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Date: 1996/04/16
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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 26 -- 16 April 1996
Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
(rbs@panix.com)
"...there are no correct alternate histories; there are only plausible
alternate histories."
--Will Shetterly, in "The Captain's Story"
This is an annotated list of novels, stories and essays involving alternate
histories (a.k.a. what-ifs, allohistories, uchronias or counterfactuals),
writings in which a past event is altered and its effect on later history
somehow described. Alternate histories (henceforth abbrev. "AH") are a distinct
subset of parallel worlds/alternate universe stories in which some emphasis has
been put on an historical element. The criteria used to distinguish them were
best defined by:
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
HISTORIES (eds. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Garland 1986,
0824086597).
This list is copyright 1993-1996 by R.B. Schmunk, except for appendix A, which
is copyright 1993-1996 by R.B. Schmunk and Evelyn C. Leeper. License is hereby
granted to republish via electronic or other media for which _no_ fee is
charged provided that this copyright notice is attached intact to any and all
republished portion or portions. It may not be sold for profit or incorporated
in commercial documents without the written permission of the copyright holder.
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ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/sf-texts/lists/Alternate_History_v*
Note: As of October 20, 1995, only the Panix and Ohio State archives of this
list were up to date.
Most of the information in this list was contributed by netters and other AH
fans (see below), but much was also extracted from:
Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
(eds. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Garland 1986, 0824086597);
Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS (George
Prior/G.K. Hall 1978, 081618092X);
Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS
1977-1983 (G.K. Hall 1984, 0816185549);
_Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field_ (ed. Charles N. Brown).
Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as are corrections to
existing entries. Please e-mail your comments to rbs@panix.com.
Entries are separated into three categories: Anthologies--collections of genre
short stories and/or essays; Alternate Histories--stories, essays and novels;
and Reference Material--discussions about the genre and/or specific stories.
There are also two appendices: A) the Divergence Chronology, and B) the Oldest
Alternate Histories.
In the entries, note that:
The notation '%W' beginning a description stands for 'What if:', and thatline
describes the divergence of that AH from ours.An '%S' means 'Story:', and that
line describes the plot.A '%C' indicates 'Comments:', and a '%T' line lists
publications of the story in other languages.
If an author's name is replaced by dashes, the entry is a sequel to or in the
same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within parentheses,
it is part of a series collected within the previous book entry. Double
parentheses indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.
If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author
to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.
References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.
The ten-digit numbers which appear in publication data are dashless ISBNs.
Due to the merger-mania which spread through the publishing industry in the
late 1980s and early 1990s, it has become increasingly difficult to tell if
what was once an independent publisher is still a publisher or just an imprint
in a larger company. Thus, some of the publishers listed below may not be
_quite_ correct.
Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings (see the Anthologies and
Collections section below for more info) are:
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds. Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 1986)
<AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1992)
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds. Adams & Adams) (Baen 1989)
<AO> = ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1994)
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1992)
<AT> = ALTERNATE TYRANTS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1996, not yet published)
<AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1993)
<AWC> = ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (ed M. Resnick) (Axolotl 1994)
<BAOF> = BY ANY OTHER FAME (eds. M. Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 1994)
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds. Adams et al) (Signet 1987)
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed. Ley) (Pocket 1976)
<f&sf> = _The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction_
<HSL> = HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (ed. Armer) (Heyne 1990)
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds. Benford & Greenberg) (Garland 86; Berkley 87)
<IAsfm> = _Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine_
<IIHHO> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE (ed. Squire) (Longmans, Green 1931; exp
Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's 1974; rev vt IF: OR, HISTORY
REWRITTEN, Viking 1931; Kennikat 1964)
<IIHB> = IF I HAD BEEN... (ed. Snowman) (Rowman & Littlefield 1979)
<IoH> = THE IFS OF HISTORY (by Chamberlin) (Henry Altemus 1907; Atheneum 1908)
<SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (by Borden & Graham) (Heath 77)
<SVW> = SCHOENE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (ed.
Oth) (Luchterhand 1988)
<WIESSF> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Polsby) (Lewis
1982)
<WIMDE> = WHAT IF THE MOON DIDN'T EXIST? VOYAGES TO EARTHS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(by Comins) (HarperCollins 1993, 0060168641; HarperCollins 1995,
0060925566)
<WIW> = THE WAY IT WASN'T: GREAT STORIES OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (ed. Greenberg)
(Carol/Citadel 1996)
<WMHB#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds. Benford & Greenberg) (Bantam
1989-92); <WMHB1> and <WMHB2> incl. in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I AND
II (SFBC 1990); and <WMHB3> and <WMHB4> incl. in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN,
VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992)
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed. Silverberg) (Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974)
This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing help
of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Thomas Cron,
Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and all the others who
have made submissions, including: Joseph Admire, Ahasuerus, Dragan Antulov,
Vincent Archer, A.M. Barbanson, Stephen Baxter, Alan Beale, Chris Blakeley,
Fernando Bonsembiante, Paul Boyer, Lawrence Briggs, Stan Brown, Bui Chin, Glen
E. Cox, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, Meredith Dixon, Calle Dybedahl, Richard K. Fox,
Beth Friedman, Roberto Fuentes, Dorian Gray, Guy Harris, Joerg Helbig, Arne
Herloev Petersen, Kenneth Hite, Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, Bill Johnston, P.C.
Joergensen, Mark Krenitsky, Janet Lafler, Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Jim Love, Yaron
Mayer, Ed McKnight, Jamie McQuinn, Andreas Morlok, Michael J. Morton, Susan K.
O'Fearna, Michael A. Patton, Jean-Yves Peterschmitt, Mike Resnick, Louise Rowder, Andy
Sawyer, Dave Schaumann, Stu Shiffman, Fred Simkin, Brian Stableford, Geir
Stroem, Harry Turtledove, William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore,
Marek Wiechula, Matthew Wiener, and Erwin Wodarczak.
And now... the list:
ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS
Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ALTERNATIVES (Baen 1989,
0671698184)
%C New stories by J.F. Carr & R.J. Green, R.J. Green, Shwartz, L.N. Smith,
and Turtledove.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ROBERT ADAMS'
BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (NAL/Signet 1987, 0451148940)
%C Reprints of Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven, and
Piper.
Armer, Karl Michael (ed.), HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (Heyne 1990, 3453043081)
%C German translations of stories by Aldiss, Effinger, Gibson, Lansdale,
Martin, K.S. Robinson, Shiner, Somtow, and Turtledove.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II (Garland 1986, 0824086589;
Berkley 1987, 0425101371)
%C Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch,
Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K. Roberts, and Shippey.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 1:
ALTERNATE EMPIRES (Bantam 1989, 0553278452); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN, VOLUMES I AND II (SFBC 1990)
%C New stories by P. Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
Niven, Pohl, K.S. Robinson, Silverberg, and Turtledove.
----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 2:
ALTERNATE HEROES (Bantam 1990, 0553282794); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN, VOLUMES I AND II (SFBC 1990)
%C New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison
& Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz,
Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, W.J. Williams, and Zebrowski.
----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 3:
ALTERNATE WARS (Bantam 1991, 0553290088); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN, VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992)
%C New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P.
Anderson, Benford, Busby, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M.
Resnick, Steele, Turtledove, and Zebrowski.
----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 4:
ALTERNATE AMERICAS (Bantam 1992, 055329007X); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN, VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992)
%C Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus's first voyage by
Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent,
Silverberg, Turtledove, and Zebrowski.
Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Heath
1977, 06690048X)
%C 12 essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY (Henry Altemus 1907; Atheneum
1908)
%C 22 essays on possible turning points in history, with speculation on
possible results.
Comins, Neil F., WHAT IF THE MOON DIDN'T EXIST? VOYAGES TO EARTHS THAT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN (HarperCollins 1993, 0060168641; HarperCollins 1995, 0060925566)
%C 10 essays on different Earths, five of which involve an altered early
solar system.
Greenberg, Martin H., THE WAY IT WASN'T: GREAT STORIES OF ALTERNATE HISTORY
(Carol/Citadel 1996, 0806517697)
%C 14 reprints, including stories by Leiber, Niven, K.S. Robinson, Shwartz,
and Waldrop
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY (George Newnes 1929)
%C 20 essays on possible turning points in history, with much background but
no development. (No separate entries for the essays are listed below.)
Levine, Herbert M. (ed.), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT?
(M.E. Sharpe 1992, 1563240092, 1563240106)
%C 10 essays on different US political structures, but only entries by
Ferrell and Pitney are AH.
Ley, Sandra (ed.), BEYOND TIME (Pocket 1976, 0671807382)
%C New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J. Coulson, R. Coulson, Davidson,
Eklund, A.D. Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O. Ley, Ward Moore, Orgill,
Percy, D. Thompson, and Zebrowski.
Oth, Rene (ed.) SCHOENE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR
GESCHICHTE (Luchterhand 1988, 3630617980)
%C German translations of stories by I.E. Cox, Eklund, Elgin, Lafferty,
Piper, K. Roberts, and K.S. Robinson.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed.) WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (Lewis
1982, 0866160183)
%C Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, C.O. Jones, R.A. Kagan,
N.E. Long, Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury,
Wildavsky, and P.M. Williams.
Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (Tor 1992, 0812519558)
%C New stories, with AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner,
Gerrold, Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, Rusch,
Soukup, Tarr, and Von Rospach.
-------------------, ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (Tor 1994, 0812533445)
%C New stories, with AH entries by Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, Gerrold,
King, Koja & Malzberg, McHugh, Meacham, Nimersheim, L. Resnick, F.M.
Robinson, Rusch, Sheckley, Simner, Soukup, Steele, Tarr, Thomsen, and W.J.
Williams.
-------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (Tor 1992, 0812511921)
%C New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J. Carr, Chalker, G.
Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, J. Kagan, King,
Kube-McDowell, Malzberg (1), Malzberg (2), Moffett, Nimersheim, Nye,
Person, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, R. Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz,
Soukup, Thomsen, and Watt-Evans.
-------------------, ALTERNATE TYRANTS (Tor 1996, not yet published)
%C New stories by Bourne, DiChario, Feeley, Gormley, R.J. Green, J.C.
Haldeman & Delaplace, Koja & Malzberg, K. Long, Lupoff, McHugh, Nichols,
Nimersheim, L. Resnick, F.M. Robinson, Rowder, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel,
Thomsen, and van Belkom.
-------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS (Tor 1993, 0812523466)
%C New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Fawcett Friesner, Gerrold, J.C.
Haldeman, Hernandez, King, Kube-McDowell, Lackey, A.R. Lewis, Linaweaver,
Malzberg, McHugh, Meacham, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel,
J. Sherman, Tarr, Thomsen, and M. White.
Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (Axolotl 1994, 1561464481)
%C New stories by Aronson, DeWeese & R. Coulson, Gilliam, Glyer, J.C.
Haldeman, Katze, A.R. Lewis (1), A.R. Lewis (2), McGarry, M. Resnick, F.M.
Robinson, Rowder, Rusch, Spelman, Thomsen. (Note: the maintainer of this
bibliography suspects that several of these stories are _not_ AH, but
having not yet seen the book, lists them all for completeness.)
-------------------, ILLEGITIMATE STEPDAUGHTER OF ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (Axolotl
1996, not yet published)
%C ...
Resnick, Mike, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), BY ANY OTHER FAME (DAW 1994,
0886775949)
%C New stories by Daniel, Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, J.C. Haldeman, J.
Kagan, Kress, Lackey & Dixon, Malzberg (1), Malzberg (2), Meacham,
Nimersheim, L. Resnick, Rusch, Simner, D.W. Smith, Tarr, and Thomsen.
Resnick, Mike & Patrick Nielsen Hayden (eds.), ALTERNATE SKIFFY (Pulphouse
1996, not yet published)
%C Science fiction stories which were never written.
Silverberg, Robert (ed.), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
(Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974);
%C Reprints of P. Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster, and Niven.
Snowman, Daniel (ed.), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (Rowman &
Littlefield 1979, 0847661369)
%C Corrections of decisions by historical figures by Allen, Blakemore,
Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R. Thompson, Windsor, and
Wright.
Squire, J.C. (ed.), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY HISTORY
(Longmans, Green 1931; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's 1974; rev
vt IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN, Viking 1931; Kennikat 1964)
%C The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev. ed.
replaces Knox with Van Loon. Exp. ed. adds Petrie and Trevelyan to the
original contents.
Waugh, Charles G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (Garland 1986, 0824086597)
%C Reprints and new stories by P. Anderson, Benet, I.E. Cox, de Camp, Elgin,
Hale, Lafferty, Piper, K. Roberts, K.S. Robinson, and Utley & Waldrop.
Reference mat'l by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.
STORIES AND NOVELS
Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME (Donning 1979, 0915442965; Signet 1982,
0451114744)
%W Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451.
%S Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in
which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England.
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND (Signet 1985, 0451133404)
%S The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high
seas and to Ireland.
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS (NAL/Signet 1986, 0451145747)
%S Abdul II may be dead, but the fight in Ireland continues.
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS (Signet 1987, 0451151100)
%S More intrigue in Ireland and England, and new fighting in N America.
-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS (Signet 1988, 0451157222)
%S ...
-------------, OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS (Signet 1989)
%S ...
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE (Cape 1962; Doubleday 1963;
Hutchinson 1975; Dell 1981, 1987; Red Fox 1994, 009936591X)
%W The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
%S Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess.
%C Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA (Doubleday 1964; Cape 1965; Dell 1969,
1981; Dell/Yearling 1987, 0440496039)
%S Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET (Doubleday 1966; Dell 1969)
%S A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at
St. James's Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE (Cape 1981; Delacorte 1981, 0440083176)
%S A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN (Doubleday 1969)
%S The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE (Cape 1971, 0224005146; Doubleday 1971; Doubleday
1988, 0440400465)
%S Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
-----------, DIDO AND PA (Delacorte 1986, 0385294808)
%S Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
-----------, IS (Jonathan Cape 1992, 0224032968; vt IS UNDERGROUND, Delacorte
1993, 0385308981)
%S The royal heir is among numerous English children stolen away as slave
labor.
-----------, MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE (Cape 1974, 0224009680; Viking 1974,
0670474835; Scholastic 1993, 059045496X)
%S ...
Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM (Ardis 1981, 0882337440, 0882337459)
%T English tr. by Michael Henry Heim as THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA (Random House
1983, 0394524314; Vintage 1984, 0394727657)
%W The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
%S In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY (Cape 1976, 022401269X)
%W Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
%S ...
Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (vt "Danger: Religion!"), in _Science Fantasy_ Oct
1962; THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS (Faber 1966; Gregg 1981,
0839825668); THE INNER LANDSCAPE (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Allison & Busby
1969, 0850310059); NEANDERTHAL PLANET (Avon 1969; Avon ..., 0380541971);
and THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed. ... Boardman) (publ. unknown)
%T German tr. by Barbara Heidkamp as "Vorsicht! Religion", in <HSL>
%S In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
Aldiss, Brian W., "M.E.R.O's Sinai Project, 1957-1970" (vt "What You Get for
Your Dollar"), in THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS: SPECULATIONS ON CHANGE
(Faber 1970, 0571094724; Doubleday 1971); and THE NEW IMPROVED SUN: AN
ANTHOLOGY OF UTOPIAN SF (ed. Thomas M. Disch) (Harper & Row 1975,
006011052X; Hutchinson 1976, 0091242002)
%W The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in
1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai.
%S A man from a world beset by an energy crisis visits the utopian Sinai of
another and describes its history.
Aldiss, Brian W., "A Tupolev Too Far", in OTHER EDENS III (eds. Christopher
Evans & Robert Holdstock) (Unwin 1989); and A TUPOLEV TOO FAR
(HarperCollins UK 1993, 0002240335; St. Martin's 1994, 0312105657;
HarperCollins 1994, 0006476317)
%W A massive explosion which flattened Berlin in July 1914 led to an
internat'l relief effort and averted WW1.
%S A British publisher traveling to Nicholas III's glorious imperial Russia
somehow ends up in our Brezhnev's gray Moscow.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY (Franklin Watts 1987, 0531150402;
St. Martin's 1988, 0312911122)
%W Churchill was killed during a visit to Finland in 1935. Later, Germany
gobbled up W Europe but left the Zinoviev-led Soviet Union alone.
%S A Finnish composer finds the body of a girl alongside the road, and inside
her backpack is an SF thriller about a different WW2.
Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941", in <IIHB>
%W The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's
gains without forcing a war with the United States.
%S Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect
MacArthur in '44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes.
Allikas, David, "A Switch in Time!", in _Time Warp_ #4 (Apr/May 1980, DC
Comics)
%W AmerInds had nuclear capability.
%S Time-travellers trying to prevent a nuclear war kidnap Albert Einstein and
drop him off in 1782 N America.
Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN (Nymphenburger 1979,
3485003697; Heyne 1981, 1983; Heyne 1994, 3453072499)
%W Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used
to subjugate Bismarck's Prussia.
%S Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important
European player.
Amery, Carl, DAS KOENIGSPROJEKT (Piper 1974, 3492020747; Deutscher
Taschenbuchverlag 1978; Heyne 1984)
%S The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a
Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation.
Ambrose, David, THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF (Jonathan Cape 1993,
0224035193; St. Martin's 1994, 0312104979; Pan 1995, 0330326740; St.
Martin's/Picador 1995)
%W John and Robert Kennedy were not assassinated and Lloyd Bentsen was
president in 1990.
%S The sight of his wife's death in an auto accident shocks a man sideways
into another version of himself.
Ambrose, Stephen, PEGASUS BRIDGE: JUNE 6, 1944 (Simon & Schuster 1985)
%W British troops did not take and hold on to Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day
invasion.
%C Epilog speculates that if Germans had retained control, reinforcements
might have eventually rolled up the Allied invasion force.
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION (Cape 1976, 022401305X; Viking 1976, 0670115223;
Panther 1978)
%T German tr. by Walter Brumm as DIE VERWANDLUNG (Heyne 1986)
%W Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king of
England upon the death of Henry VII. Later, Martin Luther became pope.
%S A boy soprano in 1976 Catholic England tries to flee becoming a papal
castrato.
%C Winner: 1977 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in _Analog_ Jan 1993
%W Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths.
%S A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers
comes across an album with his name on it.
------------------, "Tide Pools", in _Analog_ Dec 1993
%S A woman searches the timelines for a cure to an "orphan" disease
afflicting her husband.
Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX (Bantam 1991,
0553292463)
%W US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
theirs.
%S An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and
she sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 1955; GUARDIANS OF TIME
(Ballantine 1960, 0345018907; exp Pinnacle 1981); <WoM>; ANNALS OF THE
TIME PATROL (Doubleday ...); <AH>; TIME WARS (eds. Charles G. Waugh &
Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 1986, 0812530489, 0812530497); THE GREAT SF
STORIES: 17 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1988,
0886772567); THE ETERNAL CITY (ed. David Drake) (publ. unknown); and THE
TIME PATROL (Tor 1991, 0312852312; Tor 1994)
%W The Scipios were killed at Ticinus, and Hannibal later captured and
destroyed Rome.
%S Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME (Tor 1990, 0312850883; Tor 1991, 0812510003)
%S Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
Rignano (1137).
%C Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The
Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks",
"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the
Ransom". All may be found in the THE TIME PATROL (Tor 1991, 0312852312)
and elsewhere.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed. Harlan Ellison) (Doubleday
1967; NAL 1975); PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT: A TEXT ANTHOLOGY OF
SPECULATIVE & SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Jack C. Wolf & Gregory Fitz Gerald)
(Fawcett 1973); and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS (Berkley 1981)
%W Alexander lived longer _or_ Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
Magyar attacks.
%S A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
Anderson, Poul, "House Rule", in HOMEBREW (ed. anon.) (NESFA 1976); <f&sf> May
1979; and FANTASY (Pinnacle 1981)
%S The Heloise and Abelard of two different worlds meet at a tavern outside
time.
---------------, "Loser's Night", in Short Story Paperbacks, #1 (Pulphouse
1991)
%S ...
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WMHB1>
%W Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before
Christianity could get started.
%S Adventures of a courier from North Markland (America) in an alternate
Israel/Palestine.
Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST (Doubleday 1974, 0385055056; Ballantine
1975, 0345274520; Orbit/Futura 1975, 0860078574)
%W Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
%S In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince searches
for Prospero's isle.
%C Nominee: 1975 Nebula for best novel.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS (Doubleday 1971, 0385005881; Lancer ...;
Berkley 1978; Baen 1992, 067172102X; Severn House 1995, 0727847635); fixup
of "Operation Afreet", in <f&sf> Sep 1956; "Operation Salamander", in
<f&sf> Jan 1957; "Operation Incubus", in <f&sf> Oct 1959; and "Operation
Changeling", serial in <f&sf> May & Jun 1969
%W Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical
technology ensued.
%S A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the
machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS (Doubleday 1961; Avon ...,
0380004120; Berkley 1978; Ace 1984, 0441808212; Baen 1993, 0671721860)
%S A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WMHB3>
%W Lucien Bonaparte convinced Napoleon to consolidate the French hold on
Europe rather than invade Egypt. Later, the French won at Trafalgar.
%S In 1849, Sam Houston talks history with a French diplomat during the
battle for New Orleans in the 2nd French-American War.
Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST ARRIVE
MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 1984)
%W ...
%S Nazi power lasts _exactly_ 1000 years.
Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur Frankenstein,
en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel
1984)
%W Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s.
%S A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and
Vian to see how they would have affected later French history.
Andrews, Keith William, FREEDOM'S RANGERS (Berkley 1989)
----------------------, RAIDERS OF THE REVOLUTION (Berkley 1989)
----------------------, SEARCH AND DESTROY
----------------------, TREASON IN TIME (Berkley 1990)
----------------------, SINK THE ARMADA! (Berkley 1990)
----------------------, SNOW KILL (Berkley 1991)
%S Time war action in which American and Soviets try to delete each other
from history.
anon., THE OCCUPATION (... 1960)
%W Germany won WW2.
%S ...
anon., "Scene and Not Herd: Failure of a Revolution", in _Harper's Bazaar_ Nov
1967
%W The 1917 Russian Revolution was bloodily suppressed.
%S Post-1917 imperial governance is no better than the Communist's.
Anthony, Piers, & Roberto Fuentes, DEAD MORN (Tafford 1990; Ace 1994,
0441000525)
%W The Soviets managed to get the nuclear missiles in Cuba operational before
the US noticed their existence _or_ the US attacked Cuba on first finding
out about the missiles.
%S A man from 400 years in our future travels back to 1962 Cuba to make a
slight change in history, but on finding that it didn't have the desired
effect he travels back to 1958 to become part of Castro's rebel forces.
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in _Analog_ Dec 1970
%W The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a
man's being saved from drowning.
%S Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid adherence
to the scientific method.
Anvil, Christopher, "Bugs", in _Analog_ Jun 1986
%W Henry Ford never existed to standardize the auto industry.
%S A computer salesman from our world dreams of a world in which the auto
industry suffers from incompatible hardware and formats.
Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES (Gallimard
1954)
%W Joan of Arc was rescued.
%S God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment.
Armor, John C., "Bureaucrats and Quiche-Eaters on the Chisholm Trail", in
_Journal of Irreproducible Results_ Apr/May 1985
%S ...
Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG (Harrap 1943)
%W Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
%S How the invasion was defeated.
Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge", in _Asimov's
Science Fiction_ Feb 1993
%W Flannery O'Connor became an SF writer.
%S In 1962, O'Connor wins yet another Hugo while trying to get a mainstream
novel published so she can earn literary immortality before dying of
lupus.
Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO (Andre Sabatier 1937; Plon 1964, 1968;
Rombaldi 1976, 2231001918)
%W Napoleon won at Waterloo.
%S Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates.
Aronson, Mark, "Gemutlichkon I", in <AWC>
%S ...
Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
%W Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
%S Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes
president.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY (J. Curley 1981, 0893403385); rev. of "The
End of Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS (Doubleday 1986, 0385197845;
ROC ...)
%W Enrico Fermi did not participate in atomic research and the atomic bomb
was never dropped on Hiroshima.
%S An organization called Eternity strives to optimize human history to bring
happiness to the largest number of people. Our hero, a time-change
engineer, falls in love with a woman of a further future who tries to
convince him that tampering with time will make the human race lose the
race to the stars.
%C Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in _far_
future.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in _Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine_ Fall 1978;
3 BY ASIMOV: THREE SCIENCE FICTION TALES (Targ 1981); THE WINDS OF CHANGE
AND OTHER STORIES (Doubleday 1983, 0385180993)
%W Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
%S A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes it
to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES
OF OUR OWN PLANET (Doubleday 1957; Abelard-Schuman 1976, 0200723782); OUT
OF THIS WORLD 3 (eds. ... Williams-Ellis & ... Owen) (Blackie & Son 1961);
<WoM>; VALENCE AND VISION: A READER IN PSYCHOLOGY (eds. Bob Jones &
Richard L. Roe) (Rinehart 1974, 0030084164); THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND
EARTH (Doubleday 1979, 0385132697); and ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE
STORIES, VOLUME I (Doubleday 1990, 0385416067, 038541627X)
%S Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS (Morrow 1984, 0688039901; Bantam 1985)
%W WW1 led to a world gov't.
%S ...
Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 1992; and <WMHB4>
%W N America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists.
%S A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter on
its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What If Sadat had Come to Jerusalem Under a Labor
Government? (1977)", in <WIESSF>
%W Itzhak Rabin accepted Rumania's Jan 1977 invitation for a state visit and
while there was advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans.
%S Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan,
leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO.
Avice, Claude: see Barbet, Pierre
Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in _New Worlds_ Jun 1964; THE
BEST OF NEW WORLDS (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Compact 1965); SF12 (ed. Judith
Merrill) (Delacorte 1968); THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed.
Michael Moorcock) (Panther 1974); and <HV>
%T German tr. by Yvonne Krampen as "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy
Steiner", in WELTEN DER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN (ed. Ronald M. Hahn)
(Ullstein 1983)
%W Hitler did not invade Russia.
%S Life in occupied London, 1954.
Bajs, Drago, "Faktor slucajnosti" ("Coincidence Factor"), in _Sirius_ #80
%S Future temporal scientists test the great man hypothesis, dropping baby
Napoleon in 14C Byzantium, and baby Alexander in 9C China.
Baker, Eric T., "The Politics of Pneumatic Times", in _Science Fiction Age_ Jan
1996
%S A suffragette is released from prison in order to deliver a ransom to a
terrorist threatening to blow up a transcontinental pneumatic train
station.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE (Tor 1991)
%S A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? (Le Monde 1980); orig. serial in _Le Monde_
Jun-Sep 1980
%S ...
Bank, Aaron: see Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank
Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 (Fleuve Noir
1984)
%W Hannibal captured Rome.
%S A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a
Carthaginian colony in Quebec.
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS (DAW 1980, 0879975833)
(------------), L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET (Fleuve Noir 1972)
%T English tr. by Bernard Kay as BAPHOMET'S METEOR (DAW 1972)
%T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as OS CRUZADORS DO ESPACO (Livros Brasil
1980)
%W A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
%S The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
(------------), CROISADE STELLAIRE (Fleuve Noir 1974)
%T English tr. by C.J. Cherryh as STELLAR CRUSADE (no separate publ.)
%S Outer-space sequel to the above.
Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES (Librairie Francais 1970)
%S ...
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in _London Mercury_ Nov 1922; TRAVELERS IN
TIME (ed. Philip Van Doren Stern) (Doubleday 1947); HALF A MINUTE'S
SILENCE (Heinemann 1925; Doubleday 1925; Books for Libraries 1970,
0836933761); and MAURICE BARING RESTORED (Heinemann 1970, 0434347906;
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1970, 0374204489)
%W Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education
possible if enlisted in the British navy.
%S A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850.
Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
Baron, Nick, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #2: GLORY'S END (Harper 1990,
0610601305)
%S ...
%C A follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE.
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME (Lancer 1971, 0447747215)
%S During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into
another where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton
Barton, William, "Age of Aquarius", in _Asimov's_ May 1996
%W The Cuban Missile Crisis blew up.
%S Six years in the life of a boy.
Barton, William, "In Saturn Time", in AMAZING STORIES: THE ANTHOLOGY (ed. Kim
Mohan) (Tor 1995, 0312890486)
%W Mo Udall was elected president in 1972 and reveresed Nixon's shrinkage of
the space program.
%S The career of a single astronaut, from the flight of _Apollo 21_ in 1974
to _Discovery_ in 2001.
Barton, William, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS (Warner 1996, 0446601675)
%S Travels to other universes, with mention of one in which LBJ was
re-elected in 1968 and the Apollo space program kept on going.
Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE (Molden 1966)
%T English tr., abr. Thomas Weyr, TWILIGHT MAN (Meredith 1968)
%W Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
%S Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
Baudino, Gael, O GREENEST BRANCH! (Penguin/Roc 1995, 0451454499)
%S A ship from the Righteous States of America brings an emissary to a
mysterious kingdom in NW Africa, c. 1800.
-------------, THE DOVE LOOKED IN (Penguin/Roc 1996)
%S ...
Baxter, Stephen, ANTI-ICE (HarperCollins UK 1993, 0246138351; HarperCollins UK
1994, 0586212965; HarperPrism 1994, 0061054216)
%W An anti-ice comet struck the Antarctic in 1720, and 135 years later, a
fragment was used by Britain in a super-bomb which ended the Siege of
Sevastopol.
%S In 1870, as the Franco-Prussian war begins, an act of sabotage against an
anti-ice-powered land leviathan results in five men traveling to the moon.
Baxter, Stephen, "Brigantia's Angels", in _Interzone_ #91 (Jan 1995)
%W Flying machines were invented in Wales in 1895.
%S How the invention came about, with concluding comments on their effect in
the Boer War is much shorter and how in 1910 the British gov't is using
them against striking coal miners.
Baxter, Stephen, "Mittelwelt", in _Interzone_ #82 (Apr 1994)
%W Petain was not replaced as commander of French troops in 1918, and Germany
quickly scored a western victory then turned eastward.
%S In 1940, an AMerican engineer is privileged to participate in Imperial
Germany's first manned rocket test flight, and finds himself caught in the
Kaiser's first strike against Japan.
Baxter, Stephen, "No Longer Touch the Earth", in _Interzone_ #72 (Jun 1993)
%W The universe really is a set of crystal spheres.
%S Hermann Goering attempts to become the first man to fly to the Axis at the
South Pole, but Eddie Rickenbacker gets there at the same time.
Bayley, Barrington J., "Tommy Atkins", in _Interzone_ #27 (Jan/Feb 1989)
%S The use of nerve-grafting results in soldiers being given body parts to
replace those lost in combat, and WW1 drags on for 25 years.
Bayley, Barrington J., "The Way into the Wendy House", in _Interzone_ #71 (May
1993)
%S Barely AH tale of an encyclopedia of science fiction writers, found in a
pub in another timeline, which includes no familiar names, except one.
Bear, Greg, EON (Bluejay 1985, 0312941447; Tor 1995, 0812520475)
%T Bulgarian tr. by Julian Stoinov as title unknown (... 1995)
%W Alexander the Great established a lasting empire.
%S An asteroid approaching our Earth turns out to contain artifacts from the
future, but its presence inflames existing world tensions.
%C AH content appears only in epilog.
----------, ETERNITY (Warner 1988, 0446514020; Warner 1994, 0446601888)
%S ...
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1978,
0385124751; Popular Library 1979); THE 1979 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds.
Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1979); and THE WIND FROM A
BURNING WOMAN (Arkham House 1983, 0870540947; Warner/Popular Library 1990,
0445208465)
%S A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV>; and THERE WILL BE WAR 8:
ARMAGEDDON (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (publ. unknown)
%S Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when
asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason
Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been", in _North American Review_ Jan 1920
%W Clemenceau and Lloyd George questioned Woodrow Wilson's ability to get the
US Senate to accept the League of Nations.
%S Conversations in which they realize the problem and address it to Wilson.
Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea", in _Saturday Review_ 23 Jul 1904; and AROUND
THEATERS (Knopf 1930)
%W Edward VII closed down all British theaters for ten years on 1 Apr 04.
%S How it was the best thing could have happened to British drama.
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IIHHO> (all eds.)
%W Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
%S Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in _Saturday Evening Post_ 5
October 1935; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed. ... Stern) (Doubleday 1942; vt GREAT
TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION, Pocket 1954); SELECTED WORKS, II: PROSE
(Farrar & Rinehart 1942); 25 SHORT STORIES (Sun Dial 1943); THE STEPHEN
VINCENT BENET POCKET BOOK (Pocket 1946); THIRTEEN O'CLOCK: STORIES OF
SEVERAL WORLDS (Farrar & Rinehart 1971; Books for Libraries 1971,
0836937937; Franklin Library 1982); and <AH>
%W Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
%S An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a
retired, frustrated French artillery major.
Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in <IAsfm> Oct 1991; and <WMHB3>
%W Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
%S Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE (Simon & Schuster 1980, 0671253271; Pocket 1981,
0671506323; Bantam 1992); rev. of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in _If_ Sep 1970;
and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH (eds. Robert Silverberg & Roger
Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0399114602; Berkley 1977, 0425033155)
%W JFK was not assassinated.
%S A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as
he tries to gain tenure.
%C Explicit AH content is brief, appearing only at the end.
%C Winner: 1980 Nebula for best novel, 1981 BSFA Award for best novel, 1981
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
%S A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of
the Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WMHB1>; and MATTER'S END (Bantam
1994, 0553568981)
%W Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the 1952
GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
%S After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... (Bobbs-Merrill 1978, 0672520788; Ace 1979)
%T German tr. by Irene Holicki as ZWISCHENHALT (Heyne 1984)
%W Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an
explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco.
%S To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological
development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe.
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP (Warner 1988, 0446514535)
%W The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed.
%S Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68.
%C Borderline AH, as all names are changed. Bernau's CANDLE IN THE WIND
similarly treats the survival of a Marilyn Monroe-like actress with false
names but seems even less AH.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO (Ace 1986, 0812531914,
0812531922)
%C Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
%W The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
assassinated in Jul 44.
%S A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another, with a look at
fascist Boston.
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR (publ. unknown)
-------------------, [THE] FINAL ASSAULT (Tor 1988, 0812531892, 0812531906)
%S ...
Bertin, Eddy C., "Tijdstorm", in DE ACHTJAARLIJKSE GOD (Bruno & Zoon 1971)
%T English tr. by Eddy Bertin as "Timestorm", in THE 1972 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST
SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1972)
%S Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid
aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war.
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 1958; BEST FROM
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 8 (ed. Anthony Boucher) (Doubleday 1959); THE
DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet 1964); THE VINTAGE ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE
FANTASY (ed. Christopher Cerf) (Vintage 1966); VOYAGERS IN TIME: TWELVE
STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Meredith 1967); AS
TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed. Charles W. Sullivan) (Prentice-Hall 1974,
0130500399, 0130500216); COSMIC LAUGHTER: SCIENCE FICTION FOR THE FUN OF
IT (ed. Joe Haldeman) (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1974, 0030069319); STARLIGHT:
THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds. Robert
Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg) (Arbor House 1983, 0877954453); and THE
WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. David G. Hartwell) (Little, Brown
1989, 0316349410)
%T German tr. by Alfred Joseph as "Die Moerder Mohammeds", in DIE FUSSANGELN
DER ZEIT (eds. Karl Michael Armer & Wolfgang Jeschke) (Heyne 1984)
%T Portuguese tr. by Eduardo Sals as "Os Assassinos de Maomi", in VIAJANTES
NO TEMPO (ed. ...) (Panorama 1970)
%S Due to his wife's infidelity, a Mad Scientist repeatedly goes back in time
to prevent her existence but can only affect his "personal" timeline.
%C Nominee: 1959 Hugo for best short story.
Bester, Alfred, "Out of This World", in THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet
1964)
%S A freak telephone line allows communication with a world in which Japan
defeated the US in WW2.
Betancourt, John Gregory: see Kingston, Jeremy
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON (Harcourt 1964)
%W As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies
ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed.
%S An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of
the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer.
Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke", in <f&sf> Oct 1983
%W N American colonization followed a slightly different path.
%S A farmer from a different Oklahoma makes a pilgrimage to the Gulf Coast of
New Castile, where a cult of sea worship has sprung up.
Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE (publ.
unknown); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION
(ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1988, 0312018541)
%W Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world.
%S [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of
collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics.
Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (St.
Martin's/Tor 1987, 0312930313; Tor 1989, 0812531574, 0812531582; vt PHILIP
K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS, Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890028)
%W In a skewed world, "Richard Milrose Nixon" was elected to four terms as US
president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame.
%S Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia
and the moon in order to correct history.
Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Arbor House 1988, 1557100144)
%W With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (three
months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion.
%S 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers
to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1954; BEST SCIENCE
FICTION STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed. T.E. Dikty) (Fredrick Fell 1955);
SPACE BY THE TAIL (Ballantine 1964); and <BAW>
%W Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
%S A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
must be returned to save the universe.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IIHB>
%W Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
disorder.
%S A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
right-wing takeover.
Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE (G.
Bailliere 1872); included in INSTRUCTIONS POUR UNE PRISE D'ARMES,
L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES, HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE, ET AUTRE TEXTES (eds.
Miguel Abensour & Valentin Pelosse) (Societe encyclopedique francaise
1973)
%S ...
Bloch, Robert, "Founding Fathers", in _Fantasic Universe_ Jul 1956; and THE
BEST OF ROBERT BLOCH (publ. unknown)
%S Bookies use the time-machine of a professor in their debt to travel back
to 1776 to hijack a gold shipment.
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in _Fantastic_ Aug 1960
%S ...
Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in _Tempo_ Jun 1992
%W Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982.
%S He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring
Robert DeNiro.
Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA (A. Kraft 1960)
%W Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan.
%S Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above.
Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in der
Wissenschaft", in _Zeitschrift fur Soziologie_ vol. 1 (1972), pp. 302-316
%T English tr. by E.G.H. Joffe as "Alternatives in Science", in _Internat'l
Journal for Sociology_ vol. 8 (1978), pp. 70-94
%C Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at the
beginning of the scientific revolution.
Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed. Jacques
Sadoul) (J'ai Lu 1976)
%W The Arabs won at Tours.
%S Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the
north.
Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION (Opta 1984)
%S ...
Bomba, Ty, "Outgoing Mail", in _Strategy & Tactics_ Jun/Jul 89
%W Exploiting a border dispute, Mexico's improved army invaded Texas in 1846
and made for New Orleans, where a vicious siege occurred.
%S Provoked by the attack, the US gov't revises the Monroe Doctrine to mean
US control of all N America, resulting in an Imperial Republic.
Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE POLITIQUE
(Pauvert 1968)
%W The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a
conservative backlash.
%S ...
Bonanate, Ugo, ASCOLTA, ISRAELE (Lindau 1991, 8871800214)
%W Early Christian communities were wiped out, and Judaism became the
dominant Western religion.
%S Modern scholars are stunned when archaelogists unearth copies of the
Gospels.
Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN (vol 1, Gallimard 1938; vol 2-4, Editions
du Dialogue 1941-44; complete Gallimard 1949)
%W The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution.
%S A detailed history text.
Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in <SAH>
%W Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and
Indian War.
%S The 13 colonies would still rebel against English authority, but future
relations between Americans and Canadians could have followed several
paths.
Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in
<SAH>
%W NJ delegate John Beatty was not ill when Congress debated prohibiting
slavery west of the Appalachians, and his vote enabled the bill to pass.
%S Analysis of possible effects on Southern economy and society, noting the
sterner life blacks would have experienced, and probably no Civil War.
Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in
<SAH>
%W The Constitution was rejected.
%S A less vilified, stronger Congress would have resulted, and the War of
1812 would never have happened.
Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in <SAH>
%W Burr did not remain aloof while the House of Representatives was breaking
the Electoral College tie, and Federalists were persuaded to vote for him.
%S Burr would have become a Federalist, providing the party a charismatic
leader, and Louisiana would have been conquered rather than purchased.
Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in <SAH>
%W Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
at a more opportune time.
%S ...
Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
<SAH>
%W Zachary Taylor did not die in July 1850, and blocked Clay's great
compromise.
%S The Civil War would have started 10 years early with Texas's invasion of
New Mexico and ended in a quick southern defeat, but slavery would have
continued.
Bourne, Mark, "Boss", in <AT>
%S ...
Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH (Tor 1993, 0312853599; Tor 1994, 0812520637)
%W FDR quit smoking in 1943, and two years later, Churchill ordered the
assassination of Stalin in order to avert a Communist E Europe.
%S When Stalin rather than FDR dies on 12 Apr 1945, the US decides to drive
for Berlin, sending the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army after
Hitler.
Bowen, John, NO RETREAT (Sinclair-Stevenson 1994, 1856193985)
%W Germany won WW2.
%S Fifty years later, Germany, Japan, and the US go to war over Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait, and British exiles see their chance to liberate the
homeland.
Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD (Warner 1986, 0445201770)
%W Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 1944 to stop Allied advances on both
fronts, beginning a cold war.
%S A boy from that world is enmeshed into crosstime telepathic slavery and
warfare.
--------------, GOBLIN MARKET (Warner 1988)
%S ...
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH (Weybright & Talley 1968; Berkley
1969; Penguin 1978, 0140048758)
%T German tr. by Heinz Plehn as DER UBERLAUFER (Droemer Knaur 1978)
%W Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
%S 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
with a Poet.
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITEXT OF SLEEP (Ace 1986, 0441029051)
%W Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
%S A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
oversized racoons.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (Doubleday
1953); ASPECTS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Geoffrey Donald Doherty) (Billings
1959; J. Murray 1963; Billings 1970, 0719522153); R IS FOR ROCKET
(Doubleday 1962; Bantam 1965, 055307988?); SCIENCE FICTION FOR PEOPLE WHO
HATE SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1966); SCIENCE FICTION
THROUGH THE AGES 2 (ed. I.O. Evans) (Panther 1966); THE STARS AND UNDER
(ed. ... Crispin) (Faber 1968); ECO-FICTION (ed. John Stadler) (Washington Square
1971, 0671478451); SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Sylvia Z. Brodkin & Elizabeth J.
Pearson) (McDougal, Littell 1973; Lothrop, Lee 1975, 068841723X);
TRANSFORMATION (ed. ... Roselle) (Fawcett 1973); SCIENCE FACT/FICTION
(eds. ... Farrell, et al) (Scott, Foresman 1974); RAY BRADBURY (ed.
Anthony Adams) (Harrap 1975, 024552746X); MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION
(eds. Thomas Durwood & Armand Eisen) (Ariel/Ballantine 1978, 0354276205); TALES
OUT OF TIME (ed. Barbara Ireson) (Faber 1979; Philomel 1981, 0399207864);
THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY (Knopf 1980, 0394513355); WIDE-ANGLE LENS:
STORIES OF TIME AND SPACE (ed. Phyllis R. Fenner) (Morrow 1980,
0688222412, 0688322417); BEHOLD THE MIGHTY DINOSAUR (ed. David Jablonski)
(Elsevier/Nelson 1981, 0525667040); CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT: BIOLOGY IN
SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G.
Waugh) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1983, 0374312281); THE GREAT SF STORIES:
14 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1986, 0886771064); and CLASSIC
STORIES 1: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN / R IS FOR ROCKET (Bantam 1990)
%T Portuguese tr. by Edgar Costa Moreira as "O Reboar do Trovao", in FICCAO
CIENTIFICA PARA QUEM NAO GOSTA DE FICCAO CIENTIFICA (ed. Terry Carr) (O
Cruzeiro 1969)
%S Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
repercussions.
%C A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really AH
since the only effect shown is presumably in our future.
%C Sequels are Stephen Leigh's DINOSAUR WORLD etc.
Brenner, Barbara, SAVING THE PRESIDENT (Julian Messner 1987)
%S A sculptress prevents the assassination of Lincoln.
Brennert, Alan, "Nostalgia Tripping", in INFINITY FIVE (ed. Robert Hoskins)
(Lancer 1973)
%S Crosstime adventures, including worlds where Woodrow Wilson was
assassinated and John Lennon cut a record in 1949.
Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (DC Comics 1991,
1563890186)
%W Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold
on Britain and its colonies.
%S A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting the
repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth.
Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 1986; <HV>; and THE
RIVER OF TIME (Bantam 1987, 0553262815)
%W Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the
Allies.
%S A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face with
the god of battle.
%C Nominee: 1987 Hugo for best novelette.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE (Dutton 1949; Bantam 1950); orig. in
_Startling Stories_ Sep 1948
%S A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which matches the
stories his magazine has been publishing.
Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD (Carroll & Graf/Gallen 1992,
0881848697)
%W Jack Ruby only wounded Oswald.
%S In novel form, a study of whether Oswald could have been convicted in a
Texas court of the murder of JFK based on the evidence against him.
Brunet, James, "As Time Goes By", in PULPHOUSE: THE HARDBACK MAGAZINE #6 (ed.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch) (Pulphouse 1990)
%S A man's repeated viewing of CASABLANCA alters the movie and Earth history
a little each time he watches.
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor
1991, 0812554442)
%C In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
%S The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers tell
their tales at a Krakow inn.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER (Ace Double #... (Ace 1962); exp Ace 1969,
0441812708; Ballantine 1983, 0345306791); fixup of "Spoil of Yesterday",
in _Science Fiction Adventures_ Mar 1962; "The Word Not Written", in
_Science Fiction Adventures_ Jun 1962; and "The Fullness of Time", in
_Science Fiction Adventures_ Jul 1962
%W The Spanish Armada conquered England.
%S 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via
time-travel.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in _Infinity_ Mar (?) 1958; and <HV>
%S A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
but that doesn't solve his problems.
Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier
Bulis, Christopher, STATE OF CHANGE (Virgin 1994, 042620431X)
%W The Roman and Eqgyptian empires merged as a result of the meeting of Mark
Anthony and Cleopatra.
%S ...
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1981,
0030539765, 0030589983; Holt/Owl 1995, 0805039554)
%W Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
out by natives.
%S ...
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed. ... Wilson) (Signet
1973)
%S Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working
their way back from event to event.
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAsfm> 16 Feb 1981
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 1981
%S ...
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WMHB3>
%W Victim of a minor stroke in late 1941, FDR was unable to resist
congressional and public pressure for a Japan First war policy.
%S Japanese saboteurs land on Amchitka just as orders for a crucial American
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Butler, Ewan, WITHOUT APOLOGY (Cassell 1968, 0304931993)
%W Nazi Germany successfully invaded England.
%S Tale of Englishman caught between restoring order from chaos and
accusations of being a Quisling. Includes timelime to 1967.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in _Fantastic_ Oct 1955
%S Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Bylinski, Gene, LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION AND THE COSMOS (Doubleday
1981, 0385170491)
%C Amongst discussion of evolution in general, comments on possibilities of
insects, byrds, bats or koalas as the dominant intelligent species on
Earth.
Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL (HBJ 1977, 0151913854; Dell 1977, 0440186099)
%W The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
%S An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
Cadigan, Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 1991; <AP>; THE
YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, NINTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois)
(St. Martin's 1992, 0312078919, 0312078897, 0312078900); and DIRTY WORK
(Mark V. Ziesing 1993, 0929480279)
%W 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
the 1968 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
%S The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
68 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
%C Nominee: 1992 Hugo for best novelette.
Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK>; and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 1993,
0929480279)
%W Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice entered
politics.
%S In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT (Gallimard 1961)
%T English tr. by Charles Lam Markmann as PONTIUS PILATE (Macmillan 1963)
%W Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
%S Christianity is aborted.
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IIHB>
%W Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
executed.
%S How it might have happened, but without much further development.
Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU (Borovy 1945)
%T English tr. by Dora Round as "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
APOCRYPHAL STORIES (Allen & Unwin 1949; MacMillan 1949; Penguin 1975,
0040038604)
%T Esperanto tr. by Josef Vondrousek as "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo", in
LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ (Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 1970)
%S Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
Card, Orson Scott, HATRACK RIVER (SFBC 1989)
(---------------), SEVENTH SON (Tor 1987, 0312930194); expansion of "Hatrack
River", in <IAsfm> Aug 1986; TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
OF THE YEAR (ed. Terry Carr) (Tor 1987, 0312930259); and THE YEAR'S BEST
SCIENCE FICTION, FOURTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St.
Martin's 1987)
%W Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering
English history and the course of American colonization.
%S Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American
frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake.
%C SEVENTH SON nominee: 1988 Hugo for best novel, 1988 World Fantasy Award
for best novel; "Hatrack River" nominee: 1986 Nebula for best novelette,
1987 Hugo for best novelette.
(---------------), RED PROPHET (Tor 1988, 0312930437)
%S Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved
with Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe.
%C Nominee: 1988 Nebula for best novel, 1989 Hugo for best novel.
(---------------), PRENTICE ALVIN (Tor 1989, 0312931417; Tor 1989, 0812502124,
0812502132); rev. of "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", in _Sunstone_
Aug 1989; and MAPS IN A MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD (Tor
1990, 0312850476)
%S Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
"mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
%C Nominee: 1989 Nebula for best novel, 1990 Hugo for best novel.
-----------------, ALVIN JOURNEYMAN (Tor 1995, 0312850530, 0312860053)
%S Alvin stands trial while his brother Calvin travels to Europe to meet
Napoleon.
-----------------, THE CRYSTAL CITY (Tor, not yet published)
%S ...
-----------------, MASTER ALVIN (projected, not yet written)
%S ...
Card, Orson Scott, PASTWATCH: THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Tor 1996,
0312850581)
%S ...
Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA
(ed. Eduardo Goligorsky) (Flor 1968)
%S Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but
they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe,
etc.
Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07", in <AP>
%W When Congress broke the Electoral College tie of 1800, they made Aaron
Burr president rather than Thomas Jefferson.
%S Militant Burr begins the move to manifest destiny 40 years early, but he
also shows no signs of leaving the White House.
Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
%C 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
%S Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into
Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on
them.
Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr
Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in _Analog_
Oct 1985
%W There was no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election of '52.
%S How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (_Astounding_ Jul 1939)
came true.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7
SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES (ed. Judy-Lynn Del Rey) (Ballantine 1981,
0345294734)
%W Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 _or_ Watergate was never
discovered.
%S Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third
trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Carter, Samuel, III, "If the North Had Won the Civil War", in _Yankee Magazine_
Apr 1985
%S ...
Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WMHB2>
%W Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul 1863.
Wasn't he?
%S 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history explore
the Great Man hypothesis.
Cate, Curtis, "Preface" to THE WAR OF THE TWO EMPERORS: THE DUEL BETWEEN
NAPOLEON AND ALEXANDER: RUSSIA, 1812 (Random House 1985, 0394536703)
%W Napoleon did not invade Russia.
%C With no anti-Napoleonic coalition, Wellington would have been forced out
of Spain, and Alexander might have freed the serfs 40 years early.
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