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- Summary: An annotated bibliography of novels, stories and essays involving
- alternate histories (a.k.a. what-ifs, allohistories, uchronias or
- counterfactuals), writings in which a past event has been altered
- and its effect on history somehow described.
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- Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part1
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- Version: 18
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- THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
-
- Version 18 - 12 April 1994
-
- Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
- pcrxs@nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov
-
- "...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 Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86).
-
- This list is copyright 1993, 1994 by R.B. Schmunk, except for appendix II,
- which is copyright 1993, 1994 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 (except for the media used) 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. Portions not exceeding 500 words may be
- freely quoted provided proper citation is given.
-
- The list is posted quarterly (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct) to the Usenet newsgroups
- rec.arts.sf.written, alt.history.what-if, rec.answers, alt.answers and
- news.answers. Follow-ups are directed to rec.arts.sf.written. The most recent
- version is available through the net from:
-
- 1. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sf/alt_history/part*
- 2. ftp://gandalf.rutgers.edu/pub/sfl/alternate-histories.txt
- 3. ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/sf-texts/lists/Alternate_History_v#
- 4. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sf/alt_history/top.html
-
- (Note: The '*' in site 1 is a section number and may equal 1 to 8. The # in
- site 3 is a version number; use the highest number you see in the directory.)
-
- 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
- Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86);
- Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS (George
- Prior/G.K. Hall 78);
- -----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977-
- 1983 (G.K. Hall 84).
-
- Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as are corrections to
- existing entries.
-
- Entries are separated into three categories: Anthologies--collections of
- genre short stories and/or essays; Alternate Histories--stories, essays and
- novels; and Reference Materials--discussions about the genre and/or specific
- stories. All non-English-language AHs are grouped by language in Appendix I.
-
- In the entries, note that:
-
- The notation 'W:' beginning a description stands for 'What if:', and that line
- 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.
-
- Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here,
- and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited.
- Where the latter occurs, 'etc' appears at the end of the book list. If you need
- more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above.
-
- Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
- <#AWBSF> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim & Saha) (DAW #)
- <AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86)
- <AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) (Tor 92)
- <Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) (Baen 89)
- <AO> = ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (ed Resnick) (Tor 94, not yet published)
- <AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) (Tor 92)
- <AT> = ALTERNATE TYRANTS (ed Resnick) (Tor 95, not yet published)
- <AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) (Tor 93)
- <BAOF> = BY ANY OTHER FAME (eds Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 94)
- <BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) (Signet 87)
- <BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) (Pocket 76)
- <ESF#> = THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION, #th ed.; 1st ed. (ed Nicholls)
- (Granada 79; vt THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA (Doubleday/Dolphin 79); 2nd
- ed. (eds Clute & Nicholls) (St. Martins 93)
- <f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- <FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) (Baen 91)
- <GSFS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) (DAW 86, 88-91)
- <HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) (Garland 86; Berkley 87)
- <IAsfm> = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine]
- <If,#> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver(s) # (ed Squire); ver a (Longmans,
- Green 31); ver b as IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN (rev Viking 31;
- Kennikat 64); ver c (exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74)
- <IIHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) (Rowman &
- Littlefield 79)
- <IoH> = THE IFS OF HISTORY (Chamberlin) (Henry Altemus 07; Atheneum 08)
- <SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) (Heath 77)
- <WIESSF> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) (Lewis
- 82)
- <WMHB#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) (Bantam
- 89-92); note <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 70; Dell 74)
- <YBSF#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois)
- (Bluejay 84-86; St. Martin's 87-93); 10th collection vt BEST NEW SF 7
- (Robinson 93)
-
- 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
- whissions, including: Joe Admire, Vincent Archer, A.M.
- Barbanson, Alan Beale, Chris Blakeley, Fernando Bonsembiante, Paul Boyer, Stan
- Brown, Glen E. Cox, Daniel Danehy-Oakes, Meredith Dixon, Calle Dybedahl,
- Richard K. Fox, Beth Friedman, Dorian Gray, Guy Harris, Joerg Helbig, Arne
- Herloev Petersen, Kenneth Hite, Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, P.C. Joergensen, Bill
- Johnston, Mark Krenitsky, Janet Lafler, Jim Love, Andreas Morlok, Michael J.
- Morton, Susan K. O'Fearna, Michael A. Patton, Jean-Yves Peterschmitt, Mike
- Resnick, Andy Sawyer, Dave Schaumann, Brian Stableford, Harry Turtledove,
- William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore and Matthew Wiener.
-
- And now... the list:
-
-
- Anthologies (see also separate entries for component stories/essays):
-
- Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES (Baen 89)
- C: New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and
- Turtledove.
- Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT
- ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (NAL/Signet 87)
- C: Reprints of Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and
- Piper.
- Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
- STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II (Garland 86; Berkley 87)
- 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 89); incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I
- AND II (SFBC 1990)
- C: New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
- Niven, Pohl, KS Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove.
- ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
- 2: ALTERNATE HEROES (Bantam 90); incl 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, WJ Williams and Zebrowski.
- ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
- 3: ALTERNATE WARS (Bantam 91); incl 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, Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M
- Resnick, Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
- ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
- 4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS (Bantam 92); incl 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 77)
- C: 12 essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY (Henry Altemus 07; Atheneum 08)
- C: 22 essays on possible turning points in history, with speculation on
- possible results.
- Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY (George Newnes 29)
- 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 92)
- C: 10 essays on different US political structures, but only entries by
- Ferrell and Pitney are AH.
- Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME (Pocket 76)
- C: New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson,
- Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, Ward Moore, Orgill,
- Percy, D Thompson and Zebrowski.
- Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
- (Lewis 82)
- C: Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long,
- Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and
- PM Williams.
- Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (Tor 92)
- C: New stories. 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 94, not yet published)
- C: New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, Feeley, Gerrold, JC
- Haldeman, Johnston, Kerr, King, Koja & Malzberg, Landis, McHugh, Meacham,
- Nimersheim, L Resnick, FM Robinson, Rodgers & MacDonald, Rusch, Sagara,
- Sheckley, Simner, DW Smith, Soukup, Steele, Tarr, Thomsen and WJ Williams.
- ------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (Tor 92)
- 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, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R
- Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans.
- ------------------, ALTERNATE TYRANTS (Tor 95, not yet published)
- C: New stories.
- ------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS (Tor 93)
- C: New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Friesner, Gerrold, JC Haldeman,
- Hernandez, King, Kube-McDowell, Lackey, AR Lewis, Linaweaver, Malzberg,
- McHugh, Meacham, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel, Sherman,
- Tarr, Thomsen and M White.
- Resnick, Mike, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), BY ANY OTHER FAME (DAW 94)
- C: New stories by Daniel, Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, JC Haldeman, Kagan,
- Kress, Lackey & Dixon, Malzberg, Meacham, Nimersheim, L Resnick, Rusch,
- Schimel, Simner, DW Smith, Tarr, and Thomsen.
- Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
- (Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74)
- C: Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven.
- Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (Rowman &
- Littlefield 79)
- 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 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74);
- rev as IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN (Viking 31; Kennikat 64)
- C: The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
- Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps
- Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan.
- Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
- ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (Garland 86)
- C: Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin,
- Hale, Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, KS Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference
- mat'l by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.
-
-
- Alternate Histories:
-
- Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME (Donning 79; Signet 82)
- 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 85)
- S: The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the
- high seas and to Ireland.
- -------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS (Signet 86)
- S: Abdul II may be dead, but the fight in Ireland continues.
- -------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS (Signet 87)
- S: More intrigue in Ireland and England, and new fighting in N America.
- -------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS (Signet 88)
- -------------, OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS (Signet 89)
- S:
- Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE (Cape 62; Doubleday 63;
- Hutchinson 75; Dell 81, 87)
- 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 64; Cape 65; Dell 69, 81)
- S: Hanoverians plot against James III.
- -----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET (Doubleday 66; Dell 69)
- S: A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at
- St. James's Palace.
- -----------, THE STOLEN LAKE (Cape 81; Delacorte 81)
- S: A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
- discovered in the Andes.
- -----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN (Doubleday 69)
- S: The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
- -----------, THE CUCKOO TREE (Cape 71; Doubleday 71; Dell/Yearling 88)
- S: Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
- -----------, DIDO AND PA (Delacorte 86)
- S: Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
- -----------, IS (Jonathan Cape 92; vt IS UNDERGROUND, Delacorte 93)
- S: The royal heir is among numerous English children stolen away as slave
- labor.
- -----------, MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE (Cape 74; Viking 74; Scholastic 93)
- S:
- Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA (Random
- House 83; Vintage 84)
- 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: Russian OSTROV KRYM
- Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY (Cape 76)
- W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
- S:
- Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (vt "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct
- 62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS (Faber 66; Gregg 81),
- NEANDERTHAL PLANET (Avon 69), THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc
- S: In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
- dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
- T: German "Vorsicht! Religion"
- 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 (Faber 70; Doubleday 71) and
- THE NEW IMPROVED SUN (ed Disch) (Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76)
- 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 Evans &
- Holdstock) (Unwin 89) and A TUPOLEV TOO FAR (HarperCollins UK 93; St.
- Martin's 94)
- 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 87; St. Martin's
- 88)
- 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.
- C: 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 80)
- 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.
- Ambrose, David, THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF (J. Cape 93; St. Martin's 94)
- 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 85)
- 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 76; Viking 76; Panther 78)
- 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.
- T: German DIE VERWANDLUNG
- Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93
- 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 93
- A woman searches the timelines for a cure to an "orphan" disease afflicting
- her husband.
- Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX (Bantam 91)
- W: US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
- theirs.
- S: An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and
- she sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
- Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
- (Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81), <WoM>, <AH>, <GSFS17>, THE TIME PATROL
- (Tor 91, 94), etc
- W: The Scipios were killed at Ticinus and Hannibal later captured and
- destroyed Rome.
- S: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
- Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
- --------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME (Tor 90, 94)
- S: Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
- Rignano (1137).
- C: Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The
- Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", "The
- Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the Ransom".
- All may be found in THE TIME PATROL (Tor 91) and elsewhere.
- Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) (Doubleday 67;
- NAL 75); PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) (Fawcett
- 73) and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS (Berkley 81)
- W: Alexander lived longer *or* Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
- Magyar attacks.
- S: A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
- taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
- Anderson, Poul, "House Rule", in HOMEBREW (NESFA 76), <f&sf> May 79 and
- FANTASY (Pinnacle 81)
- S: The Heloise and Abelard of two different worlds meet at a tavern outside
- time.
- --------------, "Loser's Night", in Short Story Paperbacks #1 (Pulphouse 91)
- 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 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/
- Futura 75)
- W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
- arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
- S: In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince
- searches for Prospero's isle.
- Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS (Doubleday 71; Lancer ...; Berkley 78; Baen
- 92); rev of stories in <f&sf> Sep 56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69
- W: Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical
- technology ensued.
- S: A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the
- machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America.
- Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS (Doubleday 61; Avon ...; Berkley
- 78; Ace 84; Baen 93)
- 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.
- AndrNGERS (Berkley 89)
- ----------------------, RAIDERS OF THE REVOLUTION (Berkley 89)
- ----------------------, SEARCH AND DESTROY (Berkley 90)
- ----------------------, TREASON IN TIME (Berkley 90)
- ----------------------, SINK THE ARMADA! (Berkley 90)
- ----------------------, SNOW KILL (Berkley 91)
- S: Time war action in which American and Soviets try to delete each other
- from history.
- anon., THE OCCUPATION (... 60)
- W: Germany won WW2.
- S:
- anon., "Scene and Not Herd: Failure of a Revolution", in Harper's Bazaar Nov
- 67
- W: The 1917 Russian Revolution was bloodily suppressed.
- S: Post-1917 imperial governance is no better than the Communist's.
- Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
- W: The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a
- man's being saved from drowning.
- S: Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid
- adherence to the scientific method.
- Anvil, Christopher, "Bugs", in Analog Jun 86
- W: Henry Ford 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.
- Armor, John C., "Bureaucrats and Quiche-Eaters on the Chisholm Trail", in
- Journal of Irreproducible Results Apr/May 85
- S:
- Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG (Harrap 43)
- W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
- S: How the invasion was defeated.
- Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge", in <IAsfm> Feb 93
- 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.
- Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
- W: Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
- result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
- S: Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
- nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president.
- Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY (J. Curley 81); rev of "The End of
- Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS (Doubleday 86; Penguin/Roc ...)
- W: Enrico Fermi did not participate in atomic research.
- S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
- forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
- C: Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in *far*
- future.
- Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78,
- 3 BY ASIMOV (Targ 81) and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES (Doubleday
- 83)
- W: Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
- S: A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes
- it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
- Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH (Doubleday 57,
- Abelard-Schuman 76), <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) (Rinehart
- 74), THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH (Doubleday 79), etc
- 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 84; Bantam 85)
- W: WW1 led to a world gov't.
- S:
- Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 92 and <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.
- C: Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan,
- leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO.
- Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun 64, THE BEST
- OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) (Compact 65), SF12 (ed Merrill) (Delacorte 68),
- THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) (Panther 74) and <HV>
- W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
- S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
- T: German "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy Steiner"
- Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE (Tor 91)
- S: A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate
- where an immortal elven queen rules in France.
- Bank, Aaron: see Nathanson, E. M., & Aaron Bank
- Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS (DAW 80)
- (------------), + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR (DAW 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: French L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET
- (------------), + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE (no ind. publ.)
- S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
- T: French CROISADE STELLAIRE
- Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
- SILENCE (Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70), MAURICE BARING
- RESTORED (Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70) and TRAVELERS IN TIME
- (ed Stern) (Doubleday 47)
- W: Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education
- possible if enlisted in the British navy.
- S: A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850.
- Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
- Baron, Nick, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #2: GLORY'S END (Harper 90)
- S:
- C: A follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE.
- Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME (Lancer 71)
- 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
- Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN (Meredith 68)
- W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
- S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
- T: German WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE
- Baxter, Stephen, ANTI-ICE (HarperCollins UK 93; HarperPrism 94)
- S: Britain ends the Siege of Sevastopol with a bomb made from a new
- material, but does not find world domination pleasant.
- < Baxter, Stephen, "Mittelwelt", in Interzone #81 (Mar 94)
- W: Germans won WW1 in August 1918, and Mitteleuropa was established by
- 1925 after turning eastwards again against the Bolsheviks.
- S: It is 1940. Japan and Germany are preparing to fight the war to end
- wars.
- Baxter, Stephen, "No Longer Touch the Earth", in Interzone #72 (Jun 93)
- 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 89)
- S: The use of nerve-grafting results in soldiers being given body parts to
- replace those lost in combat, and WW2 drags on for 25 years.
- Bayley, Barrington J., "The Way into the Wendy House", in Interzone #71 (May
- 93)
- 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 85)
- ----------, ETERNITY (Warner 88)
- S: A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a
- different future.
- Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 78; Popular
- Library 79), <79AWBSF> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN (Arkham House 83)
- 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 Pournelle & Carr)
- 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 20
- drow 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 04 and AROUND THEATERS
- (Knopf 30)
- 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 <If,abc>
- W: Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
- S: Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
- mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
- Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in Saturday Evening Post 5 Oct
- 35; THIRTEEN O'CLOCK (Farrar & Rinehart 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin
- Library 82); MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) (Doubleday 42; vt GREAT TALES OF
- FANTASY AND IMAGINATION, Pocket 54)); <AH>; etc
- W: Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
- S: An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a
- retired, frustrated French artillery major.
- Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in <IAsfm> Oct 91 and <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 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92); rev
- of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH
- (eds Silverberg & Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77)
- 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.
- 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>
- W: Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the
- 1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
- S: After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
- and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
- Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... (Bobbs-Merrill 78; Ace 79)
- W: Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an
- explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco.
- S: To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological
- development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe.
- T: German ZWISCHENHALT
- Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP (Warner 88)
- W: The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed.
- S: Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68.
- C: Borderline AH, as all names have been changed.
- C: Bernau's CANDLE IN THE WIND similarly treats the survival from suicide of
- a Marilyn Monroe-like actress with false names and seems even less AH.
- Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO (Ace 86)
- C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
- W: The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
- assassinated in Jul 44.
- S: A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another, with a look at
- fascist Boston.
- -------------------, THE A.I. WAR
- -------------------, [THE] FINAL ASSAULT (Tor 88)
- S:
- Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AWBSF>
- 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: Dutch "Tijdstorm"
- Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58, THE DARK
- SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet 64), COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) (Holt, Rinehart
- & Winston 74), THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds
- Silverberg & Greenberg) (Arbor House 83), THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE
- FICTION (ed Hartwell) (Little, Brown 89), etc
- 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.
- T: German "Die Morder Mohammeds"
- Bester, Alfred, "Out of This World", in THE DARK SIDE OF EARTH (Signet 64)
- 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 64)
- W: As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies
- ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed.
- S: An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of
- the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer.
- Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke", in <f&sf> Oct 83
- 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 and
- <YBSF5>
- W: Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world.
- S: [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of
- collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics.
- Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (St.
- Martin's 87; Tor 89; vt PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (Tor 94)
- W: In a skewed world, "Richard Milrose Nixon" was elected to four terms as
- US president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame.
- S: Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia
- and the moon in order to correct history.
- Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Arbor House 88)
- W: With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
- (three months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion.
- S: 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers
- to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation.
- Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
- STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) (Fredrick Fell 55), SPACE BY THE TAIL
- (Ballantine 64) and <BAW>
- W: Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
- the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
- S: A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
- must be returned to save the universe.
- Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IIHB>
- W: Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
- disorder.
- C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
- right-wing takeover.
- Bloch, Robert, "Founding Fathers", in Fantasic Universe Jul 56
- 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 60
- S:
- Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr),
- "Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8
- C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
- the beginning of the scientific revolution.
- T: German "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft"
- 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.
- 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.
- C: 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
- enabled the bill to pass.
- C: 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.
- C:
- Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in
- <SAH>
- W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson
- when breaking the Electoral College tie.
- C:
- Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in
- <SAH>
- W: Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
- at a more opportune time.
- C:
- Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
- <SAH>
- W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the Compromise of 1850 to fail and
- the Civil War to start a decade earlier.
- C:
- Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH (Tor 93, 94)
- 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.
- Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD (Warner 86)
- 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 88)
- S:
- Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH (Berkley 69; Penguin 78)
- W: Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
- S: 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
- with a Poet.
- T: German DER UBERLAUFER
- Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP (Ace 86)
- W: Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
- S: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
- oversized racoons.
- Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (Doubleday
- 53), R IS FOR ROCKET (Doubleday 62; Bantam 65; incl in CLASSIC STORIES 1,
- Bantam 90), THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY (Knopf 80), CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN
- DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 83) and <GSFS14>, etc
- S: Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
- repercussions.
- C: A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really
- AH since only effect shown is presumably in our future..
- C: Follow-ups are are Stephen Leigh's DINOSAUR PLANET, DINOSAUR WORLD and
- DINOSAUR SAMURAI.
- Brennert, Alan, "Nostalgia Tripping", in INFINITY FIVE (ed Hoskins) (Lancer
- 73)
- 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 91)
- W: Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold
- on Britain and its colonies.
- S: A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting
- the repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth.
- Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
- Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
- TIME (Bantam 87) and <HV>
- W: Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the
- Allies.
- S: A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face
- with the god of battle.
- Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE (Dutton 49; Bantam 50); in Startling
- Stories Sep 48
- 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 92)
- W: Jack Ruby only wounded Oswald.
- S: In novel form, a study of whether Oswald could have been convicted of the
- murder of JFK based on the evidence against him.
- Brunet, James, "As Time Goes By", in PULPHOUSE: THE HARDBACK MAGAZINE #6 (ed
- Rusch) (Pulphouse 90)
- S: A man's repeated viewing of CASABLANCA alters the movie and Earth history
- a little each he watches.
- Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER (Ace 69; Ballantine 83); exp of "Times
- Without Number", in Ace Double #... (Ace 62); rev of stories in Science
- Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
- W: The Spanish Armada conquered England.
- S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-
- travel.
- Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor
- 91)
- C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
- S: The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers
- tell their tales at a Krakow inn.
- Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
- S: A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of
- universe, but that doesn't solve his problems.
- Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81)
- W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
- out by natives.
- S:
- Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed Wilson) (Signet 73)
- 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 81
- -----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 81
- 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 68)
- 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 55
- S: Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
- Bylinski, Gene, LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION AND THE COSMOS
- (Doubleday 81)
- 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 77; Dell 77)
- W: The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
- S: An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
- Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
- Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <AP>,
- <YBSF9> and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 93)
- W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
- the 68 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
- S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
- 1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
- Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK> and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 93)
- W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up
- going into politics.
- S: In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
- with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
- Caillois, Roger, + Charles Lam Markmann (tr), PONTIUS PILATE (Macmillan 63)
- W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
- S: Christianity is aborted.
- T: French PONCE PILATE: RECIT
- Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IIHB>
- W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
- executed.
- C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
- Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
- APROCRYPHAL STORIES (Penguin 75)
- S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
- T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
- Card, Orson Scott, HATRACK RIVER (SFBC 89)
- (---------------), SEVENTH SON (Tor 87); exp of "Hatrack River", in <IAsfm>
- Aug 86, <YBSF4> and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE
- 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.
- (---------------), RED PROPHET (Tor 88)
- S: Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved
- with Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe.
- (---------------), PRENTICE ALVIN (Tor 89); rev of "Prentice Alvin and the
- No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR (Tor 90)
- S: Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
- "mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
- -----------------, JOURNEYMAN ALVIN (not yet written)
- -----------------, MASTER ALVIN (not yet written)
- S:
- 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 85
- W: What if there were no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election
- of '52.
- C: How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (Astounding Jul 39) came
- true.
- Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
- Del Rey) (Ballantine 81)
- 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 85
- 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", in THE WAR OF THE TWO EMPERORS: THE DUEL BETWEEN
- NAPOLEON AND ALEXANDER: RUSSIA, 1912 (Random House 85)
- 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.
- Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne
- Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AWBSF>,
- ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial
- 78; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE
- TITANIC
- S: Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
- Maine and Nova Scotia.
- Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE (Tor 85; Baen 93)
- W: Karl Marx died in 1841, causing Russia to become a weak democracy in 1917
- and thus unable to fend off Germany in 1941.
- S: A security officer on a time travel project chases terrorists back to
- 1841 and gets lost in a timewar between Earthers and Offworlders.
- Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night", in <AP>
- W: James Buchanan suffered a stroke in Oct 1856 and Millard Fillmore,
- candidate of the American ("Know-Nothing") Party, was elected president.
- S: When Fillmore upholds the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1858, rioting and worse
- erupts in New England.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward,
- Not Northward", in <IoH>
- W: Thomas Lincoln was made of sterner stuff and emigrated from Kentucky to
- Mississippi rather than to Illinois.
- C: A possibility that Lincoln would have been Confederate president, facing
- off with either Douglas or Seward.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the
- Hurricane", in <IoH>
- W: Hamilton did not write the newspaper article which convinced his parents
- he was a prodigy and should be sent to Boston to study.
- C: Without him, the balance would not have been struck in writing the
- Constitution and the states might have flown apart.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son
- William", in <IoH>
- W: Dismayed at his son's conversion to Quakerism, the admiral neither took
- him back into his household nor made him an heir.
- C: Without the Penn fortune, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia would not have
- been founded and the land would have been split amongst the other colonies
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay", in
- <IoH>
- W: Champlain placed a settlement during his 1605 expedition, shifting
- the French emphasis in N America southward from the St. Lawrence.
- C: The Puritans would have been forced south to Virginia and Dutch New
- Holland would survive. Any Revolution would have had a different philosophy.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of
- Virginia", in <IoH>
- W: After defeat by Cromwell at Worcester, Charles II accepted the invitation
- to place his throne in Virginia and took control of British N America.
- C: Charles would have been a more kingly figure on his return to London, and
- the neglect of the colonies which provoked the Revolution would not happen.
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