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Subject: ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST (v4) (long)
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Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
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Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice U., Houston, TX
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The following is the fourth posting of the Alternate History List. As it
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appears that there were difficulties in the distribution of version 3, this
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version is being posted sooner than it might have been and is only about
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5% longer than the previous version. The only major change appearing in this
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version is elimination of the Alien Intervention category due to submitters'
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requests. The stories in that category have been shifted elsewhere.
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As before, the number of stories not yet categorized remains over 100 and your
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help would be appreciated in placing them. If you can help, please try to
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make your submissions in a format similar to that used. Please be sure to
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mention what you think is the appropriate category, and why.
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Afficionados of the genre might like to note the recent publication of William
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Sanders' THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY. Additionally, McSherry's recent anthology
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THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR contains a few AH stories, including the novella-
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length version of Ward Moore's "Bring the Jubilee".
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Enjoy...
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rbs
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THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
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Version 4 - 16 July 1991
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This is a list of (nominally) SF stories involving Alternate Histories, also
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known as What If? stories, Allohistory and Counterfactuals. Most of the
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information comes from the many submitters (listed at the end of this posting)
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and the poster's own memory, but a great deal has been cribbed from:
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Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II:
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A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (ed.
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Waugh and Greenberg)
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In order to keep the length of the list down, only English-language stories
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have been included. Even so, the list is incomplete. Your suggestions for
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additional entries would be appreciated, as would corrections, amendments,
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etc., to current entries. Please send submissions directly by e-mail to
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schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu in order to guarantee consideration, as follow-up
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postings to r.a.s may not be noticed. This list will be re-posted whenever
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enough changes and/or additions have been made to make it worthwhile.
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Despite blurring of boundaries, an attempt has been made to separate stories
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into the following categories:
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Alternate Histories: Story essentially limited to one alternate history. Some
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multiple timeline stories are included as long as crosstime travel/
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communication is not involved.
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Future Glimpses: Character is given a glimpse of how history might unfold
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depending on his/her actions/decisions. The future seen is not the history
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we know.
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Crosstime Stories: Story involves more than one potential history, with
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sideways time travel often the major feature. Such stories may also include
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"vertical" time travel and "different" worlds.
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Changing the Past: Story involves someone changing the course of history,
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either accidentally or deliberately, often after time travel into the past.
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Time travel stories in which history is *not* changed are excluded.
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World is "Different": Alternate world/history has different physical laws from
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ours, a common theme being "magic works". The alternate world must still
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be recognizably "Earth".
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If you disagree with the category into which a story has been placed, please
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do not hesitate to send me a message with an explanation of what its correct
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category should be.
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No attempt has been made to indicate which stories are "good" and which are
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"poor". Sorry; perhaps in a future version.
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In examining the entries, please note that:
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1) A series of dashes in place of the author's name indicates that the story/
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book is a sequel to or part of the same series as the story/book in the
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preceding entry.
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2) Short stories are generally followed by at least one reference to where they
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may be found, though not necessarily to the first publication of the story.
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References to book titles include the author/editor's name only if that person
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is not the author of the short story.
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3) Stories are listed under their most recent incarnations. A short story which
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was revised before inclusion in a novel will be listed in the entry for the
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novel (e.g., Turtledove's "Archetypes" is found under AGENT OF BYZANTIUM).
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Stories not revised each have an individual entry, even if a number of them
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were linked up to form a larger book (e.g., the four stories in Garrett's
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MURDER AND MAGIC are listed separately).
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4) Abbreviations frequently used in references are:
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<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds. Waugh and Greenberg)
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<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds. Adams and Adams)
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<BAW> = BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (ed. Adams)
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<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed. Ley)
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<f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
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<IAsfm> = Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
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<IIHHO> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE (ed. Squire)
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<##AWBSF) = THE 19## ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (ed. Wollheim and Saha)
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<WMHB#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOL. # (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
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<YBSF#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Dozois)
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5) In story descriptions, times are all Anno Domini (AD; also known as CE,
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Christian Era or Common Era) unless otherwise specified.
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Anthologies and Other Collections:
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Adams, Robert (ed.), BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS
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Adams, Robert, and Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ALTERNATIVES
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Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), HITLER VICTORIOUS
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Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOL. 1:
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ALTERNATE EMPIRES
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---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOL. 2:
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ALTERNATE HEROES
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Borden, Morton, and Graham, Otis L., Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
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Comments: Six essays on altered American histories.
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Ley, Sandra (ed.), BEYOND TIME
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Snowman, Daniel (ed.), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES
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Comments: Professional historians correct the decisions of ten historical
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figures.
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Squire, J.C. (ed.), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
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HISTORY (aka IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN)
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Comments: Considered the definitive What If? book and includes a story by
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Winston Churchill. Story selection varies between three main editions.
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Waugh, Charles G., and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
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ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
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Comments: Includes a 60-page bibliography of alternate histories, English-
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language and otherwise.
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Alternate Histories:
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Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE
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What if: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
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Story: Wolves plague England in the early 1800s. Otherwise, this volume is
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not very alt-hist.
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-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA
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Story: Hanoverians plot against James III.
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-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET
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Story: A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed
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at St. James' Palace.
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-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE
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Story: 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
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Story: The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
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-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE
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Story: Hanoverian plotters return, trying to disrupt the coronation of
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Richard IV.
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Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY
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What if: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
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Story:
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Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY
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What if: Germany won WW2.
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Story: SF author Jael Cracken writes alternate history stories, with
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excerpts included.
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Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION
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What if: Martin Luther was elected pope, and the Reformation never occurred.
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Story: A boy soprano in 1970s Catholic England tries to avoid becoming a
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papal castrato.
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Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WMHB1>
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What if: Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before
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Christianity could get started.
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Story: Adventures of a courier originally from North Markland (=America) in
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an alternate Israel/Palestine.
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Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
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What if: The scientific revolution arrived early, apparently the result of a
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15th century man's salvation from drowning.
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Story: The discovery of the Americas is sidetracked by a NASA-like project,
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while Mexicans plan an expedition of discovery east across the Atlantic.
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Armstrong, Anthony, and Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG
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What if: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
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Story: How the invasion was defeated.
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Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun/64 and THE
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BEST FROM NEW WORLDS (ed. Moorcock)
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What if: Hitler did not invade Russia.
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Story: Life in occupied London, 1954.
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Barbet, Pierre, and Bernard Kay (tr.), BAPHOMET'S METEOR (orig. L'EMPIRE DU
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BAPHOMET), incl. in COSMIC CRUSADERS
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What if: An outer-spaced alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
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Story: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save
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the Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
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--------------, and C.J. Cherryh (tr.), STELLAR CRUSADE (orig. CROISADE
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STELLAIRE), incl. in COSMIC CRUSADERS
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Story: Outer-space sequel to the above.
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Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME
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What if:
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Story:
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Basil, Otto, and Thomas Weyr (tr.), TWILIGHT MAN (orig. WENN DAS DER FUHRER
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WUSSTE)
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What if: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
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Story: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
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Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IIHHO>
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What if: Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
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Story: Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
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mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
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Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (ed. Stern)
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and <AH>
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What if: Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
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Story: An Englishman residing on the Mediterranan coast of France meets a
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retired, frustrated French artillery major.
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Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WMHB1>
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What if: US presidential elections of the 1950s occurred a little
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differently.
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Story: A congressman disliked by a new authoritarian regime in the US is
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kidnaped.
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Bensen, Donald R., AND HAVING WRIT...
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What if: An alien was shipwrecked on Earth by the Tunguska event in 1908.
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Story: The alien arranges Edison's election to the US presidency, then
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tries to prevent WW1.
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Bernau, George, CANDLE IN THE WIND
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What if: Marilyn Monroe's suicide attempt failed.
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Story:
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Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP
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What if: The US presidential assassination attempt in 1963 failed.
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Story: Hunting down the conspirators. Perhaps not alt_hist, as the names of
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all the historical figures are changed, to "protect the innocent"?
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Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON
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What if:
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Story:
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Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS!
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What if: SF author Phil Dick attained greater success and ended up on multi-
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term President Nixon's enemies list.
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Story:
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Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
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What if: John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was successful.
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Story:
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Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH
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What if: Jesus of Nazareth lived to see the storming of Rome, at age 70.
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Story:
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Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
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TIME and <HV>
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What if: Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon.
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Story: A captured American officer prepares to be sacrificed and comes face-
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to-face with the god of battle.
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Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS
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What if: (see Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS)
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Story: The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances and six
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travelers tell their tales at an inn in Krakow.
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Buckley, William F., Jr., SAVING THE QUEEN
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What if: Elizabeth II and most of her family were killed in an air crash (c.
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1950) and a distant cousin becomes queen.
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Story: The CIA assigns Blackford Oakes to smoke out a Soviet spy in the
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royal family. Queen Caroline is among the suspects.
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(note: non-alt_hist series of thrillers follows)
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Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL
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What if: France and Britain started the Chunnel decades ago.
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Story: Terrorists strike the nearly complete Channel Tunnel in 1973.
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Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WMHB2>
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What if: Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul
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1863. Wasn't he?
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Story: 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history
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explore the Great Man hypothesis.
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Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, and Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE
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WAR
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What if: While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces
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delivered a devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 67.
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Story: A day-by-day account of the six-day fall of Israel, and subsequent
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repercussions in 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 <IIHHO>
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What if: Mary had accepted Don John's offer of marriage.
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Story: An essay on England's place in Christendom and on whether it would
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have accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort.
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Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
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<IIHHO> and Scribner's Dec 30
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What if: Jeb Stuart and his cavalry reached the battlefield a bit sooner
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and rendered the necessary support to Pickett's charge needed.
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Story: Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might
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have prevented the formation of the English-speaking union.
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Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED (aka THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD WORLD)
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What if: Klaus Fuchs sabotaged the Trinity test.
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Story: With the US still fighting Japan in 1946, Soviet forces march through
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a defenseless Europe, causing a strong reaction in Britain and elsewhere.
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Clark, Ronald W., QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOMB
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What if: Victorian England developed the atomic bomb.
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Story:
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Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN
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What if: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
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Story: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
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Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in <BT>
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What if: Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops.
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Story: The murder of Jesus, with an epilog describing Roman satrap "Queen"
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Victoria being forced to marry another satrap-prince.
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Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in <BT>
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What if: The Watergate break-in went unreported.
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Story: Finagling the election of 1996.
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Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in <BT>
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What if: Abolitionists block US annexation of Texas.
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Story: Political intrigue in a fragmented NA following the assassination of
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Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
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Cox, Richard, OPERATION SEALION
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What if: Hitler invaded England.
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Story: The invasion is repelled. (Story is based on simulation played out
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decades later by British and German officers.)
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Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL
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WAR (ed. McSherry)
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What if: The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington
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during Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865.
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Story: 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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Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72
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What if: Italy invented the first atomic bomb.
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Story:
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Deighton, Len, SS-GB
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What if: Germany won the Battle of Britain.
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Story: 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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Denton, Brad, WRACK & ROLL
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What if: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into
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Russia after the fall of Germany.
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Story: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock
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star. In 1979, her daughter goes on tour.
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Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
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What if: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
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Story: Life in Japanese-occupied California.
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Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER
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----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING
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What if: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887, and became king of
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England in 1910 rather than his brother George.
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Story: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal)
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family closet and must solve some mysteries.
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Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR
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What if: Hitler's illness results in the Wehrmacht entering Moscow.
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Meanwhile, Japan triumphs at Midway.
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Story:
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Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY
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What if: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern
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Front, and his successors reversed some of his policies.
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Story: An American agent in victorious Berlin finds that many of the same
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horrors continue behind the public facade.
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Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81
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What if:
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Story:
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Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT>
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What if:
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Story:
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Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME
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What if: Washington was defeated and captured on Long Island, and the USA
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did not gain independence until 1800.
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Story:
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Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH>
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What if: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War,
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and blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics.
|
||
|
Story: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's
|
||
|
English, and some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found.
|
||
|
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH
|
||
|
What if: One key creditor did not help out a failing stockbroker, thereby
|
||
|
provoking a Wall Street crash in 1970.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a
|
||
|
professional musician.
|
||
|
Story: 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>
|
||
|
What if: Eva Braun persuaded Hitler to come to terms with England, and a
|
||
|
Pan-European federation began a 1000-year peace.
|
||
|
Story: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's son from an accident
|
||
|
on the Moon.
|
||
|
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in <IIHHO>, Scribner's
|
||
|
Jan 31 and PAGES FROM THE PAST
|
||
|
What if: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston.
|
||
|
Story: The Emperor looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on South
|
||
|
America, but will it be enough?
|
||
|
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING
|
||
|
What if: Julian re-established paganism in the Roman empire and Justinian
|
||
|
had time to consolidate his gains.
|
||
|
Story: What really happened to the two nephews of Britain's Richard III.
|
||
|
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in Saturday Evening Post
|
||
|
16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE
|
||
|
What if: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: Poland became a world-dominating power.
|
||
|
Story: A secret Polish space project to ensure world peace.
|
||
|
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: The war of the sexes developed differently.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55
|
||
|
What if: Newton wrote the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA instead of the PRNCIPIA
|
||
|
MATHEMATICA.
|
||
|
Story: Frustrated by government contractors, Newton changes his field of
|
||
|
study.
|
||
|
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN
|
||
|
What if: Washington accepted the American crown, and his descendants still
|
||
|
rule.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE
|
||
|
What if: Babbage perfected his *analytical* engine, and the Information Age
|
||
|
arrived a century early.
|
||
|
Story: 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.
|
||
|
Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
|
||
|
What if: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was crowned king of
|
||
|
France.
|
||
|
Story: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power
|
||
|
in France.
|
||
|
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IIHHO>
|
||
|
What if: Ferdinands army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
|
||
|
Story: An overview of the long history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of
|
||
|
Granada.
|
||
|
Gygax, E. Gary, and Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
|
||
|
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II, collected from Internat'l Federation of
|
||
|
Wargamers newsletter
|
||
|
What if: The Axis had adopted a coherent grand strategy.
|
||
|
Story: Detailed account of German victory in World War II, ending with
|
||
|
domination of Europe and Africa.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, and Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: The last Christian king in England broke with the church.
|
||
|
Story: In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him
|
||
|
over the edge.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! (aka TUNNEL THROUGH THE
|
||
|
DEPTHS), serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72
|
||
|
What if: Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat in 1212, and the War
|
||
|
of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI.
|
||
|
Story: A descendant of executed rebel George Washington is in charge of
|
||
|
building the ultimate tunnel.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN
|
||
|
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN
|
||
|
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN
|
||
|
What if: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
|
||
|
Story: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed. Silverberg)
|
||
|
What if: Henry VIII and Martin Luther died premature deaths, aborting the
|
||
|
Reformation.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
|
||
|
What if: Custer was the sole survivor of the Little Bighorn.
|
||
|
Story: Just what the title says.
|
||
|
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR
|
||
|
What if: Grant dies on the way to Vicksburg and Lee won at Gettysburg.
|
||
|
Story: History of the USA, CSA and Republic of Texas after the Civil War
|
||
|
until reunification in the 1960s.
|
||
|
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IIHHO> (exc. 1931
|
||
|
Amer. ed.)
|
||
|
What if: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
|
||
|
Story: An imaginary London Times of 1930 reflects the social impact of the
|
||
|
strike.
|
||
|
Kurland, Michael, and S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT
|
||
|
What if: The Watergate break-ins had gone undetected.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
|
||
|
<WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington
|
||
|
was captured, tortured and executed.
|
||
|
Story: 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret
|
||
|
their part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure.
|
||
|
Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: The state of Franklin resisted incorporation into the US.
|
||
|
Story: The US is a backwater dominated by the Republic of Appalachia.
|
||
|
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed. Knight) and <AH>
|
||
|
What if: Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth.
|
||
|
Story: An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing
|
||
|
in trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw.
|
||
|
Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in The Nation 13 Apr 46
|
||
|
What if: Roosevelt did not die in 1945.
|
||
|
Story: Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including
|
||
|
control of the bomb and the start of the Cold War.
|
||
|
Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
|
||
|
ENGLAND
|
||
|
What if: The French invaded England in 1805.
|
||
|
Story: Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next.
|
||
|
Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN
|
||
|
AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN
|
||
|
AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Leiber, Fritz, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75, <76AWBSF> and NEBULA
|
||
|
AWARDS 11 (ed. ?)
|
||
|
What if: Tom Edison married Marie Sklodowska, and their son's inventions
|
||
|
revolutionized the world. Decisive Allied victory averts Versailles diktat.
|
||
|
Story: Zeppelin designer Adolf Hitler dines with his son at the Empire
|
||
|
State Building dirigible terminal.
|
||
|
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS, incl. in A TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION
|
||
|
(ed. Boucher)
|
||
|
What if: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt.
|
||
|
Story: Lincoln's declining years.
|
||
|
Ley, Olga, "Checkmate", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: Kerensky exiled Lenin and Trotsky.
|
||
|
Story: How he did it.
|
||
|
Linaweaver, Brad, "Moon of Ice", in Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
|
||
|
What if: Nazi Germany developed nuclear weapons.
|
||
|
Story: Goebbel's 1960s diaries reexamine what happened.
|
||
|
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN
|
||
|
What if: Nazi Germany had invaded England.
|
||
|
Story: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative
|
||
|
essays discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
|
||
|
Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IIHHO>
|
||
|
What if: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and became Kaiser
|
||
|
instead of son Wilhelm.
|
||
|
Story: Overview of Bismarck's contruct of a network of peace treaties while
|
||
|
Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
|
||
|
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
|
||
|
What if: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
|
||
|
Story: A "campaign history" of how Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded
|
||
|
England and forced HM government to flee across the Atlantic.
|
||
|
Malzberg, Barry, "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer.
|
||
|
Story: In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the
|
||
|
latest issue of Amazing arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov.
|
||
|
Malzberg, Barry, "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75
|
||
|
What if: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
|
||
|
Story: A writer from that timeline thinks about what might have happened if
|
||
|
Kennedy had been elected.
|
||
|
Malzberg, Barry, THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD, exp. of "Emily Dickinson-
|
||
|
Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed. Torgeson)
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in
|
||
|
Fortnightly Apr 41
|
||
|
What if: William IV's heir was male.
|
||
|
Story: Effect of Britain retaining Hanover on German reunification and
|
||
|
the WWs.
|
||
|
Martin, George R.R. (ed.), WILD CARDS 1
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 2: ACES HIGH
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 3: JOKERS WILD
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 4: ACES ABROAD
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 5: DOWN AND DIRTY
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 6: ACE IN THE HOLE
|
||
|
-------------------------, WILD CARDS 7: DEAD MAN'S HAND
|
||
|
What if: In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released
|
||
|
in the stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others.
|
||
|
Story: A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during
|
||
|
the ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much.
|
||
|
Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IIHHO>
|
||
|
What if: Louis XVI showed signs of a backbone, retaining Turgot as finance
|
||
|
minister.
|
||
|
Story: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
|
||
|
entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
|
||
|
Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM
|
||
|
What if: As improbable as it may seem...
|
||
|
Story: McGovern gets us out of Vietnam, but himself into trouble with
|
||
|
Congress.
|
||
|
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR
|
||
|
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS
|
||
|
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC
|
||
|
What if: Pilate spared the life of Jesus of Nazareth, so the Roman empire
|
||
|
was never weakened by Christianity.
|
||
|
Story: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican government
|
||
|
becomes Caesar.
|
||
|
Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE
|
||
|
What if: Refugees from Troy founded a new empire in Britain.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbon, WATCHMEN (orig. publ. as 12-issue comic book
|
||
|
mini-series)
|
||
|
What if: Costumed vigilantes appeared in 1939, and a real superhero with
|
||
|
superpowers was created in 1959 by an accident in a nuclear research lab.
|
||
|
Story: In 1986, Nixon is still president, someone is killing old costumed
|
||
|
heroes, and nuclear war looks imminent. Why are the latter two related?
|
||
|
Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: The Sino-German alliance defeated Japan and won World War II.
|
||
|
Story: Students revolt in isolationist America.
|
||
|
Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: Moses couldn't get a replacement set for the tablets he smashed on
|
||
|
the golden calf.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON
|
||
|
What if: Hitler attacked the Soviet Union immediately instead of toying with
|
||
|
Greece and Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Japan attacked Vladivostok.
|
||
|
Story: A young officer and a maverick bishop get involved in a last-ditch
|
||
|
attempt to topple Hitler.
|
||
|
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG
|
||
|
What if: The CSA won the battle.
|
||
|
Story: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter
|
||
|
speculates on possible historical impact.
|
||
|
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and <YBSF6>
|
||
|
What if: Welles' broadcast of the War of the Worlds was no hoax.
|
||
|
Story: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood.
|
||
|
Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71 and ALIEN
|
||
|
HORIZONS
|
||
|
What if: Robert Kennedy survived the assassination attempt by Sirhan Sirhan.
|
||
|
and was elected president.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <IIHHO>
|
||
|
What if: Lord Byron did not die of a fever in 1824.
|
||
|
Story: 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.
|
||
|
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION
|
||
|
What if: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
|
||
|
Story: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
|
||
|
Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: MacArthur invaded China against orders and later set himself up as
|
||
|
US dictator.
|
||
|
Story: MacArthur turns to psychic crosstime exploration to find out where he
|
||
|
went wrong.
|
||
|
Overgard, William, DIVIDE
|
||
|
What if: Axis powers armed with jets and V-4 rockets defeat and partition
|
||
|
America in WW2.
|
||
|
Story: Thirty years later, the NA resistance develops the atomic bomb.
|
||
|
Padgett, Lewis, and C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES, exp. of Padgett's
|
||
|
"The Portal in the Picture", in Startling Stories Sep 49 and Ace Double D-69
|
||
|
What if: Rome was not Christianized.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT>
|
||
|
What if: The French won the French and Indian War.
|
||
|
Story: A subversive activist seeks Soviet aid for a British-American revolt
|
||
|
against the Republic of New France.
|
||
|
Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy", in Weekly Westminster 30 Jan 26,
|
||
|
THE JACOBITE MOVEMENT: THE LAST PHASE and <IIHHO> (1972 ed. only)
|
||
|
What if: The Jacobite movement succeeded.
|
||
|
Story: A review of the restoration of the Stuarts in 1745 by Bonnie Prince
|
||
|
Charlie.
|
||
|
Pohl, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAsfm> Aug 88 and <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: Rome never fell, and aliens arrived.
|
||
|
Story: It is suggested to an author in a rut that he try writing a "What
|
||
|
If?" book, but he can't see the point of it.
|
||
|
Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT
|
||
|
What if: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg.
|
||
|
Story: Confederates plot to steal a nuclear-tipped cannon shell from the US,
|
||
|
causing revolts by right-wing and pro-Negro extremists.
|
||
|
Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD
|
||
|
What if: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in NA.
|
||
|
Story: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern NA takes part in the Mongol
|
||
|
conquest of Mexico.
|
||
|
Roberts, Keith, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66 and PAVANE
|
||
|
--------------, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
|
||
|
PAVANE and <AH>
|
||
|
--------------, "Brother John", in Impulse May 66 and PAVANE
|
||
|
--------------, "Lords and Ladies", in Impulse Jun 66 and PAVANE
|
||
|
--------------, "Corfe Gate", in Impulse Jul 66 and PAVANE
|
||
|
--------------, "The White Boat", in New Worlds Dec 66 and PAVANE
|
||
|
What if: Elizabeth I was assassinated, the Armada triumphed and Europe and
|
||
|
the New World languished under 500 years of Church rule.
|
||
|
Story: Steam locomotives and heroic semaphore operators represent modern-
|
||
|
day high-tech. Secret quasi-priesthood of scientists hunted by Inquisition.
|
||
|
Roberts, Keith, "Weihnachtsabend", in THE PASSING OF DRAGONS and <HV>
|
||
|
What if: A junta which overthrew George VI and Churchill in 1940 then made
|
||
|
peace with the Axis.
|
||
|
Story: Freedom fighters persist in occupied Britain.
|
||
|
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed. Carr), <YBSF2>
|
||
|
and <AH>
|
||
|
What if: The "Enola Gay" crashed on a practice flight.
|
||
|
Story: The "Lucky Strike" is selected to bomb Hiroshima, but its bombardier
|
||
|
is horrified by the power of the atomic bomb.
|
||
|
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAsfm> Mar 89 and <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: The rescue of the hostages in Iran had succeeded.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Rolfe, Frederick William, and C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR
|
||
|
What if: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
|
||
|
Story: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
|
||
|
overthrow his uncle.
|
||
|
Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG
|
||
|
What if: The mongols conquered and destroyed Europe, and the Arabs and
|
||
|
Chinese discovered and colonized the Americas.
|
||
|
Story: A young Irish adventurer escorts a woman to Chinese America.
|
||
|
Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY
|
||
|
What if: With British help, the Confederacy won the Civil War.
|
||
|
Story: A member of the Cherokee nation is attached to a Confederate squadron
|
||
|
fighting in France in 1916.
|
||
|
Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
|
||
|
What if: Hitler decided to finish off Russia first, invading England in
|
||
|
1945.
|
||
|
Story: A look at year 102 of the 1000-Year Reich.
|
||
|
Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age", in LONE STAR UNIVERSE (eds. Proctor
|
||
|
and Utley)
|
||
|
What if: The Manhattan project fizzled.
|
||
|
Story: WW2 drags on, and on.
|
||
|
Schwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in <Alt>
|
||
|
What if: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann.
|
||
|
Story: An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath.
|
||
|
Schwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his motorcycle accident.
|
||
|
Story: In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to North Africa,
|
||
|
where he meets Rommel.
|
||
|
Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES
|
||
|
What if: After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to
|
||
|
quell a rebellion of League cities.
|
||
|
Story: His return west and dealings with early Rome.
|
||
|
Shetterly, Will, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (12-issue comic book mini-series)
|
||
|
What if: The South won the Civil War.
|
||
|
Story: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s.
|
||
|
Letters column is oft-times more interesting than the comic.
|
||
|
Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer
|
||
|
might have kept are included.
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS
|
||
|
What if: Europe was decimated by the Black Plague in 1348, leaving it
|
||
|
defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
|
||
|
Story: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec NA.
|
||
|
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS
|
||
|
and <IAsfm> Oct 90
|
||
|
Story: Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying.
|
||
|
(see also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation of
|
||
|
Spiders")
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Tales from the Venia Woods", <f&sf> Oct 89 and <YBSF7>
|
||
|
What if: The Roman Empire/Republic/Empire had survived without Christianity.
|
||
|
Story: A boy encounters a deposed emperor living in a shotgun shack in a
|
||
|
remote region of the republic.
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea.
|
||
|
Story: The second Hebrew attempt at leaving Egypt.
|
||
|
Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY
|
||
|
What if: Johnston had retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so
|
||
|
long that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election.
|
||
|
Story: In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg,
|
||
|
John Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection.
|
||
|
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE
|
||
|
What if: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-
|
||
|
ridden rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
|
||
|
Story: A Helvetian, North-American Christian serves the Saracen emperor
|
||
|
against the Mughal-Arabs and the Aztecs.
|
||
|
Smith, Martin, THE INDIANS WON
|
||
|
What if: NA Plains Indians band together and stop the white man's spread,
|
||
|
resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
|
||
|
Story: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues
|
||
|
during 20th-century white vs. red tensions.
|
||
|
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL: IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
|
||
|
What if: As the title says.
|
||
|
Story: History of the Confederation of NA and the US of Mexico, from 1775 to
|
||
|
1973.
|
||
|
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD
|
||
|
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE
|
||
|
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX
|
||
|
What if: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
|
||
|
Story: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum)
|
||
|
and his entanglements with time guardians.
|
||
|
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM
|
||
|
What if: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and became an SF writer.
|
||
|
Story: The text of Hitler's most well-known novel.
|
||
|
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION
|
||
|
What if: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter.
|
||
|
Story: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA
|
||
|
and decides that assassination is the only solution.
|
||
|
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
|
||
|
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE
|
||
|
---------------, THE STONE DOGS
|
||
|
What if: American Tories colonized South Africa after the revolution.
|
||
|
Story: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000)
|
||
|
and only the USA stands in the way.
|
||
|
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR, exp. of "The Man who Loved the Vampire
|
||
|
Lady", in <f&sf> Aug 88 and <YBSF6>
|
||
|
What if: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe.
|
||
|
Story: A human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of immortality.
|
||
|
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see S.P. Somtow
|
||
|
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
|
||
|
converts to Islam.
|
||
|
Story: Describing the event.
|
||
|
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF
|
||
|
What if: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
|
||
|
Story: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, as Bonnie Prince Charlie
|
||
|
is invited to become king of Virginia.
|
||
|
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
|
||
|
Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE and <IIHHO> (1972 ed. only)
|
||
|
What if: As the title says...
|
||
|
Story: The effect of Napoleonic repression on British and Continental
|
||
|
reform.
|
||
|
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
|
||
|
NOTES FROM CHINA and PRACTICING HISTORY
|
||
|
What if: What if Ambassador Hurley had not prevented Mao and Chou En-lai
|
||
|
from meeting FDR in 1945.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", <IAsfm> Jan 89 and <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: Mohammad was converted to Christianity. Thus, Byzantium never fell
|
||
|
but had to cope with a technologically sophisticated Persia.
|
||
|
Story: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee
|
||
|
a Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
|
||
|
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM, rev. of "Unholy Trinity",
|
||
|
"Archetypes", and other stories, in Amazing Jul 85, Nov 85 and Jan 86 and
|
||
|
<f&sf> Aug 86, Mar 87 and Apr 87
|
||
|
Story: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros travels to various parts of the empire
|
||
|
investigating out-of-the-ordinary events and developments.
|
||
|
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAsfm> 15 Dec 89
|
||
|
Story: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WMHB1>
|
||
|
What if: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
|
||
|
Story: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
|
||
|
Greek situation.
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
|
||
|
What if: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the
|
||
|
8th century AD.
|
||
|
Story: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
|
||
|
invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <f&sf> Jan 88, <YBSF6>, <WMHB2> and
|
||
|
THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed. McSherry)
|
||
|
What if: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
|
||
|
Story: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85 and A DIFFERENT FLESH
|
||
|
What if: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-
|
||
|
skinned men when they reached the New World.
|
||
|
Story: Adventures of European colonists in a different Jamestown settlement.
|
||
|
-----------------, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE and A DIFFERENT FLESH
|
||
|
Story: Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
|
||
|
wonders how intelligent they might be.
|
||
|
-----------------, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86 and A DIFFERENT
|
||
|
FLESH
|
||
|
Story: Adventures of a European hunter with a sim assistant.
|
||
|
-----------------, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86 and A DIFFERENT
|
||
|
FLESH
|
||
|
Story: Mammoth-pulled trains face competition from new steam-driven trains,
|
||
|
and a race between the two is held.
|
||
|
-----------------, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86 and A
|
||
|
DIFFERENT FLESH
|
||
|
Story: The existence of sims allows a lawyer to change the law and free all
|
||
|
Negro slaves.
|
||
|
-----------------, "Trapping Run", in A DIFFERENT FLESH
|
||
|
Story: A European trapper wounded by animals is nursed back to health by
|
||
|
sims.
|
||
|
-----------------, "Freedom", in A DIFFERENT FLESH
|
||
|
Story: University students oppose experiments on sims aimed at finding a
|
||
|
cure for AIDS.
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
|
||
|
What if: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of
|
||
|
sustaining a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
|
||
|
Story: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface
|
||
|
of "Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
|
||
|
Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed.
|
||
|
Carr) and <AH>
|
||
|
What if: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine.
|
||
|
Story: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy
|
||
|
and later flew at the Little Big Horn.
|
||
|
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IIHHO>
|
||
|
(1931, 1964 US eds. only)
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story: 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
|
||
|
What if: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, hiding out until the
|
||
|
1970s.
|
||
|
Story: An international tribunal considers his fate.
|
||
|
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in <IIHHO> and Scribner's Nov
|
||
|
30
|
||
|
What if: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
|
||
|
Story: A critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's
|
||
|
woes on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen", in STRANGE THINGS
|
||
|
IN CLOSE UP
|
||
|
What if: Ancient Israelites added peyote mushrooms to their burnt offerings
|
||
|
and God got more than a "sweet savour"!?
|
||
|
Story: Bronco Billy and William S. Hart help Hermann Goering fight a
|
||
|
vampire.
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE UP
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story: Eisenhower is a band leader and Elvis Presley a politician.
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in STRANGE THINGS IN
|
||
|
CLOSE UP
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
|
||
|
FANTASY
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
|
||
|
23-30 Jun 76
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER (aka DOWNFALL)
|
||
|
What if: The Atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
|
||
|
Story: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
|
||
|
White, Ted, and Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP
|
||
|
What if: Alien intervention averted WW2.
|
||
|
Story: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the
|
||
|
"angels."
|
||
|
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG
|
||
|
What if: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster.
|
||
|
Story: The search for an heir.
|
||
|
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAsfm> Nov 89, <WMHB2> and
|
||
|
FACETS
|
||
|
What if: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a
|
||
|
Confederate general.
|
||
|
Story: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the
|
||
|
battle of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
|
||
|
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
|
||
|
Invasion", in Analog May 73
|
||
|
What if: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military
|
||
|
conquest in the 1930s and 40s.
|
||
|
Story: A US Army colonel returns to his hometown of Abilene KS, opens a
|
||
|
Buick dealership, and devises a WW2 wargame.
|
||
|
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS and THE INFINITE MOMENT
|
||
|
What if: The League of Nations became strong enough to prevent WW2.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
|
||
|
RENAISSANCE
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story: A branch of the Medici which died out in our history struggles to
|
||
|
hold federated Italy together in another.
|
||
|
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
|
||
|
WORLDS
|
||
|
What if: (see Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS)
|
||
|
Story: 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
|
||
|
What if:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
What if: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
|
||
|
Story: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Alternate History Reference Materials:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Brownlow, Kevin, HOW IT HAPPENED HERE
|
||
|
Comments: A description of the making of IT HAPPENED HERE, a movie directed
|
||
|
by Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, about a nurse in 1940s occupied Britain.
|
||
|
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Afterword: Allohistory in Science Fiction", in <AH>
|
||
|
Comments: Discussion of what alternate histories are and are not.
|
||
|
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been,
|
||
|
II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in <AH>
|
||
|
Comments: A 61-page listing of alternate histories, with short synopses
|
||
|
and where published.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, "Worlds Beside Worlds", in SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE (ed.
|
||
|
Nicholls)
|
||
|
Comments: Essay on writing alternate history.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Future Glimpses:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881, OUR CHRISTMAS IN A
|
||
|
PALACE, HANDS OFF and <AH>
|
||
|
Story: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he sees
|
||
|
what would happen if Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
|
||
|
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH,
|
||
|
<HV>, THE GREAT SF STORIES: 20 (ed. Asimov and Greenberg) and THE FANTASTIC
|
||
|
WORLD WAR II (ed. McSherry)
|
||
|
Story: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the atomic bomb is
|
||
|
given a glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
|
||
|
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
Story: While trying to decide whether to make peace with the Confederacy in
|
||
|
1863, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Crosstime Stories:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME
|
||
|
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND
|
||
|
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS
|
||
|
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS
|
||
|
Story: A party of tourists trapped in a remote villa are dropped into a
|
||
|
17th-century Earth in which Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 431.
|
||
|
Aldiss, Brian, "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct 62
|
||
|
and NEANDERTHAL PLANET
|
||
|
Story: A theocratic timeline abducts people from crosstime for advice on
|
||
|
dealing with a slave revolt. Abductees develop an alternate agenda.
|
||
|
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed. Ellison)
|
||
|
Story: Explorers from an advanced Hellenistic world arising from Alexander's
|
||
|
survival visit backward NA dominated by Norse and Magyar colonies.
|
||
|
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Bear, Greg, ETERNITY
|
||
|
----------, EON
|
||
|
Story: A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a
|
||
|
different future.
|
||
|
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed. Carr)
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BIOFAB WAR
|
||
|
-------------------, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO
|
||
|
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
|
||
|
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
|
||
|
Story: Space opera, crosstime travel, teleportation, malevolent AIs, and
|
||
|
other subplots swirl around a timeline where Germany won WW2.
|
||
|
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54 and <BAW>
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP
|
||
|
Story: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world
|
||
|
where racoons rather than primates evolved intelligence.
|
||
|
Brunner, John, THE INFINITIVE OF GO
|
||
|
Story: A teleporter not only transmits sideways in space but also in time.
|
||
|
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
|
||
|
Story: A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of
|
||
|
universe, but that doesn't solve his problems.
|
||
|
Busby, F.M., ALL THESE EARTHS
|
||
|
Story: An FTL space drive at high "skip" factors may place the ship in an
|
||
|
alternate universe.
|
||
|
Carr, John F., and Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
|
||
|
(a sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN)
|
||
|
Story: Lord Kalvan faces another attempt by Styphon's House to destroy him,
|
||
|
this time when barbarians from the NA plains are forced east.
|
||
|
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR NO. 7
|
||
|
(ed. Del Rey)
|
||
|
Story: Several versions of the same pair of people meet at a jewelry store
|
||
|
that lies between several alternate Earths.
|
||
|
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78
|
||
|
Story: Adventures of the crew of a ferry boat that travels between alternate
|
||
|
versions of Maine and Nova Scotia.
|
||
|
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
|
||
|
Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
|
||
|
Story: Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where
|
||
|
red men enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
|
||
|
Cramer, James G., TWISTOR
|
||
|
Story; A UWashington professor stumbles across an almost-empty world next
|
||
|
door.
|
||
|
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
|
||
|
Story: The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an Amaerica colonized
|
||
|
by Vikings and English pirates.
|
||
|
De Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, <AH> and Tor SF
|
||
|
Double #20
|
||
|
Story: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a
|
||
|
Celtic Christian bishop in "New Belfast".
|
||
|
(see also Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker")
|
||
|
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80
|
||
|
Story: A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains
|
||
|
moral strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
|
||
|
Farmer, Philip Jose, THE GATE OF TIME (aka TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH)
|
||
|
Story: Pilots from two different WW2s slip into an Earth where NA exists
|
||
|
only as an archipelago and the Amerinds never left Asia.
|
||
|
Fehrenbach, T. R., "Remember the Alamo!", in POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (ed.
|
||
|
Greenberg and Warrick) and <BAW>
|
||
|
Story: A Britisher goes back in time to the Alamo, but things aren't as they
|
||
|
should be.
|
||
|
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR, exp. of "The World Next Door", in
|
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<IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (ed. ?)
|
||
|
Story: 1980s survivors of a 1960s nuclear war have strange dreams of a world
|
||
|
full of home computers, cable television, etc.
|
||
|
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB
|
||
|
Story: Different versions of the same woman touch one another through
|
||
|
Tarotry and a twist in spacetime.
|
||
|
Finney, Jack, "I'm Scared", in THE THIRD LEVEL
|
||
|
Story: A retired cop discovers a disturbing series of anachronisms,
|
||
|
including a man who disappeared in 1876 and reappeared in 1955.
|
||
|
Finney, Jack, "The Third Level", in THE THIRD LEVEL
|
||
|
Story: A man wondering around NYC Grand Central Station is transported from
|
||
|
the 1950s to the 1890s and back again.
|
||
|
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time"
|
||
|
Story: A man lost between universes has an adventure in an alternative US.
|
||
|
Ford, John M., "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL
|
||
|
WAR (ed. McSherry)
|
||
|
Story: A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is
|
||
|
stranded on a timeline where British intervention prolonged the Civil War.
|
||
|
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr)
|
||
|
Story: A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture,
|
||
|
transportation, etc. are all out of the pulp SF of the 30s.
|
||
|
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR
|
||
|
(a sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN)
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL
|
||
|
BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (ed. ?)
|
||
|
Story: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
|
||
|
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX, exp. of "The Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm>
|
||
|
Apr 90 and <YBSF8>
|
||
|
Story: A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline
|
||
|
protector and awakes in another timeline's version of himself.
|
||
|
Harrison: Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds. Silverberg and Elwood)
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE
|
||
|
Story: A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some
|
||
|
deity has it in for them.
|
||
|
Heinlein, Robert A., THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
|
||
|
Story: A mad scientist, his beautiful daughter, a clear-eyed hero and a
|
||
|
lusty friend explore the 6**6**6 possible realities.
|
||
|
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION
|
||
|
Story: Beleaguered America tries to reverse Britain's defeat in WW2.
|
||
|
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87
|
||
|
and <YBSF5>
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Kilian, Crawford, THE EMPIRE OF TIME
|
||
|
----------------, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC
|
||
|
----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR
|
||
|
Story: An agent for the Intertemporal Agency tries to find out how disaster
|
||
|
struck Earth in the future, visiting alternate Earths along the way.
|
||
|
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime traveler finds a timeline where Jesus never existed.
|
||
|
Kube-McDowell, Michael M., ALTERNITIES
|
||
|
Story: The USA seeks a bolthole for its leaders in case of nuclear war.
|
||
|
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
|
||
|
Constitution.
|
||
|
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM, serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr
|
||
|
61, exp. for 1983 ed.
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German
|
||
|
Imperium centered in London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
|
||
|
-------------, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME, serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun
|
||
|
65, incl. in BEYOND THE IMPERIUM
|
||
|
Story: Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious
|
||
|
victory at Brussels in 1814.
|
||
|
-------------, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE, incl. in BEYOND THE IMPERIUM
|
||
|
Story: Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided
|
||
|
battle at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
|
||
|
-------------, ZONE YELLOW
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in Astounding Jun 34 and BEFORE THE
|
||
|
GOLDEN AGE (ed. Asimov)
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW
|
||
|
Story: Exiles from different NAs of 1965 meet.
|
||
|
Meredith, R.C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain
|
||
|
suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
|
||
|
--------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND
|
||
|
Story: Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and
|
||
|
another colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
|
||
|
--------------, VESTIGES OF TIME
|
||
|
Story: And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
|
||
|
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS, exp. of "The House of Many Worlds",
|
||
|
Startling Stories Sep 51
|
||
|
Story: Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including
|
||
|
one where Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA.
|
||
|
Merwin, Sam, "Journey to Misenum" (aka "Three Faces of Time"), in Startling
|
||
|
Stories Aug 53 and Ace Double #?
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Moorcock, Michael, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR
|
||
|
-----------------, THE LAND LEVIATHAN
|
||
|
-----------------, THE STEEL TSAR
|
||
|
Story: A man wanders from one alternate Earth to another, involving himself
|
||
|
in various conflicts betwen Europeans and non-Europeans.
|
||
|
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime trade improves economy at the expense of society in a world
|
||
|
where the Cuban missile crisis led to war.
|
||
|
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <BAW>
|
||
|
Story: Time travelers stray sideways to a timeline where the dominant
|
||
|
inhabitants developed from wolves instead of hominids.
|
||
|
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime adventure in the ruins of a New York bombed by Nazi air
|
||
|
raids from England.
|
||
|
-------------, QUEST CROSSTIME (aka CROSSTIME AGENT)
|
||
|
Story: Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in
|
||
|
1485 and Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
|
||
|
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47 and
|
||
|
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED
|
||
|
Story: Cross- and vertical travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
|
||
|
Napoleon's European takeover.
|
||
|
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59
|
||
|
Story: In a US where Washington died at Germantown and Benedict Arnold
|
||
|
became president, a man discussing alternate timelines is from one.
|
||
|
Piper, H. Beam, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, ASPECTS
|
||
|
OF SF (ed. Doherty), PARATIME and <AH>
|
||
|
Story: Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and
|
||
|
carrying documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon.
|
||
|
Piper, H. Beam, "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed.
|
||
|
Norton) and PARATIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, "Last Enemy" in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
|
||
|
(ed. Campbell) and PARATIME
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime travelers discover a timeline where reincarnation is a fact
|
||
|
of life (and death), and its implications are disturbing.
|
||
|
--------------, "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51 and PARATIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55 and PARATIME
|
||
|
Story: When organized crime discovers trade between alternate Earths, the
|
||
|
Paratime Police must stop them.
|
||
|
--------------, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN (aka GUNPOWDER GOD), rev. of
|
||
|
"Gunpowder God" and "Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 64 and Nov 65
|
||
|
Story: A Penn state trooper is transported to a NA settled by Indo-Aryans
|
||
|
during the Bronze Age and where only the church can make gunpowder.
|
||
|
(sequels specific to this story are Green and Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR,
|
||
|
Carr and Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker" and Green and Carr's "Siege at Tarr-
|
||
|
Hostigos")
|
||
|
Pohl, Frederik, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN
|
||
|
Story: Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time
|
||
|
periods to stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
|
||
|
Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE, exp. of "Artery of Fire", in Science
|
||
|
Fiction Stories Mar 60
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Changeling", in THE CONGLOMEROID COCKTAIL PARTY
|
||
|
Story: On vacation in Mexico City, a man abruptly finds himself with a wife
|
||
|
he's never met and a past not as he remembers.
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and A Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89 and <WMHB2>
|
||
|
Story: UWashington scientists somehow communicate with a palace guard in
|
||
|
old Constantinople, a Mongol known in our timeline as Genghis Khan.
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Trips", in FINAL STAGE: THE ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION
|
||
|
ANTHOLOGY (eds. Ferman and Malzberg) and exp. in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67
|
||
|
Story: An inventor exits the US of Columbia in 1878 on a crosstime
|
||
|
adventure.
|
||
|
Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH
|
||
|
Story: In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder ends up in a
|
||
|
world where the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and US Constitution was revoked.
|
||
|
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
|
||
|
Story: In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the
|
||
|
crosstime machine.
|
||
|
______________, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
|
||
|
Story: In 1993, ...
|
||
|
--------------, THE VENUS BELT
|
||
|
Story: In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear
|
||
|
is off to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot.
|
||
|
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE
|
||
|
Story: In 2119, ...
|
||
|
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS
|
||
|
Story: Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter
|
||
|
Alfred's dealing with the Danes.
|
||
|
Sterling, Bruce, and Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in MIRRORSHADES:
|
||
|
THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY
|
||
|
Story: The future of one timeline is dominating the past of another.
|
||
|
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20
|
||
|
(sequel to deCamp's "The Wheels of If")
|
||
|
Story: The former New York DA and New Belfast bishop, now a judge, is sent
|
||
|
to South America to adjudicate a complex religio-political dispute.
|
||
|
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
|
||
|
Story: A merchant from Chinese America, discovered by Marco Polo, gets into
|
||
|
crosstime trouble.
|
||
|
White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE
|
||
|
Story: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in
|
||
|
the New York of a different 1939.
|
||
|
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING
|
||
|
Story: A copy of Time-Life's HISTORY OF WW2 causes chaos when it ends up
|
||
|
in a world where the Weimar republic survived.
|
||
|
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75 and <BT>
|
||
|
Story: Machine lets historians study alternative outcomes of D-day.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Changing the Past:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Anderson, Kevin, and Doug Beason, TIMELINE
|
||
|
Story: An anti-nuclear protestor finds herself outside Alamagordo in 1945
|
||
|
and sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
|
||
|
Anderson, Poul, "Time Patrol", in <f&sf> May 55 and GUARDIANS OF TIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME, <AH> and
|
||
|
THE ETERNAL CITY (ed. Drake)
|
||
|
Story: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York", and it's up to Time
|
||
|
Patrolman Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
|
||
|
--------------, "Brave to be a King", in <f&sf> Aug 59 and GUARDIANS OF TIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, "The Only Game in Town", in <f&sf> Jan 60 and GUARDIANS OF
|
||
|
TIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, "Gibraltar Falls", in <f&sf> Aug 75 and GUARDIANS OF TIME
|
||
|
(1981 ed. only)
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, TIME PATROLMAN
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME
|
||
|
Story: Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC)
|
||
|
and Rignano (1137).
|
||
|
Appel, Allen, TIME AFTER TIME
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Baron, Nick, GLORY'S END
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV>
|
||
|
Story: Nazi officers from a world where Germany won WW2 insult a woman when
|
||
|
asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
|
||
|
Benford, Greg, TIMESCAPE
|
||
|
Story: A UC prof in 1962 must worry about tachyonic interference plaguing an
|
||
|
experiment while he tries to gain tenure.
|
||
|
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in R IS FOR ROCKET
|
||
|
Story: Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
|
||
|
repurcussions.
|
||
|
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER
|
||
|
Story: In 1988, 400 years after the Armada conquered England, a plot is
|
||
|
afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-travel.
|
||
|
Cook, Glen, A MATTER OF TIME
|
||
|
Story: A detective tries to solve the mystery of the still-warm corpse of a
|
||
|
man dead 50 years while temporal agents try to preserve their present.
|
||
|
Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY and <YBSF7>
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
deCamp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58 and <BAW>
|
||
|
Story: A time traveler sours Aristotle on science, wiping out development of
|
||
|
European technology.
|
||
|
deCamp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL, esp. from "Lest Darkness Fall", in
|
||
|
Unknown Dec 39
|
||
|
Story: Somehow transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides
|
||
|
to start up a few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
|
||
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
Story: An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to
|
||
|
alter a Civil War different from the one we remember.
|
||
|
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE
|
||
|
Story: 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.
|
||
|
Finney, Jack, "Second Chance", in THE THIRD LEVEL
|
||
|
Story: A wrecked 1920s car is rebuilt by a teen-ager, who goes back in time
|
||
|
to prevent the death of the original owner in a collision with a train.
|
||
|
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER
|
||
|
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT
|
||
|
---------------, THE RADIANT KNIGHT
|
||
|
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD
|
||
|
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY
|
||
|
Story: An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides
|
||
|
to defeat the coming Mongol invasion
|
||
|
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Goldstone, Cynthia, and Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70
|
||
|
Story: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and the Mormons
|
||
|
from the Great Salt Lake to San Francisco Bay.
|
||
|
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY
|
||
|
Story: At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life,
|
||
|
again and again and again.
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Hogan, James P., THRICE UPON A TIME
|
||
|
Story: A Scottish inventor experiments with tachyonic transmissions, sending
|
||
|
messages to his past self.
|
||
|
Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN
|
||
|
Story: A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist
|
||
|
takes advantage of it.
|
||
|
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME, serial in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
|
||
|
Story: At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier
|
||
|
preaches ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears.
|
||
|
-------------, THE CHANGE WAR
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
-------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
-------------, "Try and Change the Past", in Astounding Mar 58; TRIPS IN TIME
|
||
|
(ed. Silverberg); SPACE, TIME, AND CRIME (ed. De Ford); and THE BEST OF
|
||
|
FRITZ LEIBER
|
||
|
Story: A ChangeWar agent runs into the Law of Conservation of Reality,
|
||
|
whereby history resists change.
|
||
|
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD
|
||
|
Story: 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.
|
||
|
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE, exp. of "Bring the Jubilee", in <f&sf> Nov 52
|
||
|
and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. McSherry)
|
||
|
Story: An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and
|
||
|
Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
|
||
|
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", <f&sf> Oct 70
|
||
|
Story: Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
|
||
|
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in FLIGHT OF THE HORSE
|
||
|
Story: 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 <WMHB1>
|
||
|
Story: Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from
|
||
|
becoming an SF writer.
|
||
|
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55
|
||
|
Story: Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
|
||
|
Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
|
||
|
---------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
|
||
|
---------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Reynolds, Mack, and Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME
|
||
|
Story: An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
|
||
|
Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
|
||
|
Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
|
||
|
Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed. Carr)
|
||
|
Story: A time traveler reading Beethoven's mind drives the composer mad
|
||
|
before he could compete the Ode to Joy.
|
||
|
Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", <f&sf> Apr 63
|
||
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Story: A time traveler destroys the train returning Lenin to Russia, but
|
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|
returns to his home time to find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
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Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER
|
||
|
Story: In order to prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels
|
||
|
to the Dallas of 1963, but an altered history may also need correction.
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Needle in a Timestack", in THE CONGLOMEROID COCKTAIL
|
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|
PARTY
|
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|
Story: A couple has big trouble when her former husband repeatedly goes back
|
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|
in time to prevent their marriage.
|
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|
Turtledove, Harry, THE LONG DRUM ROLL
|
||
|
Story: Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s, leading to
|
||
|
Confederate victory.
|
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|
Waldrop, Howard, "Horror, We Got", in STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE UP
|
||
|
Story: Time travel is discovered in Israel and the new Elders of Zion
|
||
|
decide to do or arrange to have done everything the Jews were accused of.
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES
|
||
|
Story: Time-traveler trying to prevent WW3 finds 20th century NA populated
|
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|
by Arabs and Vikings.
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||
|
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME
|
||
|
Story: Teenagers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
|
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+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
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World is "Different":
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Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST
|
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|
Difference: Magic works. Also, Shakespeare's plays were real history and the
|
||
|
Industrial Revolution arrived two centuries early.
|
||
|
Story: Adventures of Prince Rupert in the English Civil War.
|
||
|
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS, rev. of "Operation Afreet", "Operation
|
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|
Salamander", "Operation Incubus", and "Operation Changeling", in <f&sf> Sep
|
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|
56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69
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|
Difference: Men learn to remove antimagical properties of iron, and magical
|
||
|
technology ensues.
|
||
|
Story: 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
|
||
|
Difference: Christian Europe is surrounded by magical, hostile lands.
|
||
|
Story: A Dane from our Earth must save Europe from the forces of Chaos,
|
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|
but why are the people there expecting him?
|
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|
Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON
|
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-----------------, RED PROPHET
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|
-----------------, PRENTICE ALVIN
|
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|
Difference: Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded,
|
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|
altering the course of American colonization.
|
||
|
Story: The seventh son of a seventh son grows up in 19th century America.
|
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|
Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in <YBSF8>
|
||
|
Difference: An older idea of cosmology is correct.
|
||
|
Story: After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault
|
||
|
of heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through.
|
||
|
Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in A CENTURY OF SF (ed. Knight)
|
||
|
Difference: The world is flat.
|
||
|
Story: Columbus sails off the edge of an Earth in which Bacon developed a
|
||
|
radio from theological principles.
|
||
|
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD
|
||
|
Difference: Druidic magic works, and Britain is isolated from the rest of
|
||
|
the world.
|
||
|
Story: Adventures of a Holmesian detective.
|
||
|
Garrett, Randall, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64 and MURDER AND
|
||
|
MAGIC
|
||
|
Difference: Magic was codified c. 1300. Also, Richard Couer de Lion survived
|
||
|
Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-French kingdom to nephew Arthur.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and MURDER AND
|
||
|
MAGIC
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and MURDER
|
||
|
AND MAGIC
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, TOO MANY MAGICIANS, serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
|
||
|
Story: Lord Darcy investigates two espionage-related murders in Cherbourg
|
||
|
and at a sorcerors' convention in London.
|
||
|
----------------, "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed.
|
||
|
Dickinsheet) and MURDER AND MAGIC
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and LORD DARCY
|
||
|
INVESTIGATES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76 and LORD
|
||
|
DARCY INVESTIGATES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and LORD DARCY
|
||
|
INVESTIGATES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and LORD DARCY
|
||
|
INVESTIGATES
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78 and THE BEST OF
|
||
|
RANDALL GARRETT (ed. Silverberg)
|
||
|
----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER
|
||
|
(ed. Bretnor)
|
||
|
Story: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield.
|
||
|
(see also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY and TEN LITTLE WIZARDS)
|
||
|
Heinlein, Robert A., "Magic Inc.", in WALDO & MAGIC, INC.
|
||
|
Difference: Magic works.
|
||
|
Story: Protagonists battle a scheme by Satan's minions to take control of
|
||
|
magic in America.
|
||
|
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
|
||
|
Difference: Magic works. Also, Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion.
|
||
|
Story: 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
|
||
|
Story: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
|
||
|
great mage Chrestomanci.
|
||
|
------------------, CHARMED LIFE
|
||
|
Story: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
|
||
|
------------------, WITCH WEEK
|
||
|
Story: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for
|
||
|
witch-orphans.
|
||
|
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY
|
||
|
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS
|
||
|
Difference: (see Garrett's "The Eyes Have It", etc.)
|
||
|
Story: More stories about Lord Darcy.
|
||
|
Lupoff, Richard, CIRCUMPOLAR!
|
||
|
Difference: The Earth is disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center.
|
||
|
Story: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side.
|
||
|
---------------, COUNTERSOLAR!
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Schwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
|
||
|
Difference: Magic works. Also, Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and
|
||
|
moved the Roman capital to the east.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Scott, Melissa, and Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT
|
||
|
Difference: Witchcraft worked in Elizabethan England.
|
||
|
Story: It's 1593 and Sir Philip Sidney and Christopher Marlowe must protect
|
||
|
James VI/I from those who would have him dead.
|
||
|
Simak, Clifford D., ENCHANTED PILGRIMAGE
|
||
|
Difference:
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds. Aronica
|
||
|
et al.) and <YBSF7>
|
||
|
Difference: Earth has an edge.
|
||
|
Story: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle
|
||
|
East climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The World as We Know't", in STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE UP
|
||
|
Difference: Phlogiston does exist.
|
||
|
Story: A unpleasant look at what might have been, if this crackpot idea
|
||
|
were true.
|
||
|
Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA
|
||
|
Difference: Magic works, in Regency London.
|
||
|
Story:
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Not Classified:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Aldiss, Brian W., FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND
|
||
|
----------------, DARCULA UNBOUND
|
||
|
Asimov, Isaac, "Earth Is Room Enough", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH
|
||
|
Bachman, Richard, THE LONG WALK
|
||
|
Bainbridge, Beryl, YOUNG ADOLF
|
||
|
Barret, Neil, Jr., "Winter on the Belle Fourche", in THE NEW FRONTIER (ed.
|
||
|
Lansdale) and <YBSF7>
|
||
|
Barth, John, LETTERS
|
||
|
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
|
||
|
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58 and
|
||
|
STARLIGHT
|
||
|
Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage," in THE UNIVERSE and
|
||
|
<YBSF5>
|
||
|
Bisson, Terry, TALKING MAN
|
||
|
Borges, Jorges Luis, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
|
||
|
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE
|
||
|
Brunner, John, QUICKSAND
|
||
|
Butler, Octavia, KINDRED
|
||
|
Butler, Octavia, WILD SEED
|
||
|
Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in
|
||
|
Analog Oct 85
|
||
|
Chalker, Jack, DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE
|
||
|
Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY
|
||
|
Chesney, George, "Battle of Dorking", in BEFORE ARMAGEDDON (ed. Moorcock)
|
||
|
Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky"
|
||
|
Christopher, John, FIREBALL
|
||
|
-----------------, NEW FOUND LAND
|
||
|
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN
|
||
|
Clarke, Comer, ENGLAND UNDER HITLER
|
||
|
Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66
|
||
|
Coover, Robert, THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
|
||
|
Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (ed. Lansdale)
|
||
|
Daniels, David R., "Branches of Time", in Wonder Stories Aug 35
|
||
|
Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF IF
|
||
|
Dick, Philip K., THE DIVINE INVASION
|
||
|
Dick, Philip K., FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID
|
||
|
Dick, Philip K., "Jon's World", in TIMES TO COME (ed. Derleth)
|
||
|
Disch, Thomas, ECHO ROUND HIS BONES
|
||
|
Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP
|
||
|
Dunn, Walter S., SECOND FRONT NOW: 1943
|
||
|
Effinger, Geo. Alec, RELATIVES
|
||
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <YBSF6> and
|
||
|
NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed. Bishop)
|
||
|
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
|
||
|
Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed. Silverberg)
|
||
|
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH
|
||
|
Elliott, George P., "Sandra", in <f&sf> Oct 57
|
||
|
Ford, John M., "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
|
||
|
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79
|
||
|
Ford, John M., "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80
|
||
|
Fried, Robert C., "What If Hitler Got the Bomb?", in WHAT IF? (ed. Polsey)
|
||
|
Gold, Jerome, INQUISITOR
|
||
|
Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV>
|
||
|
Goldstein, Lisa, THE DREAM YEARS
|
||
|
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in DEALING IN FUTURES
|
||
|
Hamley, Dennis, PAGEANTS OF DESPAIR
|
||
|
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME
|
||
|
Hawkin, Martin, WHEN ADOLF CAME
|
||
|
Hogan, James P., "Leapfrog", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
Holderness, Graham, SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY
|
||
|
Hoyle, Fred, OCTOBER THE FIRST IS TOO LATE
|
||
|
Hull, E. M., "Flight That Failed", in SF ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed.
|
||
|
Conklin)
|
||
|
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME
|
||
|
Jenks, William, MEMOIR OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
|
||
|
Johnson, Robert B., and Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
|
||
|
THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK
|
||
|
Kelley, William Melvin, DIFFERENT DRUMMER
|
||
|
Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in Analog May 88
|
||
|
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE
|
||
|
Lafferty, R.A., THE THREE ARMAGEDDONS OF ENNISCORTHY SWEENY
|
||
|
Laidlaw, Ross, LINTON PORCUPINE
|
||
|
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
|
||
|
BY BIZARRE HANDS
|
||
|
Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in BY BIZARRE HANDS
|
||
|
Lee, Tanith, HEROINE OF THE WORLD
|
||
|
Leiber, Fritz, "Adept's Gambit", in <BAW>
|
||
|
Leiber, Fritz, DESTINY TIMES THREE
|
||
|
Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in <BAW>
|
||
|
Lem, Stanislaw, "The Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER
|
||
|
Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
|
||
|
SCHENECTADY
|
||
|
MacFarlane, W., "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75
|
||
|
MacFarlane, W., "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71
|
||
|
MacFarlane, W., "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70
|
||
|
MacFarlane, W., "One-Generation New World", in IF Mar 71
|
||
|
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70
|
||
|
Maddock, Larry, FLYING SAUCER GAMBIT
|
||
|
--------------, GOLDEN GODDESS GAMBIT
|
||
|
--------------, EMERALD ELEPHANT GAMBIT
|
||
|
--------------, TIME TRAP GAMBIT
|
||
|
Malzberg, Barry, "All Assassins", in <WMHB1>
|
||
|
Malzberg, Barry, CHORALE
|
||
|
McQuay, Mike, MEMORIES
|
||
|
Melchior, Ib, THE HAIGERLOCH PROJECT
|
||
|
Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower"
|
||
|
Murphy, Walter F., "What If Peter Had Been Pope WWII", in WHAT IF? (ed.
|
||
|
Polsey)
|
||
|
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAILY CHRONICLE
|
||
|
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS
|
||
|
O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr., "Future's Puppet", in Analog Sep 89
|
||
|
Pollack, Rachel, UNQUENCHABLE FIRE
|
||
|
Roth, Philip, THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
|
||
|
Rucker, Rudy, and Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WMHB2>
|
||
|
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN
|
||
|
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY
|
||
|
Saberhagen, Fred, PYRAMIDS
|
||
|
----------------, AFTER THE FACT
|
||
|
Shaw, Bob, "What Time Do You Call This?", in TOMORROW LIES IN AMBUSH
|
||
|
Sheckley, Robert, "Deaths of Ben Baxter", in STORE OF INFINITY
|
||
|
Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, "Many Mansions", in <BAW>
|
||
|
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN
|
||
|
Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN
|
||
|
Simak, Clifford, SPECIAL DELIVERANCE
|
||
|
Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS
|
||
|
Stevens, Francis, HEADS OF CERBERUS
|
||
|
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT, exp. of "Mummer Kiss" and "Marrow Death",
|
||
|
in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr) and <IAsfm> Dec 84
|
||
|
Taine, John, TIME STREAM
|
||
|
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in 17*INFINITY (ed. Conklin)
|
||
|
Thompson, W. R., "Oracle"
|
||
|
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker
|
||
|
6 Dec 30, <f&sf> Feb 52, THE THURBER CARNIVAL and VINTAGE THURBER
|
||
|
Tremayne, Peter, RAVEN OF DESTINY
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "God's Hooks!", in STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE UP
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (ed. Lansdale)
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "What Makes Hieronymous Run?"
|
||
|
Watson, Ian, CHEHKOV'S JOURNEY
|
||
|
Weinbaum, Stanley G., "Circle of Zero", in MARTIAN ODYSSEY
|
||
|
Weinbaum, Stanley G., "The Worlds of If", in Wonder Stories Aug 35 and THE
|
||
|
BEST OF S.G. WEINBAUM
|
||
|
Wells, H.G., MEN LIKE GODS
|
||
|
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME
|
||
|
Wilson, Snoo, SPACEACHE
|
||
|
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75
|
||
|
Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Rejected:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Aldiss, Brian, THE EIGHTY-MINUTE HOUR
|
||
|
Anderson, Poul, THE HIGH CRUSADE
|
||
|
Anderson, Poul, THERE WILL BE TIME
|
||
|
Appel, Allen, TWICE UPON A TIME
|
||
|
Bishop, Michael, UNICORN MOUNTAIN
|
||
|
Brin, David, "Senses Three and Six"
|
||
|
Corley, Edwin, THE JESUS FACTOR
|
||
|
Finney, Jack, "Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air"
|
||
|
Hawke, Simon, THE IVANHOE GAMBIT, and numerous sequels
|
||
|
Kurtz, Katherine, LAMMAS NIGHT
|
||
|
Moorcock, Michael, BEHOLD THE MAN
|
||
|
Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge"
|
||
|
Polikarpus, Viido, DOWN TOWN
|
||
|
Poyer, Joe, VENGEANCE 10
|
||
|
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE
|
||
|
Waldrop, Howard, "The Ugly Chickens"
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
Many thanks to:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Evelyn C. Leeper <ecl@mtgzy.att.com>
|
||
|
|
||
|
and also to:
|
||
|
|
||
|
A.M. Barbanson <@crnlgsm.BITNET>, Paul Boyer <boyer@whatoh.betm.pa.us>,
|
||
|
Stan Brown <browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>,
|
||
|
Daniel DanehyOakes <djdaneh@pacbell.com>,
|
||
|
Calle Dybedahl <calle@lysator.liu.se>, Dorian Gray <8718288@ul.ie>,
|
||
|
Guy Harris <guy@auspex.com>, Kenneth Allen Hite <hit2@midway.uchicago.edu>,
|
||
|
Todd Howard <ohoward@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, Tom Hyer <IOR%SLACVM.BITNET>,
|
||
|
Bill Johnston <WFJ101@psuvm.psu.edu>,
|
||
|
Crawford Kilian <Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.UUCP>,
|
||
|
Mark Krenitsky <mk2r+@andrew.cmu.edu>,
|
||
|
Janet Lafler <repnomar@leland.stanford.edu>, Will Linden <wlinden@msb.com>,
|
||
|
Duncan A. MacGregor <duncanm@micor.ocunix.on.ca>,
|
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|
Michael A. Patton <map@gaak.lcs.mit.edu>, Dave Schaumann <dave@cs.arizona.edu>,
|
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|
William Watson <halley!rhino!watson@cs.utexas.edu>,
|
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|
Al B. Wesolowsky <abw@bucrsb.bu.edu>,
|
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|
John Whitmore <whit@milton.u.washington.edu>.
|
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|
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
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|
Robert B. Schmunk <schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu>
|
||
|
Mail: Rice Univ, Space Physics and Astronomy Dept, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251
|
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Phone: (713) 527-8101, ext 2433 (also try ext 3534 or 4939) or (713) 523-9513
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