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- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course
- Westward", in <IoH>
- W: Columbus did not listen to Pinzon on Oct 7, 1492, and kept sailing true
- west.
- C: Landfall would have have likely been made between Cape Canaveral and the
- Carolinas, and Spanish colonization would have focused on N America.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York Into
- the Union", in <IoH>
- W: Even though 10 states had already agreed, New York's convention refused
- to ratify the Constitution.
- C: Rhode Island and North Carolina would also have remained outside the
- Union, creating a Balkanized N America with civil and military conflict.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gate of
- Hugomont Castle", in <IoH>
- W: Two British soldiers failed to prevent Napoleon from capturing Hugomont.
- C: Napoleon would have split the British army and won at Waterloo. Primarily
- a list of events that would have not occurred.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the
- Norman Emma", in <IoH>
- W: William the Conqueror had no claim to the English throne.
- C: Not particularly AH discussion of the family connections.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror
- in Check", in <IoH>
- W: La Fayette accepted the people's call to be the French chief executive.
- C: With La Fayette in power, the Reign of Terror would not have happened,
- Napoleon would have been restrained and France would be a world power.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy
- Napoleon III", in <IoH>
- W: Felice Orsini killed Napoleon III.
- C: Without Napoleon, there would have been no Franco-Prussian war and 500k
- men would have lived longer lives.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law
- in November, 1860", in <IoH>
- W: Buchanan fully enforced federal law upon S Carolina's succession,
- snuffing out the Civil War before it could start.
- C: Slavery would have been slowly dissolved, but black suffrage never
- extended nor white supremacy organizations created.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter", in
- <IoH>
- W: Elizabeth I found a man both wise and docile enough to marry.
- C: With a Tudor heir, English advances in the arts would have continued,
- Puritanism averted, but likely no American Revolution.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain
- Shipwrecked Japanese", in <IoH>
- W: The Auckland did not rescue several Japanese fisherman and take them to
- San Francisco.
- C: US interest in Japan would have not perked, and the island nation would
- have eventually ended up a Russian or British puppet.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British
- Midshipman", in <IoH>
- W: Mary Washington did not change her mind, and son George entered the
- British navy.
- C: Without Washington's leadership, the revolutionary army would have
- fallen apart. Even supposing victory, there would have been no Constitution.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington
- After Bull Run", in <IoH>
- W: The Confederates were more organized and followed hard on the heels of
- the panicked Union army to Washington.
- C: With Washington occupied, the border states would also have seceded and a
- peace negotiated, with future Balkanization and conflicts.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East
- India Company's Fleet in 1861", in <IoH>
- W: The South took up the company's offer and purchased ten good steamships.
- C: The Confederate navy would have been capable of averting the blockade,
- and independence fully achieved by 1863.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours", in
- <IoH>
- W: Abd-ar-Rahman defeated Charles Martel at Tours.
- C: The Moors would have pushed on to conquer the rest of the Europe, and the
- arts, sciences and role of women in society would have been altered.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Philharmonia Had Not Given Concerts at
- Vicenza", in <IoH>
- W: Musicians did not join to form the Philharmonia in the mid 1500s.
- C: There would be no professional musician class today and music would not
- be divided between classical and popular.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British
- at New Orleans", in <IoH>
- W: Jean Lafitte accepted a British commission as captain in the Royal Navy.
- C: Without him, Andrew Jackson would have lost the Battle of New Orleans and
- not become president, thus allowing nullification to survive.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed
- Time", in <IoH>
- W: The Armada sailed in January rather than July, 1588.
- C: Elizabethan culture would have been stifled and Protestantism smashed,
- with Spanish spoken from Mexico to the St. Lawrence.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an
- Athenian Election", in <IoH>
- W: The electoral competition between Themistocles and Aristides fell in
- Aristides's favor.
- C: Without the fleet that Themistocles advocated, Greece would have lost to
- Persia at Salamis and we'd all be worshipping Mithra today.
- Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY (... 83; DAW 85); exp of "Kelly Country",
- in Void ... 83
- W: Australian Ned Kelly escaped police capture in 1880 and led a successful
- Irish-Australian rebellion against British authority.
- S: A mental time traveler causes Kelly's escape and wakes up in world where
- Australia rather than the US is embroiled in Vietnam.
- Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81
- ------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81
- W: Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management
- techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts.
- S: A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project
- managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next.
- Chaykin, Howard: see Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin
- Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR
- (Coward-McCann 69)
- W: While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces delivered a
- devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 1967.
- S: A day-by-day account of the 6-day fall of Israel and its repercussions in
- the US, USSR and the new UAR.
- Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots",
- in <If,abc> and THE COMMON MAN (Sheed & Ward 50)
- W: As the title says.
- C: Essay on England's place in Christendom and whether it would have
- accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort.
- Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in Omni Nov 90, <YBSF8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26
- (ed Morrow) (HBJ 92)
- W: An older idea of cosmology were correct.
- S: After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault of
- heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through.
- Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky", in <BT>
- W: ntinued success of Stanley brothers in auto racing, Henry
- Ford brought out the Model A steamer in 1911.
- S: Congress investigates internal combustion engines when a kerosene
- shortage arises.
- Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS (Popular Library 76)
- W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated.
- S:
- Christopher, John, FIREBALL (Dutton 81; Tempo 84)
- S: Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman
- times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire.
- -----------------, NEW FOUND LAND (Dutton 83)
- S: The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers
- and Aztecs.
- -----------------, DRAGON DANCE (Dutton 86)
- S: The boys travel on to California.
- Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
- Scribner's Dec 30, <If,abc> and <WMHB3>
- W: Jeb Stuart reached the battlefield in time to support Pickett's charge.
- Later, Lee unilaterally freed the slaves and Britain recognized the CSA.
- S: Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might have
- prevented the formation of the English-speaking union.
- T: German "Wenn Lee die Schlacht von Gettysburg nicht gewonnen hatte"
- Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN (Popular Library 75)
- W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
- S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment
- goes awry.
- Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED (Morrow 69; vt THE LAST DAY OF THE
- OLD WORLD, Cape 69)
- W: The Trinity test was a failure, due in part to Klaus Fuchs.
- S: An agonizing invasion of Kyushu leads to US use of rice fungus bombs, and
- the Soviets exploit border incidents for a drive on the English Channel.
- Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME (World 62)
- S:
- Clarke, Gerald, "Yorktown: If the British Had Won", in Time 2 Nov 81
- S:
- Coleman, Terry, EMPIRE (Sinclair-Stevenson ...)
- W: Texas never joined the Union.
- S:
- Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME
- (ed Moorcock) (Rapp & Whiting 68)
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
- empire.
- Compton, K.T., "If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used", in Atlantic Dec 46
- S:
- Conner, Mike, HUN (Tor, not yet published)
- S:
- Cook, Rick, "Hackers", in Analog Apr 89
- W: Space travel grew from the efforts of model rocket makers rather than
- nat'l programs.
- S: Participants in a 1989 space race encounter a man with a story about a
- world in which the gov't spent billions on space and achieved little.
- Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in <BT>
- W: Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops before his family could
- flee to Egypt.
- S: The murder of Jesus, his family and the magi, with an epilog about Rome's
- British satrap "Queen" Victoria's humiliating coronation.
- Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN: A NOVEL BASED ON HIS PLAY FOR TELEVISION
- (Panther 64)
- S:
- Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN (HBJ
- 83)
- W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
- S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
- Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in <BT>
- W: The Watergate break-in went undiscovered and Richard Nixon was president
- until poor health caused his resignation in 1994.
- S: In 1996, a plumbers unit breaks into a Hyannisport house to retrieve a
- tape stolen from the San Clemente archives.
- Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett
- Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William
- Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX (Penguin/ROC 90)
- S: A mental time traveler studying what made the Beatles so great is
- sidetracked into "change war" action involving Rommel's Afrika Korps.
- --------------------, HOUR OF THE SCORPION (Penguin/ROC 91)
- S: Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to
- the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon.
- --------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE (Penguin/ROC 92)
- S: More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor.
- Costikyan, Greg, "The West is Red", in <IAsfm> May 94
- W: Marxism works and capitalism doesn't.
- S: An academician/computer expert from the USSR visits a Washington, DC,
- torn between failing capitalism and flowering Communism.
- Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
- S: The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
- Vikings and English pirates.
- Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in <BT>
- W: Magellan discovered the Americas. 350 years later abolitionists blocked
- US annexation of Texas.
- S: A US Customs inspector considers the disastrous possibilities on a
- Balkanized N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
- Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <f&sf> Dec 91
- W: After defeating the US in WW2, the Japanese set the AmerInds up as
- governors of the country.
- S: Decades after the war, white Americans meet secretly to enjoy relics of
- Euro-American culture, and argue with a man who advocates accommodation.
- C: May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the
- Japanese defeat the US in the future.
- Coward, Noel, PEACE IN OUR TIME: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS AND EIGHT SCENES
- (Doubleday 48); incl in THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF NOEL COWARD: PLAY PARADE
- (Heinemann 58)
- W: Nazi Germany invaded and conquered England in the fall of 1940, with an
- Allied counter-invasion in 1945.
- S: How an occupied people relate to their conquerors, as demonstrated by the
- patrons of a pub, variously resisters and collaborators.
- C: A play first presented at the Theater Royale in Brighton in July 1947.
- Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...", in <AP>
- W: Dewey defeated Truman in the election of 1948.
- S: How playing hardball over Communism led to Dewey's win.
- Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
- Fantastic Jan 60, <AH>, and COSMIC CRITIQUES (eds Asimov & Greenberg)
- (Writer's Digest 90)
- S: Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red
- men enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
- T: German "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo"
- Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION (Thornton Cox 74; Presidio 77)
- W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Seeloewe, invading England on 22 Sep
- 1940.
- S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure.
- C: Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German
- officers.
- C: Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion".
- Cron, Thomas, "Tuning the Crosswhen Radio", in The Clay Tablet 1980
- S: The purchase of a radio lets its proud new owner pick up broadcasts from
- other timelines.
- Cronin, Philip M., "If Britain Had Suppressed America's War for
- Independence", in Harvard Magazine Jul/Aug 76
- W:
- S: Three possible American histories.
- Crosby, Ernest, "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go", in North American
- Review Dec 03
- W:
- S: Slavery withers away and the states re-unite.
- Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY (Doubleday 90) and <YBSF7>
- W: Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society
- to preserve and extend the British Empire.
- S: Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he
- can rethink his will.
- Cunliffe, Marcus, "What If?", in American Heritage Dec 82
- C: Discussion of counterfactual arguments, with examples from the American
- presidency. (Follow-up letters to editor appear in Feb 83 issue.)
- Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale &
- LoBrutto) (Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90)
- W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
- S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army.
- C: Borderline secret history, but for reasons of personal safety, Cupp
- has stated it is AH.
- Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
- W: Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit
- more tenacious.
- S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
- Daniel, Kate, "The DEFIANT Disaster", in <BAOF>
- W: And.
- S: Years later, as head of the Nat'l Space Exploration Administration, she
- must cope with the space plane accident that killed Chuck Yeager.
- Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in <IAsfm> Jul 92
- W: AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society.
- S: People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and
- one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out.
- Daniels, Tony, "God's Foot", in <IAsfm> May 93
- W: What if the Eurasian and African tectonic plates collided with the
- N American during the late Cretaceous.
- S: A Korean-Japanese tourist climbs the great Appalachian peak Cheaha and
- becomes embroiled in a conflict between strange Western gods.
- Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!", in <BT>
- W: Offered the choice of going to hell or to America, George II's heir opted
- for the latter.
- S: The center of British power shifts to Philadelphia, leading to an English
- uprising in the early 1800s against American tyranny.
- Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson
- Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II/SPRING 1985 (eds
- Pournelle & Baen) (Baen 85) and <FCW>
- W: The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington during
- Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865.
- S: An explanation of its development and how it provoked the sack of
- Richmond and a harsher Reconstruction.
- Davis, Grania, "Chroncop", in <f&sf> Aug 93
- S: A time cop looks for a group of missing tourists, with brief mention of
- visits to AH worlds.
- de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR
- DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES (Doubleday 63), <BAW>, MODERN CLASSICS
- OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) (St. Martin's 92, 93), etc
- W: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science.
- S: Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead
- overawes and sours him on scientific research.
- T: German "Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles"
- de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL (Ballantine 49; Pyramid 63;
- Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83); exp of "Lest Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec
- 39
- S: Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a
- few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
- de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in Amazing Jan 92, <WMHB4>
- and <YBSF10>
- W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
- S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute
- over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
- de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF
- (Shasta 48), <AH>, THE WHEELS OF IF & THE PUGNACIOUS PEACEMAKER (Tor SF
- Double #20) (Tor 90) and UNKNOWN WORLDS (ed ...) (Bristol Park 93)
- W: Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of
- Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours.
- S: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic
- Christian bishop in "New Belfast".
- C: Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker".
- Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72
- W: Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2.
- S: An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop.
- Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared.
- DeBrandt, Don H., THE QUICKSILVER SCREEN (Ballantine 92)
- S: Adventures of a professional viewer in a 21st century in which Infinite
- Range TV provides a look at other timelines.
- deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
- S:
- Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 (Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79;
- Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92)
- W: Germany won the Battle of Britain.
- S: A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and
- investigate a murder in occupied England.
- C: Synopsis in Giordano's WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE.
- T: German SS-GB
- Del Rey, Lester, [& Paul W. Fairlane,] THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE (Holt,
- Rinehart & Winston 66)
- S: Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States.
- Delaplace, Barbara, "Farewell, My Buddy", in <BAOF>
- W: Humphrey Bogart became a private detective rather than an actor.
- S: His business about to go belly-up, Bogey broods about how unrealistic
- Hollywood tec movies are, particularly those starring Ray Chandler.
- Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in <AP>
- W: Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944.
- S: Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the
- atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender.
- Delaplace, Barbara, "Painted Bridges", in <AO>
- S:
- Delaplace, Barbara, "Standing Firm", in <AW>
- W: Neville Chamberlain was made of sterner stuff.
- S: How Chamberlain made up his mind to stand up to Hitler at Munich,
- including a conversation with appeasement proponent Churchill.
- Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian
- Century 7-14 Jan 76
- W: In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and
- Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent.
- S: Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles
- as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880.
- Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF (Heinemann 26)
- W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
- S:
- Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92 and <YBSF10>
- W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided
- to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada.
- S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence,
- Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into.
- Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL (Popular Library 86)
- W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia
- after the fall of Germany.
- S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star.
- In 1979, her daughter goes on tour.
- Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in
- THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) (Citadel 91)
- S: In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler
- visits one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
- Dexter, Lewis A., "What If Joseph McCarthy Had Not Been a U.S. Senator in
- 1950-55? and/or What If There Had Been a Serious, Responsible Senator with
- Gifts as Great as McCarthy's for Publicity Who Had Pre-Empted the Communism-
- in-Government Issue from Him in 1949", in <WIESSF>
- W: As the title says.
- C: Without obvious witch-hunting, a better job of explaining the dangers of
- proStalinism and rooting it out would have occurred.
- Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92
- W: Concerned about Hitler, Otto Frank sent his daughters to America with his
- brothers-in-law, where they move to Hollywood.
- S: Excerpts from the diary of Anne Holland, from reading for a part in THE
- WIZARD OF OZ to her divorce from Mickey Rooney in 1951.
- Di Filippo, Paul, "Campbell's World", in Amazing Sep 93
- W: Anthropologist Joseph Campbell became editor of Astounding in 1937.
- S: A Navajo story-writer recounts Campbell's plans to publish tales leading
- to world harmony and how they averted WW2.
- Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91
- W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics,
- and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace.
- S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is
- recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees.
- Di Filippo, Paul, "Walt and Emily", serial in Interzone #77-78 (Nov-Dec 93)
- S: An encounter between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
- Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone #55 (Jan 92)
- W: Starting with Einstein in 1918, every nuclear physicist was murdered, and
- nuclear weapons were never developed.
- S: A soldier in Kiel c 1970 for the big allied push against the Soviets
- me travelling.
- Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo
- DiChario, Nicholas A., "Extreme Feminism", in <AW>
- W: The struggle for women's suffrage in America was more violent.
- S: Susan B. Anthony participates in a gun purchase and a demonstration gone
- awry, and despite her desires finds herself becoming an outlaw.
- DiChario, Nicholas A., "Giving Head", in <AO>
- S:
- DiChario, Nicholas A., "Would He Do Woody?", in <BAOF>
- W: "Eddie" Chaplin didn't achieve on the silver screen.
- S: The tale of a modern silent actor named Charlie Chaplin who's just made
- a movie about his grandfather who didn't quite make it in show biz
- Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE (Ace 66)
- W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates.
- S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve
- overpopulation problems.
- Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley
- 74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92; ROC UK 93)
- W: Before his 1933 inauguration, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which
- eventually led to the Axis winning WW2.
- S: Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and
- an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war.
- T: German DAS ORAKEL VOM BERGE
- Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH (Arbor House 85; Avon 87)
- S:
- Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER (Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder &
- Stoughton 76; Avon 77; Mysterious 93)
- ----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING (Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike
- 90)
- W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in
- 1910 rather than his brother George.
- S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family
- closet and must solve some mysteries.
- Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS (Dr. Who 91)
- W: The Nazis conquered Britain.
- S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure.
- Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in
- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) (Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne &
- Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864; Widdleton 1865)
- C: Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development.
- C: Discussed in Stableford's "A Note on Alternate History".
- Dixon, Dougal, THE NEW DINOSAURS: AN ALTERNATE EVOLUTION (Grafton 88; Salem
- House 88; Fawcett 89)
- W: The KT meteorite impacts never occurred and the Great Extinction of the
- dinosaurs never happened.
- S: Pictorial biology of the modern result of continued dinosaur evolution.
- Dixon, Larry: see Lackey, Mercedes, & Larry Dixon
- d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE (Knopf 74)
- W: Eurasia was united under a single empire.
- S:
- T: French LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE
- Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR (New
- English Library 79; St. Martin's 80)
- W: An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge
- of the 3rd Reich for 6 months.
- S: Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also,
- details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage", in Saturday Evening Post 28 Sep
- 29, Strand Oct 29, and UNCOLLECTED STORIES: THE UNKNOWN CONAN DOYLE (eds
- Gibson & Green) (Secker & Warburg 82; Doubleday 82)
- W: Wilhelm II did not abdicate.
- S: The Kaiser travels to Kiel and convinces the sailors to give up their
- revolt and sail into one last grand battle against the British.
- Drake, David, FORTRESS (Tor 87, 88)
- W: JFK escaped assassination and in 1965 announced a Star Wars-like missile
- defense program.
- S: In 1985, a former NSA agent is caught between Americans, Neo-Nazis, Jews
- and space aliens in a fight for control of an orbital defense platform.
- Dreyfuss, Richard: see Turtledove, Harry, & Richard Dreyfuss
- Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92
- W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering
- Europe before the US could enter the war.
- S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe
- tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans.
- Dunn, J.R., "Long Knives", in L. RON HUBBARD PRESENT WRITERS OF THE FUTURE:
- VOLUME III (ed Budrys) (Bridge 87)
- S: Agents from one timeline protect hated leaders such as Hitler in others
- from crosstime assassins.
- Dunn, J.R., "Men of Good Will", in Amazing Mar 93
- W: Archimedes built machines to replace slaves, and the contributions of
- others led to an industrial revolution 1800 years early.
- S: A Roman agent is sent to Jerusalem to extract a Galilean rabbi who seems
- to be at the center of possible trouble for the empire.
- Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY (F. Watts 87)
- W: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in
- Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain.
- S: In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American
- agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends.
- Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in <AP>
- W: Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president
- in 1824, four years early.
- S: Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later,
- George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers.
- Ede-Borrett, Stephen, "1688--The Glorious Revolution and the War that Never
- Was", in Miniature Wargames #65 (Oct 88)
- C:
- Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
- <IIHB>
- W: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his
- 2nd term as British Prime Minister.
- C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land
- Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest.
- Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA (Ace 81)
- S: The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the
- Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations.
- C: Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM.
- Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WMHB1>
- W: Robert E. Lee fought for the Union and the Civil War was over before
- Lincoln could issue an Emancipation Proclamation.
- S: Thinking things would be better, a black physicist working in 1938
- Imperial Germany goes back in time to make Lee follow a different path.
- Effinger, George Alec, "The Fifteen-Minute Falcon", in <BAOF>
- W: Gypsy Rose Lee was a private detective.
- S: THE MALTESE FALCON retold in 14 pages with all gender roles reversed.
- Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY (Axolotl 90)
- W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War.
- S:
- Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK>
- W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including
- JFK's son Patrick.
- S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his
- numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics.
- Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL (Harper & Row 73; Dell 76); exp of
- "The City on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON
- RISING (ed Disch) (Harper & Row 73)
- S: One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
- which Germany won WW1.
- Effinger, George Alec, "Schroedinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AWBSF>,
- <YBSF6>, NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) (Arbor House 88), and THE NEW HUGO
- AWARDS: VOLUME III (ed Willis) (Baen 94)
- S: An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
- Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
- Effinger, George Alec, "Shootout at Gower Gulch", in <AO>
- S:
- Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
- Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) (Harper & Row 76) and <BAW>
- W: In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2.
- S: Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with
- automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel.
- T: German "Ziel: Berlin!"
- Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH (Dell 79)
- world is stuck in a chauvinist Midwest of a
- world where the Armada triumphed.
- Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE (DAW 74)
- S: A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets
- out to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America.
- Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WMHB4>
- W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed
- knowledge of Columbus's voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas.
- S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic
- murder of a babe near Seattle.
- Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81
- W: The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously
- colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700.
- S: 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration
- problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned.
- Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT>
- W: Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600.
- S: In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco
- just as the city falls to the Aztecs.
- T: German "Die Sonne geht auf"
- Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME (Laser 75)
- W: George Washington was killed in New York in August 1776, and the US did
- not become independent until after a second rebellion in 1796.
- S: A boy from 2169 is forced into the Time Service and discovers that he
- must fix American history.
- Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH>
- W: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and
- blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics.
- S: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's
- English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found.
- T: German "Schweig stille, Mund!"
- Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH (Simon & Schuster 73)
- W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970,
- thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history.
- S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing
- Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation.
- Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK (Poseidon 89; Avon 90)
- W: Germany did not invade the Soviet Union in 1941, but did invade England
- in 1942, and Mexico sometime later.
- S:
- Evans, Christopher, AZTEC CENTURY (Gollancz 93, 94)
- W: The Aztecs were not defeated.
- S: The Aztecs rule 20th century Britain.
- Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80
- S: A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
- strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
- Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>,
- THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) (NAL/Mentor 79), A TREASURY OF
- MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) (Avon 81), <GSFS14>, etc
- W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological
- principles.
- S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth.
- T: German "Weitersegeln! Weitersegeln!"
- Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH (Ace 79); rev of THE GATE OF TIME
- (Belmont 70)
- S: American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
- Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war.
- Farren, Mick, NECROM (Ballantine 91)
- S: Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec-dominated modern Earth.
- Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in <AP>
- W: Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled
- Senate still provoked Southern secession.
- S: In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and
- his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana.
- Fawcett, Bill, "Zealot", in <AW>
- W: Moses led his people into guerrilla warfare.
- S: After three years of fighting, the Hebrews occupy pharaoh's Gizan palace,
- but find themselves beseiged by an overwhelming force.
- Feeley, Gregory, "My Tongue in Thy Tale", in <AO>
- S:
- Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed
- Campbell) (Doubleday 63), TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) (Fawcett 74);
- POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) (Prentice-Hall 74),
- <BAW> and <GSFS23>
- W: Napoleon conquered Britain.
- S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its
- defenders behave like 20th-century liberals.
- Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR (Tor 90); exp of "The World Next Door",
- <IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
- W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s.
- S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world
- full of home computers, cable television, etc.
- Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone #6 and INTERZONE: THE
- FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) (J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85)
- W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president.
- S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal
- diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev.
- Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal
- System?", in WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed
- Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 92)
- W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more
- centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797.
- C: Description of US government and political parties under a system in
- which states are little more than geographic regions.
- Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WMHB4>
- W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the
- Pacific Coast.
- S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their
- colonization of California.
- Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB (Bantam 85)
- S: Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
- Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
- Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WMHB2>
- W: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional
- musician.
- S: As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Einstein
- frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher.
- Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in <HV>
- W: Rudolf Hess's flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began
- a 1000-year peace.
- S: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an
- accident on the Moon.
- Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME (Simon & Schuster 68); rev of "The
- Other Wife" (vt "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and
- ABOUT TIME (Simon & Schuster 86); incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc
- S: Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
- Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31,
- <If,abc> and PAGES FROM THE PAST (Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69)
- W: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston.
- S: L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America,
- but will it be enough?
- T: "Wenn Napoleon nach Amerika entkommen ware"
- Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN
- 1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES
- (Simon & Schuster 57; Ace ...; Greenwood 77; vt INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF
- THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES, Hart-Davis 57; Pan
- 75)
- W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at
- all.
- C: Mostly background mat'l but chapter 20 discusses events which could not
- have occurred if either supposition were true.
- Flynn, John L., "Paradox Lost"
- W: The Library of Alexandria was not burned.
- S:
- Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87
- W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States
- fighting constant border wars.
- S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania
- is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York.
- Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89
- W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success.
- rro encounters
- the Inca Empire before civil war broke out.
- Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY (Simon & Schuster 83;
- Avon 85)
- W: Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and
- Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works.
- S: A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary
- become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power.
- Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
- FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 80; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S
- WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION)
- S: Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading
- to all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline."
- -------------, "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80
- S: An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to
- convince the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline.
- -------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and <FCW>
- S: A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded
- in an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War.
- -------------, "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
- S: An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
- Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail ...,
- Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE (Little Brown 70;
- Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76)
- W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
- S:
- Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS #1-3, comic book series (Caliber Comics 90)
- W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
- S: 20th-century aventures of League of Nation operatives in a conflict
- against a Roman African airship.
- Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
- (Ballantine 77)
- W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting
- down Hitler in 6 months.
- S: A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear
- proliferation.
- Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in Interzone #29
- (May/Jun 89), <WMHB1> and INTERZONE, THE FIFTH ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al)
- W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women
- began to fight back against degradation.
- S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can
- take her to a more equable world.
- Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER (Ballantine 86)
- ---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT (Ballantine 89)
- ---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR (Ballantine 89)
- ---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD (Ballantine 89)
- ---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY (Ballantine 90)
- S: An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
- defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
- Freireich, Valerie J., "Measure for Measure", in Aboriginal Dec 91
- W: Wat Tyler was not killed at Smithfield but became an advisor to Richard
- II, prolonging that king's reign and leading to an English enlightenment.
- S: Two time travelers from our future and another meet outside Geoffrey
- Chaucer's home and fight to retain the histories they remember.
- Fried, Robert C., "What If Hitler Got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIESSF>
- W: After Heisenberg produced a laboratory chain reaction, Germany went on to
- produce A-bombs in early 1944, dropping them on London and Leningrad in May.
- C: An essay arguing how unlikely such a course of events was, and how the
- Nazis would still have lost the war due to superior Allied air power.
- Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD (NAL/Signet 88)
- W: During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain
- from the rest of the world.
- S: Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen
- grimoire on which rests her authority.
- Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW>
- W: Napoleon invaded and conquered England in 1798.
- S: In 1811, Jane Austen meets Davey Crockett and finds that they have much
- in common, including a distaste for l'empereur's ambitions.
- Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WMHB4>
- W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus's voyage of discovery was
- instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
- S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus's ships return from
- meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
- Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK>
- W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted
- the power of making anything true merely by saying so.
- S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in
- Berlin has disastrous effects.
- Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF!
- (Donning 79, 86)
- W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
- S: A series of letters showing how Newton became disillusioned and came to
- write the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
- Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY (SFBC 83)
- W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-
- French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300.
- (--------------), MURDER AND MAGIC (Ace 79)
- ((------------)), "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed
- Santesson) (Pocket 65) and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 82)
- S: A lecherous count is killed and the best clue is the last thing he saw.
- ((------------)), "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed
- Campbell) (Doubleday 66)
- S: The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks like him is
- found dead near the harbor.
- ((------------)), "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
- WONDER (ed McComas) (Random House 70)
- S: The Duke of Kent's coffin is found occupied by the body of the Chief
- Investigator for the Duchy.
- ((------------)), "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed
- Dickinsheet) (Doubleday 73)
- S: A publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
- (--------------), TOO MANY MAGICIANS (Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace ...);
- serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
- S: Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a
- sorcerers' convention in London.
- (--------------), LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES (Ace 81)
- ((------------)), "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED
- HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) (Davis/Dial 83)
- S: A materialist count is killed when he is flung from his laboratory
- window.
- ((------------)), "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76
- S: Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the
- papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion.
- ((------------)), "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and 13 CRIMES OF
- SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) (Doubleday 79)
- S: During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is
- found dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy.
- ((------------)), "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S
- SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 79)
- S: A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly
- travels to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing.
- ----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S
- SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 80; vt ISAAC
- ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan)
- (Davis/Dial 82)
- S: Rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is required to
- explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste.
- ----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER
- (ed Bretnor) (Ace 79) and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 82)
- S: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield.
- C: See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN
- GIRL.
- Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
- in <BT>
- S: Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the
- existence of Henry Ford.
- NOVEL (Vantage 54)
- W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
- rule.
- S:
- Gentle, Mary, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE (Bantam UK 91; Penguin/ROC 93)
- S: Story of a mage in a Britain divided between Queen Carola and Lord-
- Protector Olivia Cromwell.
- C: Non-AH predecessor is RATS & GARGOYLES.
- Gerrold, David, "The Firebringers", in <AW>
- W: Various Hollywood stars were in real life the types of men they played
- in the movies.
- S: Commanding a bomber carrying a nuclear device to Berlin, Col. Gregory
- Peck has second thoughts, and argues with Reagan, Bogart, et al.
- Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
- W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
- winning the election of 1952.
- S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
- how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
- Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK>
- W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married
- Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business.
- S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi
- features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise.
- Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF (Random House 73; Faber 73;
- Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; rev Bantam 91)
- S: A man inherits a time-travel belt and explores the nature of paradox.
- Mentions some change-the-past incidents but without much follow through.
- Gerrold, David, "Satan Claus", in <AO>
- S:
- Gerrold, David, "What Goes Around", in <AO>
- S:
- Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons
- Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr)
- (Doubleday 81; Zebra 81), BURNING CHROME (Arbor House 86; Ace 87),
- MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) (Arbor House 86; Ace 88) and THE NORTON BOOK OF
- SCIENCE FICTION (eds LeGuin & Attebery) (Norton 93)
- S: A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
- etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
- T: German "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum"; Portugese
- <title unknown>
- Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE (Bantam 91; Gollancz
- 9x)
- W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected
- his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early.
- S: A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada
- Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder.
- Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St.
- Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in Christian Century 24
- Feb 71
- W: As the title says.
- S: The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona,
- particularly its competition with American Christian missions.
- Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in <AP>
- W: Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus
- keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976.
- S: On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran
- after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914.
- Gluckman, Janet, & George Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE
- LIGHT (St. Martins 9x)
- W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar.
- S:
- Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR (Black Heron 91)
- S:
- Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV>
- W: Germany won WW2.
- S: An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the
- previous occupant's Dachau experiments.
- Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and
- LAUGHING SPACE (eds Asimov & Jeppson) (Houghton Mifflin 82)
- W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay.
- S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company.
- Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
- (Samuel French 32)
- W: A black employee of Ford's theater prevented John Wilkes Booth from
- killing Abraham Lincoln.
- S: Lincoln rather than Johnson is impeached and tried for trying to fire
- Secretary of War Stanton, with more dramatic results.
- C: A three-act play first presented by the Morningside Players in New York
- City in 1932.
- Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT>
- W: Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo.
- S: Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New
- France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia
- Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme
- Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in
- <SAH>
- W:
- C:
- Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained
- Neutral?", in <SAH>
- W: The United States was not drawn into WW1.
- C:
- Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without
- Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH>
- W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands
- of Zangara the next spring.
- C:
- Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--
- What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH>
- W: FDR enjoyed better health.
- C:
- Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH>
- C:
- Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
- EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO (Basic 77; Sphere 79)
- W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665.
- S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo
- at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war.
- Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al)
- (Taplinger 80; DAW 92)
- W: The American Revolution failed.
- S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on
- St. Helena, but is he Napoleon?
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