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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!usc!sdd.hp.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!osiris.giss.nasa.gov!valinor.giss.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov (Robert Schmunk) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: LIST: Alternate History Stories, 3 of 8 Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written Date: 12 Apr 1994 10:57:53 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Lines: 950 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Message-ID: <2oecth$d0v@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Reply-To: pcrxs@nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov (R.B. Schmunk) NNTP-Posting-Host: valinor.giss.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.arts.sf.written:45606 alt.history.what-if:5113 rec.answers:4853 alt.answers:2415 news.answers:17968 Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part3 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part3 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt> W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate his hold on the crown of France. S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in France. Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR (Ace 85) C: 1st sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. S: In their first attack on Lord (now King) Kalvan, Styphon's House hits him with three forces, but is defeated in all cases. --------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr) C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House. Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green Greenland, Colin, HARM'S WAY (HarperCollins UK 93, 94; Avon 93; SFBC 93) S: Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91 S: A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers. Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS (Hill & Wang 80) W: The Allies invaded France a year earlier. C: Discussion of Allied errors in WW2. Final chapter speculates that invading a year earlier would have given a postwar advantage to the West. Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY (Arbor House 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92) S: At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and again and again. In one life, he finds altered Hollywood history. Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <If,abc> W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491. S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada. T: German "Wenn die Mauren in Spanen geseigt Hatte" Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and <AP> W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the election of Barry Goldwater as president. S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years. Guthridge, George: see Gluckman, Janet, & George Guthridge Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II (T-K Graphics 73), collected from Int'l Federation of Wargamers newsletter W: The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory at Stalingrad. S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of Europe and Africa. Haffner, Sebastian, + Ewald Osers (tr), THE MEANING OF HITLER (Macmillan 79; Weidenfeld & Nicolson 79; Harvard Univ 83) C: Biography of Hitler includes discussion of the Nazis making a peace after the fall of France. T: German ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS (Doubleday 71) S: Alternate events in Judaic history. Haldeman, Jack C., II, "Death of a Dream", in <AW> W: J. Egar Hoover decided to smear Martin Luther King, Jr. just before he gave the "I Have a Dream" speech, and the civil rights movement fell apart. S: A decade later, MLK prepares to assassinate law-n-order President Richard J. Dailey and weeps over the race war which has been consuming the country. Haldeman, Jack C., II, "Ma Teresa and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang", in <AO> S: Haldeman, Jack C., II, "South of Eden, Somewhere Near Salinas", in <BAOF> W: James Dean became a race driver, Natalie Wood a reporter and Sal Mineo a mechanic. S: Dean and Wood come together at the Indy 500, but she frets about the dangers of his profession. Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX (William Morrow 90; Avon 91); exp of "The Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90, <YBSF8>, NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow) (HBJ 92), and THE NEW HUGO AWARDS: VOLUME III (ed Willis) (Baen 94) S: A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector and awakes as another timeline's version of himself. Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE FICTION (ed Bova) (Omni 80) and DEALING IN FUTURES (Viking 85; Penguin/ROC 93) S: In a bar discussion, a man claims to have traveled back in time and invested in all the right scientific inventions, but it didn't work. Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; HANDS OFF (J.S. Smith 1895); ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds Asimov et al) (Beufort 82); <AH>; etc W: Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt. S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean. Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 (Dial 64) W: William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was averted. S: Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation. Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS (Avon 90) W: Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia, and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg. S: Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen Poe's life turned to literature. Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85 S: Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN (Ace 90) W: Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans *or* Cleopatra murdered Octavian. S: Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present. Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND (Random House 92; Hutchinson 92; Thorndike 92; Arrow 93) W: Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west. S: A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds himself unwrapping a 20-year-old cover-up of what happened to the Jews. Harrison, Harry, "Down to Earth", in PRIME NUMBER (Sphere 75) S: An accident apparently sends two astronauts sideways to an Earth where WW2 is still dragging on in 1971. Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME (Tor 83) S: A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War; a black soldier follows in order to defeat him. T: German IM SUDEN NICHTS NEUES Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77), CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) (Fawcett 81) and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Tor 86) S: A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go nova, including one where Europe is feudal and Iriquois run N America. Harrison, Harry, THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD W: Napoleon conquered England. S: Our hero goes back to fix time about to unravel. T: Spanish EL INVASOR DEL TIEMPO Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! (Faber 72; New English Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81; vt TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS, Putnam's 72, Berkley 72); serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72 W: Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat at Navas de Tolosa in 1212, and the War of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI. S: A descendant of executed British-American rebel George Washington is in charge of building the ultimate tunnel. C: See also the reference mat'l entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds". T: German DER GROSSE TUNNEL Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN (Bantam 84) ---------------, WINTER IN EDEN (Bantam 86) ---------------, RETURN TO EDEN (Bantam 88, 89) W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence. S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans. Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg) (Doubleday 71; Avon 73), BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed Del Rey) (Dutton 72); and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON (Signet 76) S: A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows. Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS (Legend 93; Tor 93) W: King Aella of Northumbria provoked a massive Viking invasion of England by executing a noted Viking leader. S: An half-English, half-Danish bastard thrall falls in and out with the invaders, finally becoming king of a religously-tolerant northern England. Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS 2 (Legend 94, not yet published) S: Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WMHB2> W: The last Christian king in England broke with the church. S: In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him over the edge. Hauser, Eva, "One Day in the Life of Zoya Andreyevna", in One Eye Open #2 (not yet published) S: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "P.'s Correspondence", in United States Magazine and Democratic Review Apr 1845 and MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE (Wiley & Putnam 1846; Putnam's 1851; Ticknor & Fields 1854, 1865; Fields, Osgood 1871; Houghton, Osgood 1880; Houghton, Mifflin 1883, 1893; H. Altemus 1893; T.Y. Crowell 1903) W: Byron, Burns and Shelley lived longer lives, but Dickens lived shorter. S: A letter describes encounters with various literary and politcal figures during the 1840s. Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE (Ballantine 84) S: A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity has it in for them. Heinlein, Robert A., TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF MAUREEN JOHNSON (BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A SOMEWHAT IRREGULAR LADY) (Putnam's 87) W: The 1940 US election went another way. S: Memoirs of an immortal woman. C: Short discussion of alternate *universes* is primarily a retroactive rationale to the Heinlein canon, but includes a few historical details. Hernandez, Lea, "Al Einstein--Nazi Smasher!", in <AW> W: Albert Einstein became a professional musician, and later a spy. S: On a mission to Peenemunde, Al meets temptress Eva Braun and the evil dictator Schicklgruber. Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS (Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90) W: Warlord-run China conquered the US in an undescribed war in the mid 1900s. S: Story of an Arizona girl who is taken into slavery in China. Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92 S: A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because everything gets worse, but she has been visited before. Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION (Bantam 85) W: The Nazis remained an obscure political party *or* Churchill did not return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland. S: Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back to stiffen Britain's spine and promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past. Holford, Costello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD (Arena 1895) W: The first settlers in Virginia discovered a reef of pure gold and set up a Utopian colony. S: History of the land of Aristopia, from its founding to its final takeover of N America 300 years later. Holm, John: see Shippey, Tom Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS (Morrow 82) W: Aliens disrupted the execution of Conradin Hohenstaufen in 1268 Naples. S: Trying to fix things without technological interference, the aliens become involved in the conflict over who should be Holy Roman emperor. Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE (Panther 77; Ace 82) S: During an attempt to travel into a potential future, a man finds himself retrieved from a red ocean by a slave ship traveling to New Amerika. -------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME (Panther 77; Ace 82) S: -------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN (Panther 78; Ace 82) S: Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) (Vanguard 53) and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed Conklin) (Grayson 55) S: A man from a world in which Germany won WW2 comes back to a flight that had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost. Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87 and <YBSF5> S: An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins as he visits various worlds. Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION OF 1807 (Tickner & Fields 83) W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled. S: The trip to Pike's Peak and sidetrip to Santa Fe, as seen by a young physician/naturalist. Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST SEASON" (Crown 83) S: Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER: A NOVEL (Bloomsbury 92; Macmillan Atheneum 93; Sceptre 93) S: Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect. Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME (Paperback Library 70) S: Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in Amazing Jul 91 S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside down. Jeschke, Wolfgang, + Gertrud Mander (tr), THE LAST DAY OF CREATION (St. Martin's 82; Century 82) 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: German DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR, THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK (Tuttle 66) C: Johnston, John E., III, "Comrade Bill", in <AO> S: Jones, Charles O., "What If There Had Been a Nixon Presidency Without Watergate? (1973)", in <WIESSF> W: The Watergate break-in never happened or was never discovered. C: Hostile relations between Nixon and Congress still existed, causing the Democrats to reorganize Congress in defense. Jones, Diana Wynne, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT (Greenwillow 88) W: Magical laws were codified in the early 1300s, replacing scientific technology. S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the great mage Chrestomanci. ------------------, CHARMED LIFE (Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77; Knopf/ Bullseye 89; Mammoth 93) S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci. ------------------, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA (Greenwillow 80) S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter. ------------------, WITCH WEEK (Greenwillow 82; Knopf/Bullseye 88; Mammoth 93) S: Chrestomanci visit a timeline where Guy Fawkes blew up Parliament, somehow disrupting magic in other timelines, including ours. Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (Scribner's 76; Warner 77) W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry wiped out on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn. S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for disobeying orders and negligence. Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP> W: Minor candidate Belva Ann Lockwood was elected US president in 1888. S: During the election of 1892, Lockwood personally leads the way to universal suffrage. Kagan, Janet, "Space Cadet", in <BAOF> W: Dan Quayle became president, or an actor, or a soldier, or an astronaut. S: Pres. Quayle tries out the 'Things As They Should Be' machine, seeing other rolls he might have filled, but makes a mistake while visiting Mars. Kagan, Robert A., "What If Abe Fortas Had Been More Discreet? (1969)", in <WIESSF> W: Supreme Court Justice Fortas was less eager to supplement his income and was less cozy with LBJ's White House. C: Speculation that the effect of a more liberal court in the 1970's would have most noticeable in four cases, particularly one involving busing. Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR (Bantam 61); exp of "If the South had Won the Civil War", in Look 22 Nov 60 W: Grant was killed on 12 May 1863 and Sherman died in the Vicksburg debacle. Also, occupation of Culp's Hill led to rebel victory at Gettysburg. S: Vicksburg, Gettysburg and the end of the war, followed by a review of US, CS and Texas history until reunification in the 1960s. C: Synopsis in Fadness's "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?" Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in <AK> W: JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year. S: A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge. Kaye, Lenny, "If Elvis Had Lived", in THE COMPLETE ELVIS (ed Torgoff) (Delilah 82) W: Elvis Presley was rushed to the hospital in time to prevent his death in 1977. S: Elvis shapes up, goes back to his musical roots and receives a medal from President Reagan. Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (Simon & Schuster 60) W: Jesus fled his doom. S: Jesus dreams of the possible result. T: Greek TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS Keen, Tony, "Napoleon's Airship", in Visions ... 90 (4:3) W: Napoleon had a dirigible to supply aerial intelligence at Waterloo. S: A British time traveler seeking to reverse his country's subjugation finds he isn't the only meddler at Waterloo, and he won't be the last. Kerr, Katherine, "Cui Bono?", in <AO> S: Kessel, John, "The Franchise", in <IAsfm> Aug 93 W: After meeting Babe Ruth, George Bush decided to become a professional baseball player, and later that year Fidel Castro did likewise. S: The 1959 World Series becomes a personal battle between the Giants' ace pitcher Castro and the rookie Senator first baseman. Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC (Ballantine 87) S: Mental Trainables of 1998 use information gained from the future of a similar timeline to speed up the end of an American Emergency. ----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR (Ballantine 88) S: Intemporal Agent Jerry Pierce investigates the assassination of the Roman emperor Domitian in another timeline by means of an antitank weapon. ----------------, THE EMPIRE OF TIME (Ballantine 87) S: Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting alternate Earths along the way. King, Tappan, "The Crimson Rose", in <AO> S: King, Tappan, "The Mark of the Angel", in <AW> W: Wounded while on a mission from Rome to Paris in 1943, amnesiac Angelo Roncalli became a member of the Fench underground. S: In 1961, Pope John Paul XXIII is reminded of his days in the Resistance. King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP> W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877. S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party. Kingston, Jeremy, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #6: CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS (Harper 91) S: C: Follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) (Doubleday 60; vt FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER (Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem ...) S: A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the events that caused them. Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <If,ac> W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded. S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike. Koja, Kathe, & Barry N. Malzberg, "Literary Lives", in <AO> S: Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90 S: Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc. Koontz, Dean, LIGHTNING (Putnam's 88; Thorndike 88); incl. in THREE COMPLETE NOVELS (Putnam's 93) W: The US and Great Britain attacked the Soviet Union after defeating the Nazis. S: After falling in love with a 1980s woman, a time traveler from 1944 Berlin reshapes her life, and inadvertently changes history. C: Explicit AH content is brief, appearing only at the end. Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH (Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77), <HV>, <GSFS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) (Baen 90), etc W: The US did not develop the atomic bomb. S: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a glimpse of the Axis partition of America. Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <WMHB3> and MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) (St. Martin's 94) 22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn. Kress, Nancy, "Ars Longa", in <BAOF> W: Walt Disney was convinced by one his teachers to turn away from the vile commerce of cartoons to the higher calling of true art. S: An interview with that teacher in preparation for an article about Disney's first exhibition, at age 49 in a public library. Kress, Nancy, "The Battle for Long Island", in Omni Feb/Mar 93 and THE ALIENS OF EARTH (Arkham House 93) S: In 2001 Long Island, a Hole opens up and occasionally emits wounded soldiers from different Battles of Long Island. Krohn, Wolfgang: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr) Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in Analog May 88 W: Albert Einstein accepted an invitation to visit CalTech in 1925 and while in transit was arrested after delivering a lecture in Louisville, KY. S: Clarence Darrow humiliates William Jennings Bryant at a trial to decide whether Einstein violated a law against contradicting the Bible. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES (Ace 88) W: Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression. S: A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war grows closer. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "Because Thou Lovest the Burning-Ground", in <AW> W: After failing several university exams, Mohandas Gandhi met a Thuggee cultist along the road and became his disciple. S: Gandhi's new education and the violent movement he starts years later after the massacre at Jallianwalla. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", in <AP> W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned the tables on James Garfield in 1880. S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in <AK> W: It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having an affair with a suspected Nazi spy. S: Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from under his father's control. Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE (Signet 89) W: Columbus's first voyage had a fourth ship *or* the Americas were invaded by Europeans c 1000 BC *or* Germany won an early WW1. S: An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her. Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY (Ace 89) ----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS (Ace 88) C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc. S: More stories about Lord Darcy. Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL (Pyramid 69) S: Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world. Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR (DAW 75) S: Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US Constitution. Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT (Morrow 80; Lorevan/ Critic's Choice 85) W: The Watergate break-ins went undetected. S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup. C: Borderline AH, as names have been changed. Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis Lackey, Mercedes, "Jihad", in <AW> W: After Deraa, T.E. Lawrence experienced a revelation and preached holy war. S: Led by the now-Muslim Lawrence, the Arabs capture Damascus without British help. Lackey, Mercedes, & Larry Dixon, "Dance Track", in <BAOF> W: Isadora Duncan drove an ambulance in WW2 Italy, met Ettoire Bugatti and after he offered her a job, pushed her way to becoming a race car driver. S: In the late 1950s, Duncan has retired from driving but works as chief mechanic for a hot young driver out of Hollywood. Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT> W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became independent Appalachia. S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia. Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed Knight) (Putnam's 70; Berkley 70), STRANGE DOINGS (Scribner's 72) and THE GOLDEN ROAD (ed Knight) (Simon & Schuster 74) S: A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes's world-map goes sailing and lands on the Africa of our world. Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) (Putnam's 70; Berkley 71), CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) (Avon 79), RINGING CHANGES (Ace 84), <AH>, etc W: Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth. S: An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing in trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw. Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61, STRANGE DOINGS (Scribner's 72), AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) (Fawcett 79), <GSFS23>, etc S: An 18th-century inventor grows old, then uses a time machine to go back to give himself advice. His younger self repeats the process, etc. Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78) W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different principles. S: A review of an early television series. Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES (Pinnacle 77) S: In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own. Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) (Ace 68), NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS (Ace 70), AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) (Prentice- Hall 74), etc S: Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their past without realizing it. T: German "Karl der Grosse, frustriert" and "So frustrieren wir Karl den Grossen" Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89, <WMHB2> and OMNI VISIONS ONE (ed Datlow) (Omni 93) W: After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington was captured, tortured and executed. S: 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret their part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure. Landis, Geoffrey A., "A Quiet Evening by Gaslight", in <AO> S: Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS (Avon 89) W: Jesus was run over by a donkey cart and John the Baptist became the Messiah. S: A letter from one AmerInd to another reveals the divisions in a N America controlled by Japanese, Aztecs and various tribes. T: German "Brief aus dem Sueden, zwei Monde, westlich von Nacogdoches" Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS (Avon 89) W: Japan colonized the western part of N America and Europe the east, leaving no major frontier. S: James Hickock meets Bill Cody on a train in the Dakotas, and both lament their uninteresting lives as businessmen. Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in The Nation 13 Apr 46 W: Roosevelt did not die in 1945. S: Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including control of the bomb and the start of the Cold War. Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT (Cresset 48) W: Conservatives won the 1945 British elections. S: A class-ridden utopia. Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM (Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor 83; Tor 86); serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61 S: A man from our world becomes an agent for a world run by an Anglo-German imperium, and visits another where civilization fell after Germany won WW1. -------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM (Pinnacle/Tor 81; Tor 86) (-----------), THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME (Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72); serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65 S: Our hero is trapped in a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at Brussels in 1814. (-----------), ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE (Berkley 68; Dobson 72) S: The last Plantagenet visits a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age. -------------, ZONE YELLOW (Baen 90) S: Concluding with conflict versus a crosstime invasion of rat-like creatures. Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF ENGLAND (The Author 1899) W: The French invaded England in 1805. S: Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next. Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES (John Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 19) W: Kaiser Wilhelm and family members were exiled to America after WW1. S: Their voyage across the Atlantic, in 3rd-class steerage, and the Kaiser's final days as a street pedlar. Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES (John Lane/Bodley Head/ S.B. Gundy 19) W: Germany won WW1. S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925. Lee, Rand B., "Knight of Shallows", in Amazing Jul 83, <YBSF1> and <84AWBSF> W: Margaret Thatcher was assassinated and the Falklands crisis went nuclear. S: Barely AH tale in which a man hunts a murderous version of himself through different Key Wests. Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME (Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91); serial in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58 S: At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears. -------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63, THE SECRET SONGS (Rupert Hart-Davis 68), THE CHANGE WAR (Gregg 78), THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES (eds Pohl et al) (Harper & Row 80) and CHANGEWAR (Ace 83) S: The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of MacBeth before Elizabeth I. -------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75; <76AWBSF>; THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER (Ace 76; Gregg 79); NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin) (Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78); THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov) (Doubleday 85); THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) (Tor 89); etc S: After dining with his son at the Empire State Building, zeppelin designer Adolf Hitler is caught in a whirl of parallel selves. C: Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER). Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) (Vanguard 53) S: A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business ventures. Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) (Gnome 52) and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) (Dell 78) S: In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real all the possible outcomes from various choices. Leigh, Stephen, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR WORLD (Avon 92) --------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR PLANET (Avon 93) --------------, & John J. Miller, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR SAMURAI (Morrow AvoNova 93) C: Somewhat more AH follow-ups to Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder". Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Conklin) (Dell 54) and <BAW> S: Ancient Egyptian priests discovered a parallel uninhabited world and sustain themselves by looting ours, for merchandise and slaves. Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in Astounding Jun 34, SIDEWAYS IN TIME (Shasta 50), <WoM>, BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) (Doubleday 74), THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER (Ballantine 78; Garland 83) and THE TIME TRAVELERS (eds Silverberg & Greenberg) (Donald I Fine 85) S: On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it. Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL (Pyramid 64) W: Napoleon established a permanent dynasty. S: Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804. C: Not to be confused with Leinster's THE TIME TUNNEL or TIMESLIP! A TIME TUNNEL ADVENTURE. Lewis, Anthony R., "...But the Sword!", in <AW> W: Francis Bernardone of Assisi became a Crusader rather than a priest, but quit in disgust after witnessing the sack of Constaninople. S: Francis is drafted by the pope to lead a new militant order and leads the crusade that recaptures Jerusalem in 1221, causing his later canonization. Lewis, Lloyd, "If Lincoln Had Lived", in ABRAHAM LINCOLN: HIS LIFE, WORK AND CHARACTER (ed von Wagenknecht) (Creative Age 47) C: Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY (Knopf 51); incl. in A TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) (Doubleday 59) W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction. S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869. Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT> W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped back to Switzerland. S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian republic. Linaweaver, Brad, "The Bison Riders" (not yet published) W: The Aztecs did not fall to the Spanish. S: Linaweaver, Brad, "Blind Scepter" (not yet published) S: Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE (Arbor House 88; Tor 93); exp of "Moon of Ice", in Amazing Mar 82 and <HV> W: FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44 to win the war in Europe. S: The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare. ----------------, "Under an Appalling Sky", in GRAILS (eds Gilliam et al) (Unnameable 92; Penguin 94) S: A int'l expedition, dominated by Nazis trying to discredit Judaism, hunts for the Holy Grail and finds...yeti. Linaweaver, Brad, "Unmerited Favor", in <AW> W: Jesus preached a more militant line. S: He hands out weapons and takes his new followers out into the desert to confront Satan. Several are angered they're not attacking the Romans. C: Conceivably, this might be secret history. Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA (Harvard Univ/ Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82) 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 patriotically suggests that the Romans would have beaten him. C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31 BC-14 AD). Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE FICTION (ed Wollheim) (McBride 53; vt PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME) W: Hitler was killed during an Allied bombing raid. S: Change the past tale. Long, Norton E., "What If Napoleon Had Not Sold Louisiana? (1803)", in <WIESSF> W: Napoleon did not sell Louisiana to the US, and it was captured by the British during the Napoleanic wars. C: Speculation that Lousiana would have remained British/Canadian territory, and Texas and California Mexican, thus aborting US superpowerdom. Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN (BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74; Arrow 75) W: Nazi Germany invaded England. S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Seeloewe, some speculative essays discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken. C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program. C: Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". Longyear, Barry B., "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY S: A man finds a silver 1978 quarter and essays by his father's students about visits by a mysterious friend urging them to higher goals. Longyear, Barry B., "The Dreyfuss Affair", in Amazing Nov 93 W: Booth did not shoot Lincoln. S: An agent from the 22nd century is sent back to 1865 to fix a renegade time traveller's murder of John Wiles Booth. Three possibilities are shown. Louvish, Simon, REFLECTIONS FROM THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY (Bloomsbury 92) W: The Communist intramural fight was won by Trotsky rather than Stalin. S: In 1968, Joseph Goebbels is striving for power in the US and Communist Germany is provoking guerrilla wars in British and Fench colonies. Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <If,abc> W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser lasted longer than 91 days. S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene. Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) (Morrow 78; Bantam 78) W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the midst of the Dunkirk chaos. S: The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his worst excesses. C: Accompanies Fadness's "What if...?" synopses of other AHs. Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90 S: A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet leads a man to doubt his sanity until he discovers he is shifting from one timeline to another. Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! (Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85) W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center. S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side. ------------------, COUNTERSOLAR! (Arbor House 87; Ace 89) S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth. Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER (Dell 70) W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000. S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon. MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick MacDonald, James D., & Debra Doyle, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #3: TIMECRIME, INC. (Harper 91) S: C: Follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. MacDonald, James D.: see also Rodgers, Alan, & James D. MacDonald MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) (Davis/Dial 82, 83) --------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70 --------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71 --------------, "One-Generation New World", in If Mar 71 --------------, "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75 S: A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really coherent reason). Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940 (Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80; Greenhil 90) W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain. S: A campaign history of July 1940, when Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded England and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic. C: Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". MacLeod, Ian R., "Snodgrass", in IN DREAMS (Morrow 92) and <YBSF10> W: Upset by a studio exec during a 1962 recording session, John Lennon walked out on the Beatles and nobody asked him to come back. S: 30 years later, chronically unemployed Lennon is living in Birmingham during the Beatles "Greatest Hits" tour. Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WMHB1> W: Nixon was elected president in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 and 1968. S: In 1972, "the senator" runs again. Upset by his change of heart on the Vietnam war, "Lee" decides to shoot him and his running-mate in Dallas. Malzberg, Barry N., "Allegro Marcato", in <BAOF> W: Arturo Toscanini was uninterested in music as a child, and after immigrating to America, worked the San Francisco docks and learned baseball. S: "Art Tosca" manages the NY Yankees during four straight World Series championships, despite violent arguments with a slumping Babe Ruth in 1927. Malzberg, Barry N., "Andante Lugubre", in Science Fiction Age May 93 W: Tchaikovsky lived much, much longer than 53 years and eventually emigrated to Hollywood. S: At age 99, Tchaikovsky attends a meeting of Jewish composers protesting Hitler's policies. Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WMHB2> W: Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer. S: In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the latest issue of Amazing arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov. Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE (Doubleday 78) S: Malzberg, Barry N., "Fugato", in <AW> W: Leonard Bernstein was drafted by the US Army and classified 1A. S: Trapped in an Ardennes farmhouse two years later, infantryman Bernstein contemplates the path that led him there. Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal", in <AP> W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential election campaign of 1960. S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's self-destructive activities. Malzberg, Barry N., "Hitler at Nuremburg", in <BAOF> W: Hitler did not commit suicide as the Russians swept into Berlin. S: Maunderings as Hitler insists the Final Solution was Eichmann's idea, but other war crime defendants all claim they were just following his orders. Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House", in <AK> W: Joe Kennedy survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952. S: Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's for betraying the family. Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM QUARTER (Doubleday 76) and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds Asimov et al) (Doubleday 78; Avon 78) W: Nixon was elected president in 1960. S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected. Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP> W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president. S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then how they dealt with Hitler. Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD (Ballantine 85); exp of "Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson) (Doubleday 80) W: S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis. Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in Omni Apr 92 and <WMHB4> W: Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first voyage. S: Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile, over on the Santa Maria, Torquemada plots. Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WMHB3> W: Radicals who took over the UChicago campus in 1968 went looking for the campus reactors. S: The radicals make extreme demands, forgetting that LBJ is a *vengeful* lame-duck. Malzberg, Barry N.: see also Koja, Kathe, & Barry N. Malzberg Manglese, Jack, "Bobby Frost", in Alternate Worlds #2 (Apr 94) W: Robert Frost played professional baseball before becoming a poet. S: Excerpt from a biographical dictionary of American poets. Includes one poem Frost might have written, "The Pitch Not Thrown". Mann, Phillip, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK I: ESCAPE TO THE WILD WOOD (Gollancz 93) W: Rome never fell. S: A student, a mechanic and a servant at Britannia's Battle Dome flee into the "uncivilized" forests. -------------, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK II: STAND ALONE STAN (Gollancz 94) S: Marr, Andrew, "Without Her", in Alternate Worlds #1 (Jan 94) W: Labour defeated the Conservatives in the 1978 British elections and Margaret Thatcher did not become Prime Minister. C: An abridged transcript of Martin Davidson's BBC TV program examining a history of the UK in the 1980s with Thatcher as a backbench MP. Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in Fortnightly Apr 41 W: William IV's heir was male. S: Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the world wars. Martin, George R.R., "Under Siege", in Omni Oct 85 and <YBSF3> W: Fremont was elected US president in 1856. S: A mental time traveler trying to prevent the Russian capture of Sveabourg in 1808 fails, but later emigrates to America and becomes a Republican. T: German "Belagert" Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I (Bantam 87) ------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH (Bantam 87) ------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD (Bantam 87) ------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD (Bantam 88) ------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY (Bantam 88) ------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE (Bantam ...) ------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS (Bantam 90) ------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE (Bantam 91) ------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE (Bantam 92) ------------------------, WILD CARDS: CARD SHARKS (Baen 93) ------------------------, WILD CARDS: MARKED CARDS (Baen 94) -------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND (Bantam ...) W: In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released in Earth's stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others. S: A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during the ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much. C: Though called mosaic novels, many of these volumes might be considered anthologies. However, individual entries for each story are not included in this list. C: Also in series are Snodgrass's WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS. Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD (Avon 85) ------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD (Avon 88) ------------------------, THE RAINBOW SWORD ------------------------, THE SEA SWORD W: An alteration in the progeny of Henry II resulted in a different English royal succession. Also, magic works. S: A woman from our world visits a different olde England. Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW (Lancer 71) S: Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet. Masters, Roger D., "What If Napoleon Had Not Invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WIESSF> W: Appendicitis and pneumonia prevented Napoleon from invading Spain in 1808, and reading Rousseau altered his tactics. C: A more devious Napoleon leads France to world power by isolating Britain, having built up the French fleet and made alliance with Russia and America. Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <If,abc> W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister. S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820). T: German "Wenn Ludwig XVI. eine Spur von Festigkeit gezeigt hatte" Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM (Doubleday 73) W: By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George McGovern was elected president in 1972. S: An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted. McAllister, Bruce, "Southpaw", in <IAsfm> Aug 93 W: Fidel Castro accepted the contract offer from the New York Giants and became a profesional baseball player. S: While a struggling rookie pitcher in 1951, Castro's eyes are opened to the troubles at home and he arranges a meeting with countryman Desi Arnaz. McAuley, Paul J., PASQUALE'S ANGEL (Gollancz 94) S: A 1518 Florence in which engineer Leonardo da Vinci investigates a locked tower murder in an alternate Renaissance. McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WMHB3> W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, leading to the complete break-up of Rome and a never-ending dark age. S: C. 1700, a young man meets an old man excavating a tomb in a ruined city. McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in Interzone #58 (Apr 92) and <YBSF10> W: James Joyce took up an occupation other than writing. S: In another timeline, Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he becomes a musician or a physicist. McHugh, Maureen F., "The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela", in <AO> S: McHugh, Maureen F., "Tut's Wife", in <AW> W: Tutankhamen's widow sought a husband to protect her and to help spread the faith of Aten in Egypt. S: Ankhesenpaaten tries to manipulate a powerful general. McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92 W: Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC. S: Worried by Europe's increasingly speedy and warlike technological progress, aborigines decide to stop Columbus's expedition. Meacham, Beth, "A Dream Can Make a Difference", in <BAOF> W: Marilyn Monroe survived her suicide attempt and went into politics, running against Reagan for governor of California. S: After Hinckley assassinates Pres. Monroe in 1981, a female news producer recalls the path Monroe followed to the White House. Meacham, Beth, "One by One", in <AW> W: Tecumseh turned the tide at the Battle of the Thames (Detroit) and the Northwest Territories only became a US state decades later. S: In the 20th century, conflict between whites and reds in "Indiana" constantly simmers with acts of terrorism and retaliation. Meacham, Beth, "A Spark in the Darkness", in <AO> S: Mendini, Douglas, "What If...", in Entertainment Weekly 7 Aug 92 W: Marilyn Monroe's stomach was pumped in time to prevent her death from a drug overdose. S: A series of short news blurbs about Marilyn's career through 1989. Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE (Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy 79) S: An agent from a Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders. ---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND (Doubleday 766; Playboy 79) S: Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest. ---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME (Doubleday 78; Playboy 79) S: And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome. Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! (Ballantine 76) W: Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871. S: A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago. Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS (Doubleday 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52; Modern Literary Editions ...); exp of "The House of Many Worlds", in Startling Stories Sep 51 S: Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA. Merwin, Sam, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #... (Ace 55); exp of "Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53 S: Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient Rome. Miesel, Sandra, SHAMAN (Baen 89); rev of DREAMRIDER (Ace 82) S: A woman from the 2009 of one world dreams of historical events happening differently (without much follow through) and becomes a shaman in another. Miles, Robin, "Throwing out Time at the Red Lion", serial in Miniature Wargames #91-92 (Dec 90-Jan 91) C: Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS (Bantam 93) C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I. Miller, John J.: see Leigh, Stephen, & John J. Miller Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91 S: A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history. Minogue, Kenneth, "What If Karl Marx Had Drowned in a Cross-Channel Ferry Accident? (1847)", in <WIESSF> W: As the title says. C: Essay from that timeline that revolutionaries such as Lenin lacked a fundamental theory that this obscure thinker could have provided. Mitchell, Gary, "The Wars that Never Were", in Miniature Wargames #81 (Feb 90) W: The Confederacy abolished slavery in late 1863 and was immediately recognized by Britain and France. C: Wargaming British and French intervention in the US Civil War, with a timeline describing events up to the concluding Treaty of Berlin (1865). Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN (Ace 87) S: A Bret Harte descendant attempts to make his ancestor the literary giant of 1900 by arranging for Mark Twain's success in the gold fields. -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637