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- APPENDIX I - NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
-
- This appendix lists Alternate Histories published in languages other than
- English. Much of the data was extracted from
-
- Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
- Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds
- Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86)
- Helbig, Joerg, DER PARAHISTORISCHE ROMAN. EIN LITERARHISTORISCHER UND
- GATTUNGSTYPOLOGISCHER BEITRAGE ZUR ALLOTOPIEFORSCHUNG (Lang 87)
-
- Significant contributions were also made by Andreas Morlok and P.C. Joergensen.
-
- Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
- <HSL> = HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (ed Armer) (Heyne 90)
- <SVW> = SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (ed
- Oth) (Luchterhand 88)
-
- Those entries which are not known to have been translated to the English
- include an 'E:' line giving a translation of the title.
-
-
- In Chinese:
-
- Shi Jian, <title unknown>, in 'Strange Tales' May 90
- E: "Cause and Effect"
- W: Germany won WW2.
- S:
-
-
- In Czech:
-
- Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU (Borovy 45)
- S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
- T: English "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"; Esperanto "Pseudo-Lot au
- pri patriotismo"
- Silverberg, Robert, <title unknown> (Navrat 92)
- S: A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble.
- C: Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is
- briefly described.
- T: English UP THE LINE
-
-
- In Danish:
-
- Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En plads i historien", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91)
- E: "A Place in History"
- W: Egyptians never built tbe pyramids.
- S: A time traveller performs a match trick for pharaoh and inspires him to
- build the pyramids.
- Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En flue paa vaeggen", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91)
- E: "A Fly on the Wall"
- W: The Swedish rebellion of 1521 was put down.
- S: A time traveller changes history to its main course by sneezing.
- Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Haabet er groent", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91)
- E: "Hope is Green"
- W: The Turks conquered Vienna in 1583
- S: A Turkish immigrant in Denmark suffers from racist attacks and changes
- history to live in a Muslim Europe.
- Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Soefaerden til Cipangu", in Information Oct 92
- E: "Voyage to Cipangu"
- W: Columbus sails to Japan
- S: A Jewish translator on the Santa Maria saves Columbus from mutiny by
- magically transporting the ship to Japan, thereby destroying the Americas.
-
-
- In Dutch:
-
- Bertin, Eddy C., "Tijdstorm", in DE ACHTJAARLIJKSE GOD (Bruno & Zoon 71)
- 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.
- T: English "Timestorm"
- Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ (De
- Bezige Bij 72)
- E: YESTERDAY'S FUTURE: OUTLINE OF A WORK
- W: Hitler was assassinated in 1944, which event was followed by an SS
- countercoup and German victory in WW2.
- S: An author in a world in which Germany lost WW2 explains why he isn't
- writing about a world in which Germany won, in which world is an author...
- Teng, Tais, AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 83)
- E: AT THE SHORES OF THE NIGHT
- (--------), "Alle namen in het zonlicht", in SF Terra #73 zine (85)
- (--------), "Bevers voeren", in SF Terra #73 zine (85)
- (--------), "Een dukaat voor de veerman", in BIZARRE VISIOENEN (Diram 88)
- (--------), "Hoe de wijze handelt", in King Kong Kerstgeschenk zine (88) and
- Science Fiction Festival (...Con 89)
- W: Elephants evolved only to a small size, and Hannibal's sea-borne attack
- on Rome succeeded.
- S: Tales of a Dutch empire.
- Tengbergen, Thijs van Ebberhorst: see Teng, Tais
- Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe.
- T: French CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
-
-
- In Esperanto:
-
- Capek, Karel, + Josef Vondrousek (tr), "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo", in
- LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ (Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 70)
- T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
-
-
- In French:
-
- Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST
- ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 84)
- E: "The Anniversary of the Thousand-Year Reich"
- 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 84)
- E: "What Was He Doing, Young Dr. Frankenstein, in May 1981 and May 1968?"
- 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.
- Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES
- (Gallimard 54)
- E: MUST JOAN BURN?
- W: Joan of Arc was rescued.
- S: God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment.
- Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO (Andre Sabatier 37; Plon 64; Rombaldi 76)
- E: VICTORY AT WATERLOO
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates.
- Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? (Le Monde 80); serial in Le Monde Jun-Sep 80
- E: HAVE YOU SEEN MONTEZUMA?
- S:
- Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 (Fleuve
- Noir 84)
- E: CARTHAGE WILL BE DESTROYED: TIME INVESTIGATOR SETNI, 2
- W: Hannibal captured Rome.
- S: A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a
- Carthaginian colony in Quebec.
- Barbet, Pierre, L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET (Fleuve Noir 72)
- 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.
- T: English BAPHOMET'S METEOR
- --------------, CROISADE STELLAIRE (Fleuve Noir 74)
- S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
- T: English STELLAR CRUSADE
- Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES (Librairie Francais 70)
- E: IF NAPOLEON HAD TAKEN LONDON
- S:
- Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE (G.
- Bailliere 1872)
- E: ETERNITY THROUGH THE STARS: AN ASTRONOMICAL HYPOTHESIS
- S:
- Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed Sadoul)
- (J'ai Lu 76)
- E: "Children of Ibn Khaldun"
- W: The Arabs won at Tours.
- S: Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the
- north.
- Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION (Opta 84)
- E: "Summer"
- S:
- Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE
- POLITIQUE (Pauvert 68)
- E: IF MAY HAD SUCCEEDED: A POLITICAL PLEASANTRY
- W: The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a
- conservative backlash.
- S:
- Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN (vol 1, Gallimard 38; vol 2-4 Editions
- du Dialogue 41-44; complete Gallimard 49)
- E: LIFE'S CONJUNCTIONS
- W: The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution.
- S: A detailed history text.
- Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier
- Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT (Gallimard 61)
- W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
- S: Christianity is aborted.
- T: English PONTIUS PILATE
- Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN (Lattes 80)
- E: THE APPEAL OF JUNE 17: A NOVEL
- S:
- Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE (... 1791)
- E: MY REPUBLIC
- C: A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate
- French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI.
- d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE (Gallimard 71)
- S:
- T: English THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE
- Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF (Calmann-Levy 80)
- E: THE EGG PRINCIPLE
- S:
- Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE (... 56)
- E: UNHAPPY ULYSSES
- W: Louis XVI escaped arrest.
- S: In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX.
- Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP: ROMAN (Denoel 71, 81)
- E: PTAH HOTEP: A NOVEL
- W: Constantine suppressed Christianity.
- S: Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world.
- Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL (Nouvelle-Optique 79)
- E: A HAITIAN AMBASSADOR AT MONTREAL
- W: Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970.
- S: Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois
- separatists.
- Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON APOCRYPHE (Paulin 1841; Librairie
- Illustree 1896; vt NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE
- LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE, Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851; Tallandier 1983)
- E: THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON; vt NAPOLEON AND THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD, 1812-
- 1823: HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY
- W: Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in
- Moscow.
- S: Napoleon keeps on going.
- C: Extensive synopsis in Alkon's "From Utopia to Uchronia".
- C: Apparently *the* first AH written in novel length, the possible exception
- being Lesage's LES AVENTURES DE M. ROBERT CHEVALIER.
- Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE, 1949-1981: DE
- L'ASSASSINAT DU GENERAL DE GAULLE (12 JUIN 1949) AU COUP D'ETAT DU GENERAL
- MASSU (10 MAI 1981) (Belfond 84)
- E: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, 1949-1981: FROM THE ASSASSINATION OF
- GENERAL DE GAULLE (JUNE 12, 1949) TO THE COUP D'ETAT OF GENERAL MASSU (MAY
- 10, 1981)
- S:
- Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE (Plon 49)
- E: FIGUREHEADS
- S:
- Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS
- (Le Jour 66)
- E: "Lepic and hypothetical history"
- W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and
- Indian War.
- S: 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation.
- Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne
- Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE
- (Tallandier 29)
- E: IF, ON JULY 27, 1794...: AN HISTORICAL HYPOTHESIS
- W: Robespierre escaped the guillotine.
- S:
- Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen
- age", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82)
- E: "The Chansons de Geste: the Temptation of Allohistory in the Middle Ages"
- C:
- Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE,
- CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE (Ganeau 1732; Dufour &
- Roux 1780)
- E: THE ADVENTURES OF M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, AKA DE BEAUCHENE
- W: AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa.
- C: Borderline AH, but if so, then possibly the earliest AH novel.
- Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE (Fleuve Noir 84)
- E: HISTORY SIDETRACKED
- W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
- S: WW3 in 1989 against Japan.
- Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in France Observateur 28
- Dec 61
- E: "The Comrade-God: a Christmas Story"
- W: Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961.
- S: Reactions from elsewhere.
- Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES
- E: TRAVELER THROUGH THE CENTURIES
- S:
- Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE (Presses de la Renaissance
- 83)
- E: THE TRUE HISTORY OF FRANCE
- S:
- Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE
- APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TEL QU'IL N'A PAS
- ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE (Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876;
- Alcan 01; Artheme Fayard 88)
- E: UCHRONIA (UTOPIA IN HISTORY), AN APOCRYPHAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF
- EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION NOT AS IT WAS BUT AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
- W: Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress
- the Christians and avert the Dark Ages.
- S: Narrative of a 17th-century man about to be executed by the Inquisition.
- Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS (Fleuve Noir 51)
- E: CRUISE IN TIME
- W: Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610.
- S: France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and
- civilization collapses in the 20th century.
- Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in Litterature Mar 21 and PAPIERS
- POSTHUMES (Sans Pareil 34)
- E: "A Brilliant Subject"
- S: A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc.
- Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU (Tour du Guet 50)
- E: IF GERMANY HAD WON
- W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
- S: A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost.
- T: German WENN DEUTSCHLAND GESEIGT HATTE
- Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS (Nouvelle France 45; La Renaissance du Livre
- 62; Jacques Antoine 86)
- E: REPULSE IN TIME or SET-BACK IN TIME
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Time travelers reverse the event.
- Van Herck, Paul, + Michel Vedewe (tr), CAROLINE OH CAROLINE (Champs-Elysee
- 76)
- T: Dutch CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
- Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE
- S:
-
-
- Reference Materials:
-
- Angenot, Marc, Darko Suvin, & Jean-Marc Gouanvic, "L'uchronie, histoire
- alternative et science-fiction", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82)
- E: "Allohistory, Alternative History and Science Fiction"
- C:
- Boireau, Jacques, "La machine a ralentir le temps", in imagine... #14
- (Autumn 82)
- E: "The Time-Slowdown Machine"
- C: Contrasts utopian French AHs with distopian American AHs.
- Brie, Marc-Andre, "Quelques reperes pour une bibliographie de l'uchronie",
- in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82)
- E: "Some Benchmarks for a Bibliography of Allohistory"
- C: A bibliography of AH.
- Carrere, Emmanuel, LE DETROIT DE BEHRING: INTRODUCTION A L'UCHRONIE: ESSAI
- (P.O.L. 86)
- E: THE BERING STRAIT: INTRODUCTION TO ALLOHISTORY: AN ESSAY
- C:
- Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Pourquoi un 'Special Uchronie'", in imagine... #14
- (Autumn 82)
- E: "Why an 'Allohistory Special'"
- C: AH discussion in conjunction with a special issue of imagine..., with
- essays and stories by Angenot et al, April, Boireau, Brie and Le Brun.
- Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Quebec uchronie", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82)
- E: "Allohistorical Quebec"
- C: Primarily a synopsis of Hertel's "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique".
- Leccia, Pierre, "Uchronie: l'histoire detournee", in POLITIQUE/FICTION (ed
- Riche)
- E: "Allohistory: History Sidetracked"
- C: Brief discussion and bibliography of AH.
- Van Herp, Jacques, "Dans les corridors de l'espace-temps", in PANORAMA DE LA
- SCIENCE-FICTION (Gerard 73; Marabout 75)
- E: "In the Halls of Space-Time"
- C: Includes discussion of AH.
- Versins, Pierre, ENCYCLOPEDIE DE L'UTOPIE, DES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES ET DE
- LA SCIENCE FICTION (L'Age du Homme 72; exp 84)
- E: ENCYLOPEDIA OF UTOPIA, EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES AND SCIENCE FICTION
- C:
-
-
- In German:
-
- "Das Wort 'Wenn' ist das deutscheste aller deutschen Woerter."
- <The word 'if' is the most German of all German words.>
- --Friedrich Hebbel, in
- Alexander Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE
-
- Anthologies:
-
- Armer, Karl Michael (ed), HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (Heyne 90)
- E: HIROSHIMA SHALL LIVE!
- C: Translations of stories by Aldiss, Effinger, Gibson, Lansdale, Martin,
- KS Robinson, Shiner, Somtow, and Turtledove. Reference mat'l by Armer.
- Oth, Rene (ed), SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR
- GESCHICHTE (Luchterhand 88)
- E: NICE WRONG WORLD: FANTASTIC HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY
- C: Translations of stories by Cox, Eklund, Elgin, Lafferty, Piper, Roberts
- and KS Robinson. Reference mat'l by Oth.
-
- Alternate Histories:
-
- Aldiss, Brian W., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Vorsicht! Religion", in <HSL>
- T: English "Matrix"
- Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN (Nymphenburger 79; Heyne 81,
- 83, 94)
- E: AT THE LIGHTS OF THE LEYERMARK: A NOVEL
- 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 74; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 78;
- Heyne 84)
- E: THE KING-PROJECT or PROJECT ROYALTY
- S: The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a
- Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation.
- Amis, Kingsley, + Walter Brumm (tr), DIE VERWANDLUNG (Heyne 86)
- T: English THE ALTERATION
- Bailey, Hilary, + Yvonne Krampen (tr), "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy
- Steiner", in WELTEN DER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN (ed Hahn) (Ullstein 83)
- T: English "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner"
- Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE (Molden 66)
- W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
- S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
- T: English TWILIGHT MAN
- Bensen, D.R., + Irene Holicki (tr), ZWISCHENHALT (Heyne 84)
- T: English AND HAVING WRIT...
- Bester, Alfred, + Alfred Joseph (tr), "Die Morder Mohammeds", in DIE
- FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds Armer & Jeschke) (Heyne 84)
- T: English "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"
- Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in Tempo Jun 92
- E: "And if he didn't die..."
- 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 60)
- E: IMPERIAL SAGA: AN AUSTRIAN UTOPIA
- 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 f₧r Soziolofie vol 1
- C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
- the beginning of the scientific revolution.
- T: English "Alternatives in Science"
- Boyd, John, + Heinz Plehn (tr), DER UBERLAUFER (Droemer Knaur 78)
- T: English THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH
- Churchill, Winston S., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Lee die Schlacht von
- Gettysburg nicht gewonnen hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #9
- T: English "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg"
- Cox, Irving E., Jr., + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "In the Circle of Nowhere"
- de Camp, L. Sprague, + Werner Fuchs (tr), "Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles", in
- EIN YANKEE BEI ARISTOTELES (Heyne 80)
- T: English "Aristotle and the Gun"
- Deighton, Len, + Kurt Wagenseil & Ursula Pommer (trs), SS-GB (Heyne 83)
- T: English SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941
- Dick, Philip K., + Heinz Nagel (tr), DAS ORAKEL VOM BERGE (Bastei-L₧bbe 82)
- T: English THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
- Effinger, George Alec, + Juergen Langowski (tr), "Ziel: Berlin!", in <HSL>
- T: English "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop"
- Eklund, Gordon, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Die Sonne geht auf", in <SVW>
- T: English "The Rising of the Sun"
- Elgin, Suzette Haden, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Schweig stille, Mund!",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "Hush My Mouth"
- Farmer, Philip Jose, + Ronald M. Han (tr), "Weitersegeln! Weitersegeln!", in
- DAS LACHELM DER GIOCONDA (ed Oth) (Luchterhand 85)
- T: English "Sail On, Sail On"
- Fisher, H.A.L., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Napoleon nach Amerika entkommen
- ware", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #12
- T: English "If Napoleon had Escaped to America"
- Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von
- Gibson, William, + Reinhard Heinz (tr), "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der
- amerikanische Traum", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Gernsback Continuum"
- Guedalla, Philip, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn die Mauren in Spanen geseigt
- Hatte", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (Heyne 87)
- T: English "If the Moors in Spain had Won"
- Haffner, Sebastian, ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER (Kindler 78)
- C: Biography of Hitler includes discussion (pp 131-139) of the Nazis making
- a peace after the fall of France.
- T: English THE MEANING OF HITLER
- Hahn, Ronald M., "Hey, Mr. Spaceman", in EIN DUTZEND H-BOMBEN (Ullstein 83)
- S:
- Hahn, Ronald M., & Harald Pusch, DIE TEMPONAUTEN: SCIENCE FICTION-ROMAN
- (Corian 83)
- E: THE TEMPONAUTS: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- W: The first atomic bomb was used in 1943 on Berlin.
- S: An amnesiac time traveller is hunted by a competing time travel agency in
- the Klondike of 1896-97, where he meets Jack London, among others.
- Harrison, Harry, + Bodo Baumann (tr), IM SUDEN NICHTS NEUES (Bastei-L₧bbe 84)
- T: English A REBEL IN TIME
- Harrison, Harry, + Tony Westermayr (tr), DER GROSSE TUNNEL (Goldmann 79)
- T: English A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH!
- Hohlbein, Wolfgang E., "Im Namen der Menschlichkeit", in JUPITER (ed Le
- Blanc) (Goldmann 85)
- E: "In the Name of Humanity"
- W: A peaceful revolution overthrew Rome and Jesus became the new "Caesar".
- S: Travelers from a peaceful Empire are sent back in time to undermine the
- Toltecs, but their time machine crashes near Jerusalem, 30 AD.
- Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG (Nymphenburger 81; Heyne 85)
- W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
- success in WW2.
- S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
- trouble vs. people from other timelines.
- T: English THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
- Krohn, Wolfgang: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
- Lafferty, R.A., + Karl H. Kosmehl (tr), "Karl der Grosse, frustriert", in
- <SVW>
- --------------, + Gisela Stege (tr), "So frustrieren wir Karl den Grossen",
- in DIE FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds Armer & Jeschke) (Heyne 84)
- T: English "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"
- Lansdale, Joe R., + Nobert Stresau (tr), "Brief aus dem Sueden, zwei Monde,
- westlich von Nacogdoches", in <HSL>
- T: English "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches"
- Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT (Terra 61)
- E: MAN BETWEEN TIME
- S: Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with
- dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation.
- Mahr, Kurt, 2 * PROFESSOR MANSTEIN (Terra 61)
- S: A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien
- invasion.
- Martin, George R.R., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Belagert", in <HSL>
- T: English "Under Siege"
- Maurois, Andre, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Ludwig XVI. eine Spur von
- Festigkeit gezeigt hatte", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (Heyne 86)
- T: English "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness"
- Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl
- Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 (Heyne 80)
- W: The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and
- technology, but became divided.
- S: People from our world encounter Arabic nations fighting for control of
- powerlines from hydroelectric plants in Europe.
- Moorcock, Michael, + Sylvia Pukallus (tr), DER HERR DER LUFTE (Heyne 82)
- T: English THE WARLORD OF THE AIR
- -----------------------------------------, DER LANDLEVIATHAN (Heyne 82)
- T: English THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE
- -----------------------------------------, DER STAHLZAR (Heyne 84)
- T: English THE STEEL TSAR
- Moore, Ward, + Walter Brumm (tr), DER GROSSE SUDEN (Heyne 80)
- T: English BRING THE JUBILEE
- Piper, H. Beam, + Lore Strassl (tr), "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "He Walked Around the Horses"
- Pfaffe, Ivan, "Eisenhowers schwester Fehler: Wie den Tschechoslowakei f₧r den
- Westen verlorenging", in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 23 Feb 85
- E: "Eisenhowers biggest mistake: How Czechoslovakia was lost to the West"
- S:
- Robban, Randolph, WENN DEUTSCHLAND GESEIGT HATTE (Kohlhammer 81)
- T: French SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU
- Roberts, Keith, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Weihnachtsabend", in <SVW>
- --------------, + Tony Westermayr (tr), "Weihnachtsabend", in DIE NEUEN
- GOTTER (Goldmann 79)
- T: English "Weihnachstabend"
- Roberts, Keith, + Thomas Schluck (tr), DIE FOLGENSCHWERE ERMORDUNG IHRER
- MAJESTAT ELISABETH I. (Heyne 77; vt PAVANE, Heyne 84)
- T: English PAVANE
- Robinson, Kim Stanley, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Der Flug de Lucky Strike", in
- <SVW>
- ---------------------, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Lucky Strike", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Lucky Strike"
- Russ, Joanna, + Werner Fuchs (tr), PLANET DER FRAUEN (Dromer Knaur 79)
- T: English THE FEMALE MAN
- Shiner, Lewis, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Zeit des Zwielichts", in <HSL>
- T: English "Twilight Time"
- Silverberg, Robert, + Thomas Ziegler (tr), AUF ZU HESPERIDEN! (Droemer Knaur
- 82)
- T: English THE GATE OF WORLDS
- Smith, Martin Cruz, + Michael Gorden (tr), DER ANDERE SIEGER (Bastei-L₧bbe
- 84)
- T: English THE INDIANS WON
- Somtow, S.P., + Ruediger Hipp (tr), "Aquila", in <HSL>
- T: English "Aquila"
- Spinrad, Norman, + Walter Brumm (tr), DER STAHLERNE TRAUM (Heyne 83)
- T: English THE IRON DREAM
- Trevelyan, G.M., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Napoleon die Schlacht von
- Waterloo gewonnen hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #10
- T: English "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo"
- Turtledove, Harry, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Das letzte Gebot", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Last Article"
- van den Daele: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
- Waldman, Milton, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Booth Prasident Lincoln verfehlt
- hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #11
- T: English "If Booth had Missed Lincoln"
- Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT (Ullstein 84; Heyne 93); exp of "Die
- stimmen der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed Goerden) (Bastei-L₧bbe
- 83)
- E: VOICES OF THE NIGHT
- W: FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to
- force a German surrender.
- S: Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a
- nuclear war in 1984.
-
- Reference Materials:
-
- Demandt, Alexander, UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS
- WARE GESCHEHEN, WENN--? (Vandenheock & Ruprecht 84, 86)
- C: Arguments for and against counterfactual history. Chapter 5 is titled
- "Examples" and includes a synopsis of Toynbee's "If Alexander...".
- T: English HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT
- WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF--?
- Giordano, Ralph, WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE: DIE PLANE DER NAZIS
- NACH DEM ENDSIG (Rasch & Roehring 89)
- E: IF HITLER HAD WON THE WAR
- C: Primarily a discussion of the Nazi's actual plans for world conquest, but
- includes a synopsis of Deighton's SS-GB.
- Helbig, Joerg, DER PARAHISTORISCHE ROMAN. EIN LITERARHISTORISCHER UND
- GATTUNGSTYPOLOGISCHER BEITRAGE ZUR ALLOTOPIEFORSCHUNG (Lang 87)
- E: THE PARAHISTORICAL NOVEL. A HISTORICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL STUDY IN
- ALLOTOPIAN LITERATURE
- C: Dissertation on AH, with focus on two general types (intellectual study
- of history vs. fictional allegory) and a 30-page bibliography.
- Tucholsky, Kurt, "Was ware, wenn...?", in GESAMMELTE WERKE (ed Gerold-
- Tucholsky & Raddatz) (Rowohlt 60-62)
- E: "What if...?"
- C: Commentaries on use of AH for political satire.
-
-
- In Greek:
-
- Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
- W: Jesus fled his doom.
- S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
- T: English THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
-
-
- In Hungarian:
-
- Gaspar, Laszlo, "Mi, I. Adolf"
- E: "We, Adolf 1"
- S: Nightmare post-WW2 world in which fascists exert power through terror.
-
-
- In Italian:
-
- Bonanate, Ugo, ASCOLTA, ISRAELE (Lindau 91)
- E: HEARKEN, ISRAEL!
- 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.
- Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICHINGA (Frasinelli 84)
- E: VIKING AMERICA
- S:
- Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI (Frasinelli 84)
- E: 1938: THE DESTRUCTION OF PARIS
- W: Petain led a successful French coup in 1934.
- S:
- Morselli, Guido, CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA (... 75;
- Adelphi 87)
- W: Austria-Hungary invaded Italy via a secret tunnel in May 1916, forcing it
- out of the war in five days.
- S: How lightning tactics achieved victory for the Central Powers in WW1 and
- led to the creation of a semi-socialist W European federation in 1917.
- T: English PAST CONDITIONAL: A RETROSPECTIVE HYPOTHESIS
- Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO (... 27)
- E: THE UNDERSEA TUNNEL
- W: A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s.
- S:
- Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI
- SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI (Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821; Gaetano Ducci
- 1826)
- W: Lorenzo de Medici, il Magnifico, did not die in 1492.
- S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
- T: English THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
-
-
- In Japanese:
-
- Hammura Ryo, SENGOKU JIETAI (Hayakawa Shobo 71; Kadokawa Shoten 78, 79)
- E: THE WARRING STATES SELF DEFENSE FORCE
- S:
- C: Basis of the 1981 movie SENGOKU JIETAI.
- Hirose Tadashi, EROSU (Hayakawa Shobu 71)
- E: EROS
- S:
- Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in SF Magajin ... 61
- E: "Peace on Earth"
- W: The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2.
- S:
- Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU (Hayakawa Shobu 75)
- E: HEADQUARTERS OF THE FAR EAST
- W: Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War.
- S:
- Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO (Kadokawa Shoten 67)
- E: AFTERGLOW OF THE MONGOLS
- W: The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century.
- S: Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time
- machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance.
- Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO (Kadokawa Shoten 67)
- E: THE TIME SLIP WAR
- S:
-
-
- In Latin:
-
- Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA
- W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
- S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this history of Rome suggests that the
- Romans would have beaten him.
- C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
- BC-14 AD).
- T: English AB URBE CONDITA
-
-
- In Norwegian:
-
- Gjaerevold, Einar, "Isens veg", in EVIGSKOGEN (Bok og Magasinforlaget 90)
- E: "The Way of Ice"
- W: A new Ice Age came in the 19th century.
- S: An unorthodox woman's struggle to keep alive beside the ice-covered North
- Sea.
- Hermansen, Sjur, "Alternativ naatid", in Algernon Jan 92
- E: "Alternate Present"
- W: Germany won WW2, with a "Nazi-style Glasnost" in the 1990s.
- S: Two friends contemplate founding a new party, "The Environmental
- Fascists".
- Jensen, Reidar, "Brev til min venn Wolfgang Wegener, februar 1924", in
- HISTORIEN SOM IKKE VILLE SLUTTE (Gyldendal Norsk 78)
- E: "Letter to My Friend Wolfgang Wegener, February 1924"
- W: WW1 never took place, and Lenin died in Switzerland in 1924.
- S: A letter-writer tells his friend about this strange Russian exile.
- Joergensen, Per C., "Neste aar i Jerusalem", in Algernon Jan 92
- T: "Next Year in Jerusalem"
- W: Chaos elsewhere made imperial Russia the sole superpower, and about to
- start a war with the Baghdad Califate in a different '91.
- S: A Jewish refugee tries to get out of Jerusalem.
- Olsen, Per G., "Medaljens bakside", in D»D OG VED GODT MOT I NEW YORK
- (Gyldendal Norsk 79)
- T: "The Back Side of the Medal"
- W: Norway fought a bitter War of Independence against Sweden, 1905-37.
- S: Journalist interviews war veteran.
- Olsen, Per G., "I Albions tid", in ASTERVEG (Bok og Magasinforlaget 89)
- T: "In the Age of Albion"
- W: Wat Tyler's rebellion in 14th-century England succeeded. Magic works.
- S: Two sailors are stranded in an "Albion" ruled by Dark Magic.
-
-
- In Polish:
-
- Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA
- E: A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII (Pax 65, 79)
- E: STRANGE EVEN AMONG THE MIGHTY
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY: POWIESC (Pax 70)
- E: THE MUSE OF DISTANT JOURNEYS: A NOVEL
- W: The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising.
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTASTYCZYNA W
- TRZECH CZESCIACH (Pax 76)
- E: I SHALL LEAVE DEFENSELESS
- W: Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383.
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY (Pax 56, 60; Czytelnik 67)
- E: THE SILVER EAGLES
- W: A Polish state was created in the 10th century.
- S:
- Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA (Towarzystwo
- wydawnicze Ignis 24; Czytelnik 67)
- E: TIME TORPEDO
- W: Time travellers seeking to prevent the nationalism of the 19th century
- end up in 1796 Italy, where they defeat both Napoleon and the Austrians.
- S: Carnot takes power in France, but is deposed by one of the time
- travellers, who fails in an attempt to create a benevolent society.
-
-
- In Portugese:
-
- Gibson, William, + Eduardo Salo (tr), <title unknown>, in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO
- (Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88)
- T: English "The Gernsback Continuum"
- Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, + Eduardo Salo (tr), <title unknown>, in
- REFLEXOS DO FUTURO (Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88)
- T: English "Mozart in Mirrorshades"
-
-
- In Russian:
-
- Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM (Ardis 81)
- 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.
- T: English THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
-
-
- In Spanish:
-
- Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA
- (ed Goligorsky) (Flor 68)
- E: "Napoleon's Victory"
- 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.
- Gorodischer, Angelica, "De navegantes", in TRAFALGAR (Hyspamerica 88)
- E: "Of Sailors"
- W: Spain pursued an even more aggressive colonial policy.
- S: An Argentine space traveler finds a planet exactly like Earth c. 1492,
- and he speeds up the "Spanish" conquest of all the "Americas".
- Gorodischer, Angelica, "El oro de Tiresias", in Axxon #22 (Jul 91)
- E: "Tiresias's gold"
- W: Peron never became president, and Argentina remained under the control of
- the military.
- S: Peron is imprisoned as he begins to become popular and dies in jail. 100
- years later, a student speculates about what might have been.
- Harrison, Harry, EL INVASOR DEL TIEMPO
- W: Napoleon conquered England.
- S: Our hero goes back to fix time about to unravel.
- T: English THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD
- Sarban, + Manuel Figueroa (tr), EL CUERNO DE CAZA (Editorial Arte y
- Literature 81)
- T: English THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
-
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- Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov
- Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA
- Vox: 212-678-5637
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