in time to support Pickett's charge.
|
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Later, Lee unilaterally freed the slaves and Britain recognized the CSA.
|
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S: Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might have
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prevented the formation of the English-speaking union.
|
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Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 75}
|
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W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
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S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment
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goes awry.
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Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 69}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE
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OLD WORLD {Cape 69}
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W: The Trinity test was a failure, due in part to Klaus Fuchs.
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S: An agonizing invasion of Kyushu leads to US use of rice fungus bombs, and
|
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the Soviets exploit border incidents for a drive on the English Channel.
|
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Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME {World 62}
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W:
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S:
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Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Judicial Review?", in <WIA>
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W:
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C:
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Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Written Constitution and Bill of
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Rights?", in <WIA>
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W: The US had an unwritten constitution, much like Britain's.
|
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C: An essay on how the US gov't would be more authoritarian, with minority
|
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opinions having less weight and no judicial review.
|
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Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME
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(ed Moorcock) {Rapp & Whiting 68}
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W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
|
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S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
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empire.
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Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in <BT>
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W: Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops before his family could
|
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flee to Egypt.
|
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S: The murder of Jesus, his family and the magi, with an epilog about Rome's
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British satrap "Queen" Victoria's humiliating coronation.
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Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
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W:
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S:
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Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ
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83}
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W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
|
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S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
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Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in <BT>
|
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W: The Watergate break-in went undiscovered and Richard Nixon was president
|
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until poor health caused his resignation in 1994.
|
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S: In 1996, a plumbers unit breaks into a Hyannisport house to retrieve a
|
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tape stolen from the San Clemente archives.
|
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Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett
|
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Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William
|
|
Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 90}
|
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A mental time traveler studying what made the Beatles so great is
|
|
sidetracked into "change war" action involving Rommel's Afrika Korps.
|
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--------------------, HOUR OF THE SCORPION {NAL/Roc 91}
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Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to
|
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the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon.
|
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--------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE {NAL/Roc 92}
|
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More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor.
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Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
|
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The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
|
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Vikings and English pirates.
|
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Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in <BT>
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W: Magellan discovered the Americas. 350 years later abolitionists blocked
|
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US annexation of Texas.
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S: A US Customs inspector considers the disastrous possibilities on a
|
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Balkanized N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
|
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Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <f&sf> Dec 91
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W: After defeating the US in WW2, the Japanese set the AmerInds up as
|
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governors of the country.
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S: Decades after the war, white Americans meet secretly to enjoy relics of
|
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Euro-American culture, and argue with a man who advocates accommodation.
|
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C: May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the
|
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Japanese defeat the US in the future.
|
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Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...", in <AP>
|
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W: Dewey defeated Truman in the election of 1948.
|
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S: How playing hardball over Communism led to Dewey's win.
|
|
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
|
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Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
|
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Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men
|
|
enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
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Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION {Thornton Cox 74; Presidio 77}
|
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W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, invading England on 22 Sep
|
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1940.
|
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S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure.
|
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C: Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German
|
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officers.
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Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY {Doubleday 90} and <YB7>
|
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W: Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society
|
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to preserve and extend the British Empire.
|
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S: Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he
|
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can rethink his will.
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Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale &
|
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LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90}
|
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W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
|
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S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army.
|
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C: Borderline AH-secret history.
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Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
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W: Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit
|
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more tenacious.
|
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S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
|
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Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in <IAsfm> Jul 92
|
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W: AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society.
|
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S: People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and
|
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one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out.
|
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Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!", in <BT>
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W: Offered the choice of going to hell or to America, George II's heir opted
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for the latter.
|
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S: The center of British power shifts to Philadelphia, leading to an English
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uprising in the early 1800s against American tyranny.
|
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Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson
|
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Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II (eds Pournelle & Baen)
|
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{Baen 85} and <FCW>
|
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W: The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington during
|
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Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865.
|
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S: An explanation of its development and how it provoked the sack of
|
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Richmond and a harsher Reconstruction.
|
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de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR
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DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES {Doubleday 63}, <BAW>, MODERN CLASSICS
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OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {St. Martin's 92, 93}, etc
|
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W: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science.
|
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S: Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead
|
|
overawes and sours him on scientific research.
|
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de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL {Ballantine 49; Pyramid 63;
|
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Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Lest Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec
|
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39
|
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Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a
|
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few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
|
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de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
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W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
|
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S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute
|
|
over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
|
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de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF
|
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{Shasta 48}, <AH> and Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
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W: Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of
|
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Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours.
|
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S: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic
|
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Christian bishop in "New Belfast".
|
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C: Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker".
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Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72
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W: Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2.
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S: An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop.
|
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Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared.
|
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deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
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S:
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Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79;
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Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92}
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W: Germany won the Battle of Britain.
|
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S: A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and
|
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investigate a murder in occupied England.
|
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Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66}
|
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Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States.
|
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Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in <AP>
|
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W: Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944.
|
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S: Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the
|
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atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender.
|
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Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian
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Century 7-14 Jan 76
|
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W: In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and
|
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Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent.
|
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S: Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles
|
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as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880.
|
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Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF {Heinemann 26}
|
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W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
|
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S:
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Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92
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W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided
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to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada.
|
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S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence,
|
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Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into.
|
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Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL {Popular Library 86, 0-445-20306-4}
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W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia
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after the fall of Germany.
|
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S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star.
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In 1979, her daughter goes on tour.
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Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in
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THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) {Citadel 91}
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In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
|
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one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
|
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Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
|
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in <WIE>
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W: As the title says.
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C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism
|
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might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones.
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Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92
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W: Anne Frank was sent to America in 1939
|
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S: Anne Frank goes to Hollywood and replaces Judy Garland (who died in a car
|
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crash) in THE WIZARD OF OZ
|
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Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91
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W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics,
|
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and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace.
|
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S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is
|
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recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees.
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Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
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S:
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Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo
|
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Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE {Ace 66}
|
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W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates.
|
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S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve
|
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overpopulation problems.
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Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley
|
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74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92}
|
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W: Before his 1933 inaugural, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which
|
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eventually led to the Axis winning WW2.
|
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S: Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and
|
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an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war.
|
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Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH {Arbor House 85; Avon 87}
|
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W:
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S:
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Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder &
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Stoughton 76; Avon 77}
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----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike
|
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90}
|
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W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in
|
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1910 rather than his brother George.
|
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S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family
|
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closet and must solve some mysteries.
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Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
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W: The Nazis conquered Britain.
|
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S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure.
|
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Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in
|
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CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) {Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne &
|
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Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864}
|
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Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development.
|
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d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf 74};
|
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orig LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE
|
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W: Eurasia was united under a single empire.
|
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S:
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Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
|
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English Library 79; St. Martin's 80}
|
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W: An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge
|
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of the 3rd Reich for 6 months.
|
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S: Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also,
|
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details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem.
|
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Drake, David, FORTRESS {Tor 87, 88}
|
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W: JFK escaped assassination and gave further impetus to the US space
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program.
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S: Outer space saga in 1985.
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Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92
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W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering
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Europe before the US could enter the war.
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S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe
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tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans.
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Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 87}
|
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W: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in
|
|
Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain.
|
|
S: In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American
|
|
agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends.
|
|
Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in <AP>
|
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W: Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president
|
|
in 1824, four years early.
|
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S: Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later,
|
|
George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers.
|
|
Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
|
|
<IHB>
|
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W: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his
|
|
2nd term as British Prime Minister.
|
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C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land
|
|
Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest.
|
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Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 81}
|
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S: The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the
|
|
Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations.
|
|
C: Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM.
|
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WM1>
|
|
An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a
|
|
Civil War different from the one we remember.
|
|
Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY {Axolotl 90}
|
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W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War.
|
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S:
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Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK>
|
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W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including
|
|
JFK's son Patrick.
|
|
S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his
|
|
numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics.
|
|
Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL {Harper & Row 73; Dell 76}; exp of
|
|
"The City on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON
|
|
RISING (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 73}
|
|
One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
|
|
which Germany won WW1.
|
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>, <YB6>
|
|
and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) {Arbor House 88}
|
|
An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
|
|
Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
|
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
|
|
Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) {Harper & Row 76} and <BAW>
|
|
W: In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2.
|
|
S: Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with
|
|
automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel.
|
|
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 79}
|
|
A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
|
|
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE {DAW 74}
|
|
A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets out
|
|
to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America.
|
|
Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WM4>
|
|
W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed
|
|
knowledge of Columbus' voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas.
|
|
S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic
|
|
murder of a babe near Seattle.
|
|
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81
|
|
W: The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously
|
|
colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700.
|
|
S: 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration
|
|
problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned.
|
|
Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT>
|
|
W: Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600.
|
|
S: In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco
|
|
just as the city falls to the Aztecs.
|
|
Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 75}
|
|
A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
|
|
involves re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
|
|
Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH>
|
|
W: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and
|
|
blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics.
|
|
S: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's
|
|
English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found.
|
|
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 73}
|
|
W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970,
|
|
thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history.
|
|
S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing
|
|
Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation.
|
|
Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK {Poseidon 89; Avon 89}
|
|
W: The Nazis won WW2.
|
|
S:
|
|
Esberey, Joy E., "What If There Were a Parliamentary System?", in <WIA>
|
|
W: The US adopted a parliamentary form of government after the revolution.
|
|
C:
|
|
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80
|
|
A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
|
|
strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
|
|
Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>,
|
|
THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79}, A TREASURY OF
|
|
MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) {Avon 81}, <GS14>, etc
|
|
W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological
|
|
principles.
|
|
S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth.
|
|
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 79}; rev of THE GATE OF TIME
|
|
{Belmont 70}
|
|
American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
|
|
Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war.
|
|
Farren, Mick, NECROM {Ballantine 91, 0-345-36185-7}
|
|
Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec dominated modern Earth.
|
|
Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in <AP>
|
|
W: Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled
|
|
Senate still provoked Southern secession.
|
|
S: In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and
|
|
his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana.
|
|
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed
|
|
Campbell) {Doubleday 63}, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74};
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) {Prentice-Hall 74},
|
|
<BAW> and <GS23>
|
|
W: Napoleon conquered Britain.
|
|
S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its
|
|
defenders behave like 20th-century liberals.
|
|
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 90}; exp of "The World Next Door",
|
|
<IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
|
|
W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s.
|
|
S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world
|
|
full of home computers, cable television, etc.
|
|
Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone 6 and INTERZONE: THE
|
|
FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) {J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85}
|
|
W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president.
|
|
S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal
|
|
diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev.
|
|
Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal
|
|
System?", in <WIA>
|
|
W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more
|
|
centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797.
|
|
C: Description of a US government and political parties under a system in
|
|
which states are little more than geographic regions.
|
|
Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WM4>
|
|
W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the
|
|
Pacific Coast.
|
|
S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their
|
|
colonization of California.
|
|
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB {Bantam 85}
|
|
Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
|
|
Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
|
|
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WM2>
|
|
W: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional
|
|
musician.
|
|
S: As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Einstein
|
|
frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher.
|
|
Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in <HV>
|
|
W: Rudolf Hess' flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began a
|
|
1000-year peace.
|
|
S: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an
|
|
accident on the Moon.
|
|
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 68}; rev of "The
|
|
Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and
|
|
ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 86}; incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc
|
|
Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
|
|
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31,
|
|
<IHO,ABC> and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69}
|
|
W: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston.
|
|
S: L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America,
|
|
but will it be enough?
|
|
Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN
|
|
1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES
|
|
{Simon & Schuster 57; Ace xx; Greenwood 77}; as INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF
|
|
THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Hart-Davis 57; Pan
|
|
75}
|
|
W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at
|
|
all.
|
|
C: Mostly background material but chapter 20 discusses events which could
|
|
not have occurred if either supposition were true.
|
|
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87
|
|
W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States
|
|
fighting constant border wars.
|
|
S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania
|
|
is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York.
|
|
Flynn, Michael F., IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND {Baen 90}
|
|
W: Babbage perfected the Difference Engine.
|
|
S: A secret society uses the machine to rule the world.
|
|
C: Borderline secret history.
|
|
Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89
|
|
W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success.
|
|
S: A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters
|
|
the Inca Empire before civil war broke out.
|
|
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster 83;
|
|
Avon 85}
|
|
W: Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and
|
|
Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works.
|
|
S: A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary
|
|
become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power.
|
|
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
|
|
FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka
|
|
ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION)
|
|
Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading to
|
|
all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline."
|
|
-------------, "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80
|
|
An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to convince
|
|
the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline.
|
|
-------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and <FCW>
|
|
A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded in
|
|
an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War.
|
|
-------------, "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
|
|
An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
|
|
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail xxx,
|
|
Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 70;
|
|
Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76}
|
|
W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
|
|
S:
|
|
Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics
|
|
90}
|
|
W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
|
|
S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century.
|
|
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
|
|
{Ballantine 77}
|
|
W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting
|
|
down Hitler in 6 months.
|
|
S: A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear
|
|
proliferation.
|
|
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
|
|
W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women
|
|
began to fight back against degradation.
|
|
S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can
|
|
take her to a more equable world.
|
|
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 86}
|
|
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 89}
|
|
---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR {Ballantine 89}
|
|
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 89}
|
|
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 90}
|
|
An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
|
|
defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
|
|
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: Nazi Germany developed atomic bombs by early 1944, dropping them on
|
|
London and Leningrad in May.
|
|
C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a
|
|
bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich.
|
|
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 88}
|
|
W: During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain
|
|
from the rest of the world.
|
|
S: Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen
|
|
grimoire on which rests her authority.
|
|
Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW>
|
|
S:
|
|
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
|
|
W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
|
|
instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
|
|
S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
|
|
meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
|
|
Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK>
|
|
W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted
|
|
the power of making anything true merely by saying so.
|
|
S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in
|
|
Berlin has disastrous effects.
|
|
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF!
|
|
{Donning 80}
|
|
W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
|
|
S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
|
|
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY {Doubleday/SFBC 83}
|
|
W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-
|
|
French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300.
|
|
>--------------<, MURDER AND MAGIC {Ace 79}
|
|
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed
|
|
Santesson) {Pocket 65} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
|
|
A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator is
|
|
the last thing the murdered man saw.
|
|
>>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed
|
|
Campbell) {Doubleday 66}
|
|
The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is
|
|
found dead near its harbor.
|
|
>>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
|
|
WONDER (ed McComas) {Random House 70}
|
|
Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his coffin is found occupied by
|
|
the body of the Chief Investigator for the Duchy.
|
|
>>------------<<, "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed
|
|
Dickinsheet) {Doubleday 73}
|
|
A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
|
|
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace xx};
|
|
serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
|
|
Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a
|
|
sorcerers' convention in London.
|
|
>--------------<, LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES {Ace 81}
|
|
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED
|
|
HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) {Davis/Dial 83}
|
|
A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
|
|
laboratory.
|
|
>>------------<<, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76
|
|
Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the
|
|
papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion.
|
|
>>------------<<, "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and 13 CRIMES OF
|
|
SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 79}
|
|
During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is found
|
|
dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy.
|
|
>>------------<<, "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S
|
|
SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 79}
|
|
A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly travels
|
|
to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing.
|
|
----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S
|
|
SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC
|
|
ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan)
|
|
{Davis/Dial 82}
|
|
A drink of rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is
|
|
required to explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste.
|
|
----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER
|
|
(ed Bretnor) {Ace 79} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
|
|
S: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield.
|
|
C: See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN
|
|
GIRL.
|
|
Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
|
|
in <BT>
|
|
Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence
|
|
of Henry Ford.
|
|
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54}
|
|
W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
|
|
rule.
|
|
S:
|
|
Gentry, Judith F., "What If the 1787 Constitution Had Provided for Equal
|
|
Rights?", in <WIA>
|
|
W:
|
|
C:
|
|
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
|
|
W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
|
|
winning the election of 1952.
|
|
S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
|
|
how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
|
|
Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK>
|
|
W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married
|
|
Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business.
|
|
S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi
|
|
features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise.
|
|
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 73; Faber 73;
|
|
Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; Bantam 91}
|
|
S:
|
|
Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons
|
|
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr)
|
|
{Doubleday 81; Zebra 81}; BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 86; Ace 87} and
|
|
MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) {Arbor House 86; Ace 88}
|
|
A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
|
|
etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
|
|
Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91}
|
|
W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected
|
|
his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early.
|
|
S: A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada
|
|
Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder.
|
|
Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St.
|
|
Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in Christian Century 24
|
|
Feb 71
|
|
W: As the title says.
|
|
S: The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona,
|
|
particularly its competition with American Christian missions.
|
|
Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in <AP>
|
|
W: Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus
|
|
keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976.
|
|
S: On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran
|
|
after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914.
|
|
Gluckman & Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT {St.
|
|
Martins}
|
|
W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar.
|
|
S:
|
|
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91}
|
|
S:
|
|
Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV>
|
|
W: Germany won WW2.
|
|
S: An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the
|
|
previous occupant's Dachau experiments.
|
|
Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and
|
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LAUGHING SPACE (ed Asimov & Jeppson) {Houghton Mifflin 82}
|
|
W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay.
|
|
S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company.
|
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Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT>
|
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W: Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo.
|
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S: Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New
|
|
France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia
|
|
Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme
|
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Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in
|
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<SAH>
|
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W:
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C:
|
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Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained
|
|
Neutral?", in <SAH>
|
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W: The United States was not drawn into WW1.
|
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C:
|
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Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without
|
|
Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH>
|
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W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands
|
|
of Zangara the next spring.
|
|
C:
|
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Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--
|
|
What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH>
|
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W: FDR enjoyed better health.
|
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C:
|
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Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH>
|
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C:
|
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Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
|
|
EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 77; Sphere 79}
|
|
W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665.
|
|
S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo
|
|
at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war.
|
|
Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al)
|
|
{Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
|
|
W: The American Revolution failed.
|
|
S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on
|
|
St. Helena, but is he Napoleon?
|
|
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
|
|
W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate
|
|
his hold on the crown of France.
|
|
S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in
|
|
France.
|
|
Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 85}
|
|
C: 1st sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
|
|
S: In their first attack on Lord (now King) Kalvan, Styphon's House hits him
|
|
with three forces, but is defeated in all cases.
|
|
--------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL BE
|
|
WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
|
|
C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
|
|
S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
|
|
Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green
|
|
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
|
|
A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
|
|
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill & Wang 80}
|
|
W: The Allies invaded France a year earlier.
|
|
C: Discussion of Allied errors in WW2. Final chapter speculates that
|
|
invading a year earlier would have given a postwar advantage to the West.
|
|
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92}
|
|
At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
|
|
again and again.
|
|
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IHO,ABC>
|
|
W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
|
|
S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada.
|
|
Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and <AP>
|
|
W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the
|
|
election of Barry Goldwater as president.
|
|
S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky
|
|
Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years.
|
|
Guthridge: see Gluckman & Guthridge
|
|
Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
|
|
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 73}, collected from Int'l
|
|
Federation of Wargamers newsletter
|
|
W: The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory
|
|
at Stalingrad.
|
|
S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
|
|
Europe and Africa.
|
|
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Doubleday 71}
|
|
W:
|
|
S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
|
|
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The
|
|
Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow)
|
|
{HBJ 92}
|
|
A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
|
|
and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
|
|
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE
|
|
FICTION (ed Bova) {Omni 80} and DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 85}
|
|
In a bar discussion, a man claims to have traveled back in time and invested
|
|
in all the right scientific inventions, but it didn't work.
|
|
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; HANDS OFF {J.S.
|
|
Smith 1895}; ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds
|
|
Asimov et al) {Beufort 82}; <AH>; etc
|
|
W: Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
|
|
S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches
|
|
the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean.
|
|
Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 {Dial 64}
|
|
W: William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was
|
|
averted.
|
|
S: Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France
|
|
or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation.
|
|
Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS {Avon 90}
|
|
W: Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia,
|
|
and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg.
|
|
S: Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen
|
|
Poe's life turned to literature.
|
|
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
|
|
S:
|
|
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 90}
|
|
W: Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans *or* Cleopatra murdered
|
|
Octavian.
|
|
S: Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save
|
|
the her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present.
|
|
Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 92; Thorndike 92}
|
|
W: Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering
|
|
that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west.
|
|
S: A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds
|
|
himself unwrapping a 20-year-old conspiracy.
|
|
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME {Tor 83}
|
|
A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War;
|
|
a black soldier follows in order to defeat him.
|
|
Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood)
|
|
{Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}, CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) {Fawcett
|
|
81} and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}
|
|
A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go
|
|
nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run N America.
|
|
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English
|
|
Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 72,
|
|
Berkley 72}; serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72
|
|
W: Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat at Navas de Tolosa in 1212,
|
|
and the War of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI.
|
|
S: A descendant of executed British-American rebel George Washington is in
|
|
charge of building the ultimate tunnel.
|
|
C: See also the reference entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
|
|
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 84}
|
|
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 86}
|
|
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 88, 89}
|
|
W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
|
|
S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
|
|
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg)
|
|
{Doubleday 71; Avon 73}, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed
|
|
Del Rey) {Dutton 72}; and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON {Signet 76}
|
|
A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
|
|
imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
|
|
Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WM2>
|
|
W: The last Christian king in England broke with the church.
|
|
S: In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him over the
|
|
edge.
|
|
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 84}
|
|
A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
|
|
has it in for them.
|
|
Henry, O., "Roads of Destiny", in ROADS OF DESTINY {Doubleday, Doran 09;
|
|
Doubleday, Page 17} and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY {Doubleday 53}
|
|
S: Three possible futures for a French shepherd/poet who comes to a
|
|
crossroads.
|
|
C: Not really AH since all characters are fictional, but an early statement
|
|
of the theme of alternate choices leading to alternate futures.
|
|
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90}
|
|
W: Warlord-run China conquered the US in an undescribed war in the mid
|
|
1900s.
|
|
S: Story of an Arizona girl who is taken into slavery in China.
|
|
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92
|
|
A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because
|
|
everything gets worse, but she has been visited before.
|
|
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 85}
|
|
W: The Nazis remained an obscure political party *or* Churchill did not
|
|
return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
|
|
S: Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back to stiffen Britain's spine and
|
|
promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past.
|
|
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 82}
|
|
W: Aliens disrupted the execution of Conradin Hohenstaufen in 1268 Naples.
|
|
S: Trying to fix things without technological interference, the aliens
|
|
become involved in the conflict over who should be Holy Roman emperor.
|
|
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 77; Ace 82}
|
|
During an attempt to travel into a potential future, a man finds himself
|
|
retrieved from a red ocean by a slave ship traveling to New Amerika.
|
|
-------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME {Panther 77; Ace 82}
|
|
S:
|
|
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 78; Ace 82}
|
|
S:
|
|
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
|
|
DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed
|
|
Conklin) {Grayson 55}
|
|
A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that
|
|
had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost.
|
|
Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing
|
|
Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry
|
|
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87
|
|
and <YB5>
|
|
An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins
|
|
as he visits various worlds.
|
|
Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION
|
|
OF 1807 {Tickner & Fields 83}
|
|
W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled.
|
|
S:
|
|
Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
|
|
SEASON" {Crown 83}
|
|
S:
|
|
Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER {Bloomsbury 92}
|
|
Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect.
|
|
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 70}
|
|
S:
|
|
Jeansonne, Glen, "What If There Had Been No Slavery?", in <WIA>
|
|
W: African-Americans voluntarily emigrated to America rather than be
|
|
transported as slaves.
|
|
C: Various effects on American society, including a shrunken plantation
|
|
culture in a more industrialized but less cohesive South.
|
|
Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray
|
|
Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in
|
|
Amazing Jul 91
|
|
W:
|
|
S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside
|
|
down.
|
|
Jeschke, Wolfgang, & Gertrud Mander, THE LAST DAY OF CREATION {St. Martin's
|
|
82; Century 82}; orig DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG
|
|
W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
|
|
success in WW2.
|
|
S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
|
|
trouble vs. people from other timelines.
|
|
Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
|
|
THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66}
|
|
C:
|
|
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
|
|
Watergate? (1973)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: As the title says.
|
|
C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in
|
|
Washington, but little else changes.
|
|
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's
|
|
76; Warner 77}
|
|
W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
|
|
wiped out on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn.
|
|
S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for
|
|
disobeying orders and negligence.
|
|
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 80}
|
|
W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works.
|
|
S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform
|
|
magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter.
|
|
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 88}
|
|
S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
|
|
great mage Chrestomanci.
|
|
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77}
|
|
S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
|
|
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 82}
|
|
S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
|
|
orphans.
|
|
Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones
|
|
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
|
|
W: Minor candidate Belva Ann Lockwood was elected US president in 1888.
|
|
S: During the election of 1892, Lockwood personally leads the way to
|
|
universal suffrage.
|
|
Kagan, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in
|
|
<WIE>
|
|
W: Richard Nixon was not forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas for
|
|
chief justice of the Supreme Court.
|
|
C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court
|
|
would have had.
|
|
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 61}; exp of "If
|
|
the South had Won the Civil War", in Look 22 Nov 60
|
|
W: Grant was killed on 12 May 1863 and Sherman died in the Vicksburg
|
|
debacle. Also, occupation of Culp's Hill led to rebel victory at Gettysburg.
|
|
S: Vicksburg, Gettysburg and the end of the war, followed by a review of US,
|
|
CS and Texas history until reunification in the 1960s.
|
|
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?"
|
|
Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in <AK>
|
|
W: JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year.
|
|
S: A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at
|
|
the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge.
|
|
Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST {Simon &
|
|
Schuster 60}; orig TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
|
|
W: Jesus fled his doom.
|
|
S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
|
|
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC {Ballantine 87}
|
|
Mental Trainables of 1998 use information gained from the future of a
|
|
similar timeline to speed up the end of an American Emergency.
|
|
----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR {Ballantine 88}
|
|
Intemporal Agent Jerry Pierce investigates the assassination of the Roman
|
|
emperor Domitian in another timeline by means of an antitank weapon.
|
|
----------------, THE EMPIRE OF TIME {Ballantine 87}
|
|
Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
|
|
alternate Earths along the way.
|
|
King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP>
|
|
W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his
|
|
effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877.
|
|
S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and
|
|
how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party.
|
|
Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
|
|
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND
|
|
SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) {Doubleday 60} (aka FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND
|
|
OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER {Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem xx}
|
|
A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the
|
|
events that caused them.
|
|
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IHO,AC>
|
|
W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
|
|
S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike.
|
|
Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90
|
|
Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of
|
|
Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc.
|
|
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
|
|
{Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77}, <HV>, <GS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed
|
|
McSherry) {Baen 90}, etc
|
|
W: The US did not develop the atomic bomb.
|
|
S: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a
|
|
glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
|
|
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3)
|
|
22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four
|
|
historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn.
|
|
Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn,
|
|
+ E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
|
|
Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in Analog May 88
|
|
W: Albert Einstein accepted an invitation to visit CalTech in 1925 and while
|
|
in transit was arrested after delivering a lecture in Louisville, KY.
|
|
S: Clarence Darrow humiliates William Jennings Bryant at a trial to decide
|
|
whether Einstein violated a law against contradicting the Bible.
|
|
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES {Ace 88}
|
|
W: Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and
|
|
Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression.
|
|
S: A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war
|
|
grows closer.
|
|
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", in <AP>
|
|
W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned
|
|
the tables on James Garfield in 1880.
|
|
S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince
|
|
Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system.
|
|
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in <AK>
|
|
W: It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having
|
|
an affair with a suspected Nazi spy.
|
|
S: Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from
|
|
under his father's control.
|
|
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE {Signet 89}
|
|
W: Columbus' first voyage had a fourth ship *or* the Americas were invaded
|
|
by Europeans c 1000 BC *or* Germany won an early WW1.
|
|
S: An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip
|
|
between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her.
|
|
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY {Ace 89}
|
|
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS {Ace 88}
|
|
C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
|
|
S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
|
|
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL {Pyramid 69}
|
|
Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
|
|
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 75}
|
|
Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
|
|
Constitution.
|
|
Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/
|
|
Critic's Choice 85}
|
|
W: The Watergate break-ins went undetected.
|
|
S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
|
|
camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup.
|
|
C: Borderline AH, as names have been changed.
|
|
Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis
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Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
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W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became
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independent Appalachia.
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S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia.
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Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed Knight)
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{Putnam's 70; Berkley 70}, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72} and THE GOLDEN
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ROAD (ed Knight) {Simon & Schuster 74}
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A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes' world-map goes sailing
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and lands on the Africa of our world.
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Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70;
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Berkley 71}, CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES
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{Ace 84}, <AH>, etc
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W: Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth.
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S: An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing in
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trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw.
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Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72},
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AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) {Fawcett 79}, <GS23>, etc
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An 18th-century inventor grows old, then uses a time machine to go back to
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give himself advice. His younger self repeats the process, etc.
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Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
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(ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78}
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W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
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principles.
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S: A review of some early television programs.
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Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
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{Pinnacle 77}
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W:
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S: In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces
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comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own.
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Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67, WORLD'S
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BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 68}, NINE HUNDRED
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GRANDMOTHERS {Ace 70}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) {Prentice-
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Hall 74}, etc
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Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their
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past without realizing it.
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Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
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<WM2>
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W: After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington was
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captured, tortured and executed.
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S: 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret their
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part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure.
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Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
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Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
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W: Jesus was run over by a donkey cart and John the Baptist became the
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Messiah.
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S: A letter from one AmerInd to another reveals the divisions in a N America
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controlled by Japanese, Aztecs and various tribes.
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From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:33 1993
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
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From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (3/5) (850 lines)
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Message-ID: <C0pzt2.Dxo@rice.edu>
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Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
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Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:48:38 GMT
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Lines: 857
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Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
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W: Japan colonized the western part of N America and Europe the east,
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leaving no major frontier.
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S: James Hickock meets Bill Cody on a train in the Dakotas, and both lament
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their uninteresting lives as businessmen.
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Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in The Nation 13 Apr 46
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W: Roosevelt did not die in 1945.
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S: Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including control
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of the bomb and the start of the Cold War.
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Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT {Cresset 48}
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S:
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Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor
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83}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
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Adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium centered in
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London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
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-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle/Tor 81}
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>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72};
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serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65
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Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at
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Brussels in 1814.
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>-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley 68; Dobson 72}
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Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle
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at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
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-------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 90}
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S:
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Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
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ENGLAND {The Author 1899}
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W: The French invaded England in 1805.
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S: Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next.
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Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 71; R. Bentley 82}
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A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
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advantage of it.
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Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN
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AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John
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Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 19}
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W: Kaiser Wilhelm and family members were exiled to America after WW1.
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S: Their voyage across the Atlantic, in 3rd-class steerage, and the Kaiser's
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final days as a street pedlar.
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Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH
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THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John Lane/Bodley Head/
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S.B. Gundy 19}
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W: Germany won WW1.
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S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
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Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91}; serial
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in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
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At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches
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ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears.
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-------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63, THE SECRET SONGS {Rupert
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Hart-Davis 68}, THE CHANGE WAR {Gregg 78}, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
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(eds Pohl et al) {Harper & Row 80} and CHANGEWAR {Ace 83}
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The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of
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MacBeth before Elizabeth I.
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-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75; <76AW>; THE WORLDS
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OF FRITZ LEIBER {Ace 76; Gregg 79}; NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin)
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{Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78}; THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov)
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{Doubleday 85}; THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) {Tor 89}; etc
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S: After dining with his son at the Empire State Building, zeppelin designer
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Adolf Hitler is caught in a whirl of parallel selves.
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C: Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the
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Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
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Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
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DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
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A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
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ventures.
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Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE
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FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) {Gnome 52} and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) {Dell 78}
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In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real
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all the possible outcomes from various choices.
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Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE
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FICTION (ed Conklin) {Dell 54} and <BAW>
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Ancient Egyptian priests discovered a parallel uninhabited world and
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sustain themselves by looting ours, for merchandise and slaves.
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Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in Astounding Jun 34, SIDEWAYS IN TIME
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{Shasta 50}, <WoM>, BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 74}, THE
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BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {Ballantine 78; Garland 83} and THE TIME TRAVELERS
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(eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Donald I Fine 85}
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On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
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timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
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Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 64}
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W: Napoleon established a permanent dynasty.
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S: Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical
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memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804.
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Lem, Stanislaw, + Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (trs), "The
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Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ 82}
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Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
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Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
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Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Were No Television?", in <WIA>
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W:
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C:
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Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Had Been No Cold War?", in <WIA>
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W:
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C:
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Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 51}; incl. in A
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TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) {Doubleday 59}
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W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular
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second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction.
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S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency
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and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869.
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Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT>
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W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped
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back to Switzerland.
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S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian
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republic.
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Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 88}; exp of "Moon of Ice", in
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Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
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W: FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44
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to win the war in Europe.
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S: The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and
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an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare.
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Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
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Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA {Harvard Univ/
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Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82}
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W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
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S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work suggests that the Romans
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would have beaten him.
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C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
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BC-14 AD).
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Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE
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FICTION (ed Wollheim) {McBride 53} (aka PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME)
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W: Hitler were killed during an Allied bombing raid.
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S: Change the past tale.
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Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WIE>
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W: Napoleon did not immediately sell Louisiana to the US in 1803.
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C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after
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the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of N America in Canada.
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Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74;
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Arrow 75}
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W: Nazi Germany invaded England.
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S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
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discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
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C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program.
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Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
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SCHENECTADY
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A man finds a silver 1978 quarter and essays by his father's students about
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visits by a mysterious friend urging them to higher goals.
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Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IHO,ABC>
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W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser
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lasted longer than 91 days.
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S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while
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Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
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Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S
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ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
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W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
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midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
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S: The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his
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worst excesses.
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C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?" synopses of other AHs.
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Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90
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A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet causes a man to doubt his
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sanity until he discovers that he is shifting from one timeline to another.
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Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85}
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W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center.
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S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side.
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--------------- A., COUNTERSOLAR! {Arbor House 87; Ace 89}
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S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth.
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Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 70}
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W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
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S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
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MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick
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MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S
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LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) {Davis/Dial 82, 83}
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--------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70
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--------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71
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--------------, "One-Generation New World", in If Mar 71
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--------------, "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75
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A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really
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coherent reason).
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Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
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{Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80}
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W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
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S: A campaign history of July 1940, when Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded
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England and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WM1>
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W: Nixon was elected president in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 and 1968.
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S: In 1972, "the senator" runs again. Upset by his change of heart on the
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Vietnam war, "Lee" decides to shoot him and his running-mate in Dallas.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WM2>
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W: Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer.
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S: In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the latest
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issue of Amazing arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov.
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Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE {Doubleday 78}
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S:
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Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal", in <AP>
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W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential
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election campaign of 1960.
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S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's
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self-destructive activities.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House", in <AK>
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W: Joe Kennedy survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952.
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S: Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy
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and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's for betraying the family.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM
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QUARTER {Doubleday 76} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
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(eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
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W: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
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S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series
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of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP>
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W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president
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in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president.
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S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then
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how they dealt with Hitler.
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Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD {Ballantine 85}; exp of
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"Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson)
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{Doubleday 80}
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W:
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S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated
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aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in Omni Apr 92 and <WM4>
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W: Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first
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voyage.
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S: Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile,
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over on the Santa Maria, Torquemada plots.
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Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WM3>
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W: Radicals who took over the UChicago campus in 1968 went looking for the
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campus reactors.
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S: The radicals make extreme demands, forgetting that LBJ is a *vengeful*
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lame-duck.
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Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in
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Fortnightly Apr 41
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W: William IV's heir was male.
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S: Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the
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worlds wars.
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Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 87}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 87}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 87}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 88}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 88}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam xx}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam xx}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam xx}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE {Bantam 92}
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------------------------, WILD CARDS XIII: CARD SHARKS {not yet published}
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-------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
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{Bantam xx}
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W: In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released in
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Earth's stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others.
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S: A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during the
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ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much.
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C: Also in series are Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's
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WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS.
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Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD {Avon 85}
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W: An alteration in the progeny of Henry II resulted in a different English
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royal succession. Also, magic works.
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S: A woman from our world visits a different olde England.
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------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD {Avon 88}
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S:
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Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 71}
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Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet.
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Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WIE>
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W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808.
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C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success
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later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies.
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Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IHO,ABC>
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W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister.
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S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
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entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
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Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM {Doubleday 73}
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W: By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George
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McGovern was elected president in 1972.
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S: An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass
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is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted.
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McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WM3>
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W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, leading to
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the complete break-up of Rome and a never-ending dark age.
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S: C. 1700, a young man meets an old man excavating a tomb in a ruined city.
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McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in Interzone Apr 92
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W: James Joyce took up another occupation than writing.
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S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he
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pursued other paths.
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McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92
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W: Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam
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engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC.
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S: Aborigines decide to stop Columbus' expedition to order to save the world
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from Europeans.
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Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy
|
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79}
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An agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed
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American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
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---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 766; Playboy 79}
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Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
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colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
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---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 78; Playboy 79}
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And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
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Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 76}
|
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W: Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871.
|
|
S: A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history
|
|
in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago.
|
|
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52;
|
|
Modern Literary Editions xx}; exp of "The House of Many Worlds", in
|
|
Startling Stories Sep 51
|
|
Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where
|
|
Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA.
|
|
Merwin, Sam, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 55}; exp of
|
|
"Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
|
|
Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
|
|
Rome.
|
|
Miesel, Sandra, DREAMRIDER {Ace 82}; as SHAMAN {Baen 89}
|
|
S:
|
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Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS {Bantam 93}
|
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C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
|
|
Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller
|
|
Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91
|
|
A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent
|
|
alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history.
|
|
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
|
|
accident (1847)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: As the title says.
|
|
C: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe
|
|
would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts.
|
|
Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN {Ace 87}
|
|
A Bret Harte descendant attempts to make his ancestor the literary giant of
|
|
1900 by arranging for Mark Twain's success in the gold fields.
|
|
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 84}
|
|
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 86}
|
|
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 89}
|
|
W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by
|
|
Christianity.
|
|
S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes
|
|
Caesar.
|
|
Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92
|
|
W:
|
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S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of
|
|
a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out.
|
|
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAsfm> Sep 91 and <AP>
|
|
W: Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal, leading
|
|
to Davey Crockett becoming president in 1828.
|
|
S: Just as the Confederacy wins its independence in 1853, a soldier recounts
|
|
how the flight of a slave may have broken the Compromise of 1850.
|
|
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 77}
|
|
Soldiers from post-nuclear war USA are thrown back to 1860, where they help
|
|
create an AmerInd nation and a Free State of New Mexico.
|
|
Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illustrated
|
|
[Classic] Fall 91
|
|
W: Henry Frazee's mistress prevented him from trading Babe Ruth to the New
|
|
York Yankees in 1919.
|
|
S: Reminiscing about the many men who played for the Boston Red Sox, the
|
|
greatest dynasty in baseball history.
|
|
Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE
|
|
{Allison & Busby 78; Fontana 78; Avon 79; Warner/Popular Library 86}
|
|
W: Refugees from Troy founded a new empire in Britain.
|
|
S: Political machinations in London, capital of Elizabethan-level Albion,
|
|
which is ruled by a virgin queen.
|
|
Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC xx}
|
|
>---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 71; Ace 71;
|
|
rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81}
|
|
Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
|
|
has maintained European imperialism.
|
|
>---------------<, THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE {Doubleday
|
|
74; Quartet 74; DAW 76}
|
|
Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did
|
|
the world no good.
|
|
>---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 82}
|
|
Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
|
|
invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
|
|
Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN {DC Comics xx}; reprints 12-issue comic
|
|
book series {DC Comics 86-87}
|
|
W: Costumed vigilantes appeared in 1939 and a real superhero with
|
|
superpowers was created in 1959 by an accident in a nuclear research lab.
|
|
S: In 1986, Nixon is still president, someone is killing old costumed heroes
|
|
and nuclear war looks imminent. Why are the latter two related?
|
|
Moore, C.L.: see Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore
|
|
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE {Farrar, Straus & Young 53; Ballantine 53;
|
|
Avon 72}; exp of "Bring the Jubilee", in <f&sf> Nov 52 and <FCW>
|
|
W: Confederates occupied the Round Tops during the first day of Gettysburg,
|
|
leading to victory in the battle and Confederate independence.
|
|
S: An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and
|
|
the Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
|
|
Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang", in <BT>
|
|
W: The Sino-German alliance defeated Japan and won WW2.
|
|
S: A Chinese-American history prof at UC-Monterey finds that his students
|
|
are violently bigoted.
|
|
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 88}
|
|
In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out
|
|
to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
|
|
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
|
|
W: Adenauer did not ignore Stalin's proposal for German re-unification.
|
|
C: His five reasons for exploring the idea, plus some commentary about the
|
|
all-German election of 1954.
|
|
Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66
|
|
W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England.
|
|
S: Foiling the invasion.
|
|
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WM2> and <90AW>
|
|
W: Lincoln made peace with the Confederacy in 1863.
|
|
S: Through time travel, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
|
|
Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in Amazing Jul 91 and <WM3>
|
|
W: Upon finding out that the Trojan War was being fought over her, Helen
|
|
decided she didn't need the guilt.
|
|
S: Notified of Helen's desire to end the war, the leaders of both sides
|
|
aren't having any of it.
|
|
Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant", in <WM1>
|
|
W: Moses couldn't get a replacement set for the tablets he smashed on the
|
|
golden calf, and society had to be constructed without them.
|
|
S: An attempt to computer-reconstruct the law of Moses from the tablet
|
|
shards, which have been saved.
|
|
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL {Simon & Schuster 75; Macmillan
|
|
75}
|
|
W: Hitler attacked the Soviet Union immediately instead of toying with
|
|
Greece and Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Japan attacked Vladivostok.
|
|
S: A young officer and a maverick bishop get involved in a last-ditch
|
|
attempt to topple Hitler.
|
|
Murphy, Walter F., "What if Peter had been Pope During World War II?", in
|
|
<WIE>
|
|
W: God re-ran history, with Pope Pius XII changed to have St. Peter's moral
|
|
fiber.
|
|
C: The Oct 1943 roundup of Roman Jews leads the Pope to criticize the 3rd
|
|
Reich and Great Britain, and the Nazis attack the Vatican.
|
|
Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual
|
|
Speculations", in Reviews in American History Jun 83
|
|
W: Three men who powered the American Great Awakening did not do so.
|
|
C: Scholarly rgument that minus the evangelical movement, the revolution
|
|
would still occur and independence probably gained, but no Civil War.
|
|
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 69; McGraw-
|
|
Hill 86; Vintage 90}
|
|
W:
|
|
S:
|
|
National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First
|
|
6,000 Days", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 77
|
|
W: Jackie Kennedy died in Dallas instead of JFK.
|
|
S: A whimsical look at Kennedy's first 16 years, including his marriage to
|
|
Christina Onassis and military intervention in N Ireland.
|
|
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 75}
|
|
William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things
|
|
turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians.
|
|
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 80}
|
|
W: The CSA won the battle.
|
|
S: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter speculates on
|
|
possible historical impact.
|
|
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and <YB6>
|
|
W: H.G. Wells' book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction.
|
|
S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood.
|
|
Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal
|
|
Jul/Aug 91
|
|
W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated at a labor
|
|
strike before the inauguration.
|
|
S: The US gov't takes harsher actions against labor organizers, etc,
|
|
thereby provoking a revolution. Meanwhile, Mexico retakes much of Texas.
|
|
Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE
|
|
WANDERING JEW (ed Stableford) {Daedalus 91}
|
|
W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, creating a
|
|
world in which Jews gained the power Christians had in our world.
|
|
S: In the year 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew is present at the great
|
|
battle pitting the Jews against the Muslims and Zoroastrians.
|
|
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <IHO,ABC>
|
|
W: Lord Byron did not die of a fever in 1824.
|
|
S: An overview of Byron's life from 1824 to 1854, including how he became
|
|
king of Greece in 1831 and his wife's attempts to usurp power.
|
|
Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat", in <AP>
|
|
W: Warren Harding died during the campaign of 1920, putting James Cox in the
|
|
White House. But Cox died too and his Veep became president.
|
|
S: In 1923, President Franklin Roosevelt meets with German Chancellor Adolf
|
|
Hitler, who successfully pulled off the Beer Hall Putsch.
|
|
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, ALL THE MYRIAD
|
|
WAYS {Ballantine 71}, GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FICTION
|
|
(eds Pohl et al) {Playboy 80; Wideview 81}, N-SPACE {Tor 90}, etc
|
|
W: The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange.
|
|
S: A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime
|
|
Corporation.
|
|
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <f&sf> Oct 70, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE
|
|
FICTION: 71 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 71} and THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE
|
|
{Ballantine 73}
|
|
Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
|
|
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}
|
|
Post-holocaust time-traveler creates our timeline by preventing a blow-up
|
|
resulting from the Cuban missile crisis.
|
|
Niven, Larry, "The Return of William Proxmire", in <WM1> and N-SPACE {Tor
|
|
90}
|
|
W: SF author Robert Heinlein did not resign from the navy.
|
|
S: Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from becoming
|
|
a writer.
|
|
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <f&sf> Jun 71, THE
|
|
FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}, ZOO 2000 (ed Yolen) {Seabury 73} and
|
|
<BAW>
|
|
A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants
|
|
developed from wolves instead of hominids.
|
|
Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71, ALIEN
|
|
HORIZONS {Pocket 74} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds
|
|
Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
|
|
In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan
|
|
missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster.
|
|
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 73}
|
|
W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
|
|
S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
|
|
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME {Ace 56; Gregg 78}
|
|
Caught in a fight between crosstimers, a man from our world is stranded on
|
|
one where the Axis attacked US coasts after England's fall.
|
|
-------------, QUEST CROSSTIME {Viking 65; Ace 65}; as CROSSTIME AGENT
|
|
{Gollancz 75}
|
|
Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and
|
|
Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
|
|
Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME {Atheneum 76; Fawcett Crest xx; Tor 92}
|
|
Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never got
|
|
started.
|
|
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN {Paperback Library 67}
|
|
Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another
|
|
universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter.
|
|
Nurse, Patricia, "One Rejection Too Many", <IAsfm> Jul-Aug 78
|
|
A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to <IAsfm> gets
|
|
upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes.
|
|
Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country", in <AP>
|
|
W: Ben Franklin was elected president in 1789 rather than Washington.
|
|
S: Franklin manipulates the government by using pseudonymous newspaper
|
|
writings to influence public opinion, un-nerving Veep John Adams.
|
|
Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert", in Analog Oct 91 and <WM4>
|
|
W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and N AmerInds had similar
|
|
success, leaving only the European colony on Manhattan Island.
|
|
S: The Cuban Missile Crisis, recast in the 1800s as the Iroquois Federation
|
|
inter-tribal air force vs. Manhattan.
|
|
Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons", in <BT>
|
|
W: MacArthur invaded China against orders and later set himself up as US
|
|
dictator.
|
|
S: MacArthur turns to psychic exploration of alternate possibilities to find
|
|
out where he went wrong.
|
|
O'Rourke, P.J., "The Seventies that Never Happened", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 80
|
|
W: The counterculture took over the US.
|
|
S:
|
|
Overgard, William, THE DIVIDE {Jove 80}
|
|
W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America.
|
|
S: Thirty years later, the American resistance develops the atomic bomb.
|
|
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47, TOMORROW
|
|
AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN {Gnome 51} and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
|
|
{Consul 51}
|
|
S:
|
|
Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES, in Ace Double D-69
|
|
{Ace 54}; exp of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in Startling
|
|
Stories Sep 49
|
|
A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests,
|
|
who believe our New York is Paradise.
|
|
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
|
|
W: Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the
|
|
Franco-Prussian War began.
|
|
C: Thiers' diary demonstrates how he used his position to prevent French
|
|
aggressive action which would provoke a German unification.
|
|
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED {Tor 87}
|
|
W: The Ottomans invaded Russia c 1697, preventing its rise to power and
|
|
leaving it helpless before Napoleon a century later.
|
|
C: Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
|
|
Napoleon's European takeover.
|
|
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT> and VISIONS FROM THE EDGE (ed
|
|
Bell) {Pottersfield 81}
|
|
W: The French won the Battle of Quebec and took over Britain's American
|
|
territories at the end of the French and Indian War.
|
|
S: An annotated letter from a 1975 Boston terrorist seeking Soviet aid for a
|
|
British-American revolt against the Republic of New France.
|
|
Person, Lawrence, "Details", in <IAsfm> Apr 91
|
|
A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts.
|
|
Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses", in <AP>
|
|
W: Walter Mondale beat Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, and Nicaragua
|
|
took the opportunity to export revolution.
|
|
S: In 1979, while US forces intervene in the Mexican civil war, refugees
|
|
overwhelm the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Houston.
|
|
Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy", in Weekly Westminster 30 Jan 26,
|
|
THE JACOBITE MOVEMENT: THE LAST PHASE, 1716-1807 {Eyre & Spottiswoode 50}
|
|
and <IHO,C>
|
|
W: In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie decided at Derby to continue his advance
|
|
into England and the Hanoverians fled.
|
|
S: Review of the Stuart restoration and speculation on how the Hanoverians
|
|
would have mucked things up, particularly in America.
|
|
Pignotti, Lorenzo, + John Browning (tr), THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY {Black,
|
|
Young & Young 1823}; orig STORIA DELLA TOSCANA
|
|
W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die 1492.
|
|
S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
|
|
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59 and THE
|
|
WORLDS OF H. BEAM PIPER {Ace 83}
|
|
W: George Washington died at Germantown.
|
|
S: TV execs discuss an AH TV series, not realizing one participant is from a
|
|
different timeline.
|
|
Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN {Ace 65; Garland 75}; as GUNPOWDER
|
|
GOD {Sphere 1978}; rev of "Gunpowder God", in Analog Nov 64 and TIME WARS
|
|
(eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}, and "Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 65 and
|
|
ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF SOLDIERS (eds Adams et al) {Signet 88}
|
|
W: Bronze Age Indo-Aryans crossed the Bering straight to colonize America.
|
|
S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a N America where priests of
|
|
Styphon exert political control through their monopoly on gunpowder.
|
|
C: Sequels are Green & Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos"
|
|
and Carr & Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker".
|
|
Piper, H. Beam, PARATIME {Ace 81}
|
|
>------------<, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, THE
|
|
GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Amis) {Hutchinson 81; Penguin 83}, <GS10>,
|
|
SPACE MAIL (eds Asimov et al), <AH>, etc
|
|
W: Burgoyne won at Saratoga, forestalling American independence and the Age
|
|
of Revolution.
|
|
S: Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying
|
|
documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon.
|
|
>------------<, "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed
|
|
Norton) {Cleveland 56}, ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed anon.) and
|
|
THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING (ed Lewis) {Baronet 78}
|
|
>------------<, "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
|
|
(ed Campbell) {Simon & Schuster 52} and <BAW>
|
|
>------------<, "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51
|
|
>------------<, "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55
|
|
Tales of the Paratime Police guarding the crosstime byways. All Earths shown
|
|
are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours.
|
|
Pirie-Gordon, C.H.: see Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon
|
|
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Had Been No Welfare State?", in <WIA>
|
|
W:
|
|
C:
|
|
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?", in <WIA>
|
|
W: FDR was killed in 1933, and when Jack Garner instituted no New Deal,
|
|
Huey Long ran for president in 36 as a Populist.
|
|
C: The many ways in which presidential elections could get hung up in the
|
|
Electoral College or Congress if there were three equi-strength parties.
|
|
Pohl, Frederick, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS {Bantam 86}
|
|
In a US ruled by a militaristic regime, crosstime travel is used to steal
|
|
better technology. Several versions of the same person get caught up.
|
|
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62,
|
|
DAY MILLION {Ballantine 70}, 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
|
|
(eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}, etc
|
|
S: A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a
|
|
population explosion.
|
|
C: Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL.
|
|
Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49, ALTERNATING
|
|
CURRENTS {Ballantine 56} and BEYOND THE END OF TIME {Doubleday 52;
|
|
PermaBooks 52}
|
|
Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into
|
|
the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered.
|
|
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55 and ALTERNATING CURRENTS
|
|
{Ballantine 56}
|
|
Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
|
|
Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed
|
|
Greenberg) {Tor 89} and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick)
|
|
W: Hearing about Einstein's letter to FDR, a biochemist wrote a similar
|
|
letter proposing a crash study of biological warfare.
|
|
S: Fred Pohl attends the 50th anniversary meeting of The Futurians and
|
|
listens to Isaac Asimov tell a reporter about the typhus bomb.
|
|
Pohl, Frederick, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAsfm> Aug 88, <89AW> and
|
|
<WM1>
|
|
W: Jeshua of Nazareth was not executed for sedition and Rome never fell. Two
|
|
millennia later, aliens announce their imminent arrival.
|
|
S: It is suggested to a sci-rom author in a rut that he try writing a "What
|
|
If?" book, but he can't see the point of it.
|
|
Polsby, Nelson W., "What if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated (1968)",
|
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in <WIE>
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W: As the title says.
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C: Speculation on the success of a Humphrey-Kennedy Democrat ticket.
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Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT {Avon 81}
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W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg,
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leading to British recognition of the CSA and Confederate independence.
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S: 120 years later, both Confederacy and Underground Railroad plan to hijack
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a Union nuclear artillery shell being shipped past Hampton Roads.
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Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR {Atheneum 79}
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W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier.
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S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911.
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Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR {Ballantine 69; Ballantine 75}; rev of "The
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Blue Star", in WITCHES THREE {Twayne 52}
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W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works.
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S:
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Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
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-------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
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-------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
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S:
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Reich, Tova, "Mengele in Jerusalem", in Harper's Jun 86
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W: Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, hid in Jerusalem,
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S: The search for Mengele has an unusual conclusion.
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Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose", in Sports Illustrated [Classic]
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Fall 1992
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W: A sneeze by Jerry Kramer resulted in the Dallas Cowboys winning the 1967
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NFL championship rather than the Green Bay Packers.
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S: The decisive play of the game, plus comments on the futures of Kramer,
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the Packers and the Cowboys.
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Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory", in <AK>
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W: The Cuban missile crisis blew up.
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S: Centuries after Armageddon, legends of the two Camelots become entwined.
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Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused", in <AP>
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W: Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate, was elected US president
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in 1872.
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S: Series of letters from Queen Victoria to the radical feminist president,
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at first expressing approval but not later.
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Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay", in <IAsfm> Nov 91 and <AP>
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W: Theodore Roosevelt was not wounded during the 1912 assassination attempt,
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leaving him healthy enough to successfully campaign for president.
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S: Four years later, as TR anticipates defeat by Woodrow Wilson, he
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discusses women's suffrage with various friends and allies.
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Resnick, Mike, "Bully!", in <IAsfm> Sep 91, BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
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#33) {Tor 91}, BULLY! (Axolotl 90) and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE
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PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
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W: When told during a 1910 safari that 50 white men would join him to tame
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Africa, Teddy Roosevelt did not turn the offer down.
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S: How TR tried to create a republic of the Congo, ousting the Belgians but
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ultimately failing due to the non-democratic traditions of the natives.
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Resnick, Mike "Lady in Waiting", in <AK>
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W: Marilyn Monroe did not become an actress.
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S: Washington, DC, waitress Norma Jean gets picked up by the president for
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a one-night stand and futilely dreams of becoming first lady.
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Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch", in <IAsfm> Jul
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92 and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN?
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{Tor 92}
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W: Alice Roosevelt did not die on 14 Feb 1884.
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S: To protect his wife's fragile health, husband Teddy lives a quiet life as
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a naturalist, but dreams of greater accomplishments.
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Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in <IAsfm> Apr 91, <WM3> and WILL THE LAST
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PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
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W: Under duress, Woodrow Wilson in May 1917 gave Teddy Roosevelt permission
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to re-form the Rough Riders and go to France.
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S: TR discovers that the natures of war and the enemy have changed in 20
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years.
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Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME {Simon & Schuster 84; Baen 84}
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An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
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Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
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Reynolds, Mack: see also Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds
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Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO {Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 70}
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Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
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advance of technology.
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Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <f&sf> Dec 65
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S:
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Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear", in Melbourne Argus 28 Jul-6 Sep 56
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W: Japan won the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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S: Life in occupied Australia.
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Riker, William H., "What if Elbridge Gerry had been more rational and less
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patriotic? (1787)", in <WIE>
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W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts voted "no" on a motion, causing
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the US constitutional convention in 1787 to fail.
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C: Speculation on the consequences, including the breakup of the US into a
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number of warring "states" and the non-existence of Canada (map included).
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Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD {Doubleday 83; Tor 86}
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W: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in N America.
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S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol
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conquest of Mexico.
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Roberts, Keith, PAVANE {Doubleday 68; Ace 68; Berkley 76}
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>------------<, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66, ANOTHER WORLD (ed Dozois)
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{Follett 77} and THE BEST OF BRITISH SF 2 (ed Ashley) {Futura 77}
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>------------<, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
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A DAY IN THE LIFE (ed Dozois) {Harper & Row 72}, <AH> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF
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SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE
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FICTION {St. Martin's 92, 93})
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>------------<, "Brother John", in Impulse May 66
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>------------<, "Lords and Ladies", in Impulse Jun 66
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>------------<, "Corfe Gate", in Impulse Jul 66
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>------------<, "The White Boat", in New Worlds Dec 66 and THE GRAIN KINGS
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{Hutchinson 76}
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W: Elizabeth I was assassinated, the Armada triumphed and Europe and the New
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World languished under 500 years of Church rule.
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S: Steam locomotives and heroic semaphore operators represent modern-day
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high-tech. Secret quasi-priesthood of scientists hunted by Inquisition.
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Roberts, Keith, "Weihnacht[s]abend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed
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Moorcock) {Berkley 72}, THE GRAIN KINGS {Hutchinson 76}, THE PASSING OF
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DRAGONS, <HV> and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Hartwell)
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{Little, Brown 89}
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W: A junta overthrew George VI and Churchill in 1940, then made peace with
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the Axis.
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S: A girl disappears during the joint celebration of Christmas and the Hunt
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on an occupied-British estate.
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Roberts, Ralph, "How the South Preserved the Union", in <AP>
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W: In 1849, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore were killed in an accident,
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elevating the Senate president pro tem to the US presidency.
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S: David Atchison's presence in the White House provokes the abolitionist
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North into secession, leading to a different Civil War.
|
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Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75, <76AW>, THE BEST FROM
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GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF
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THE YEAR, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Del Rey) {Dutton 76}
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A "man" sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later but it isn't
|
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the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr)
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{Doubleday 84}, <YB2>, NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}, <AH>, THE
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PLANET ON THE TABLE {Tor 87}, THERE WON'T BE WAR (eds Harrison & McAllister)
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{Tor 91}, etc
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W: The "Enola Gay" crashed on a practice flight.
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S: The "Lucky Strike" is selected to bomb Hiroshima, but its bombardier is
|
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horrified by the power of the atomic bomb.
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----------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
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REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91} and Author's Choice Monthly #xx
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C: An essay on quantum physics and AH, with various possible outcomes of the
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bombing of Hiroshima described.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAsfm> Mar 89, <WM1> and
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REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91}
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W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded.
|
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S: A lunar film company remakes the DeNiro classic ESCAPE FROM TEHERAN and
|
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discusses Great Men and Women.
|
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Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
|
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CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C.
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{Cassell 35; Arno 78}
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W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
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S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
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overthrow his uncle.
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Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE {Walker 72; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 72}
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Astral projection to Muslim- and Nazi-dominated Earths.
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Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
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VIRGINIA {Morrow 90}
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In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe set out for the S Pole to
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locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior.
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Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WM2>
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W: Members of the Beat Generation decided to disrupt an H-bomb test.
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S: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and John von Neumann intersect at
|
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White Sands.
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Best and the Brightest", in <AK>
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W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1964.
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S: A black reporter faces a personal crisis when he is given evidence that
|
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Kennedy ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob", in <AP>
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W: Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette was elected US president
|
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in 1924, but died in 1925 during a stalemate with Congress.
|
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S: Six years later, family, friends and enemies of La Follette meet to argue
|
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over the Wisconsin Senate race, breaking open old wounds.
|
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Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN {Bantam 75; Gregg 77; Beacon 86}
|
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Interaction of a woman from a future where a plague killed all men, a 1960s
|
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woman from a timeline where WW2 didn't happen, and the author.
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Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES {Ballantine 90}
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W: The Nazis enjoyed enough success in Europe that they could invade the US.
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S:
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Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40
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A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
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Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY {Bantam 87}
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W:
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S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
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Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS {Tor 83}
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A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
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Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN {Ace 79; Tor 87}
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Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time periods to
|
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stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
|
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Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
|
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Marshall (1803)", in <WIE>
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W: Congress impeached and removed Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall from
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office.
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C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the American legal
|
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system, ending in impeachment of justices who supported abortion in 1973.
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Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG {Warner/Questar 8x}
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W: The Mongols sacked Europe from Moscow to Cordova, leaving the Moors and
|
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Chinese to discover the New World during the 16th century.
|
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S: In the late 1600s, an Irish rogue adrift in N America sets his sights on
|
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Chinese California but must first cope with a Cossack army loose in the SW.
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Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY {Warner/Questar 91}
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W: With British help, the Confederacy won the Civil War.
|
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S: The sole member of the Cherokee air force is attached to a Confederate
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squadron fighting in France in 1916.
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Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN {Davies 52; Ballantine 60}
|
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A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a world
|
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where Germany won WW2.
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Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
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W: The Mongols conquered mainland Europe and crossed the Atlantic.
|
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S: Led by the son of the khan of France, the Iriquois federation moves to
|
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drive the English out of New England.
|
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Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age", in LONE STAR UNIVERSE (eds Proctor
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& Utley) {Heidelberg 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH
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ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois) {Dutton 77; Ace 78}
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W: Disaster at Oak Ridge scrapped the Manhattan Project, and the US decided
|
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not to invade Japan.
|
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S: In 1954, random bombers fly over the bombed-out Japanese islands,
|
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eliminating any signs of human activity they happen to find.
|
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Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in Astounding Dec 33
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S:
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Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
|
|
Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 77}
|
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Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the
|
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composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy.
|
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Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE {Doubleday 72; Popular Library 72}; exp of
|
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"Artery of Fire", in Original Science Fiction Stories Mar 60
|
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S:
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Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES {Baen 86}
|
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W: After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to quell
|
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a rebellion of League cities.
|
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S: His return and dealings with early Rome.
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Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT {Baen 88}
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W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens.
|
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S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect
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James VI/I from magical attacks.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
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Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <f&sf> Apr 63
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W: Lenin did not return to Russia from Switzerland.
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S: A time traveler destroys Lenin's train, but returns to his home time to
|
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find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
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Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington had been Captured by General Howe:
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Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WIE>
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W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill (New York City) was
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fought persuaded British redcoats to pursue and capture Washington.
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C: 150 years later, the Royal New York Historical Society finds a memoir
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describing the event and the later celebration of Liberation Day.
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Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38 and SCIENCE FICTION
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ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
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S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and
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discover that they have changed the present.
|
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C: 1st known story to theorize that changing the past will alter the time-
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traveler's home time. However, little historical development.
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Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER {Random House 86}
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In order to prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels to the
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Dallas of 1963, but an altered history may also need correction.
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Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS {Ace 68}
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A man goes back in time to save his wife from a killer, creating a world in
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which the wife didn't die and another version of himself exists.
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Shaw, Bob, "What Time Do You Call This?", in TOMORROW LIES IN AMBUSH
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{Gollancz 73; Ace 73}
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Bank robber tries to use machine to travel between universes to escape after
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a heist.
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Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF
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INFINITY {Bantam 60}
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Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable
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choices.
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Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in <AP>
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In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is
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revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history.
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Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 1st series, 12-issue
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comic book series {Steeldragon 86-87}; issue #1 rev as CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY
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SPECIAL EDITION
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W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862.
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S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s but he is
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unhappy being ordered about in an apartheid-ridden country.
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C: Letters to editor often more interesting than the story.
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------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 2nd series, 4-issue
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comic book series {Epic Comics 91-92}
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S: Super-heroes from 8 N America nations, Germany and Japan, meet in New
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Orleans, where the representative from Texas is murdered for his weaponry.
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Shiner, Lewis, "Oz", in FULL SPECTRUM (eds Aronica & McCarthy) {Bantam 88}
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W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
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S: Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the
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conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam.
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Shiner, Lewis: see also Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner
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Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
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Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our
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timeline.
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Shippey, Tom: see also Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey
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Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
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W:
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S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might
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have kept are included.
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Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IHB>
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W: Kerensky did not stop Kornilov's occupation of Petrograd.
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C: Kerensky decides that Kornilov's aid is the only way to alleviate civil
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unrest and prevent a Bolshevik takeover.
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Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
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W: Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and moved the Roman capital to
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the east. Also, magic works.
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S:
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Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in <Alt>
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W: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann.
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S: An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath.
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Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in <WM2>
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W: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his 1935 motorcycle accident.
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S: In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to N Africa, where he
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meets Rommel.
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Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace...", in <AP>
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W: Due to the increasing count of body bags returning from Vietnam, George
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McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
|
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S: Not waiting for the promised US withdrawal, N Vietnamese continue
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marching on Saigon. An Ohio family worries about its soldier son.
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Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 67; Methuen
|
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80; Tor 84}
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W: The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it
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defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
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S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec N America.
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------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAsfm> Oct 90 and BEYOND
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THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 91}
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S: Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying.
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C: See also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation
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of Spiders".
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Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain", in <IAsfm> May 92 and <WM4>
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W: A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida.
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S: While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of
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Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem.
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Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89, <WM2> and
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THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92}
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W: Genghis Khan was abducted at age 11, and after being sold into slavery
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became a prince's guard in Constantinople.
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S: Modern scientists in our timeline somehow communicate with a palace guard
|
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in old Constantinople, and one reminds him of sense of destiny.
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Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land", in <WM1> and THE COLLECTED
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STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92}
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W: The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea, preventing the rise
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of Christianity and its inclement effect on the Roman empire.
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S: 4000 years after the failed Exodus, the few remaining Hebrews in Egypt
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plan a new Exodus, to space, and recruit an historian to write their tale.
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------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
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S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western
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(Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires.
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------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <f&sf> Oct 89 and <YB7>
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S: Early during the 2nd Roman Republic, two children meet a mysterious old
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man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces.
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Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59, TRANSFORMATION
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II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74}, <WOM> and THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY
|
|
{Macmillan 76}
|
|
An alien returns to Earth after tampering with history in 1914, finds things
|
|
are askew and decides that he has shifted onto a parallel by mistake.
|
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Trips", in FINAL STAGE (eds Ferman & Malzberg)
|
|
{Charterhouse 74; Penguin 75}; exp in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS {Scribner's 75;
|
|
Berkley 75}, THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG VOLUME 2 {Gregg 78} and LOST
|
|
WORLDS, UNKNOWN HORIZONS {Thomas Nelson 78}
|
|
A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where
|
|
Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2.
|
|
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE {Ballantine 69}
|
|
S: A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble.
|
|
C: Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is
|
|
briefly described.
|
|
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN {Ballantine 78}
|
|
W: A series of "blights" periodically prevented Europe from advancing beyond
|
|
the Dark Ages. Also, magic works.
|
|
S: A young man accompanies a woman and her griffin on a quest to retrieve a
|
|
talisman to fight the blight.
|
|
Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN {Musson 1953; SFBC 1953; Ace 54; World
|
|
60; Avon 67; Four Square 67; New English Library 77; Carroll & Graf 92}
|
|
A whole series of parallel Earths (uninhabited) can be reached by mental
|
|
means. Emphasis on the mutants and androids than on crosstime aspect.
|
|
Simak, Clifford, SPECIAL DELIVERANCE {Ballantine 82}
|
|
Six people from different timelines join together on a quest.
|
|
Simak, Clifford, WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS {Ballantine 82}
|
|
W: Dragons, fairies, etc, are real.
|
|
S: The appearance of "The Evil" from over the river provides incentive to
|
|
hold the Roman Empire together in a time of schism (c. 1400).
|
|
Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY {St. Martin's 88}
|
|
W: Joe Johnston retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so long
|
|
that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election.
|
|
S: In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg, John
|
|
Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection.
|
|
Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67; BEST SF: 1967 (eds
|
|
Harrison & Aldiss) {Berkley 68} and THE STEAM-DRIVEN BUS {Panther 73} (incl.
|
|
in THE BEST OF JOHN SLADEK {Pocket 81})
|
|
An inventor from the US of Columbia in 1878 sets out for 1937, where he
|
|
encounters a man who can change history with the stroke of a pen.
|
|
Smith, George Henry, "Take Me to Your Leader", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds
|
|
Asimov et al) {Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
|
|
W: The South won the Civil War.
|
|
S: A scientist from another Earth warns of Russian attack, but the narrator
|
|
lives in a world where Jeff Davis VI is hereditary president of the CSA.
|
|
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 86; Tor 89}
|
|
W: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden
|
|
rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
|
|
S: In 2042, a Helvetic North-American escorts a mission from the Saracen
|
|
Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire.
|
|
Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH {Ballantine 80}
|
|
W: The Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and the US Constitution was revoked.
|
|
S: In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder crosses
|
|
timelines and finds himself in a Libertarian utopia.
|
|
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
|
|
In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime
|
|
machine.
|
|
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR {Ballantine 83}
|
|
In 1993, ...
|
|
--------------, THE VENUS BELT {Ballantine 81}
|
|
In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear is off
|
|
to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot.
|
|
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE {Ballantine 85}
|
|
In 2119, ...
|
|
--------------, BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR {Avon 88}
|
|
S:
|
|
--------------, TAFLAK LYSANDRA {Avon 88}
|
|
S:
|
|
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 70; Leisure 81}
|
|
W: N American Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread,
|
|
resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
|
|
S: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during
|
|
20th-century white vs. red tensions.
|
|
Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED {Warner/Popular Library 89}
|
|
W: Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil.
|
|
S: William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in
|
|
Paris, eventually invading France in 1672.
|
|
Snodgrass, Melinda M., WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE {Bantam 92}
|
|
C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
|
|
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
|
|
{Macmillan 73}
|
|
W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion collapsed.
|
|
S: Dual history text of the Confederation of N America and the US of Mexico,
|
|
from 1775 to 1971.
|
|
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?"
|
|
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Ballantine 83}; rev
|
|
of stories in <IAsfm> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82 and Amazing Jan 83 and May 83
|
|
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE {Ballantine 88}
|
|
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX {Ballantine 89}
|
|
W: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
|
|
S: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and
|
|
his entanglements with time guardians.
|
|
Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in Unearth Summer 77 and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK
|
|
SEA {Donning 83}
|
|
W:
|
|
S: Aztecs depopulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs.
|
|
Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in <AP>
|
|
W: William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve
|
|
only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president.
|
|
S: In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is
|
|
sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach.
|
|
Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain", in <AK>
|
|
W: Instead of a lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy received an experimental
|
|
operation that turned her into a genius.
|
|
S: Rosemary discusses her plans for her future with her godfather.
|
|
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 72; Gregg 77; Jove/HBJ 78; Pocket 82;
|
|
Bantam 86}
|
|
W: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a
|
|
commercial artist turned to writing SF.
|
|
S: The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
|
|
Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed Frenkel)
|
|
{Dell 80}
|
|
W: JFK wasn't assassinated.
|
|
S: A man tries to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l
|
|
corporations.
|
|
Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write
|
|
Shakespeare" (aka "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in London Mercury Jan
|
|
31, <IHO,ABC> and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33; Books for Libraries 71}
|
|
W: As the title says.
|
|
S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
|
|
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33;
|
|
Books for Libraries 71}
|
|
W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
|
|
S:
|
|
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 91}; exp of "The Man
|
|
who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <f&sf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
|
|
W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
|
|
control.
|
|
S: 1200 years later, a human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of
|
|
immortality.
|
|
Stafford, Terry: see Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford
|
|
Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed Bulmer) {Sidgwick
|
|
& Jackson 75; Corgi 76}
|
|
With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai
|
|
invasion, then industrializes.
|
|
Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING {Oswald Train 79}
|
|
An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world
|
|
where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination.
|
|
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 70; Berkley 71}
|
|
W: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed
|
|
to go in peace.
|
|
S: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and
|
|
decides that assassination is the only solution.
|
|
Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD {Ballantine 86}
|
|
A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where
|
|
magic works and northern Europe and most of Britain are covered with ice.
|
|
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3>
|
|
W: Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US
|
|
started a crash rocket development program, headed by Robert Goddard.
|
|
S: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis;
|
|
concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976.
|
|
-------------, "John Harper Wilson", in <IAsfm> Jun 89
|
|
S: The US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
|
|
manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
|
|
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS {Futura 79; rev Dell 80}
|
|
Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's
|
|
dealing with the Danes.
|
|
Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in Omni Sep 85,
|
|
MIRRORSHADES {Arbor House 86; Ace 88} and THE SEVENTH OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE
|
|
FICTION (ed Datlow)
|
|
Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another timeline
|
|
hungry for oil, but resistance forms.
|
|
Sterling, Bruce: see also Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling
|
|
Stervermer, Caroline: see Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer
|
|
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA {Baen 88}
|
|
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 89}
|
|
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 90}
|
|
W: American Tories colonized S Africa (Drakeland) after the revolution.
|
|
S: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and
|
|
only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental info in appendices.
|
|
Stone, Vince: see Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone
|
|
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see Somtow, S.P.
|
|
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds Aronica
|
|
et al) {Doubleday 89}, <YB7> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed
|
|
Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION {St. Martin's
|
|
92, 93})
|
|
W: Earth has an edge.
|
|
S: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East
|
|
climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
|
|
Swanwick, Michael, "In Concert", <IAsfm> Sep 92
|
|
W: Rock & roll got started decades earlier, and had the power to shape
|
|
history.
|
|
S: An American attends the final performance of Lenin, "The Boss", hearing
|
|
such standards as "The Workers Control the Means of Production".
|
|
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 85}; exp of "Mummer Kiss", in UNIVERSE
|
|
11 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 81}, and "Marrow Death", in <IAsfm> Dec 84
|
|
W: Three Mile Island melted down, irradiating eastern Pennsylvania.
|
|
S: Life in Philadelphia and the adjacent Drift, 100 years later, and the
|
|
conflict for power.
|
|
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
|
|
W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
|
|
converted to Islam.
|
|
S: Describes the event, but no follow through.
|
|
Tarr, Judith, "Them Old Hyannis Blues", in <AK>
|
|
W: The Kennedy brothers went into music.
|
|
S: After switching from big band music to rock 'n roll, the Kennedys play at
|
|
President Presley's inaugural ball, and foil an assassination attempt.
|
|
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in SHOT IN THE DARK (ed Merrill) {Bantam
|
|
50}, VOYAGERS IN TIME (ed Silverberg) {Meredith 67}, THE WOODEN STAR
|
|
{Ballantine 68}, THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79},
|
|
<GS10>, etc
|
|
Scientists send a sphere back in time, claiming it has no effect. Each time
|
|
it comes back, things change but they just don't notice.
|
|
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
|
|
Martin's 90}
|
|
W: Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of
|
|
Britain on 28 May 1942.
|
|
S: The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion and its
|
|
commander violates the articles of war in order to save London.
|
|
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF {Macmillan 74}
|
|
W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
|
|
S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, with the Stuart restoration in
|
|
Virginia following Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
|
|
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
|
|
Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for an
|
|
invention, yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich.
|
|
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
|
|
W: The Earl of Sherburne was placed in charge of peace negotiations with
|
|
France after the 7 Year War, and then became Treasury Minister.
|
|
C: The earl contemplates returning Canada to the French and avoiding taxes
|
|
on the 13 colonies, actions which would prevent the American Revolution.
|
|
Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail", in <AP>
|
|
W: Even after being fired by the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl
|
|
Bernstein continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
|
|
S: Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder
|
|
of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972.
|
|
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker 6
|
|
Dec 30, THE THURBER CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 45; Harper 53}, <f&sf> Feb 52,
|
|
VINTAGE THURBER {Hamish Hamilton 63}, etc
|
|
W: As the title says.
|
|
S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
|
|
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <f&sf> Oct/Nov 91 and <YB9>
|
|
W: Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South,
|
|
suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting.
|
|
S: The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword
|
|
written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade.
|
|
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western
|
|
Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
|
|
W: The Synod of Whitby (664) adopted the teachings of Colman, and Charles
|
|
Martel lost at Tours.
|
|
C: How European Christianity would have divided between the Celts of the
|
|
North and the Roman-Orthodox of the South and East, with France Muslim.
|
|
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian
|
|
Civilization", A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
|
|
W: The Vikings captured Constantinople in 860, established stronger colonies
|
|
in N America, harassed the Muslims in the Caspian, etc.
|
|
C: How more aggressive expansion would have resulted in Viking control of N
|
|
America, Europe and northern Asia by 1400.
|
|
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern
|
|
Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
|
|
W: The Umayyads did not press on after their defeat at the Kish-Samarkand
|
|
pass in 731.
|
|
C: How Nestorian Christianity could have spread into Asia, later leading to
|
|
Moslem destruction at the hands of Christianized Seljuks and Mongols.
|
|
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Alexander the Great had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS
|
|
IN GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
|
|
W: Alexander of Macedon listened to his physicians' advice in 323 BC, and
|
|
later returned to the Mediterranean.
|
|
S: How Alexander made the Pheonicians his Navy, conquered Carthage, allied
|
|
with Rome, conquered India and Ch'in and finally died in 287 BC.
|
|
C: Synopsis in Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
|
|
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS IN
|
|
GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
|
|
W: Artaxerxes III Ochus did not die in 338 BC and Philip II of Macedon did
|
|
not die in 336 BC.
|
|
S: Surviving an assassination attempt, Philip ends up killing son Alexander,
|
|
conquers Rome and pushes Ochus' Persia back to the Euphrates.
|
|
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
|
|
Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 13; Longmans, Green 30; Books
|
|
for Libraries 68} and <IHO,C>
|
|
W: Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean".
|
|
S: Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing
|
|
armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades.
|
|
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?"
|
|
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
|
|
NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 72} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 81; Ballantine
|
|
82}
|
|
W: Ambassador Hurley relayed Mao and Chou En-lai's request for a meeting
|
|
with FDR in 1945.
|
|
C: Primarily a discussion of why it made no difference, but a few brief
|
|
comments on how it might have averted the Korean and Vietnam wars.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WM1>
|
|
W: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
|
|
S: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
|
|
Greek situation.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in <IAsfm> Jan 89 and <WM2>
|
|
W: Mohammad became a Christian. The lack of Moslem pressure meant Byzantium
|
|
never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
|
|
S: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a
|
|
Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
|
|
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM {Congdon & Weed 87; Worldwide 88}
|
|
>---------------<, "The Eyes of Argos" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing
|
|
Jan 86
|
|
S: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been
|
|
invented in the steppes north of the Danube.
|
|
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in <IAsfm>
|
|
Aug 86
|
|
S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
|
|
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing Jul
|
|
85
|
|
S: Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite.
|
|
>---------------<, "Archetypes" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in Amazing Nov 85
|
|
S: Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing
|
|
near the Persian frontier.
|
|
>---------------<, "Images" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in <IAsfm> Mar 87
|
|
S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
|
|
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAsfm> Apr 87
|
|
and HIGH ADVENTURE (eds Manson & Ardai)
|
|
S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
|
|
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAsfm> 15 Dec 89
|
|
S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 88}
|
|
W: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-skinned
|
|
men when they reached the New World.
|
|
>---------------<, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85
|
|
S: In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father
|
|
ventures into the wilderness to save her.
|
|
>---------------<, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE {Ballantine 90} and TERRY
|
|
CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed Carr) {Tor 87}
|
|
S: In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
|
|
contemplates the origins of species.
|
|
>---------------<, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86
|
|
S: In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his
|
|
sim assistant will think of rescuing him.
|
|
>---------------<, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86
|
|
S: In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of
|
|
the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace.
|
|
>---------------<, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86
|
|
S: In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway
|
|
Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner.
|
|
>---------------<, "Trapping Run"
|
|
S: In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back
|
|
to health by sims.
|
|
>---------------<, "Freedom"
|
|
S: In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims
|
|
kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Down in the Bottomlands", in Analog Jan 93
|
|
W: The Mediterranean basin never opened to the ocean.
|
|
S: In modern days, a murder during a tour of the Bottomlands Trench reveals
|
|
a plot to destroy the "Gibraltar" mountains with a nuclear weapon.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR
|
|
{Ballantine 92}; excerpt publ. as "The Long Drum Roll", in <FCW>
|
|
W: The Confederacy obtained advanced weaponry just before the Wilderness.
|
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S: Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s, etc, leading to
|
|
Confederate victory in the Civil War, but strings are attached to the gift.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Hindsight", Analog mid-Dec 84 and KALEIDOSCOPE
|
|
{Ballantine 90}
|
|
A woman from 1988 goes back 40 years and sells SF stories written in between
|
|
plus accounts of famous events, such as "Neutron Star" and "Watergate".
|
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Turtledove, Harry, IN THE BALANCE {not yet published}
|
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W: Space aliens arrived on Earth in 1942.
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S:
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Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAsfm> Jan 92
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W: Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany
|
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and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia.
|
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S: Even in a 2010 Berlin at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany,
|
|
the Jews will still survive.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
|
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W: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the 8th
|
|
century AD.
|
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S: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
|
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invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in New Destinies Winter 88
|
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W: Cocaine were legal and caffeine illegal.
|
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S: A day in the life of a policeman fighting "caffeine addiction", who
|
|
orders "coke" the next day at a MacDonald's.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <f&sf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and THE
|
|
FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen 90}
|
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W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
|
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S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
|
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C: Sequel to de Camp's "The Wheels of If".
|
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S: The former New York DA and New Belfast bishop, now a judge, is sent to S
|
|
America to adjudicate a complex religio-political dispute.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in <WM3>
|
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W: Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in
|
|
retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets.
|
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S: In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan
|
|
seeking weapons.
|
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Turtledove, Harry, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life",
|
|
in UNIVERSE 10 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 80} and <WM4>
|
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W: Columbus' proposed voyage was subject to an environmental impact study.
|
|
S: The text of the report, suggesting that Columbus be turned down.
|
|
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 90}
|
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W: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining
|
|
a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
|
|
S: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of
|
|
"Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
|
|
Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in <f&sf> Feb 92
|
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W: Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and
|
|
carried the Civil War north to Ohio.
|
|
S: After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue
|
|
its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south.
|
|
Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed
|
|
Carr) {Doubleday 76; Popular Library 77}; THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE
|
|
YEAR #6 (ed Carr) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 77}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z (eds
|
|
Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin 82}; <AH>; etc
|
|
W: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War
|
|
was fought with mechanized transport.
|
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S: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and
|
|
later flew at the Little Big Horn.
|
|
Van Arnam, Dave: see White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam
|
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van den Daele, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, &
|
|
Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
|
|
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IHO,B>
|
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W:
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S: Manhattan remains a tolerant enclave until the 19th century, and its
|
|
persisting laws have curious effects on Prohibition.
|
|
Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER {Summit 78}
|
|
W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, but was found in the 1970s.
|
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S: An internat'l tribunal considers his fate.
|
|
Vanauken, Sheldon, "The World After the South Won", in Southern Partisan
|
|
Spring 84
|
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W: Britain recognized the Confederacy in Dec 1862, and her contribution of
|
|
troops tipped the scales at Gettysburg.
|
|
S: The story of the intervention, and some of the later effects of the
|
|
British-Confederate alliance.
|
|
Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part", in <AK>
|
|
W: Marilyn Monroe was caught sneaking out of the White House in the middle
|
|
of a 1962 night.
|
|
S: After her suicide, Monroe's ghost haunts JFK, urging him to find a way
|
|
to be with her.
|
|
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in Scribner's Nov 30 and
|
|
<IHO,ABC>
|
|
W: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
|
|
S: Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes
|
|
on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
|
|
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?"
|
|
Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded", in Century Magazine Jun 26
|
|
W: Lincoln withdrew Major Anderson et al from Fort Sumter.
|
|
S: In 1926, an Englishman discusses society, literature and politics with
|
|
three Northerners variously happy and unhappy with the events of 1861.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation", in Omni Jun 92
|
|
W: On the brink of defeat, Nazi Germany employed nuclear-tipped rockets to
|
|
win WW2.
|
|
S: 15 years later, a Nazi secret policeman attends "The Three Stooges Space
|
|
Opera" at a Zurich cafe run by the widow of Berthold Brecht.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
|
|
and <IAsfm> Mid-Dec 91
|
|
W: The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered
|
|
stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport.
|
|
S: In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to
|
|
make a movie about the Dreyfus affair.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds
|
|
Lansdale & LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90} and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
|
|
{Ursus/Ziesing 90}
|
|
W: Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the
|
|
film industry set up in Boise.
|
|
S: Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time
|
|
fascination with cloudbusters.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in Omni Oct 88 and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
|
|
{Ursus/Ziesing 90}
|
|
W: Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
|
|
S: Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio
|
|
Agency, which also gives TV an early push.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in Omni Jun 82, THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF
|
|
SCIENCE FICTION (ed Datlow) {Zebra 83}, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday 86} and
|
|
STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 90}
|
|
W: Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he
|
|
could learn to play jazz clarinet.
|
|
S: In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when
|
|
President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in Omni Aug 86, ALL ABOUT
|
|
STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ursus 87}, <87AW>, STRANGE THINGS IN
|
|
CLOSE-UP {Legend 89} and STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ace 91}
|
|
W: Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported
|
|
to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide.
|
|
S: In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading
|
|
a history of the fall of European power.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES {Ace 84; Ziesing 89}
|
|
Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right
|
|
time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
|
|
{Doubleday 86} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 89}
|
|
W: Phlogiston exists.
|
|
S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
|
|
apocalyptic results.
|
|
Waldrop, Howard: see also Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop
|
|
Wall, John W.: see Sarban
|
|
Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY {Carroll & Graf 89, 91}
|
|
Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead
|
|
describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site.
|
|
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
|
|
{Ballantine 92}
|
|
Crosstime traveler offers to sell the secret to parallel worlds, and finds
|
|
one with faster-than-light travel. Both sides fear the other.
|
|
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Storm Trooper", in <IAsfm> Jan 92 and CROSSTIME
|
|
TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
|
|
Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates,
|
|
and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad.
|
|
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP> and
|
|
CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
|
|
W: Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-
|
|
Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2.
|
|
S: 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he
|
|
can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government.
|
|
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in <IAsfm>
|
|
xxx xx; THE NEW HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed Asimov) and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
|
|
{Ballantine 92}
|
|
--------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in <IAsfm> Aug
|
|
91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
|
|
S: A West Virginia diner caters to late-night customers from parallel
|
|
Earths.
|
|
C: Except for short comments on possibilities, neither story is particularly
|
|
AH.
|
|
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
|
|
FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 76}
|
|
W:
|
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S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
|
|
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
|
|
W: Marco Polo discovered America.
|
|
S: An English merchant and wives in Chinese America is mysteriously
|
|
transported crosstime to the Lone Star State, where he meets a traffic cop.
|
|
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 05; Univ Nebraska 67}; incl. in
|
|
WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 25}
|
|
W: The Dark Ages never happened.
|
|
S: A look at a Utopian 20th century.
|
|
C: Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is
|
|
"beyond Sirius".
|
|
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
|
|
23-30 Jun 76
|
|
W: The American Revolution never occurred.
|
|
S: Musings on life in idyllic, non-nationalist N America, but without any
|
|
detail.
|
|
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME {Avalon 63}
|
|
Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
|
|
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER: A NOVEL {Little Brown 71}; as
|
|
DOWNFALL {Bantam 72}
|
|
W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
|
|
S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
|
|
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 91}
|
|
W: C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for
|
|
Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early.
|
|
S: In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her
|
|
outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard.
|
|
White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN {Belmont 67}
|
|
S:
|
|
White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 68}
|
|
W: Alien intervention averted WW2.
|
|
S: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels."
|
|
Wildavsky, Aaron, "What if the U.S. had had one law for its allies and
|
|
another for its adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war.
|
|
C: Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier
|
|
relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs.
|
|
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG: A NOVEL {Heinemann 80; Viking 81; Magnum 82}
|
|
W: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it
|
|
took 5 weeks to locate an heir.
|
|
S: A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the
|
|
limits on royal power in the 1900s.
|
|
C: Basis for the non-AH movie KING RALPH.
|
|
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
|
|
(1963)", in <WIE>
|
|
W: The British Labor party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963.
|
|
C: A more moderate Labor party and movement results, with general economic
|
|
success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans.
|
|
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAsfm> Nov 89, <WM2> and
|
|
FACETS {Tor 90}
|
|
W: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate
|
|
general.
|
|
S: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle
|
|
of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
|
|
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME {Bluejay 85}
|
|
Hero from 1930s is shown two possible futures which hinge on whether or not
|
|
a particular event happens; future woman tries to affect what happens.
|
|
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES {Doubleday 89}
|
|
S:
|
|
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
|
|
W: Dubcek retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
|
|
C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
|
|
Wodhams, Jack, "Try Again", in Amazing Nov 68
|
|
W: Germany pursued a more rational course in WW2, avoiding the invasion of
|
|
Russia til 44 and tipping the US off to Japanese plans in the Pacific.
|
|
S: A man gets the chance to relive his life, and the Nazis hear about the
|
|
amazing boy with prophetic powers. Detailed history of a different WW2.
|
|
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
|
|
Invasion", in Analog May 73, THE BEST OF ANALOG (ed Bova) {Baronet 78; Ace
|
|
xx} and GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS {Doubleday 81}; incl in CASTLE OF DAYS
|
|
{Tor 92}
|
|
W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
|
|
the 1930s and 40s. Also, Churchill returned to journalism after WW1.
|
|
S: A retired US Army officer from Abilene KS invents a game called World
|
|
War, and participates in a race between German and British compact cars.
|
|
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE: A NOVEL {Tor 90}
|
|
W: Lincoln was murdered in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration, and
|
|
Teddy Roosevelt freed the slaves in 1907. Later, Zangara killed FDR.
|
|
S: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in 1939
|
|
New York of a different past.
|
|
------------, ELVISSEY {Tor 93}
|
|
S: In a future with religions based on Elvis Presley, two people plan a trip
|
|
to an alternate past and bring back Elvis.
|
|
C: Non-AH entries in series are AMBIENT and HEATHERN.
|
|
Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA {Ace 89}
|
|
W: Magic works, in Regency London.
|
|
S:
|
|
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
|
|
<IHB>
|
|
W: Franklin returned to America in 1775 with evidence of a softening British
|
|
attitude towards dealings with the colonies.
|
|
C: Franklin contemplates the troubles, and then describes the appointment of
|
|
Washington as governor of Vandalia (Ohio) and other compromises.
|
|
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS {M. Joseph 61;
|
|
Penguin 65}, THE INFINITE MOMENT {Ballantine 61}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY
|
|
(ed Sullivan) {Prentice-Hall 74}, etc
|
|
W: The League of Nations prevented WW2.
|
|
S: A man searches for the analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a
|
|
parallel world.
|
|
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
|
|
RENAISSANCE {Pocket 80}
|
|
W: The Medicis brought together Italia Federata in 1515.
|
|
S: A court poet to il Primario is involved in intrigues to hold Italy
|
|
together, but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet.
|
|
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
|
|
WORLDS {Tor 91}
|
|
C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
|
|
S: The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca
|
|
of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation.
|
|
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING {Cheap Street 82}
|
|
W:
|
|
S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
|
|
south.
|
|
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING: A NOVEL {St. Martin's/Marek 84; Tor 85}
|
|
W: Hitler died in 1913 while still a starving artist.
|
|
S: A woman is mystified by a strange book entitled the TIME-LIFE HISTORY OF
|
|
WW2 and by her grandmother's murder of an obscure Viennese artist.
|
|
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75, <BT> and THE
|
|
MONADIC UNIVERSE {Ace 77}
|
|
A machine lets historians study AHs, with looks at D-Day and Thermopylae.
|
|
-----------------, "The Number of the Sand", in Amazing Aug 91 and <WM3>
|
|
A cliometrician examines the possible lives of Hannibal and their effect on
|
|
the 2nd Punic War.
|
|
-----------------, "Let Time Shape", in Amazing Mar 92 and <WM4>
|
|
Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by the
|
|
techonologically sophisticated descendants of refugees from Carthage.
|
|
Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations", in LIGHT YEARS AND DARK (ed
|
|
Bishop) {Berkley 84} and NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}
|
|
W: WW2 ended with Japan surrendering after the Allies dropped nuclear
|
|
weapons on Germany in 1946.
|
|
S: Adolf Eichmann, captured by the Israelis in 1961, is executed 6e6 times.
|
|
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in Amazing Mar 90 and <WM2>
|
|
W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
|
|
S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
|
|
Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS {Bantam 91}; rev of "Stranger Suns", serial
|
|
in Amazing Jan and Mar 91
|
|
An alien ship found in Antarctica includes portals to alternate Earths, but
|
|
those who explore them can never return to their home lines.
|
|
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75, THE BEST
|
|
FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76}, THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT
|
|
{Pocket 80; Underwood/Miller 81; Avon 88}, etc
|
|
Two aliens play at changing events in our past to compete in achieving their
|
|
individual goals (success or failure for humanity).
|
|
Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS {Ballantine 79}
|
|
On a strange road that reaches from past to future, a man fights assassins
|
|
and attempts to prevent a Greek defeat at Marathon.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reference Materials:
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Ash, Brian (ed), THE VISUAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION {Harmony 77; Pan 78}
|
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Includes discussion of AH (pp 116, 121-123) and parallel worlds (142-144),
|
|
with bibliographies.
|
|
Brownlow, Kevin, HOW IT HAPPENED HERE: THE MAKING OF A FILM {Secker & Warburg
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68; Doubleday 68}
|
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Description of the making of IT HAPPENED HERE, a movie directed by Brownlow
|
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Carter, Paul A., "The Fate Changer: Human Destiny and the Time Machine", in
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THE CREATION OF TOMORROW {Columbia Univ 77}
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Includes short discussion of some Change the Past stories (e.g. Moore's
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BRING THE JUBILEE and Ryan's "The Mosaic").
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THE CREATION OF TOMORROW {Columbia Univ 77}
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Includes short discussion of some WW2-related AH stories (e.g. Dick's THE
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MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE and Mullally's HITLER HAS WON).
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TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF--? {McFarland 93};
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orig UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS WARE
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GESCHEHEN, WENN--?
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Alexander the Great had Lived On".
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Fadness, Fern Bryant, "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?", in THE
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PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
|
|
Synopsis of Waldman's "If Booth had Missed Lincoln".
|
|
--------------------, "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?", in THE
|
|
PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
|
|
Synopsis of Trevelyan's "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo".
|
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--------------------, "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?",
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in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam
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78}
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Synopsis of Sobel's FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA.
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--------------------, "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?", in THE
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PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
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Synopsis of Kantor's IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR.
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Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II:
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A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in <AH>
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61-page listing of AHs published before 1986, with short synopses and
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publication histories.
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Harrison, Harry, "Worlds Beside Worlds", in SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE (ed
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Nicholls) {Gollancz 76; Harper & Row 76}
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On writing AH and the reasoning behind A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH!
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McHale, Brian, POSTMODERNIST FICTION {Methuen 87}
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Includes 3-page discussion of "apocryphal history" and 2 pages on related
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"creative anachronisms".
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Pierce, John J., "On the Edge", in GREAT THEMES OF SCIENCE FICTION: A STUDY
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IN IMAGINATION AND EVOLUTION {Greenwood 87}
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Subchapter "The Possibility Binders" discusses time travel, parallel worlds
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and AH stories, including some French and Japanese tales.
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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
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Version 13 - 12 Jan 1993
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APPENDIX - NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
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This appendix lists Alternate Histories published in languages other than
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English. The bulk of this data is taken from the Hacker & Chamberlain
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bibliography (described above) but some was also provided by Andreas Morlok.
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Each entry contains an "E:" or "ELE:" line. The former indicates a translation
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of the story's title; the latter is the title of an English-language edition of
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the entry, details about which may be found in the main list.
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In Czech:
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Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU {Borovy 45}
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ELE: "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
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S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
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In Dutch:
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Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ {De
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Bezige Bij 72}
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E: YESTERDAY'S FUTURE: OUTLINE OF A WORK
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W: Hitler was assassinated in 1944.
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S: Discussion of a possible novel about the assassination, the SS
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countercoup and German victory in WW2.
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In Esperanto:
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Capek, Karel, + Josef Vondrousek (tr), title unknown, in LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ
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{Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 70}; orig "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
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ELE: "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
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S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
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In French:
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Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST
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ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU {Denoel 84}
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E: "The Anniversary of the Thousand-Year Reich"
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W:
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S: Nazi power lasts *exactly* 1000 years.
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Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur
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Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN
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SU {Denoel 84}
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E: "What Was He Doing, Young Dr. Frankenstein, in May 1981 and May 1968?"
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W: Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s.
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S: A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and
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Vian to see how they would have affected later French history.
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Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? {Gallimard 54}
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E: MUST JOAN BURN?
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W: Joan of Arc was rescued.
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S: God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment.
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Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO {Andre Sabatier 37; Plon 64; Rombaldi 76,
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2-231-00191-8}
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E: VICTORY AT WATERLOO
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W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
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S: Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates.
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Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? {Le Monde 80}; serial in Le Monde Jun-Sep 80
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E: HAVE YOU SEEN MONTEZUMA?
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S:
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Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 {Fleuve
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Noir 84}
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E: CARTHAGE WILL BE DESTROYED: TIME INVESTIGATOR SETNI, 2
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W: Hannibal captured Rome.
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S: A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a
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Carthaginian colony in Quebec.
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Barbet, Pierre, L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET {Fleuve Noir 72}
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ELE: BAPHOMET'S METEOR
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W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
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S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
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Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
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--------------, CROISADE STELLAIRE {Fleuve Noir 74}
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ELE: STELLAR CRUSADE
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S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
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Barbet, Pierre, LIANE DE NOLDAZ {Fleuve Noir 73}
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ELE: THE JOAN-OF-ARC REPLAY
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S:
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Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES {Libraire Francais 70}
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E: IF NAPOLEON HAD TAKEN LONDON
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S:
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Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE {G
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Bailliere 1872}
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E: ETERNITY THROUGH THE STARS: AN ASTRONOMICAL HYPOTHESIS
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S:
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Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed Sadoul)
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{J'ai Lu 76}
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E: "Children of Ibn Khaldun"
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W: The Arabs won at Tours.
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S: Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the
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north.
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Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION {Opta 84}
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E: "Summer"
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S:
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Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE
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POLITIQUE {Pauvert 68}
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E: IF MAY HAD SUCCEEDED: A POLITICAL PLEASANTRY
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W: The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a
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conservative backlash.
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S:
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Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE {vol 1, Gallimard 38; vol 2-4 Editions du
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Dialogue 41-44; complete Gallimard 49}
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E: LIFE'S CONJUNCTIONS
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W: The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution.
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S: A detailed history text.
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Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier
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Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT {Gallimard 61}
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E: PONTIUS PILATE: A STORY
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W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
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S: Christianity is aborted.
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Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN {Lattes 80}
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E: THE APPEAL OF JUNE 17: A NOVEL
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S:
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Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE {xxx 1791}
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E: MY REPUBLIC
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C: A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate
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French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI.
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d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE {Gallimard 71}
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ELE: THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE
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S:
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Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF {Calmann-Levy 80}
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E: THE EGG PRINCIPLE
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S:
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Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE {xxx 56}
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E: UNHAPPY ULYSSES
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W: Louis XVI escaped arrest.
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S: In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX.
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Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP {Denoel 71, 81}
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W: Constantine suppressed Christianity.
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S: Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world.
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Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL {Nouvelle-Optique 79}
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E: A HAITIAN AMBASSADOR AT MONTREAL
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W: Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970.
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S: Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois
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separatists.
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Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-
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1823: HISTOIRE DE LAN MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE {Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851;
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Tallandier 83}; as NAPOLEON APOCRYPHYE {Paulin 1841; Librairie Illustree
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1896}
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E: NAPOLEON AND THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD, 1812-1823: HISTORY OF THE
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UNIVERSAL MONARCHY or THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON
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W: Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in
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Moscow.
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S: Napoleon keeps on going.
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C: Believed to be the first AH written in novel length.
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Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE {Belfond 84}
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E: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FRANCE
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S:
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Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE {Plon 49}
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E: FIGUREHEADS
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S:
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Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS
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{Le Jour 66}
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E: "Lepic and hypothetical history"
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W: Montcalm beat Wolfe at the battle of Montreal.
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S: 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation.
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Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne
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Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE
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{Tallandier 29}
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E: IF, ON 27 JULY 1794...: AN HISTORICAL HYPOTHESIS
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W: Robespierre escaped the guillotine.
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S:
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Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen
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age", in Imagine Autumn 82
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E: "The Chansons de Geste: the Temptation of Allohistory in the Middle Ages"
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C:
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Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE
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BEAUCHENE {Ganeau 1732; Dufour & Roux 1780}
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E: THE ADVENTURES OF M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, AKA DE BEAUCHENE
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W: AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa.
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C: Borderline AH, but a very early publication.
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Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE {Fleuve Noir 84}
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E: HISTORY SIDETRACKED
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W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
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S: WW3 in 1989 against Japan.
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Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in France Observateur 28
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Dec 61
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E: "The Comrade-God: a Christmas Story"
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W: Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961.
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S: Reactions from elsewhere.
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Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES
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E: TRAVELER THROUGH THE CENTURIES
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S:
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Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE {Presses de la Renaissance
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83}
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E: THE TRUE HISTORY OF FRANCE
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S:
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Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE {Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876; Alcan
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01}
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E: UCHRONIA or ALLOHISTORY
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W: Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress
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the Christians and avert the Dark Ages.
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S:
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C: Reputedly the origin of the word "uchronie".
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Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS {Fleuve Noir 51}
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E: CRUISE IN TIME
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W: Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610.
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S: France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and
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civilization collapses in the 20th century.
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Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in Litterature Mar 21 and PAPIERS
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POSTHUMES {Sans Pareil 34}
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E: "A Brilliant Subject"
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S: A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc.
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Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU {Editions de la Tour du Guet
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50}
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E: IF GERMANY HAD WON
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W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
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S: A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost.
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Schuiten, Francois, & Benoit Peeters, LES MURAILLES DE SAMARIS {Casterman 83}
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E: THE WALLS OF SAMARIS
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S:
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Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS {Nouvelle France 45; La Renaissance du Livre
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62; Jacques Antoine 86}
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E: REPULSE IN TIME
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W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
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S: Time travelers reverse the event.
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Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE {Champs-Elysee 76}
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W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
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S: Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe.
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Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE
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S:
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Reference Materials:
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Angenot, Marc, Farko Suvin, & Jean-Marc Gouanvic, "L'uchronie, histoire
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alternative et science-fiction", in Imagine Autumn 82
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E: "Allohistory, alternative history and science fiction"
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C:
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Boireau, Jacques, "La machine a ralentir le temps"
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E: "The time-slowdown machine"
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C: Contrasts utopian French AHs with distopian American AHs.
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Brie, Marc-Andre, "Quelques reperes pour une bibliographie de l'uchronie"
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E: "Some Benchmarks for a Bibliography of Allohistory"
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C: A bibliography of AH.
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Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Pourquoi un 'Special Uchronie'", in Imagine Autumn 82
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E: Why an "Allohistory Special"
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C: Discussion of AH in conjunction with a special issue of Imagine.
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Herp, Jacques van, "Dans les corridors de l'espace-temps", in PANORAMA DE LA
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SCIENCE-FICTION {Gerard 73; Marabout 75}
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E: "In the Halls of Space-Time"
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C: Includes discussion of AH.
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Leccia, Pierre, "Uchronie: l'histoire detournee", in POLITIQUE/FICTION (ed
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Riche)
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E: "Allohistory: History Sidetracked"
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C: Brief discussion and bibliography of AH.
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In German:
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"Das Wort "Wenn" ist das deutscheste aller deutschen Worter."
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<<The word "if" is the most German of all German words.>>
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--'Friedrich Hebbel', in
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Alexander Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE
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Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK {Nymphenburger 79; Heyne 83}
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E: AT THE LIGHTS OF THE LEYERMARK or BY LEYERMARK CAMPFIRES
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W: Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used
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to subjugate Prussia.
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S: Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important
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European player.
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Amery, Carl, DAS KONIGSPROJEKT {Piper 74; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 78;
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Heyne 84}
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E: THE KING-PROJECT or PROJECT ROYALTY
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S: The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a
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Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation.
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Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE {Molden 66}
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ELE: TWILIGHT MAN
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W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
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S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
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Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in Tempo Jun 92
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E: "And if he didn't die..."
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W: Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982.
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S: He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring
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Robert DeNiro.
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Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA {A. Kraft 60}
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E: IMPERIAL SAGA: AN AUSTRIAN UTOPIA
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W: Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan.
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S: Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above.
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Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in
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der Wissenschaft", in Zeitschrift fur Soziolofie 1
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ELE: "Alternatives in Science"
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C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
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the beginning of the scientific revolution.
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Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von
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Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG {Nymphenburger 81; Heyne 85}
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ELE: THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
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W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
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success in WW2.
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S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
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trouble vs. people from other timelines.
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Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
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Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT {Terra 61}
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E: MAN BETWEEN TIME
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S: Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with
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dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation.
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Mahr, Kurt, 2 * PROFESSOR MANSTEIN {Terra 61}
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S: A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien
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invasion.
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Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl
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Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 {Heyne 80}
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W: The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and
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technology, but become divided.
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S: People from our world encounter a fight between Arabic nations fighting
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for control of powerlines from hydroelectric power plants in Europe.
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Tucholsky, Kurt, "Was ware, wenn...?", in GESAMMELTE WERKE (ed Gerold-
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Tucholsky & Raddatz) {Rowohlt 60-62}
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E: "What if...?"
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C: Series of political commentaries on use of AH for political satire.
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van den Daele: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
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Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT {Ullstein 84}; exp of "Die stimmen
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der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed Gorden) {Bastei-Lubbe 83}
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E: VOICES OF THE NIGHT
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W: FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to
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force a German surrender.
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S: Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a
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nuclear war in 1984.
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Reference Materials:
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Demandt, Alexander, UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS
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WARE GESCHEHEN, WENN--? {Vandenheock & Ruprecht 84, 86}
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ELE: HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD
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HAVE HAPPENED IF--?
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C: Commentary on various possibilities, plus a synopsis of Toynbee's "If
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Alexander the Great had Lived On".
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In Greek:
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Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
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ELE: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
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W: Jesus fled his doom.
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S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
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In Italian:
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Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICCHINGA {Frasinelli 84}
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E: VIKING AMERICA
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S:
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Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI {Frasinelli 84}
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E: 1938: THE DESTRUCTION OF PARIS
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W: Petain led a successful French coup in 1934.
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S:
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Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO {xxx 27}
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E: THE UNDERSEA TUNNEL
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W: A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s.
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S:
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Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA {Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821}
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ELE: THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
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W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492.
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S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
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In Japanese:
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Hanmura Ryo, SENGOKU JIEITAI {Hayakawa Shobo 71}
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E: THE WARRING STATES SELF DEFENSE FORCE
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S:
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C: Basis of the Kadokawa movie TIME SLIP.
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Hirose Tadashi, EROSU {Hayakawa Shobu 71}
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E: EROS
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S:
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Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in SF Magajin xxx 61
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E: "Peace on Earth"
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W: The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2.
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S:
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Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU {Hayakawa Shobu 75}
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E: HEADQUARTERS OF THE FAR EAST
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W: Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War.
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S:
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Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
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E: AFTERGLOW OF THE MONGOLS
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W: The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century.
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S: Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time
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machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance.
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Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
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E: THE TIME SLIP WAR
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S:
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In Latin:
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Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA
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ELE: AB URBE CONDITA
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W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
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S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work suggests that the Romans
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would have beaten him.
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C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
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BC-14 AD).
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In Polish:
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Lem, Stanislaw, title unkown, in DZIENNIKI GWIAZDOWE
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ELE: "The Eighteenth Voyage"
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S: Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
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Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
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Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA
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E: A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP
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S:
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Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII {Instytut
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Wydawniczy Pax 79}
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E: STRANGE EVEN AMONG THE MIGHTY
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S:
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Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY {xxx 70}
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E: THE MUSE OF DISTANT JOURNEYS
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W: The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising.
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S:
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Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTASTYCZYNA W
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TRSECH CZESCIACH {Pax 76}
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E: I SHALL LEAVE DEFENSELESS
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W: Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383.
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S:
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Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY {xxx 43}
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E: THE SILVER EAGLES
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W: A Polish state was created in the 10th century.
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S:
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In Portugese:
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Gibson, William, + Eduardo Salo (tr), title unknown, in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO
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{Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}; orig "The Gernsback Continuum"
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A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
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etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
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Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, + Eduardo Salo (tr), title unknown, in
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REFLEXOS DO FUTURO {Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}; orig "Mozart in
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Mirrorshades"
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Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another timeline
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hungry for oil, but resistance forms.
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In Russian:
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Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM {Ardis 81}
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ELE: THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
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W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
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the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
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S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
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re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
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In Spanish:
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Borges, Jorge Luis, "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"
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E: "The Garden of Forking Paths"
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S:
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Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA
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(ed Goligorsky) {Flor 68}
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E: "Napoleon's Victory"
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S: Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but
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they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe, etc.
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Lindo, Hugo, "Espejos paralelos"
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E: "Parallel Mirrors"
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S:
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--
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Robert B. Schmunk <schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu>
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SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA
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[He] turned back to the window and the opaque Houston sky. "You know, there
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isn't anything wrong with this town that a couple of really good hurricanes
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couldn't fix." --Peter Gent, THE FRANCHISE
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