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 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 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 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 Dec 91 and 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 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 S: Haldeman, Jack C., II, "South of Eden, Somewhere Near Salinas", in 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 Apr 90, , 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); ; 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 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 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 Aug 87 and 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 S: Jones, Charles O., "What If There Had Been a Nixon Presidency Without Watergate? (1973)", in 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 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 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 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 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 S: Kessel, John, "The Franchise", in 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 S: King, Tappan, "The Mark of the Angel", in 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 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 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 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 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), , , 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 Jul 91, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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), , 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), , 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, 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 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, 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 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 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), , 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 S: McHugh, Maureen F., "Tut's Wife", in 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 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 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 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 10:00 Message # 9538 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 6 of 8 Message-ID: <2oed24$flk@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part6 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part6 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST Version 18 - 12 April 1994 APPENDIX I - NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS This appendix lists Alternate Histories published in languages other than English. Much of the data was extracted from Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86) Helbig, Joerg, DER PARAHISTORISCHE ROMAN. EIN LITERARHISTORISCHER UND GATTUNGSTYPOLOGISCHER BEITRAGE ZUR ALLOTOPIEFORSCHUNG (Lang 87) Significant contributions were also made by Andreas Morlok and P.C. Joergensen. Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are: = HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (ed Armer) (Heyne 90) = SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (ed Oth) (Luchterhand 88) Those entries which are not known to have been translated to the English include an 'E:' line giving a translation of the title. In Chinese: Shi Jian, , in 'Strange Tales' May 90 E: "Cause and Effect" W: Germany won WW2. S: In Czech: Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU (Borovy 45) S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom. T: English "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"; Esperanto "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo" Silverberg, Robert, <title unknown> (Navrat 92) S: A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble. C: Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is briefly described. T: English UP THE LINE In Danish: Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En plads i historien", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91) E: "A Place in History" W: Egyptians never built tbe pyramids. S: A time traveller performs a match trick for pharaoh and inspires him to build the pyramids. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En flue paa vaeggen", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91) E: "A Fly on the Wall" W: The Swedish rebellion of 1521 was put down. S: A time traveller changes history to its main course by sneezing. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Haabet er groent", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 91) E: "Hope is Green" W: The Turks conquered Vienna in 1583 S: A Turkish immigrant in Denmark suffers from racist attacks and changes history to live in a Muslim Europe. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Soefaerden til Cipangu", in Information Oct 92 E: "Voyage to Cipangu" W: Columbus sails to Japan S: A Jewish translator on the Santa Maria saves Columbus from mutiny by magically transporting the ship to Japan, thereby destroying the Americas. In Dutch: Bertin, Eddy C., "Tijdstorm", in DE ACHTJAARLIJKSE GOD (Bruno & Zoon 71) S: Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war. T: English "Timestorm" Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ (De Bezige Bij 72) E: YESTERDAY'S FUTURE: OUTLINE OF A WORK W: Hitler was assassinated in 1944, which event was followed by an SS countercoup and German victory in WW2. S: An author in a world in which Germany lost WW2 explains why he isn't writing about a world in which Germany won, in which world is an author... Teng, Tais, AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 83) E: AT THE SHORES OF THE NIGHT (--------), "Alle namen in het zonlicht", in SF Terra #73 zine (85) (--------), "Bevers voeren", in SF Terra #73 zine (85) (--------), "Een dukaat voor de veerman", in BIZARRE VISIOENEN (Diram 88) (--------), "Hoe de wijze handelt", in King Kong Kerstgeschenk zine (88) and Science Fiction Festival (...Con 89) W: Elephants evolved only to a small size, and Hannibal's sea-borne attack on Rome succeeded. S: Tales of a Dutch empire. Tengbergen, Thijs van Ebberhorst: see Teng, Tais Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE W: Napoleon won at Waterloo. S: Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe. T: French CAROLINE OH CAROLINE In Esperanto: Capek, Karel, + Josef Vondrousek (tr), "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo", in LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ (Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 70) T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi" In French: Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 84) E: "The Anniversary of the Thousand-Year Reich" W: S: Nazi power lasts *exactly* 1000 years. Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 84) E: "What Was He Doing, Young Dr. Frankenstein, in May 1981 and May 1968?" W: Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s. S: A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and Vian to see how they would have affected later French history. Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES (Gallimard 54) E: MUST JOAN BURN? W: Joan of Arc was rescued. S: God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment. Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO (Andre Sabatier 37; Plon 64; Rombaldi 76) E: VICTORY AT WATERLOO W: Napoleon won at Waterloo. S: Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates. Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? (Le Monde 80); serial in Le Monde Jun-Sep 80 E: HAVE YOU SEEN MONTEZUMA? S: Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 (Fleuve Noir 84) E: CARTHAGE WILL BE DESTROYED: TIME INVESTIGATOR SETNI, 2 W: Hannibal captured Rome. S: A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a Carthaginian colony in Quebec. Barbet, Pierre, L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET (Fleuve Noir 72) W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118. S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the Holy Land and conquer the Mongols. T: English BAPHOMET'S METEOR --------------, CROISADE STELLAIRE (Fleuve Noir 74) S: Outer-space sequel to the above. T: English STELLAR CRUSADE Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES (Librairie Francais 70) E: IF NAPOLEON HAD TAKEN LONDON S: Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE (G. Bailliere 1872) E: ETERNITY THROUGH THE STARS: AN ASTRONOMICAL HYPOTHESIS S: Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed Sadoul) (J'ai Lu 76) E: "Children of Ibn Khaldun" W: The Arabs won at Tours. S: Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the north. Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION (Opta 84) E: "Summer" S: Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE POLITIQUE (Pauvert 68) E: IF MAY HAD SUCCEEDED: A POLITICAL PLEASANTRY W: The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a conservative backlash. S: Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN (vol 1, Gallimard 38; vol 2-4 Editions du Dialogue 41-44; complete Gallimard 49) E: LIFE'S CONJUNCTIONS W: The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution. S: A detailed history text. Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT (Gallimard 61) W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him. S: Christianity is aborted. T: English PONTIUS PILATE Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN (Lattes 80) E: THE APPEAL OF JUNE 17: A NOVEL S: Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE (... 1791) E: MY REPUBLIC C: A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI. d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE (Gallimard 71) S: T: English THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF (Calmann-Levy 80) E: THE EGG PRINCIPLE S: Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE (... 56) E: UNHAPPY ULYSSES W: Louis XVI escaped arrest. S: In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX. Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP: ROMAN (Denoel 71, 81) E: PTAH HOTEP: A NOVEL W: Constantine suppressed Christianity. S: Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world. Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL (Nouvelle-Optique 79) E: A HAITIAN AMBASSADOR AT MONTREAL W: Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970. S: Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois separatists. Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON APOCRYPHE (Paulin 1841; Librairie Illustree 1896; vt NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE, Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851; Tallandier 1983) E: THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON; vt NAPOLEON AND THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD, 1812- 1823: HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY W: Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in Moscow. S: Napoleon keeps on going. C: Extensive synopsis in Alkon's "From Utopia to Uchronia". C: Apparently *the* first AH written in novel length, the possible exception being Lesage's LES AVENTURES DE M. ROBERT CHEVALIER. Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE, 1949-1981: DE L'ASSASSINAT DU GENERAL DE GAULLE (12 JUIN 1949) AU COUP D'ETAT DU GENERAL MASSU (10 MAI 1981) (Belfond 84) E: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, 1949-1981: FROM THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL DE GAULLE (JUNE 12, 1949) TO THE COUP D'ETAT OF GENERAL MASSU (MAY 10, 1981) S: Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE (Plon 49) E: FIGUREHEADS S: Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS (Le Jour 66) E: "Lepic and hypothetical history" W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and Indian War. S: 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation. Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE (Tallandier 29) E: IF, ON JULY 27, 1794...: AN HISTORICAL HYPOTHESIS W: Robespierre escaped the guillotine. S: Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen age", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "The Chansons de Geste: the Temptation of Allohistory in the Middle Ages" C: Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE, CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE (Ganeau 1732; Dufour & Roux 1780) E: THE ADVENTURES OF M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, AKA DE BEAUCHENE W: AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa. C: Borderline AH, but if so, then possibly the earliest AH novel. Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE (Fleuve Noir 84) E: HISTORY SIDETRACKED W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons. S: WW3 in 1989 against Japan. Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in France Observateur 28 Dec 61 E: "The Comrade-God: a Christmas Story" W: Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961. S: Reactions from elsewhere. Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES E: TRAVELER THROUGH THE CENTURIES S: Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE (Presses de la Renaissance 83) E: THE TRUE HISTORY OF FRANCE S: Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TEL QU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE (Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876; Alcan 01; Artheme Fayard 88) E: UCHRONIA (UTOPIA IN HISTORY), AN APOCRYPHAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION NOT AS IT WAS BUT AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN W: Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress the Christians and avert the Dark Ages. S: Narrative of a 17th-century man about to be executed by the Inquisition. Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS (Fleuve Noir 51) E: CRUISE IN TIME W: Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610. S: France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and civilization collapses in the 20th century. Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in Litterature Mar 21 and PAPIERS POSTHUMES (Sans Pareil 34) E: "A Brilliant Subject" S: A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc. Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU (Tour du Guet 50) E: IF GERMANY HAD WON W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons. S: A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost. T: German WENN DEUTSCHLAND GESEIGT HATTE Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS (Nouvelle France 45; La Renaissance du Livre 62; Jacques Antoine 86) E: REPULSE IN TIME or SET-BACK IN TIME W: Napoleon won at Waterloo. S: Time travelers reverse the event. Van Herck, Paul, + Michel Vedewe (tr), CAROLINE OH CAROLINE (Champs-Elysee 76) T: Dutch CAROLINE OH CAROLINE Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE S: Reference Materials: Angenot, Marc, Darko Suvin, & Jean-Marc Gouanvic, "L'uchronie, histoire alternative et science-fiction", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "Allohistory, Alternative History and Science Fiction" C: Boireau, Jacques, "La machine a ralentir le temps", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "The Time-Slowdown Machine" C: Contrasts utopian French AHs with distopian American AHs. Brie, Marc-Andre, "Quelques reperes pour une bibliographie de l'uchronie", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "Some Benchmarks for a Bibliography of Allohistory" C: A bibliography of AH. Carrere, Emmanuel, LE DETROIT DE BEHRING: INTRODUCTION A L'UCHRONIE: ESSAI (P.O.L. 86) E: THE BERING STRAIT: INTRODUCTION TO ALLOHISTORY: AN ESSAY C: Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Pourquoi un 'Special Uchronie'", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "Why an 'Allohistory Special'" C: AH discussion in conjunction with a special issue of imagine..., with essays and stories by Angenot et al, April, Boireau, Brie and Le Brun. Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Quebec uchronie", in imagine... #14 (Autumn 82) E: "Allohistorical Quebec" C: Primarily a synopsis of Hertel's "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique". Leccia, Pierre, "Uchronie: l'histoire detournee", in POLITIQUE/FICTION (ed Riche) E: "Allohistory: History Sidetracked" C: Brief discussion and bibliography of AH. Van Herp, Jacques, "Dans les corridors de l'espace-temps", in PANORAMA DE LA SCIENCE-FICTION (Gerard 73; Marabout 75) E: "In the Halls of Space-Time" C: Includes discussion of AH. Versins, Pierre, ENCYCLOPEDIE DE L'UTOPIE, DES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES ET DE LA SCIENCE FICTION (L'Age du Homme 72; exp 84) E: ENCYLOPEDIA OF UTOPIA, EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES AND SCIENCE FICTION C: In German: "Das Wort 'Wenn' ist das deutscheste aller deutschen Woerter." <The word 'if' is the most German of all German words.> --Friedrich Hebbel, in Alexander Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE Anthologies: Armer, Karl Michael (ed), HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (Heyne 90) E: HIROSHIMA SHALL LIVE! C: Translations of stories by Aldiss, Effinger, Gibson, Lansdale, Martin, KS Robinson, Shiner, Somtow, and Turtledove. Reference mat'l by Armer. Oth, Rene (ed), SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (Luchterhand 88) E: NICE WRONG WORLD: FANTASTIC HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY C: Translations of stories by Cox, Eklund, Elgin, Lafferty, Piper, Roberts and KS Robinson. Reference mat'l by Oth. Alternate Histories: Aldiss, Brian W., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Vorsicht! Religion", in <HSL> T: English "Matrix" Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN (Nymphenburger 79; Heyne 81, 83, 94) E: AT THE LIGHTS OF THE LEYERMARK: A NOVEL W: Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used to subjugate Bismarck's Prussia. S: Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important European player. Amery, Carl, DAS KOENIGSPROJEKT (Piper 74; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 78; Heyne 84) E: THE KING-PROJECT or PROJECT ROYALTY S: The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation. Amis, Kingsley, + Walter Brumm (tr), DIE VERWANDLUNG (Heyne 86) T: English THE ALTERATION Bailey, Hilary, + Yvonne Krampen (tr), "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy Steiner", in WELTEN DER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN (ed Hahn) (Ullstein 83) T: English "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE (Molden 66) W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London. S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle. T: English TWILIGHT MAN Bensen, D.R., + Irene Holicki (tr), ZWISCHENHALT (Heyne 84) T: English AND HAVING WRIT... Bester, Alfred, + Alfred Joseph (tr), "Die Morder Mohammeds", in DIE FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds Armer & Jeschke) (Heyne 84) T: English "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in Tempo Jun 92 E: "And if he didn't die..." W: Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982. S: He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring Robert DeNiro. Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA (A. Kraft 60) E: IMPERIAL SAGA: AN AUSTRIAN UTOPIA W: Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan. S: Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above. Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft", in Zeitschrift fžr Soziolofie vol 1 C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at the beginning of the scientific revolution. T: English "Alternatives in Science" Boyd, John, + Heinz Plehn (tr), DER UBERLAUFER (Droemer Knaur 78) T: English THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH Churchill, Winston S., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Lee die Schlacht von Gettysburg nicht gewonnen hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #9 T: English "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" Cox, Irving E., Jr., + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo", in <SVW> T: English "In the Circle of Nowhere" de Camp, L. Sprague, + Werner Fuchs (tr), "Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles", in EIN YANKEE BEI ARISTOTELES (Heyne 80) T: English "Aristotle and the Gun" Deighton, Len, + Kurt Wagenseil & Ursula Pommer (trs), SS-GB (Heyne 83) T: English SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 Dick, Philip K., + Heinz Nagel (tr), DAS ORAKEL VOM BERGE (Bastei-Lžbbe 82) T: English THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Effinger, George Alec, + Juergen Langowski (tr), "Ziel: Berlin!", in <HSL> T: English "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop" Eklund, Gordon, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Die Sonne geht auf", in <SVW> T: English "The Rising of the Sun" Elgin, Suzette Haden, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Schweig stille, Mund!", in <SVW> T: English "Hush My Mouth" Farmer, Philip Jose, + Ronald M. Han (tr), "Weitersegeln! Weitersegeln!", in DAS LACHELM DER GIOCONDA (ed Oth) (Luchterhand 85) T: English "Sail On, Sail On" Fisher, H.A.L., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Napoleon nach Amerika entkommen ware", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #12 T: English "If Napoleon had Escaped to America" Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von Gibson, William, + Reinhard Heinz (tr), "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum", in <HSL> T: English "The Gernsback Continuum" Guedalla, Philip, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn die Mauren in Spanen geseigt Hatte", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (Heyne 87) T: English "If the Moors in Spain had Won" Haffner, Sebastian, ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER (Kindler 78) C: Biography of Hitler includes discussion (pp 131-139) of the Nazis making a peace after the fall of France. T: English THE MEANING OF HITLER Hahn, Ronald M., "Hey, Mr. Spaceman", in EIN DUTZEND H-BOMBEN (Ullstein 83) S: Hahn, Ronald M., & Harald Pusch, DIE TEMPONAUTEN: SCIENCE FICTION-ROMAN (Corian 83) E: THE TEMPONAUTS: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL W: The first atomic bomb was used in 1943 on Berlin. S: An amnesiac time traveller is hunted by a competing time travel agency in the Klondike of 1896-97, where he meets Jack London, among others. Harrison, Harry, + Bodo Baumann (tr), IM SUDEN NICHTS NEUES (Bastei-Lžbbe 84) T: English A REBEL IN TIME Harrison, Harry, + Tony Westermayr (tr), DER GROSSE TUNNEL (Goldmann 79) T: English A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! Hohlbein, Wolfgang E., "Im Namen der Menschlichkeit", in JUPITER (ed Le Blanc) (Goldmann 85) E: "In the Name of Humanity" W: A peaceful revolution overthrew Rome and Jesus became the new "Caesar". S: Travelers from a peaceful Empire are sent back in time to undermine the Toltecs, but their time machine crashes near Jerusalem, 30 AD. Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG (Nymphenburger 81; Heyne 85) W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater success in WW2. S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into trouble vs. people from other timelines. T: English THE LAST DAY OF CREATION Krohn, Wolfgang: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn Lafferty, R.A., + Karl H. Kosmehl (tr), "Karl der Grosse, frustriert", in <SVW> --------------, + Gisela Stege (tr), "So frustrieren wir Karl den Grossen", in DIE FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds Armer & Jeschke) (Heyne 84) T: English "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne" Lansdale, Joe R., + Nobert Stresau (tr), "Brief aus dem Sueden, zwei Monde, westlich von Nacogdoches", in <HSL> T: English "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches" Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT (Terra 61) E: MAN BETWEEN TIME S: Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation. Mahr, Kurt, 2 * PROFESSOR MANSTEIN (Terra 61) S: A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien invasion. Martin, George R.R., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Belagert", in <HSL> T: English "Under Siege" Maurois, Andre, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Ludwig XVI. eine Spur von Festigkeit gezeigt hatte", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (Heyne 86) T: English "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness" Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 (Heyne 80) W: The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and technology, but became divided. S: People from our world encounter Arabic nations fighting for control of powerlines from hydroelectric plants in Europe. Moorcock, Michael, + Sylvia Pukallus (tr), DER HERR DER LUFTE (Heyne 82) T: English THE WARLORD OF THE AIR -----------------------------------------, DER LANDLEVIATHAN (Heyne 82) T: English THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE -----------------------------------------, DER STAHLZAR (Heyne 84) T: English THE STEEL TSAR Moore, Ward, + Walter Brumm (tr), DER GROSSE SUDEN (Heyne 80) T: English BRING THE JUBILEE Piper, H. Beam, + Lore Strassl (tr), "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging", in <SVW> T: English "He Walked Around the Horses" Pfaffe, Ivan, "Eisenhowers schwester Fehler: Wie den Tschechoslowakei fžr den Westen verlorenging", in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 23 Feb 85 E: "Eisenhowers biggest mistake: How Czechoslovakia was lost to the West" S: Robban, Randolph, WENN DEUTSCHLAND GESEIGT HATTE (Kohlhammer 81) T: French SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU Roberts, Keith, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Weihnachtsabend", in <SVW> --------------, + Tony Westermayr (tr), "Weihnachtsabend", in DIE NEUEN GOTTER (Goldmann 79) T: English "Weihnachstabend" Roberts, Keith, + Thomas Schluck (tr), DIE FOLGENSCHWERE ERMORDUNG IHRER MAJESTAT ELISABETH I. (Heyne 77; vt PAVANE, Heyne 84) T: English PAVANE Robinson, Kim Stanley, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Der Flug de Lucky Strike", in <SVW> ---------------------, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Lucky Strike", in <HSL> T: English "The Lucky Strike" Russ, Joanna, + Werner Fuchs (tr), PLANET DER FRAUEN (Dromer Knaur 79) T: English THE FEMALE MAN Shiner, Lewis, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Zeit des Zwielichts", in <HSL> T: English "Twilight Time" Silverberg, Robert, + Thomas Ziegler (tr), AUF ZU HESPERIDEN! (Droemer Knaur 82) T: English THE GATE OF WORLDS Smith, Martin Cruz, + Michael Gorden (tr), DER ANDERE SIEGER (Bastei-Lžbbe 84) T: English THE INDIANS WON Somtow, S.P., + Ruediger Hipp (tr), "Aquila", in <HSL> T: English "Aquila" Spinrad, Norman, + Walter Brumm (tr), DER STAHLERNE TRAUM (Heyne 83) T: English THE IRON DREAM Trevelyan, G.M., + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Napoleon die Schlacht von Waterloo gewonnen hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #10 T: English "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo" Turtledove, Harry, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Das letzte Gebot", in <HSL> T: English "The Last Article" van den Daele: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn Waldman, Milton, + Walter Brumm (tr), "Wenn Booth Prasident Lincoln verfehlt hatte", in Heyne Science Fiction Magazin #11 T: English "If Booth had Missed Lincoln" Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT (Ullstein 84; Heyne 93); exp of "Die stimmen der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed Goerden) (Bastei-Lžbbe 83) E: VOICES OF THE NIGHT W: FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to force a German surrender. S: Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a nuclear war in 1984. Reference Materials: Demandt, Alexander, UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS WARE GESCHEHEN, WENN--? (Vandenheock & Ruprecht 84, 86) C: Arguments for and against counterfactual history. Chapter 5 is titled "Examples" and includes a synopsis of Toynbee's "If Alexander...". T: English HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF--? Giordano, Ralph, WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE: DIE PLANE DER NAZIS NACH DEM ENDSIG (Rasch & Roehring 89) E: IF HITLER HAD WON THE WAR C: Primarily a discussion of the Nazi's actual plans for world conquest, but includes a synopsis of Deighton's SS-GB. Helbig, Joerg, DER PARAHISTORISCHE ROMAN. EIN LITERARHISTORISCHER UND GATTUNGSTYPOLOGISCHER BEITRAGE ZUR ALLOTOPIEFORSCHUNG (Lang 87) E: THE PARAHISTORICAL NOVEL. A HISTORICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL STUDY IN ALLOTOPIAN LITERATURE C: Dissertation on AH, with focus on two general types (intellectual study of history vs. fictional allegory) and a 30-page bibliography. Tucholsky, Kurt, "Was ware, wenn...?", in GESAMMELTE WERKE (ed Gerold- Tucholsky & Raddatz) (Rowohlt 60-62) E: "What if...?" C: Commentaries on use of AH for political satire. In Greek: Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS W: Jesus fled his doom. S: Jesus dreams of the possible result. T: English THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST In Hungarian: Gaspar, Laszlo, "Mi, I. Adolf" E: "We, Adolf 1" S: Nightmare post-WW2 world in which fascists exert power through terror. In Italian: Bonanate, Ugo, ASCOLTA, ISRAELE (Lindau 91) E: HEARKEN, ISRAEL! W: Early Christian communities were wiped out, and Judaism became the dominant Western religion. S: Modern scholars are stunned when archaelogists unearth copies of the Gospels. Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICHINGA (Frasinelli 84) E: VIKING AMERICA S: Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI (Frasinelli 84) E: 1938: THE DESTRUCTION OF PARIS W: Petain led a successful French coup in 1934. S: Morselli, Guido, CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA (... 75; Adelphi 87) W: Austria-Hungary invaded Italy via a secret tunnel in May 1916, forcing it out of the war in five days. S: How lightning tactics achieved victory for the Central Powers in WW1 and led to the creation of a semi-socialist W European federation in 1917. T: English PAST CONDITIONAL: A RETROSPECTIVE HYPOTHESIS Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO (... 27) E: THE UNDERSEA TUNNEL W: A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s. S: Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI (Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821; Gaetano Ducci 1826) W: Lorenzo de Medici, il Magnifico, did not die in 1492. S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants. T: English THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY In Japanese: Hammura Ryo, SENGOKU JIETAI (Hayakawa Shobo 71; Kadokawa Shoten 78, 79) E: THE WARRING STATES SELF DEFENSE FORCE S: C: Basis of the 1981 movie SENGOKU JIETAI. Hirose Tadashi, EROSU (Hayakawa Shobu 71) E: EROS S: Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in SF Magajin ... 61 E: "Peace on Earth" W: The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2. S: Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU (Hayakawa Shobu 75) E: HEADQUARTERS OF THE FAR EAST W: Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War. S: Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO (Kadokawa Shoten 67) E: AFTERGLOW OF THE MONGOLS W: The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century. S: Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance. Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO (Kadokawa Shoten 67) E: THE TIME SLIP WAR S: In Latin: Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans. S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this history of Rome suggests that the Romans would have beaten him. C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31 BC-14 AD). T: English AB URBE CONDITA In Norwegian: Gjaerevold, Einar, "Isens veg", in EVIGSKOGEN (Bok og Magasinforlaget 90) E: "The Way of Ice" W: A new Ice Age came in the 19th century. S: An unorthodox woman's struggle to keep alive beside the ice-covered North Sea. Hermansen, Sjur, "Alternativ naatid", in Algernon Jan 92 E: "Alternate Present" W: Germany won WW2, with a "Nazi-style Glasnost" in the 1990s. S: Two friends contemplate founding a new party, "The Environmental Fascists". Jensen, Reidar, "Brev til min venn Wolfgang Wegener, februar 1924", in HISTORIEN SOM IKKE VILLE SLUTTE (Gyldendal Norsk 78) E: "Letter to My Friend Wolfgang Wegener, February 1924" W: WW1 never took place, and Lenin died in Switzerland in 1924. S: A letter-writer tells his friend about this strange Russian exile. Joergensen, Per C., "Neste aar i Jerusalem", in Algernon Jan 92 T: "Next Year in Jerusalem" W: Chaos elsewhere made imperial Russia the sole superpower, and about to start a war with the Baghdad Califate in a different '91. S: A Jewish refugee tries to get out of Jerusalem. Olsen, Per G., "Medaljens bakside", in D¯D OG VED GODT MOT I NEW YORK (Gyldendal Norsk 79) T: "The Back Side of the Medal" W: Norway fought a bitter War of Independence against Sweden, 1905-37. S: Journalist interviews war veteran. Olsen, Per G., "I Albions tid", in ASTERVEG (Bok og Magasinforlaget 89) T: "In the Age of Albion" W: Wat Tyler's rebellion in 14th-century England succeeded. Magic works. S: Two sailors are stranded in an "Albion" ruled by Dark Magic. In Polish: Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA E: A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP S: Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII (Pax 65, 79) E: STRANGE EVEN AMONG THE MIGHTY S: Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY: POWIESC (Pax 70) E: THE MUSE OF DISTANT JOURNEYS: A NOVEL W: The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising. S: Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTASTYCZYNA W TRZECH CZESCIACH (Pax 76) E: I SHALL LEAVE DEFENSELESS W: Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383. S: Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY (Pax 56, 60; Czytelnik 67) E: THE SILVER EAGLES W: A Polish state was created in the 10th century. S: Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA (Towarzystwo wydawnicze Ignis 24; Czytelnik 67) E: TIME TORPEDO W: Time travellers seeking to prevent the nationalism of the 19th century end up in 1796 Italy, where they defeat both Napoleon and the Austrians. S: Carnot takes power in France, but is deposed by one of the time travellers, who fails in an attempt to create a benevolent society. In Portugese: Gibson, William, + Eduardo Salo (tr), <title unknown>, in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO (Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88) T: English "The Gernsback Continuum" Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, + Eduardo Salo (tr), <title unknown>, in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO (Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88) T: English "Mozart in Mirrorshades" In Russian: Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM (Ardis 81) W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't. S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands. T: English THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA In Spanish: Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA (ed Goligorsky) (Flor 68) E: "Napoleon's Victory" S: Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe, etc. Gorodischer, Angelica, "De navegantes", in TRAFALGAR (Hyspamerica 88) E: "Of Sailors" W: Spain pursued an even more aggressive colonial policy. S: An Argentine space traveler finds a planet exactly like Earth c. 1492, and he speeds up the "Spanish" conquest of all the "Americas". Gorodischer, Angelica, "El oro de Tiresias", in Axxon #22 (Jul 91) E: "Tiresias's gold" W: Peron never became president, and Argentina remained under the control of the military. S: Peron is imprisoned as he begins to become popular and dies in jail. 100 years later, a student speculates about what might have been. Harrison, Harry, EL INVASOR DEL TIEMPO W: Napoleon conquered England. S: Our hero goes back to fix time about to unravel. T: English THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD Sarban, + Manuel Figueroa (tr), EL CUERNO DE CAZA (Editorial Arte y Literature 81) T: English THE SOUND OF HIS HORN -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 10:00 Message # 9541 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 7 of 8 Message-ID: <2oed3a$fv5@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part7 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part7 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST Version 18 - 12 April 1994 APPENDIX II - DATE OF APPARENT DIVERGENCE By Evelyn C. Leeper and R.B. Schmunk Entries from the Alternate History List are sorted here by date of apparent divergence from history as we know it. Some crosstime stories may be listed under more than one date; many stories are not be listed at all because the divergence date is too vague. All dates AD/CE; negative numbers indicate BC/BCE. As benchmarks, dates of some notable events are included. c -4.5G Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE c -80M Daniels, Tony, "God's Foot" c -70M Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder" Leigh, Stephen, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR WORLD --------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR PLANET --------------, & John J. Miller, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR SAMURAI c -65M *----------------------------------------------Yucatan meteorite impact c -65M Dixon, Dougal, THE NEW DINOSAURS: AN ALTERNATE EVOLUTION c -65M Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN ---------------, WINTER IN EDEN ---------------, RETURN TO EDEN c -65M Sullivan, Tim, "Dinosaur on a Bicycle" c -65M Stith, John E., "One Giant Step" c -40M Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try" c -20M Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP c -20M Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine" c -5.5M Turtledove, Harry, "Down in the Bottomlands" c -5M Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH (---------------), "Vilest Beast" (---------------), "And So to Bed" (---------------), "Around the Salt Lick" (---------------), "The Iron Elephant" (---------------), "Though the Heavens Fall" (---------------), "Trapping Run" (---------------), "Freedom" c -1.5M Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE c -40k McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision" c -15k Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF c -12k *----------------------------------migrations across Bering land bridge c -12k Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker" Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos" c -10k Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night" c -1400 Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off" -1352 McHugh, Maureen F., "Tut's Wife" c -1290 *---------------------------------------------------------Hebrew Exodus c -1290 Fawcett, Bill, "Zealot" c -1290 Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant" c -1290 Silverberg, Robert, "An Outpost of the Empire" ------------------, "Via Roma" ------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods" ------------------, "To the Promised Land" c -1250 Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE c -1250 Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman" c -1000 Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE; also 1492, 1906 et al -490 *----------------------------------------------------battle of Marathon -490 Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS -480 Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds" c -480 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election" -343 deCamp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun" -338 Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On" -332 Tarr, Judith, "Queen of Asia" -323 *-------------------------------------death of Alexander III of Macedon -323 Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia"; also c 732 -323 Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA -323 Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES -323 Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Alexander the Great had Lived On" -218 Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est" -216 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Cannae c -215 Dunn, J.R., "Men of Good Will" c -210 Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL c -202 Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4" c -200 *------------------------------------------------Hero invents aeolipile c -200 Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again" c -200 Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] ------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE ------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX c -200 White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY c -200 Zebrowski, George, "The Number of the Sand" -165 Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows" -146 Zebrowski, George, "Let Time Shape" c -146 Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage" -44 West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME -30 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Actium -30 Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN -30 Nelson, Ray, TIMEQUEST -30 Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN --------------, THE WOMAN OF FLOWERS --------------, QUEENSBLADE -4 Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN -4 Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs" -4 Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS 1 Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass" 9 Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE c 10 Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR --------------, NEW BARBARIANS --------------, CRY REPUBLIC 30 *---------------------------------------execution of Yeshwa of Nazareth 30 Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH 30 Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT 30 Hohlbein, Wolfgang E., "Im Namen der Menschlichkeit" 30 Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS 30 Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches" 30 Linaweaver, Brad, "Unmerited Favor" 30 Pohl, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians" c 30 Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, "Beyond Heaven's Gates" c 40 Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD 58 Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St. Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West" c 75 Bonanate, Ugo, ASCOLTA, ISRAELE 94 Kilian, Crawford, ROGUE EMPEROR c 100 Christopher, John, FIREBALL -----------------, NEW FOUND LAND -----------------, DRAGON DANCE c 165 Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TEL QU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE 312 McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb" 312 Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian" 325 Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA 330 *------------------------Constantinople becomes eastern capital of Rome 331 Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP: ROMAN 331 Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY 331 Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER: A NOVEL 363 Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO- FANTASTYCZYNA W TRZECH CZESCIACH 395 Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS 431 Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME -------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND -------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS -------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS -------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS -------------, OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS c 450 Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR 453 *-------------------------------------------------------death of Attila c 500 Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN c 500 Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA 527 deCamp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL c 542 *--------------------------------------------death of Arthur of Britain c 542 Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore" 610 Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" 610 Turtledove, Harry, "Departures" -----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM (---------------), "The Eyes of Argos" (---------------), "Strange Eruptions" (---------------), "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" (---------------), "Unholy Trinity" (---------------), "Archetypes" (---------------), "Images" (---------------), "Superwine" 622 *----------------------------------------------------Hegira of Mohammed c 622 Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME 664 deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If" Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker" 664 Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western Christian Civilization" c 664 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING 718 Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea" 731 Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern Christian Civilization" 732 *-------------------------------------------------------battle of Tours 732 Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun" 732 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Moors had Won the Battle of Tours" 732 Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun" 732 Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic" c 732 Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia"; also -323 778 Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles" 778 Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne" 860 Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian Civilization" 865Ê Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS Ê ------------------------------, THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS 2 878 Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope" 886Ê Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS 900 Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE; also 1940 c 950 Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY 984 *------------------------------------------Norse discovery of Greenland 995 Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD c 1000 Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon" c 1000Ê Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICHINGA c 1000 Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER c 1000 Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES 1002 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma" 1004 Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME 1004 Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight" 1066 *----------------------------------------------------battle of Hastings 1066 Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?" 1118 Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS (------------), L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET (------------), CROISADE STELLAIRE 1137 Anderson, Poul, THE SHIELD OF TIME c 1150 Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain" 1170 Sagara, Michelle "For Love of God" 1178 Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting" 1189 Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD ------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD ------------------------, THE RAINBOW SWORD ------------------------, THE SEA SWORD 1199 *----------------------------------------death of Richard Coeur de Lion 1199 Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY (--------------), MURDER AND MAGIC ((------------)), "The Eyes Have It" ((------------)), "A Case of Identity" ((------------)), "The Muddle of the Woad" ((------------)), "A Stretch of the Imagination" (--------------), TOO MANY MAGICIANS (--------------), LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES ((------------)), "A Matter of Gravity" ((------------)), "The Sixteen Keys" ((------------)), "The Ipswich Phial" ((------------)), "The Napoli Express" ----------------, "The Bitter End" ----------------, "The Spell of War" Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY ----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS 1199 Laumer, Keith, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE c 1199 Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR 1202 Lewis, Anthony R., "...But the Sword!" 1212 Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! ---------------, "Worlds Beside Worlds" 1219 Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins" 1240 *----------------------------------------------------------sack of Kiev 1240 Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER ---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT ---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR ---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD ---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY 1241 Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG 1241 Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent" 1241 Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO 1268 Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS c 1285 Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain"; also c 1861 1290 Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On" c 1325 Jones, Diana Wynne, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT ------------------, CHARMED LIFE ------------------, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA 1348 *---------------------------------------------height of the Black Death 1348 Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS ------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo" Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose" Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders" 1349 Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE 1381 Freireich, Valerie J., "Measure for Measure" 1381 Olsen, Per G., "I Albions tid" c 1400 Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS 1422 Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans" c 1425 Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains" 1431 Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES 1431 Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA 1450 Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy" 1485 Norton, Andre, QUEST CROSSTIME 1486 Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper" 1491 Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won" 1491 Turtledove, Harry, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life" 1492 *-----------------------------------------------Columbus's first voyage 1492 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward" 1492 Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management" ------------, "A Second Chance" 1492 Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!" 1492 deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians" 1492 Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal" 1492 Gorodischer, Angelica, "De navegantes" 1492 Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Soefaerden til Cipangu" 1492 Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE; also c -1000, 1906 et al 1492 Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews" 1492 Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA 1492 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE RENAISSANCE c 1500 Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke" 1502 Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION 1517 Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee" c 1517 Amery, Carl, DAS KOENIGSPROJEKT 1520 *--------------------------------------------------sack of Tenochtitlan 1520 Evans, Christopher, AZTEC CENTURY 1520 Linaweaver, Brad, "The Bison Riders" 1520 Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert" 1520 Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME 1520 Wilder, Cherry, "Kaleidoscope" 1521 Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En flue paa vaeggen" 1527 Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly" 1536 Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN 1536 Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold" c 1550 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Philharmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza" c 1565 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter" 1578 Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause" 1583 Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Haabet er groent" 1586 Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT 1587 Leiber, Fritz, "No Great Magic" 1588 *-------------------------------------destruction of the Spanish Armada 1588 Andrews, Keith William, SINK THE ARMADA! 1588 Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER 1588 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time" 1588 Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH 1588 Parker, Geoffrey, "If The Armada Had Landed" 1588 Roberts, Keith, PAVANE (------------), "The Signaller" (------------), "The Lady Anne" (------------), "Brother John" (------------), "Lords and Ladies" (------------), "Corfe Gate" (------------), "The White Boat" c 1600 Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST 1605 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay" 1606 Jones, Diana Wynne, WITCH WEEK c 1607 Holford, Costello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD 1610 Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS 1626 Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?" 1649 Whitbourn, John, A DANEROUS ENERGY c 1655 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia" 1658 *----------------------------------------------death of Oliver Cromwell 1658 Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR 1660 Card, Orson Scott, HATRACK RIVER (---------------), SEVENTH SON (---------------), RED PROPHET (---------------), PRENTICE ALVIN 1665 Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO c 1665 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William" 1666 Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note" 1670 Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED 1674 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" 1697 Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED 1710 Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT 1735 Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations" 1737 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls" 1742 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman" 1745 Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy" 1746 Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE -----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA -----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET -----------, THE STOLEN LAKE -----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN -----------, THE CUCKOO TREE -----------, DIDO AND PA -----------, IS -----------, MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE c 1750 Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump" 1759 *-----------------------------------------------------battle of Quebec 1759 Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?" 1759 Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique" 1759 Percy, H.R., "Letter from America" 1759 Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF 1760 Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!" 1762 Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5" 1763 Stirling, S.M., "Cops and Robbers" c 1765 Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time" 1772 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane" c 1772 Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise" 1774 Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s" 1775 Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted" c 1775 Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades" 1776 Bloch, Robert, "Founding Fathers" 1776 Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME 1776 Kress, Nancy, "The Battle for Long Island" 1776 Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness" 1776 Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington Had Been Captured by General Howe: Mrs. Murray's War (1776)" 1777 Andrews, Keith William, RAIDERS OF THE REVOLUTION 1777 Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny" 1777 Piper, H. Beam, "He Walked Around the Horses" 1777 Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA 1779 Stirling, S.M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA --------------, UNDER THE YOKE --------------, THE STONE DOGS 1780 Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes" c 1780 Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting" 1781 *----------------------------------------------------battle of Yorktown 1781 Clarke, Gerald, "Yorktown: If the British Had Won" 1781 Nicholas, Herbert N., "Hail Our Britannic Bicentennial" c 1781 Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle" 1782 Allikas, David, "A Switch in Time!" 1782 Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR 1784 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative" 1784 Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?" 1785 Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird" 1787 Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL 1787 Riker, William H., "What If Elbridge Gerry Had Been More Rational and Less Patriotic? (1787)" 1788 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York Into the Union" 1788 Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal System?" 1788 Morales, Alejandro, THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES: A NOVEL 1788 Williams, Walter Jon, "Wall, Stone, Craft" 1789 *----------------------------------------------storming of the Bastille 1789 Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?" 1789 Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE 1789 Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country" 1790 Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM; also 1911 1792 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check" 1792 Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE 1793 Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck" 1793 Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY: POWIESC 1794 Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE 1794 Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH --------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" --------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR --------------, THE VENUS BELT --------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE --------------, BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR --------------, TAFLAK LYSANDRA --------------, TOM PAINE MARU 1795 Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain" 1796 Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA 1797 Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand" 1798 Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships" 1801 Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?" 1801 Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07" c 1801 Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS 1803 Long, Norton E., "What If Napoleon Had Not Sold Louisiana? (1803)" 1803 Salisbury, Robert H., "What If Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John Marshall (1803)" 1804 Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL 1805 Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES 1805 Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon" 1805 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF ENGLAND 1805 Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea" 1807 Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION OF 1807 1808 Masters, Roger D., "What If Napoleon Had Not Invaded Russia? (1808)" 1812 Cate, Curtis, "Preface" 1812 Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON APOCRYPHE 1813 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans" 1813 Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians" 1813 Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!" 1813 Meacham, Beth, "One by One" 1814 Laumer, Keith, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME 1815 *----------------------------------------------------battle of Waterloo 1815 Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO 1815 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gate of Hugomont Castle" 1815 Collyn, George, "Unification Day" 1815 Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America" 1815 Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars" 1815 Keen, Tony, "Napoleon's Airship" 1815 Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS 1815 Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo" 1815 Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE c 1815 Joergensen, Per C., "Neste aar i Jerusalem" c 1815 Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE c 1815 Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES c 1817 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward" 1819 Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy" 1824 Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny" 1824 Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE 1824 Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece" 1826 Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS 1827 Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" 1828 Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave" 1832 Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?" 1836 Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory" 1836 Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO! 1836 Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF VIRGINIA 1841 Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE 1846 Bomba, Ty, "Outgoing Mail" 1846 Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time" 1847 Minogue, Kenneth, "What If Karl Marx Had Drowned in a Cross-Channel Ferry Accident? (1847)" 1849 Roberts, Ralph, "How the South Preserved the Union" 1849 Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground" 1850 Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?" 1850 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese" c 1850 Gjaerevold, Einar, "Isens veg" c 1850 Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD c 1850 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Arrival of Truth" c 1850 Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western" 1856 Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night" 1856 Martin, George R.R., "Under Siege" 1857 *-----------------------------------------------------John Brown's raid 1857 Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN 1858 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III" 1860 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860" 1860 Di Filippo, Paul, "Walt and Emily" 1860 Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge" 1860 Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD c 1860 Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA 1861 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run" 1861 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861" 1861 Crosby, Ernest, "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go" 1861 Denton, Bradley, "The Territory" 1861 Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor" 1861 Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME 1861 Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME 1861 Simmons, Mark, "The American Civil War: Another Story" 1861 Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION 1861 Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded" 1861 Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE: A NOVEL ------------, ELVISSEY c 1861 *-(see note below)----------------------------------------------------- c 1861 Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY c 1861 Ford, John M., "Slowly By, Lorena" c 1861 Rochelle, Warren G., "A Peaceful Heart" c 1861 Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY c 1861 Smith, George Henry, "Take Me to Your Leader" c 1861 Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain"; also c 1285 1862 Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 1) #1-12 ------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 2) #1-4 ---------------, "Hero Worship: Public Faces and Private Dreams" 1862 Utley, Stephen, "Look Away" 1862 Vanauken, Sheldon, "The World After the South Won" 1863 *--------------------------------siege of Memphis, battle of Gettysburg 1863 Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness" 1863 Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" 1863 Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War" 1863 Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth" 1863 Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee" 1863 Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR 1863 Mitchell, Gary, "The Wars that Never Were" 1863 Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE 1863 Moore, William O., "Let Us Cross Over the River: A Flight of Fancy for Wargamers" 1863 Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's" 1863 Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH WON GETTYSBURG 1863 Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT 1863 Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG! 1863 Williams, Frank Purdy, HALLIE MARSHALL: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH 1863 Baron, Nick, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #2: GLORY'S END 1864 Richards, R.W., A SOUTHERN YARN 1864 Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY 1864 Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace" 1864 Turtledove, Harry, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR 1864 White, Mel., "Sam Clemens and the Notable Mare" 1865 Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel" 1865 DiChario, Nicholas A., "Extreme Feminism" 1865 Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD 1865 Lewis, Lloyd, "If Lincoln Had Lived" 1865 Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS 1865 Longyear, Barry B., "The Dreyfuss Affair" 1865 Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration" 1865 Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox" 1865 Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln" 1866 Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN 1867 Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867" 1870 Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870" 1871 *----------------------------------------------------Great Chicago Fire 1871 Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?" 1871 Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! 1872 Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" 1872 Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused" 1873 Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies" 1876 Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER 1876 Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIGHORN! 1876 Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON 1877 King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream" 1880 Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY 1880 Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880" 1880 Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory" c 1880 Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't" 1884 Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch" 1885 Newman, Kim, ANNO-DRACULA 1887 Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?" 1887 Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER ----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING 1888 Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood" 1888 Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer" 1890 Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY c 1890 Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "Because Thou Lovest the Burning-Ground" 1892 Manglese, Jack, "Bobby Frost" 1892 Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "The Murderer" 1893 Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time" 1893 Malzberg, Barry N., "Andante Lugubre" 1894 Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU 1896 Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand" 1896 Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare" 1896 Hahn, Ronald M., & Harald Pusch, DIE TEMPONAUTEN: SCIENCE FICTION-ROMAN c 1896 Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen" 1898 Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters" 1900 Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny" 1900 Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN c 1900 Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C" c 1900 Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It" c 1900 Hernandez, Lea, "Al Einstein--Nazi Smasher!" c 1900 Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR c 1902 Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats" 1903 Thompson, W.R., "The Plot to Save Hitler" 1904 Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea" 1905 Olsen, Per G., "Medaljens bakside" 1905 Pohl, Frederick, "Target One" 1906 Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE; also c -1000, 1492 et al 1908 Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... 1909 Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike" 1910 Resnick, Mike, "Bully!" 1911 Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky" 1911 Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM; also 1790 1912 Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World" ---------------------------, "Tom Joad" ---------------------------, "In the Air" 1912 Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay" 1913 Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING: A NOVEL 1914 Aldiss, Brian W., "A Tupolev Too Far" 1914 Jensen, Reidar, "Brev til min venn Wolfgang Wegener, februar 1924" 1914 Purdom, Tom, "The Redemption of August" 1914 Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error" 1916 Morselli, Guido, CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA 1917 *--------------------------------------------------Bolshevik Revolution 1917 Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM 1917 anon., "Scene and Not Herd: Failure of a Revolution" 1917 Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained Neutral?" 1917 Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves" 1917 Resnick, Mike, "Over There" 1917 Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut" 1917 Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917" c 1917 Swanwick, Michael, "In Concert" c 1917 Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" 1918 Baxter, Stephen, "Mittelwelt" 1918 Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage" 1918 Lackey, Mercedes, "Jihad" 1918 Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America" 1918 Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won" 1918 Thomsen, Brian M., "A Sense of Loyalty, a Sense of Betrayal" 1918 Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men" 1918 Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa" c 1918 Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS 1919 Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been" 1919 Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe" 1919 Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM 1919 Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened" 1920 Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat" c 1920 Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS c 1923 Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS 1924 Louvish, Simon, REFLECTIONS FROM THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY 1924 Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO 1924 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob" 1925 Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference" 1926 Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX 1926 Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION; also 1939 1926 Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded" 1926 Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat" 1927 Wyndham, John, "Random Quest" 1928 Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men" 1929 Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise" 1930 Niven, Larry, "The Return of William Proxmire" 1930 Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare" 1930 Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME c 1931 Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang" 1932 Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY 1932 Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without Franklin Roosevelt?" 1932 Nimersheim, Jack, "The Wages of Sin" 1932 Smith, Dean Wesley, "A Bubble for a Minute" 1932 Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" 1933 *---------------------------------------------first inauguration of FDR 1933 Denton, Brad, WRACK & ROLL 1933 Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE 1933 Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE 1933 Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION 1933 Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?" c 1933 White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP 1934 Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI 1935 Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY 1935 Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish" 1935 Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon" 1935 Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG: A NOVEL 1936 Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN 1936 Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN 1936 Thomsen, Brian M., "A Night on the Plantation" c 1936 Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four- Door Hardtop" 1937 Daniel, Kate, "The DEFIANT Disaster" 1937 Di Filippo, Paul, "Campbell's World" 1938 Delaplace, Barbara, "Standing Firm" 1938 Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne" 1938 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Sinner-Saints" 1939 Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO 1939 Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons" 1939 Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION; also 1926 1939 Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbon, WATCHMEN 1939 Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High" 1939 Powlesland, Aidan, "Prelude to War: Poland, pivot of history: 1st August 1939--1 November 1939", 1939 Quarrie, Bruce, HITLER: THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS 1940 *-----------------------------------------------------battle of Britain 1940 Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG 1940 Butler, Ewan, WITHOUT APOLOGY 1940 Coward, Noel, PEACE IN OUR TIME: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS AND EIGHT SCENES 1940 Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION 1940 Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 1940 Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata" 1940 Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1940 1940 Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England" 1940 Haffner, Sebastian, ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER 1940 Heinlein, Robert A., TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF MAUREEN JOHNSON (BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A SOMEWHAT IRREGULAR LADY) 1940 Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN 1940 Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War" 1940 Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940 1940 Roberts, Keith, "Weihnachtsabend" 1940 Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE; also 900 1940 Roy, Archie, ALL EVIL SHED AWAY 1940 Silverberg, Robert, "Trips" 1940 Stevens, Gordon, AND ALL THE KING'S MEN 1940 Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article" 1940 Walling, William, "Memo to the Leader" c 1940 Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners" c 1940 Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME 1941 *------------------------------------Operation Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor 1941 Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941" 1941 Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" 1941 Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss" 1941 Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX 1941 --------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE 1941 Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941 Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat" 1941 Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK 1941 Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace" 1941 Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II 1941 Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL 1941 Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME 1941 Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN 1941 Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain" 1941 Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND 1941 Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO 1941 Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" 1941 Wodhams, Jack, "Try Again" c 1941 *-(see note below)----------------------------------------------------- c 1941 Andrews, Keith William, TREASON IN TIME c 1941 Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans" c 1941 anon., THE OCCUPATION c 1941 Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space" c 1941 Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSST c 1941 Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither" c 1941 Brown, Douglas & Christopher Serpell, LOSS OF EDEN c 1941 Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again" c 1941 Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN: A NOVEL BASED ON HIS PLAY FOR TELEVISION c 1941 Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs" c 1941 Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics" c 1941 Gaspar, Laszlo, "Mi, I. Adolf" c 1941 Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?" c 1941 Hermansen, Sjur, "Alternativ naatid" c 1941 Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed" c 1941 Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE ----------------, "Under an Appalling Sky" c 1941 Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE c 1941 Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT c 1941 Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU c 1941 Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES c 1941 Shi Jian, <title unknown> c 1941 Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions" c 1941 Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II" 1942 Fried, Robert C., "What If Hitler Got the Bomb? (1944)" 1942 Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND 1942 Malzberg, Barry N., "Fugato" 1942 Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear" 1942 Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People" -------------, "John Harper Wilson" 1942 Turtledove, Harry, WORLDWAR: IN THE BALANCE -----------------, WORLDWAR: TILTING THE BALANCE -----------------, WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE -----------------, WORLDWAR: FINDING THE BALANCE 1943 *-------------------------------------------end of battle of Stalingrad 1943 Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX 1943 Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH 1943 Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America" 1943 Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY 1943 King, Tappan, "The Mark of the Angel" 1943 Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion" 1943 Murphy, Walter F., "What If Peter Had Been Pope During World War II" 1943 Tilton, Lois, "Wunderwaffen" 1943 Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland" 1944 Ambrose, Stephen, PEGASUS BRIDGE: JUNE 6, 1944 1944 Andrews, Keith William, SNOW KILL 1944 Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD 1944 Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice" 1944 Ford, John M., "Intersections" 1944 Koontz, Dean, LIGHTNING 1944 Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House" 1944 Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ 1944 Tsouras, Peter, DISASTER AT D-DAY: THE GERMANS DEFEAT THE ALLIES, JUNE 1944 1944 Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation" c 1944 Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations" 1945 *-------------------------------------bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla" 1945 Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED 1945 Compton, K.T., "If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used" 1945 Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN 1945 Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?" 1945 Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o" 1945 Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms" 1945 Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived" 1945 Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT 1945 Malzberg, Barry N., "Hitler at Nuremburg" 1945 Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank, KNIGHT'S CROSS 1945 Overgard, William, DIVIDE 1945 Reich, Tova, "Mengele in Jerusalem" 1945 Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike" 1945 Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age" 1945 Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE 1945 Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington" 1945 Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER: A NOVEL 1945 Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT 1946 Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge" 1946 Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son" 1946 Dexter, Lewis A., "What If Joseph McCarthy Had Not Been a U.S. Senator in 1950-55? and/or What If There Had Been a Serious, Responsible Senator with Gifts as Great as McCarthy's for Publicity Who Had Pre- Empted the Communism-in-Government Issue from Him in 1949" 1946 Gorodischer, Angelica, "El oro de Tiresias" 1946 Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I ------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH ------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD ------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD ------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY ------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE -------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND ------------------- (ed), WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS ------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE Snodgrass, Melinda M., WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS: CARD SHARKS ------------------------, WILD CARDS: MARKED CARDS 1948 Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change..." 1948 Kessel, John, "The Franchise" 1948 McAllister, Bruce, "Southpaw" 1949 Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE, 1949-1981: DE L'ASSASSINAT DU GENERAL DE GAULLE (12 JUIN 1949) AU COUP D'ETAT DU GENERAL MASSU (10 MAI 1981) 1949 Turtledove, Harry, "Hindsight" 1950 Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES 1951 Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons" 1952 Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse" 1952 Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" 1952 Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952" 1952 Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo, "Instability" 1953 Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel" 1955 Schimel, Lawrence, "Taking Action" c 1955 Cook, Rick, "Hackers" 1956 Aldiss, Brian W., "M.E.R.O's Sinai Project, 1957-1970" 1956 Wildavsky, Aaron, "What If the U.S. Had Had One Law for Its Allies and Another for Its Adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)" 1960 Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?" 1960 Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine" 1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal" 1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975" 1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins" 1961 Shiner, Lewis, "Twilight Time" 1962 *--------------------------------------------------Cuban missile crisis 1962 Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE 1962 Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR 1962 MacLeod, Ian R., "Snodgrass" 1962 Mendini, Douglas, "What If..." 1962 Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES 1962 Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways" ------------, & Howard Chaykin, "All the Myriad Ways" 1962 Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage" 1962 Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory" 1962 Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part" 1963 Ambrose, David, THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF 1963 Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP 1963 Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD 1963 Drake, David, FORTRESS 1963 Haldeman, Jack C., II, "Death of a Dream" 1963 Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate" 1963 National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days" 1963 Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER 1963 Shiner, Lewis, "Oz" 1963 Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation" 1963 Reginald, Robert, & Jeffrey M. Elliot, IF J.F.K. HAD LIVED: A POLITICAL SCENARIO 1963 Williams, Philip M., "What If Hugh Gaitskell Had Become Prime Minister? (1963)" 1964 Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans" 1964 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Best and the Brightest" 1966 Kagan, Robert A., "What If Abe Fortas Had Been More Discreet? (1969)" c 1966 Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY 1967 Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR 1967 Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose" 1968 Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect" 1968 Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE POLITIQUE 1968 Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution" 1968 Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds"; also 1972 1968 Costello, Matthew J., HOUR OF THE SCORPION 1968 Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine" 1968 Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson" 1968 Polsby, Nelson W., "What If Robert Kennedy Had Not Been Assassinated? (1968)" 1968 Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968" 1970 Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL 1970 Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH 1970 Shiner, Lewis, "Voodoo Child" c 1970 O'Rourke, P.J., "The Seventies that Never Happened" 1972 *----------------------------------------------------Watergate break-in 1972 Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3" 1972 Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds"; also 1968 1972 Jones, Charles O., "What If There Had Been a Nixon Presidency Without Watergate? (1973)" 1972 Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM 1972 Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." 1972 Thomsen, Brian M., "Paper Trail" 1973 Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL 1973 Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief" 1973 Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT 1973 Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER 1974 Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran" 1974 Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?" 1977 Averneri, Shlomo, "What If Sadat Had Come to Jerusalem under a Labor Government? (1977)" 1977 Kaye, Lenny, "If Elvis Had Lived" 1978 Resnick, Laura, "The Vatican Outfit" 1979 Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT 1980 Resnick, Mike, "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" 1980 Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History" 1982 Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist..." 1982 Lee, Rand B., "Knight of Shallows" 1984 Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses" 1988 Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens" 1992 Nutman, Philip, WET WORK (Note: Stories which vaguely specify Southern victory in the American Civil War are assigned a date of c. 1861. Similarly, stories which specify without details Axis victory in WW2 are assigned a date of c. 1941.) -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 10:01 Message # 9544 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 8 of 8 Message-ID: <2oed4j$d0j@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part8 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part8 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST Version 18 - 12 April 1994 APPENDIX III - OLDEST ALTERNATE HISTORIES This appendix lists Alternate Histories written before that genre of writing could be considered a genre. Arguments can be made for a number of possible dates marking a possible beginning point, from the 1931 publication of Squire's anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE to the 1953 publication of Ward Moore's BRING THE JUBILEE. The date chosen here is 1939, the year that de Camp's original short story of "Lest Darkness Fall" saw publication. The increasing number of alternate histories which saw publication from the mid-1930s on are presumably a result of the respectful treatment given the subject by the essayists in J.C. Squire's anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE and by historian Albert Toynbee in his A STUDY OF HISTORY. The first undisputable AH *novel* is Geoffroy-Chateau's NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE (1836), and the earliest novel in English Holford Costello's ARISTOPIA (1895). Other pre-1850 book-length items listed below are not themselves alternate history but contain AH digressions. The earliest AH short story is apparently Hawthorne's "P.'s Correspondence" (1845). Titles are presented here by date of first known *publication*, although some items are known to have been written several years in advance of that date. c 1 Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA 1732 Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE, CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE 1791 Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE 1813 Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI 1836 Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE 1845 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "P.'s Correspondence" 1849 Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened" 1872 Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE 1876 Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TELQU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE 1881 Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off" 1895 Holford, Costello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD 1899 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF ENGLAND 1900 Williams, Frank Purdy, HALLIE MARSHALL: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH 1904 Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea" 1905 Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA 1907 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo" 1920 Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been" 1921 Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet" 1922 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative" 1924 Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA 1926 Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF 1926 Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy" Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded" 1927 Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO 1929 Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage" Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE 1930 Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox" Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln" 1931 Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY HISTORY Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck" Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots" Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America" Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won" Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded" Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer" Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness" Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece" Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare" Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" 1932 Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD 1933 Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices" Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened" 1934 Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern Christian Civilization" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western Christian Civilization" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian Civilization" 1935 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls" Daniels, David R., "The Branches of Time" Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C. 1936 Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War" 1937 Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO 1938 Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN Sell, William, "Other Tracks" Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men" 1939 de Camp, L. Sprague, "Lest Darkness Fall" -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 09:57 Message # 9545 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 2 of 8 Message-ID: <2oecsf$d7g@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part2 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part2 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward", in <IoH> W: Columbus did not listen to Pinzon on Oct 7, 1492, and kept sailing true west. C: Landfall would have have likely been made between Cape Canaveral and the Carolinas, and Spanish colonization would have focused on N America. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York Into the Union", in <IoH> W: Even though 10 states had already agreed, New York's convention refused to ratify the Constitution. C: Rhode Island and North Carolina would also have remained outside the Union, creating a Balkanized N America with civil and military conflict. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gate of Hugomont Castle", in <IoH> W: Two British soldiers failed to prevent Napoleon from capturing Hugomont. C: Napoleon would have split the British army and won at Waterloo. Primarily a list of events that would have not occurred. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma", in <IoH> W: William the Conqueror had no claim to the English throne. C: Not particularly AH discussion of the family connections. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check", in <IoH> W: La Fayette accepted the people's call to be the French chief executive. C: With La Fayette in power, the Reign of Terror would not have happened, Napoleon would have been restrained and France would be a world power. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III", in <IoH> W: Felice Orsini killed Napoleon III. C: Without Napoleon, there would have been no Franco-Prussian war and 500k men would have lived longer lives. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860", in <IoH> W: Buchanan fully enforced federal law upon S Carolina's succession, snuffing out the Civil War before it could start. C: Slavery would have been slowly dissolved, but black suffrage never extended nor white supremacy organizations created. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter", in <IoH> W: Elizabeth I found a man both wise and docile enough to marry. C: With a Tudor heir, English advances in the arts would have continued, Puritanism averted, but likely no American Revolution. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese", in <IoH> W: The Auckland did not rescue several Japanese fisherman and take them to San Francisco. C: US interest in Japan would have not perked, and the island nation would have eventually ended up a Russian or British puppet. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman", in <IoH> W: Mary Washington did not change her mind, and son George entered the British navy. C: Without Washington's leadership, the revolutionary army would have fallen apart. Even supposing victory, there would have been no Constitution. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run", in <IoH> W: The Confederates were more organized and followed hard on the heels of the panicked Union army to Washington. C: With Washington occupied, the border states would also have seceded and a peace negotiated, with future Balkanization and conflicts. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861", in <IoH> W: The South took up the company's offer and purchased ten good steamships. C: The Confederate navy would have been capable of averting the blockade, and independence fully achieved by 1863. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours", in <IoH> W: Abd-ar-Rahman defeated Charles Martel at Tours. C: The Moors would have pushed on to conquer the rest of the Europe, and the arts, sciences and role of women in society would have been altered. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Philharmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza", in <IoH> W: Musicians did not join to form the Philharmonia in the mid 1500s. C: There would be no professional musician class today and music would not be divided between classical and popular. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans", in <IoH> W: Jean Lafitte accepted a British commission as captain in the Royal Navy. C: Without him, Andrew Jackson would have lost the Battle of New Orleans and not become president, thus allowing nullification to survive. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time", in <IoH> W: The Armada sailed in January rather than July, 1588. C: Elizabethan culture would have been stifled and Protestantism smashed, with Spanish spoken from Mexico to the St. Lawrence. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election", in <IoH> W: The electoral competition between Themistocles and Aristides fell in Aristides's favor. C: Without the fleet that Themistocles advocated, Greece would have lost to Persia at Salamis and we'd all be worshipping Mithra today. Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY (... 83; DAW 85); exp of "Kelly Country", in Void ... 83 W: Australian Ned Kelly escaped police capture in 1880 and led a successful Irish-Australian rebellion against British authority. S: A mental time traveler causes Kelly's escape and wakes up in world where Australia rather than the US is embroiled in Vietnam. Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81 ------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81 W: Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts. S: A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next. Chaykin, Howard: see Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR (Coward-McCann 69) W: While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces delivered a devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 1967. S: A day-by-day account of the 6-day fall of Israel and its repercussions in the US, USSR and the new UAR. Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots", in <If,abc> and THE COMMON MAN (Sheed & Ward 50) W: As the title says. C: Essay on England's place in Christendom and whether it would have accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort. Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in Omni Nov 90, <YBSF8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow) (HBJ 92) W: An older idea of cosmology were correct. S: After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault of heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through. Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky", in <BT> W: Observing the continued success of Stanley brothers in auto racing, Henry Ford brought out the Model A steamer in 1911. S: Congress investigates internal combustion engines when a kerosene shortage arises. Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS (Popular Library 76) W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated. S: Christopher, John, FIREBALL (Dutton 81; Tempo 84) S: Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire. -----------------, NEW FOUND LAND (Dutton 83) S: The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and Aztecs. -----------------, DRAGON DANCE (Dutton 86) S: The boys travel on to California. Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in Scribner's Dec 30, <If,abc> and <WMHB3> W: Jeb Stuart reached the battlefield in time to support Pickett's charge. Later, Lee unilaterally freed the slaves and Britain recognized the CSA. S: Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might have prevented the formation of the English-speaking union. T: German "Wenn Lee die Schlacht von Gettysburg nicht gewonnen hatte" Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN (Popular Library 75) W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire. S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry. Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED (Morrow 69; vt THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD WORLD, Cape 69) W: The Trinity test was a failure, due in part to Klaus Fuchs. S: An agonizing invasion of Kyushu leads to US use of rice fungus bombs, and the Soviets exploit border incidents for a drive on the English Channel. Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME (World 62) S: Clarke, Gerald, "Yorktown: If the British Had Won", in Time 2 Nov 81 S: Coleman, Terry, EMPIRE (Sinclair-Stevenson ...) W: Texas never joined the Union. S: Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME (ed Moorcock) (Rapp & Whiting 68) W: Napoleon won at Waterloo. S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French empire. Compton, K.T., "If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used", in Atlantic Dec 46 S: Conner, Mike, HUN (Tor, not yet published) S: Cook, Rick, "Hackers", in Analog Apr 89 W: Space travel grew from the efforts of model rocket makers rather than nat'l programs. S: Participants in a 1989 space race encounter a man with a story about a world in which the gov't spent billions on space and achieved little. Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in <BT> W: Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops before his family could flee to Egypt. S: The murder of Jesus, his family and the magi, with an epilog about Rome's British satrap "Queen" Victoria's humiliating coronation. Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN: A NOVEL BASED ON HIS PLAY FOR TELEVISION (Panther 64) S: Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN (HBJ 83) W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test. S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan. Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in <BT> W: The Watergate break-in went undiscovered and Richard Nixon was president until poor health caused his resignation in 1994. S: In 1996, a plumbers unit breaks into a Hyannisport house to retrieve a tape stolen from the San Clemente archives. Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX (Penguin/ROC 90) S: A mental time traveler studying what made the Beatles so great is sidetracked into "change war" action involving Rommel's Afrika Korps. --------------------, HOUR OF THE SCORPION (Penguin/ROC 91) S: Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon. --------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE (Penguin/ROC 92) S: More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor. Costikyan, Greg, "The West is Red", in <IAsfm> May 94 W: Marxism works and capitalism doesn't. S: An academician/computer expert from the USSR visits a Washington, DC, torn between failing capitalism and flowering Communism. Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT> S: The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by Vikings and English pirates. Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in <BT> W: Magellan discovered the Americas. 350 years later abolitionists blocked US annexation of Texas. S: A US Customs inspector considers the disastrous possibilities on a Balkanized N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson. Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <f&sf> Dec 91 W: After defeating the US in WW2, the Japanese set the AmerInds up as governors of the country. S: Decades after the war, white Americans meet secretly to enjoy relics of Euro-American culture, and argue with a man who advocates accommodation. C: May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the Japanese defeat the US in the future. Coward, Noel, PEACE IN OUR TIME: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS AND EIGHT SCENES (Doubleday 48); incl in THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF NOEL COWARD: PLAY PARADE (Heinemann 58) W: Nazi Germany invaded and conquered England in the fall of 1940, with an Allied counter-invasion in 1945. S: How an occupied people relate to their conquerors, as demonstrated by the patrons of a pub, variously resisters and collaborators. C: A play first presented at the Theater Royale in Brighton in July 1947. Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...", in <AP> W: Dewey defeated Truman in the election of 1948. S: How playing hardball over Communism led to Dewey's win. Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54, Fantastic Jan 60, <AH>, and COSMIC CRITIQUES (eds Asimov & Greenberg) (Writer's Digest 90) S: Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago. T: German "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo" Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION (Thornton Cox 74; Presidio 77) W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Seeloewe, invading England on 22 Sep 1940. S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure. C: Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German officers. C: Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". Cron, Thomas, "Tuning the Crosswhen Radio", in The Clay Tablet 1980 S: The purchase of a radio lets its proud new owner pick up broadcasts from other timelines. Cronin, Philip M., "If Britain Had Suppressed America's War for Independence", in Harvard Magazine Jul/Aug 76 W: S: Three possible American histories. Crosby, Ernest, "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go", in North American Review Dec 03 W: S: Slavery withers away and the states re-unite. Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY (Doubleday 90) and <YBSF7> W: Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society to preserve and extend the British Empire. S: Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he can rethink his will. Cunliffe, Marcus, "What If?", in American Heritage Dec 82 C: Discussion of counterfactual arguments, with examples from the American presidency. (Follow-up letters to editor appear in Feb 83 issue.) Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale & LoBrutto) (Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90) W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle. S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army. C: Borderline secret history, but for reasons of personal safety, Cupp has stated it is AH. Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36 W: Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit more tenacious. S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency. Daniel, Kate, "The DEFIANT Disaster", in <BAOF> W: Amelia Earhart survived the crash at Howland Island. S: Years later, as head of the Nat'l Space Exploration Administration, she must cope with the space plane accident that killed Chuck Yeager. Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in <IAsfm> Jul 92 W: AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society. S: People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out. Daniels, Tony, "God's Foot", in <IAsfm> May 93 W: What if the Eurasian and African tectonic plates collided with the N American during the late Cretaceous. S: A Korean-Japanese tourist climbs the great Appalachian peak Cheaha and becomes embroiled in a conflict between strange Western gods. Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!", in <BT> W: Offered the choice of going to hell or to America, George II's heir opted for the latter. S: The center of British power shifts to Philadelphia, leading to an English uprising in the early 1800s against American tyranny. Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II/SPRING 1985 (eds Pournelle & Baen) (Baen 85) and <FCW> W: The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington during Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865. S: An explanation of its development and how it provoked the sack of Richmond and a harsher Reconstruction. Davis, Grania, "Chroncop", in <f&sf> Aug 93 S: A time cop looks for a group of missing tourists, with brief mention of visits to AH worlds. de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES (Doubleday 63), <BAW>, MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) (St. Martin's 92, 93), etc W: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science. S: Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead overawes and sours him on scientific research. T: German "Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles" de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL (Ballantine 49; Pyramid 63; Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83); exp of "Lest Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec 39 S: Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages. de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in Amazing Jan 92, <WMHB4> and <YBSF10> W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus. S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled. de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF (Shasta 48), <AH>, THE WHEELS OF IF & THE PUGNACIOUS PEACEMAKER (Tor SF Double #20) (Tor 90) and UNKNOWN WORLDS (ed ...) (Bristol Park 93) W: Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours. S: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic Christian bishop in "New Belfast". C: Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker". Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72 W: Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2. S: An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop. Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared. DeBrandt, Don H., THE QUICKSILVER SCREEN (Ballantine 92) S: Adventures of a professional viewer in a 21st century in which Infinite Range TV provides a look at other timelines. deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM> S: Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 (Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79; Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92) W: Germany won the Battle of Britain. S: A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and investigate a murder in occupied England. C: Synopsis in Giordano's WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE. T: German SS-GB Del Rey, Lester, [& Paul W. Fairlane,] THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66) S: Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States. Delaplace, Barbara, "Farewell, My Buddy", in <BAOF> W: Humphrey Bogart became a private detective rather than an actor. S: His business about to go belly-up, Bogey broods about how unrealistic Hollywood tec movies are, particularly those starring Ray Chandler. Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in <AP> W: Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944. S: Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender. Delaplace, Barbara, "Painted Bridges", in <AO> S: Delaplace, Barbara, "Standing Firm", in <AW> W: Neville Chamberlain was made of sterner stuff. S: How Chamberlain made up his mind to stand up to Hitler at Munich, including a conversation with appeasement proponent Churchill. Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian Century 7-14 Jan 76 W: In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent. S: Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880. Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF (Heinemann 26) W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages. S: Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92 and <YBSF10> W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada. S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into. Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL (Popular Library 86) W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia after the fall of Germany. S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star. In 1979, her daughter goes on tour. Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) (Citadel 91) S: In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. Dexter, Lewis A., "What If Joseph McCarthy Had Not Been a U.S. Senator in 1950-55? and/or What If There Had Been a Serious, Responsible Senator with Gifts as Great as McCarthy's for Publicity Who Had Pre-Empted the Communism- in-Government Issue from Him in 1949", in <WIESSF> W: As the title says. C: Without obvious witch-hunting, a better job of explaining the dangers of proStalinism and rooting it out would have occurred. Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92 W: Concerned about Hitler, Otto Frank sent his daughters to America with his brothers-in-law, where they move to Hollywood. S: Excerpts from the diary of Anne Holland, from reading for a part in THE WIZARD OF OZ to her divorce from Mickey Rooney in 1951. Di Filippo, Paul, "Campbell's World", in Amazing Sep 93 W: Anthropologist Joseph Campbell became editor of Astounding in 1937. S: A Navajo story-writer recounts Campbell's plans to publish tales leading to world harmony and how they averted WW2. Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91 W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics, and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace. S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees. Di Filippo, Paul, "Walt and Emily", serial in Interzone #77-78 (Nov-Dec 93) S: An encounter between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone #55 (Jan 92) W: Starting with Einstein in 1918, every nuclear physicist was murdered, and nuclear weapons were never developed. S: A soldier in Kiel c 1970 for the big allied push against the Soviets meets an old reporter with a crazy tale about time travelling. Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo DiChario, Nicholas A., "Extreme Feminism", in <AW> W: The struggle for women's suffrage in America was more violent. S: Susan B. Anthony participates in a gun purchase and a demonstration gone awry, and despite her desires finds herself becoming an outlaw. DiChario, Nicholas A., "Giving Head", in <AO> S: DiChario, Nicholas A., "Would He Do Woody?", in <BAOF> W: "Eddie" Chaplin didn't achieve on the silver screen. S: The tale of a modern silent actor named Charlie Chaplin who's just made a movie about his grandfather who didn't quite make it in show biz Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE (Ace 66) W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates. S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve overpopulation problems. Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley 74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92; ROC UK 93) W: Before his 1933 inauguration, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which eventually led to the Axis winning WW2. S: Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war. T: German DAS ORAKEL VOM BERGE Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH (Arbor House 85; Avon 87) S: Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER (Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder & Stoughton 76; Avon 77; Mysterious 93) ----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING (Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike 90) W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in 1910 rather than his brother George. S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family closet and must solve some mysteries. Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS (Dr. Who 91) W: The Nazis conquered Britain. S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure. Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) (Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864; Widdleton 1865) C: Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development. C: Discussed in Stableford's "A Note on Alternate History". Dixon, Dougal, THE NEW DINOSAURS: AN ALTERNATE EVOLUTION (Grafton 88; Salem House 88; Fawcett 89) W: The KT meteorite impacts never occurred and the Great Extinction of the dinosaurs never happened. S: Pictorial biology of the modern result of continued dinosaur evolution. Dixon, Larry: see Lackey, Mercedes, & Larry Dixon d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE (Knopf 74) W: Eurasia was united under a single empire. S: T: French LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR (New English Library 79; St. Martin's 80) W: An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge of the 3rd Reich for 6 months. S: Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also, details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem. Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage", in Saturday Evening Post 28 Sep 29, Strand Oct 29, and UNCOLLECTED STORIES: THE UNKNOWN CONAN DOYLE (eds Gibson & Green) (Secker & Warburg 82; Doubleday 82) W: Wilhelm II did not abdicate. S: The Kaiser travels to Kiel and convinces the sailors to give up their revolt and sail into one last grand battle against the British. Drake, David, FORTRESS (Tor 87, 88) W: JFK escaped assassination and in 1965 announced a Star Wars-like missile defense program. S: In 1985, a former NSA agent is caught between Americans, Neo-Nazis, Jews and space aliens in a fight for control of an orbital defense platform. Dreyfuss, Richard: see Turtledove, Harry, & Richard Dreyfuss Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92 W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering Europe before the US could enter the war. S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans. Dunn, J.R., "Long Knives", in L. RON HUBBARD PRESENT WRITERS OF THE FUTURE: VOLUME III (ed Budrys) (Bridge 87) S: Agents from one timeline protect hated leaders such as Hitler in others from crosstime assassins. Dunn, J.R., "Men of Good Will", in Amazing Mar 93 W: Archimedes built machines to replace slaves, and the contributions of others led to an industrial revolution 1800 years early. S: A Roman agent is sent to Jerusalem to extract a Galilean rabbi who seems to be at the center of possible trouble for the empire. Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY (F. Watts 87) W: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain. S: In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends. Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in <AP> W: Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president in 1824, four years early. S: Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later, George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers. Ede-Borrett, Stephen, "1688--The Glorious Revolution and the War that Never Was", in Miniature Wargames #65 (Oct 88) C: Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in <IIHB> W: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his 2nd term as British Prime Minister. C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest. Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA (Ace 81) S: The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations. C: Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM. Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WMHB1> W: Robert E. Lee fought for the Union and the Civil War was over before Lincoln could issue an Emancipation Proclamation. S: Thinking things would be better, a black physicist working in 1938 Imperial Germany goes back in time to make Lee follow a different path. Effinger, George Alec, "The Fifteen-Minute Falcon", in <BAOF> W: Gypsy Rose Lee was a private detective. S: THE MALTESE FALCON retold in 14 pages with all gender roles reversed. Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY (Axolotl 90) W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War. S: Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK> W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including JFK's son Patrick. S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics. Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL (Harper & Row 73; Dell 76); exp of "The City on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON RISING (ed Disch) (Harper & Row 73) S: One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in which Germany won WW1. Effinger, George Alec, "Schroedinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AWBSF>, <YBSF6>, NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) (Arbor House 88), and THE NEW HUGO AWARDS: VOLUME III (ed Willis) (Baen 94) S: An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist. Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory). Effinger, George Alec, "Shootout at Gower Gulch", in <AO> S: Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) (Harper & Row 76) and <BAW> W: In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2. S: Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel. T: German "Ziel: Berlin!" Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH (Dell 79) S: A female student from our world is stuck in a chauvinist Midwest of a world where the Armada triumphed. Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE (DAW 74) S: A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets out to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America. Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WMHB4> W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed knowledge of Columbus's voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas. S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic murder of a babe near Seattle. Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81 W: The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700. S: 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned. Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT> W: Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600. S: In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco just as the city falls to the Aztecs. T: German "Die Sonne geht auf" Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME (Laser 75) W: George Washington was killed in New York in August 1776, and the US did not become independent until after a second rebellion in 1796. S: A boy from 2169 is forced into the Time Service and discovers that he must fix American history. Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH> W: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics. S: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found. T: German "Schweig stille, Mund!" Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH (Simon & Schuster 73) W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970, thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history. S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation. Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK (Poseidon 89; Avon 90) W: Germany did not invade the Soviet Union in 1941, but did invade England in 1942, and Mexico sometime later. S: Evans, Christopher, AZTEC CENTURY (Gollancz 93, 94) W: The Aztecs were not defeated. S: The Aztecs rule 20th century Britain. Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80 S: A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral strength from talking to her counterpart in another. Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>, THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) (NAL/Mentor 79), A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) (Avon 81), <GSFS14>, etc W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological principles. S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth. T: German "Weitersegeln! Weitersegeln!" Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH (Ace 79); rev of THE GATE OF TIME (Belmont 70) S: American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war. Farren, Mick, NECROM (Ballantine 91) S: Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec-dominated modern Earth. Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in <AP> W: Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled Senate still provoked Southern secession. S: In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana. Fawcett, Bill, "Zealot", in <AW> W: Moses led his people into guerrilla warfare. S: After three years of fighting, the Hebrews occupy pharaoh's Gizan palace, but find themselves beseiged by an overwhelming force. Feeley, Gregory, "My Tongue in Thy Tale", in <AO> S: Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed Campbell) (Doubleday 63), TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) (Fawcett 74); POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) (Prentice-Hall 74), <BAW> and <GSFS23> W: Napoleon conquered Britain. S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its defenders behave like 20th-century liberals. Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR (Tor 90); exp of "The World Next Door", <IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr) W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s. S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world full of home computers, cable television, etc. Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone #6 and INTERZONE: THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) (J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85) W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president. S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev. Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal System?", in WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 92) W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797. C: Description of US government and political parties under a system in which states are little more than geographic regions. Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WMHB4> W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the Pacific Coast. S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their colonization of California. Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB (Bantam 85) S: Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics, Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime. Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WMHB2> W: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional musician. S: As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Einstein frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher. Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in <HV> W: Rudolf Hess's flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began a 1000-year peace. S: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an accident on the Moon. Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME (Simon & Schuster 68); rev of "The Other Wife" (vt "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and ABOUT TIME (Simon & Schuster 86); incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc S: Adventures in various timelines with minor differences. Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31, <If,abc> and PAGES FROM THE PAST (Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69) W: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston. S: L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America, but will it be enough? T: "Wenn Napoleon nach Amerika entkommen ware" Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES (Simon & Schuster 57; Ace ...; Greenwood 77; vt INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES, Hart-Davis 57; Pan 75) W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at all. C: Mostly background mat'l but chapter 20 discusses events which could not have occurred if either supposition were true. Flynn, John L., "Paradox Lost" W: The Library of Alexandria was not burned. S: Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87 W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States fighting constant border wars. S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York. Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89 W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success. S: A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters the Inca Empire before civil war broke out. Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY (Simon & Schuster 83; Avon 85) W: Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works. S: A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power. Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 80; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) S: Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading to all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline." -------------, "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80 S: An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to convince the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline. -------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and <FCW> S: A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded in an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War. -------------, "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81 S: An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2. Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail ..., Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE (Little Brown 70; Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76) W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40. S: Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS #1-3, comic book series (Caliber Comics 90) W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church. S: 20th-century aventures of League of Nation operatives in a conflict against a Roman African airship. Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... (Ballantine 77) W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting down Hitler in 6 months. S: A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear proliferation. Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in Interzone #29 (May/Jun 89), <WMHB1> and INTERZONE, THE FIFTH ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women began to fight back against degradation. S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can take her to a more equable world. Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER (Ballantine 86) ---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT (Ballantine 89) ---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR (Ballantine 89) ---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD (Ballantine 89) ---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY (Ballantine 90) S: An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to defeat the coming Mongol invasion. Freireich, Valerie J., "Measure for Measure", in Aboriginal Dec 91 W: Wat Tyler was not killed at Smithfield but became an advisor to Richard II, prolonging that king's reign and leading to an English enlightenment. S: Two time travelers from our future and another meet outside Geoffrey Chaucer's home and fight to retain the histories they remember. Fried, Robert C., "What If Hitler Got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIESSF> W: After Heisenberg produced a laboratory chain reaction, Germany went on to produce A-bombs in early 1944, dropping them on London and Leningrad in May. C: An essay arguing how unlikely such a course of events was, and how the Nazis would still have lost the war due to superior Allied air power. Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD (NAL/Signet 88) W: During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain from the rest of the world. S: Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen grimoire on which rests her authority. Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW> W: Napoleon invaded and conquered England in 1798. S: In 1811, Jane Austen meets Davey Crockett and finds that they have much in common, including a distaste for l'empereur's ambitions. Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WMHB4> W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus's voyage of discovery was instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant. S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus's ships return from meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold. Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK> W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted the power of making anything true merely by saying so. S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in Berlin has disastrous effects. Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF! (Donning 79, 86) W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study. S: A series of letters showing how Newton became disillusioned and came to write the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA. Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY (SFBC 83) W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo- French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300. (--------------), MURDER AND MAGIC (Ace 79) ((------------)), "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed Santesson) (Pocket 65) and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 82) S: A lecherous count is killed and the best clue is the last thing he saw. ((------------)), "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed Campbell) (Doubleday 66) S: The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks like him is found dead near the harbor. ((------------)), "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL WONDER (ed McComas) (Random House 70) S: The Duke of Kent's coffin is found occupied by the body of the Chief Investigator for the Duchy. ((------------)), "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed Dickinsheet) (Doubleday 73) S: A publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day. (--------------), TOO MANY MAGICIANS (Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace ...); serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66 S: Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a sorcerers' convention in London. (--------------), LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES (Ace 81) ((------------)), "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) (Davis/Dial 83) S: A materialist count is killed when he is flung from his laboratory window. ((------------)), "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76 S: Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion. ((------------)), "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and 13 CRIMES OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) (Doubleday 79) S: During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is found dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy. ((------------)), "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 79) S: A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly travels to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing. ----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial 80; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan) (Davis/Dial 82) S: Rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is required to explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste. ----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER (ed Bretnor) (Ace 79) and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 82) S: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield. C: See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN GIRL. Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee", in <BT> S: Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence of Henry Ford. Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL (Vantage 54) W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still rule. S: Gentle, Mary, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE (Bantam UK 91; Penguin/ROC 93) S: Story of a mage in a Britain divided between Queen Carola and Lord- Protector Olivia Cromwell. C: Non-AH predecessor is RATS & GARGOYLES. Gerrold, David, "The Firebringers", in <AW> W: Various Hollywood stars were in real life the types of men they played in the movies. S: Commanding a bomber carrying a nuclear device to Berlin, Col. Gregory Peck has second thoughts, and argues with Reagan, Bogart, et al. Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP> W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson winning the election of 1952. S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar. Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK> W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business. S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise. Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF (Random House 73; Faber 73; Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; rev Bantam 91) S: A man inherits a time-travel belt and explores the nature of paradox. Mentions some change-the-past incidents but without much follow through. Gerrold, David, "Satan Claus", in <AO> S: Gerrold, David, "What Goes Around", in <AO> S: Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 81; Zebra 81), BURNING CHROME (Arbor House 86; Ace 87), MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) (Arbor House 86; Ace 88) and THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds LeGuin & Attebery) (Norton 93) S: A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport, etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF. T: German "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum"; Portugese <title unknown> Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE (Bantam 91; Gollancz 9x) W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early. S: A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder. Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St. Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in Christian Century 24 Feb 71 W: As the title says. S: The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona, particularly its competition with American Christian missions. Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in <AP> W: Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976. S: On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914. Gluckman, Janet, & George Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT (St. Martins 9x) W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar. S: Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR (Black Heron 91) S: Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV> W: Germany won WW2. S: An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the previous occupant's Dachau experiments. Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and LAUGHING SPACE (eds Asimov & Jeppson) (Houghton Mifflin 82) W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay. S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company. Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD (Samuel French 32) W: A black employee of Ford's theater prevented John Wilkes Booth from killing Abraham Lincoln. S: Lincoln rather than Johnson is impeached and tried for trying to fire Secretary of War Stanton, with more dramatic results. C: A three-act play first presented by the Morningside Players in New York City in 1932. Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT> W: Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo. S: Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in <SAH> W: C: Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained Neutral?", in <SAH> W: The United States was not drawn into WW1. C: Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH> W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands of Zangara the next spring. C: Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War-- What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH> W: FDR enjoyed better health. C: Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH> C: Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO (Basic 77; Sphere 79) W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665. S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war. Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al) (Taplinger 80; DAW 92) W: The American Revolution failed. S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on St. Helena, but is he Napoleon? -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 09:56 Message # 9548 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 1 of 8 Message-ID: <2oecq9$iu2@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part1 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part1 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly 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 who have made submissions, 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. Andrews, Keith William, FREEDOM'S RANGERS (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 W: Clemenceau and Lloyd George questioned Woodrow Wilson's ability to get the US Senate to accept the League of Nations. S: Conversations in which they realize the problem and address it to Wilson. Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea", in Saturday Review 23 Jul 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 slavery west of the Appalachians, and his vote 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 YEAR (ed Carr) (Tor 87) W: Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering English history and the course of American colonization. S: Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake. (---------------), 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. -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 2120 news.answers 04-12-94 09:58 Message # 9551 From : R.B. Schmunk To : ALL Subj : LIST: Alternate History ÿ@FROM :PCRXS@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV ÿ@SUBJECT:LIST: Alternate History Stories, 4 of 8 Message-ID: <2oecut$iaf@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers news.answers Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part4 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part4 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR (Ace 84) --------------, NEW BARBARIANS (Ace 86) --------------, CRY REPUBLIC (Ace 89) W: Rome defeated Arminius in the Teutoburg Wald and the legion responsible was posted to Judea, where 20 years later, Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth. S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes Caesar. Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92 S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out. Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAsfm> Sep 91 and <AP> W: Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal, leading to Davey Crockett becoming president in 1828. S: Just as the Confederacy wins its independence in 1853, a soldier recounts how the flight of a slave may have broken the Compromise of 1850. Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD (Manor 77) S: Soldiers from post-nuclear war USA are thrown back to 1860, where they help create an AmerInd nation and a Free State of New Mexico. Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illustrated [Classic] Fall 91 W: Henry Frazee's mistress prevented him from trading Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919. S: Reminiscing about the many men who played for the Boston Red Sox, the greatest dynasty in baseball history. Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE (Allison & Busby 78; Fontana 78; Avon 79; Warner/Popular Library 86) W: Refugees from Troy founded a new empire in Britain. S: Political machinations in London, capital of Elizabethan-level Albion, which is ruled by a virgin queen. Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME (SFBC ...) (---------------), THE WARLORD OF THE AIR (New English Library 71; Ace 71; rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81) S: Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace has maintained European imperialism. T: German DER HERR DER LUFTE (---------------), THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE (Doubleday 74; Quartet 74; DAW 76; Panther 81) S: Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did the world no good. T: German DER LANDLEVIATHAN (---------------), THE STEEL TSAR (DAW 82) S: Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili. T: German DER STAHLZAR Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN (DC Comics 88); reprints WATCHMEN #1- 12 comic book series (DC Comics 86-87) W: Costumed vigilantes appeared in 1939 and a real superhero with superpowers was created in 1959 by an accident in a nuclear research lab. S: In 1986, Nixon is still president, someone is killing old costumed heroes and nuclear war looks imminent. Why are the latter two related? Moore, C.L.: see Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE (Farrar, Straus & Young 53; Ballantine 53; Avon 72); exp of "Bring the Jubilee", in <f&sf> Nov 52 and <FCW> W: Confederates occupied the Round Tops during the first day of Gettysburg, leading to victory in the battle and Confederate independence. S: An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and the Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863. T: German DER GROSSE SUDEN Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang", in <BT> W: The Sino-German alliance defeated Japan and won WW2. S: A Chinese-American history prof at UC-Monterey finds that his students are violently bigoted. Moore, William O., "Let Us Cross Over the River: A Flight of Fancy for Wargamers", in The General ... 89 W: Stonewall Jackson seemingly rose from the dead after Chancellorsville, and followed Lee to Gettysburg, occupying the Round Tops. S: Details of Jackson's resurrection and the Confederate victory at Gettysburg, plus the capture of Baltimore and the armistice in August. Morales, Alejandro, THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES: A NOVEL (Arte Publico 92) W: A mysterious plague swept through Mexico City in 1788. S: Doctors fight the plague in 1788, 1970 and 2050. Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES (Bantam 88); exp of "All the Time in the World", in <IAsfm> ... 82 S: In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out to prevent the nuclear war of 2007. Moran, Tony, "Close Your Eyes and Stare at Your Memories", in Amazing Jan 73 S: Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IIHB> W: Adenauer did not ignore Stalin's proposal for German re-unification. C: His five reasons for exploring the idea, plus some commentary about the all-German election of 1954. Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66 W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England. S: Foiling the invasion. Morrissette, Gabriel: see Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WMHB2> and <90AWBSF> W: Lincoln made peace with the Confederacy in 1863. S: Through time travel, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009. Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in Amazing Jul 91 and <WMHB3> W: Upon finding out that the Trojan War was being fought over her, Helen decided she didn't need the guilt. S: Notified of Helen's desire to end the war, the leaders of both sides aren't having any of it. Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant", in <WMHB1> W: Moses couldn't get a replacement set for the tablets he smashed on the golden calf, and society had to be constructed without them. S: An attempt to computer-reconstruct the law of Moses from the tablet shards, which have been saved. Morselli, Guido, + Hugh Shankland (tr), PAST CONDITIONAL: A RETROSPECTIVE HYPOTHESIS (Chatto & Windus 89) W: Austria-Hungary invaded Italy via a secret tunnel in May 1916, forcing it out of the war in five days. S: How lightning tactics achieved victory for the Central Powers in WW1 and led to the creation of a semi-socialist W European federation in 1917. T: Italian CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL (Simon & Schuster 75; Macmillan 75) W: Hitler attacked the Soviet Union immediately instead of toying with Greece and Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Japan attacked Vladivostok. S: A young officer and a maverick bishop get involved in a last-ditch attempt to topple Hitler. Murphy, Walter F., "What If Peter Had Been Pope During World War II?", in <WIESSF> W: God re-ran history, giving Pope Pius XII St. Peter's moral character. C: The Oct 1943 roundup of Roman Jews leads the Pope to criticize the 3rd Reich and Great Britain, and the Nazis attack the Vatican. Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations", in Reviews in American History Jun 83 W: Three men who powered the American Great Awakening did not do so. C: Scholarly argument that minus the evangelical movement, the revolution would still occur and independence probably gained, but no Civil War. Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE (McGraw-Hill 69; Fawcett 70; McGraw-Hill 86; Vintage 90) S: Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank, KNIGHT'S CROSS (Carol/Birch Lane 93) W: Hitler was captured by the Allies in early 1945. S: National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 77 W: Jackie Kennedy died in Dallas instead of JFK. S: A whimsical look at Kennedy's first 16 years, including his marriage to Christina Onassis and military intervention in N Ireland. Nelson, Ray, TIMEQUEST (... 85); rev of BLAKE'S PROGRESS (Laser 75) S: William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians. Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH WON GETTYSBURG (Reliance 80) W: Lee listened to Longstreet and flanked the Union on the South before the battle's third day. S: Day by day account of the battle, and JEB Stuart's raid on Washington. Final chapter provides outline of consequent American history to 1940. Newman, Kim, ANNO-DRACULA (Simon & Schuster 92; Carroll & Graf 93; Pocket UK 94) W: Dracula actually existed, defeated Van Helsing and married the widowed Queen Victoria. S: A human agent of the Diogenes Club and a vampire are among those hunting for Jack the Ripper, who is killing vampire whores. Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone #23 (Spr 88) and <YBSF6> W: H.G. Wells's book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction. S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood. Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Interzone #48 (Jun 91) and Aboriginal #27 (Jul/Aug 91) W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated while trying to break up a Chicago labor strike before the inauguration. S: How reaction to the anti-socialist backlash, early entry in WW1 and the corrupt presidency of plutocrat C.F. Kane led to a socialist revolution. ---------------------------, "Tom Joad", in Interzone #65 (Nov 92) S: Ideology agents Elliott Ness and Melvyn Purvis hunt for a legendary agitator and end up confronting Chairman Capone's enforcer Frank Nitti. ---------------------------, "In the Air", in Interzone #43 (Jan 91) S: Musician Charlie Holley recounts how Howie Hughes and Jack Kerouac crashed a party in honor of Patton's Revolutionary Fraternity Squadron. Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE WANDERING JEW (ed Stableford) (Daedalus 91) W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge after his army panicked, making Christianity a laughing-stock of a religion. S: In 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew/Christian tells the story of his life, from 30 AD Jerusalem to Persian-besieged Jewish Rome. Nicholas, Herbert N., "Hail Our Britannic Bicentennial", in Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 76 W: Britain prevented troops and siege supplies from reaching Washington at Yorktown, leading to a Cornwallis victory. S: The states remain within the British Empire, but are permitted to form a unified government after a constitutional convention in 1787. Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <If,abc> W: Lord Byron did not die of a fever in 1824. S: An overview of Byron's life from 1824 to 1854, including how he became king of Greece in 1831 and his wife's attempts to usurp power. Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat", in <AP> W: Warren Harding died during the campaign of 1920, putting James Cox in the White House. But Cox died too and his Veep became president. S: In 1923, President Franklin Roosevelt meets with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who successfully pulled off the Beer Hall Putsch. Nimersheim, Jack, "#2, With a Bullet", in <AO> S: Nimersheim, Jack, "The Wages of Sin", in <BAOF> W: Bonnie and Clyde found a safer way of making money than bank robbery. S: B&C go into tent-revival sex therapy, but still have a fatal date with the FBI on a Louisiana highway. Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, ALL THE MYRIAD WAYS (Ballantine 71), GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FICTION (eds Pohl et al) (Playboy 80; Worldview 81), N-SPACE (Tor 90; Orbit 92), etc W: The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange. S: A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime Corporation. C: Retold in comic-book form by Niven & Chaykin. Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <f&sf> Oct 70, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 71 (eds Wollheim & Carr) (Ace 71) and THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 73) S: Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto. Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 73) S: Post-holocaust time-traveler creates our timeline by preventing a blow-up resulting from the Cuban missile crisis. Niven, Larry, "The Return of William Proxmire", in <WMHB1> and N-SPACE (Tor 90; Orbit 92) W: SF author Robert Heinlein did not resign from the navy. S: Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from becoming a writer. Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <f&sf> Jun 71, THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 73), ZOO 2000 (ed Yolen) (Seabury 73) and <BAW> S: A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants developed from wolves instead of hominids. Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin, "All the Myriad Ways", in Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #5 (Marvel Comics 75) C: Comic book adaptation of the Niven short story. Nock, Albert Jay, "If Only--", in Atlantic Aug 37 S: Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71, ALIEN HORIZONS (Pocket 74) and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds Asimov et al) (Doubleday 78; Avon 78) S: In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster. Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION (Warner 73) W: FDR was assassinated in 1933. S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York. Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME (Ace 56; Gregg 78) S: Caught in a fight between crosstimers, a man from our world is stranded on one where the Axis attacked US coasts after England's fall. -------------, QUEST CROSSTIME (Viking 65; Ace 65; vt CROSSTIME AGENT, Gollancz 75) S: Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME (Atheneum 76; Fawcett Crest ...; Tor 92) S: Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never got started. Norwood, Warren, TIME POLICE: TRAPPED! S: Our hero visits a 1968 where Leslie King, Jr. is president and names Gov. Nixon of California his running mate. Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN (Paperback Library 67) S: Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter. Nurse, Patricia, "One Rejection Too Many", <IAsfm> Jul-Aug 78 and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick) (Avon 92) S: A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to <IAsfm> gets upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes. Nutman, Philip, WET WORK W: George Bush was re-elected. S: Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country", in <AP> W: Ben Franklin was elected president in 1789 rather than Washington. S: Franklin manipulates the government by using pseudonymous newspaper writings to influence public opinion, un-nerving Veep John Adams. Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert", in Analog Oct 91 and <WMHB4> W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and N AmerInds had similar success, leaving only the European colony on Manhattan Island. S: The Cuban Missile Crisis, recast in the 1800s as the Iroquois Federation inter-tribal air force vs. Manhattan. Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons", in <BT> W: MacArthur invaded China against orders and later set himself up as US dictator. S: MacArthur turns to psychic exploration of alternate possibilities to find out where he went wrong. O'Rourke, P.J., "The Seventies that Never Happened", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 80 W: The counterculture took over the US. S: Overgard, William, THE DIVIDE (Jove 80) W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America. S: Thirty years later, the American resistance develops the atomic bomb. Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW & THE FAIRY CHESSMEN (Gnome 51) and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW (Consul 51) S: Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES, in Ace Double D-69 (Ace 54); exp of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in Startling Stories Sep 49 S: A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests, who believe our New York is Paradise. Parker, Geoffrey, "If The Armada Had Landed", in History v61, pp 358-368 C: Primarily an analysis of the relative strengths of Spanish and English land forces, but includes speculation on the effect of Spanish landfall. Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IIHB> W: Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the Franco-Prussian War began. C: Thiers's diary demonstrates how he used his position to prevent French aggressive action which would provoke a German unification. Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED (Tor 87) W: The Ottomans invaded Russia c 1697, preventing its rise to power and leaving it helpless before Napoleon a century later. C: Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent Napoleon's European takeover. Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT> and VISIONS FROM THE EDGE (ed Bell) (Pottersfield 81) W: The French won the Battle of Quebec and took over Britain's American territories at the end of the French and Indian War. S: An annotated letter from a 1975 Boston terrorist seeking Soviet aid for a British-American revolt against the Republic of New France. Person, Lawrence, "Details", in <IAsfm> Apr 91 S: A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts. Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses", in <AP> W: Walter Mondale beat Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, and Nicaragua took the opportunity to export revolution. S: In 1979, while US forces intervene in the Mexican civil war, refugees overwhelm the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Houston. Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy", in Weekly Westminster 30 Jan 26, THE JACOBITE MOVEMENT: THE LAST PHASE, 1716-1807 (Eyre & Spottiswoode 50) and <If,c> W: In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie decided at Derby to continue his advance into England and the Hanoverians fled. S: Review of the Stuart restoration and speculation on how the Hanoverians would have mucked things up, particularly in America. Pignotti, Lorenzo, + John Browning (tr), THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY (Black, Young & Young 1823) W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492. S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants. T: Italian STORIA DELLA TOSCANA Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59 and THE WORLDS OF H. BEAM PIPER (Ace 83) W: George Washington died at Germantown. S: TV execs discuss an AH TV series, not realizing one participant is from a different timeline. Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN (Ace 65; Garland 75; vt GUNPOWDER GOD, Sphere 1978); rev of "Gunpowder God", in Analog Nov 64 and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Tor 86), and "Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 65 and ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF SOLDIERS (eds Adams et al) (Signet 88) W: Bronze Age Indo-Aryans crossed the Bering straight to colonize America. S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a N America where priests of Styphon exert political control through their monopoly on gunpowder. C: Sequels are Green & Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos" and Carr & Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker". --------------, PARATIME (Ace 81) (------------), "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Amis) (Hutchinson 81; Penguin 83), <GSFS10>, SPACE MAIL (eds Asimov et al) (Fawcett 80), <AH>, etc W: Burgoyne won at Saratoga, forestalling American independence and the Age of Revolution. S: Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon. T: German "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging" (------------), "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed Norton) (Cleveland 56), ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed anon.) and THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING (ed Lewis) (Baronet 78) (------------), "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY (ed Campbell) (Simon & Schuster 52) and <BAW> (------------), "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51 (------------), "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55 S: Tales of the Paratime Police guarding crosstime byways. All Earths shown are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours. Pirie-Gordon, C.H.: see Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?", in WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 92) W: FDR was killed in 1933, and when Jack Garner instituted no New Deal, Huey Long ran for president in 36 as a Populist. C: The many ways in which presidential elections could get hung up in the Electoral College or Congress if there were three equi-strength parties. Pohl, Frederick, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS (Bantam 86) S: In a US ruled by a militaristic regime, crosstime travel is used to steal better technology. Several versions of the same person get caught up. Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62, DAY MILLION (Ballantine 70), 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds Asimov et al) (Doubleday 78; Avon 78), etc S: A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a population explosion. C: Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL. Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49, ALTERNATING CURRENTS (Ballantine 56) and BEYOND THE END OF TIME (Doubleday 52; PermaBooks 52) S: Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered. Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55 and ALTERNATING CURRENTS (Ballantine 56) S: Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein. Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed Greenberg) (Tor 89) and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick) (Avon 92) W: Hearing about Einstein's letter to FDR, a biochemist wrote a similar letter proposing a crash study of biological warfare. S: Fred Pohl attends the 50th anniversary meeting of The Futurians and listens to Isaac Asimov tell a reporter about the typhus bomb. Pohl, Frederick, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAsfm> Aug 88, <89AWBSF> and <WMHB1> W: Jesus was not executed for sedition and Rome never fell. Two millennia later, aliens announce their imminent arrival. S: It is suggested to a sci-rom author in a rut that he try writing a "What If?" book, but he can't see the point of it. Polsby, Nelson W., "What If Robert Kennedy Had Not Been Assassinated (1968)", in <WIESSF> W: As the title says. C: Kennedy would not have been the Democratic candidate, but as Humphrey's veep, he would have led party reform and accelerated Vietnam withdrawal. Powlesland, Aidan, "Prelude to War: Poland, pivot of history: 1st August 1939--1 November 1939", in Miniature Wargames #70 (Mar 89) W: Poland and Germany signed a non-agression pact in September 1939. C: Outline of Aug to Nov, including Britain's retreat to isolation and civil strife in France, as Germany prepares for Operation Attila in Dec. Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT (Avon 81) W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg, leading to British recognition of the CSA and Confederate independence. S: 120 years later, both Confederacy and Underground Railroad plan to hijack a Union nuclear artillery shell being shipped past Hampton Roads. Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR (Atheneum 79) W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier. S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911. Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR (Ballantine 69; Ballantine 75); rev of "The Blue Star", in WITCHES THREE (Twayne 52) W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works. S: Purdom, Tom, "The Redemption of August", in <IAsfm> Mar 93 W: Von Kluck did not modify the Schlieffen plan and attacked Paris from the front rather than behind. S: Two time travelers fight to affect the events of Aug 1914, each believing his personal timeline is better replaced by another. Purser, Philip, "Alternative Biography: Margaret Thatcher", in The Oldie #30 (2 Apr 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Ron Reagan", in The Oldie #31 (16 Apr 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Germaine Greer", in The Oldie #32 (5 May 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Paul Johnson", in The Oldie #33 (30 May 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Roy Hattersley", in The Oldie #35 (11 Jun 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Antonia Fraser", in The Oldie #36 (25 Jun 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Clive James", in The Oldie #37 (9 Jul 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: John Birt", in The Oldie #38 (23 Jul 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Fiona Pitt-Keithley", in The Oldie #39 (6 Aug 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Chris Patten", in The Oldie #40 (20 Aug 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: John Patten", in The Oldie #40 (20 Aug 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Dirk Bogarde", in The Oldie #41 (3 Sep 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Auberon Waugh", in The Oldie #42 (17 Sep 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Peregrine Worsthorne", in The Oldie #43 (1 Oct 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Edwina Currie", in The Oldie #44 (15 Oct 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Kenneth Clarke", in The Oldie #45 (29 Oct 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Nigel Kennedy", in The Oldie #46 (12 Nov 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: David Hockney", in The Oldie #47 (26 Nov 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Betty Boothroyd", in The Oldie #48 (10 Dec 93) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Melvyn Bragg", in The Oldie #49 (24 Dec 93 --------------, "Alternative Biography: Clint Jefferson", in The Oldie #50 (7 Jan 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: David Jenkins", in The Oldie #51 (14 Jan 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Justice Rantzen", in The Oldie #52 (4 Feb 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: John Major", in The Oldie #53 (18 Feb 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Lord Waterhouse", in The Oldie #54 (4 Mar 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Lady Diana Spencer", in The Oldie #55 (18 Mar 94) --------------, "Alternative Biography: Lorena Bobbitt", in The Oldie #56 (1 April 94) S: Short humorous sketches of different lives that famous people might have led. Quarrie, Bruce, HITLER: THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS (David & Charles 88; Guild 89) W: Germany started a 'Manhattan Project' in 1939 and postponed Barbarossa until 1942, and the Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor until Sep 42. S: Detailed description of WW2 from Malta to Beria's capitulation of the Soviet Union in Jun 43, with an afterword about the A-bombing of New York. Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO! (Charter 86) S: -------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG! (Charter 88) S: A team travels back to prevent a Confederate victory and the consequent Nazi victory in WW2. -------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIGHORN! (Charter 90) S: A remnant of the team goes back to prevent George Armstrong Custer from being elected president in 1880. Reginald, Robert, & Jeffrey M. Elliot, IF J.F.K. HAD LIVED: A POLITICAL SCENARIO (Borgo 82); rev of Reginald's THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL FANTASY (Borgo 76) S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s. Reich, Tova, "Mengele in Jerusalem", in Harper's Jun 86 W: Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, hid in Jerusalem, S: The search for Mengele has an unusual conclusion. Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose", in Sports Illustrated [Classic] Fall 1992 W: A sneeze by Jerry Kramer resulted in the Dallas Cowboys winning the 1967 NFL championship rather than the Green Bay Packers. S: The decisive play of the game, plus comments on the futures of Kramer, the Packers and the Cowboys. Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory", in <AK> W: The Cuban missile crisis blew up. S: Centuries after Armageddon, legends of the two Camelots become entwined. Resnick, Laura, "The Vatican Outfit", in <AW> W: Mafiosi warned Pope John Paul I of his imminent assassination. S: After numerous assassination attempts, John Paul adopts a new management style to run the church. Resnick, Laura, "Saint Frankie", in <AO> S: Resnick, Laura, "Under a Sky More Fiercely Blue", in <BAOF> W: Lucky Luciano really was sent on a secret mission to Sicily in 1943. S: A boy older than his years guides Luciano to the home of a local capo. Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused", in <AP> W: Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate, was elected US president in 1872. S: Series of letters from Queen Victoria to the radical feminist president, at first expressing approval but not later. Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay", in <IAsfm> Nov 91 and <AP> W: Theodore Roosevelt was not wounded during the 1912 assassination attempt, leaving him healthy enough to successfully campaign for president. S: Four years later, as TR anticipates defeat by Woodrow Wilson, he discusses women's suffrage with various friends and allies. Resnick, Mike, "Bully!", in <IAsfm> Sep 91, STALKING THE WILD RESNICK (NESFA ...), BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double #33) (Tor 91), BULLY! (Axolotl 90) and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 92) W: When told during a 1910 safari that 50 white men would join him to tame Africa, Teddy Roosevelt did not turn the offer down. S: How TR tried to create a republic of the Congo, ousting the Belgians but ultimately failing due to the non-democratic traditions of the natives. Resnick, Mike "Lady in Waiting", in <AK> W: Marilyn Monroe did not become an actress. S: Washington, DC, waitress Norma Jean gets picked up by the president for a one-night stand and futilely dreams of becoming first lady. Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch", in <IAsfm> Jul 92 and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 92) W: Alice Roosevelt did not die on 14 Feb 1884. S: To protect his wife's fragile health, husband Teddy lives a quiet life as a naturalist, but dreams of greater accomplishments. Resnick, Mike, "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", in <IAsfm> Mar 93 and <AW> W: In order to end the Tanzania-Uganda war of 1980, Julius Nyrere accepted Idi Amin's challenge to a boxing match S: Outweighed by 200 pounds, Nyrere struggles to stay alive in the boxing ring. Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in <IAsfm> Apr 91, <WMHB3> and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 92) W: Under duress, Woodrow Wilson in May 1917 gave Teddy Roosevelt permission to re-form the Rough Riders and go to France. S: TR discovers that the natures of war and the enemy have changed in 20 years. Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME (Simon & Schuster 84; Baen 84) S: An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history. Reynolds, Mack: see also Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO (Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 70) S: Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the advance of technology. Richards, R.W., A SOUTHERN YARN (Rokarn 90) W: Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeats Grant's Army of the Potomac at Ox Ford in spring 1864 and later captures Washington. S: Story of Lee, Grant and a fictional sergeant during May and June 1864. C: Non-AH prequel is BROTHERS IN GRAY. Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <f&sf> Dec 65 S: A mental traveler prevents Lincoln's assassination. Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear", in Melbourne Argus 28 Jul-6 Sep 56 W: Japan won the Battle of the Coral Sea. S: Life in occupied Australia. Riddell, Peter, "If Tony Benn had won", in Times of London 17 Aug 92 S: Several short scenarios based on what-ifs in British politics between 1974 and 1990. Riker, William H., "What If Elbridge Gerry Had Been More Rational and Less Patriotic? (1787)", in <WIESSF> W: Massachusetts delegate Gerry votes against a Constitutional proposal, causing the entire convention to collapse. C: Speculation on the Balkanization of N America, begun by armed conflict between New York and New England for Vermont. Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD (Doubleday 83; Tor 86) W: Pagan Vikings fleeing forced conversion to Christianity established strong settlements in N America, and were later joined by Saxons. S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol conquest of Mexico. Roberts, Keith, PAVANE (Hart-Davis 68; Doubleday 68; Ace 68; Berkley 76; Gollancz 84) (------------), "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66, ANOTHER WORLD (ed Dozois) (Follett 77) and THE BEST OF BRITISH SF 2 (ed Ashley) (Futura 77) (------------), "The Lady Anne" (vt "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66, A DAY IN THE LIFE (ed Dozois) (Harper & Row 72), <AH> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) (Legend 91; vt MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION, St. Martin's 92, 93) (------------), "Brother John", in Impulse May 66 (------------), "Lords and Ladies", in Impulse Jun 66 (------------), "Corfe Gate", in Impulse Jul 66 (------------), "The White Boat", in New Worlds Dec 66 and THE GRAIN KINGS (Hutchinson 76) (not in 1968 Hart-Davis ed of PAVANE) W: Elizabeth I was assassinated, the Armada triumphed and Europe and the New World languished under 500 years of Church rule. S: Steam locomotives and heroic semaphore operators represent modern-day high-tech. Secret quasi-priesthood of scientists hunted by Inquisition. C: See also the reference mat'l entry for Roberts's "The Peacock Dance". T: PAVANE as German DIE FOLGENSCHWERE ERMORDUNG IHRER MAJESTAT ELISABETH I. Roberts, Keith, "Weihnachtsabend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed Moorcock) (Berkley 72), THE GRAIN KINGS (Hutchinson 76), THE PASSING OF DRAGONS, <HV> and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Hartwell) (Little, Brown 89) W: A junta overthrew George VI and Churchill in 1940, then made peace with the Axis. S: A girl disappears during the joint celebration of Christmas and the Hunt on an occupied-British estate. T: German "Weihnachtsabend" Roberts, Ralph, "How the South Preserved the Union", in <AP> W: In 1849, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore were killed in an accident, elevating the Senate president pro tem to the US presidency. S: David Atchison's presence in the White House provokes the abolitionist North into secession, leading to a different Civil War. Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75, <76AWBSF>, THE BEST FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) (Award 76) and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Del Rey) (Dutton 76) S: A "man" sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later but it isn't the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace. Robinson, Frank M., "One Month in 1907", in <AO> S: Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 84; Tor 86), <YBSF2>, NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) (HBJ 85), <AH>, THE PLANET ON THE TABLE (Tor 87), THERE WON'T BE WAR (eds Harrison & McAllister) (Tor 91), etc W: The "Enola Gay" crashed on a practice flight. S: The "Lucky Strike" is selected to bomb Hiroshima, but its bombardier is horrified by the power of the atomic bomb. T: German "Lucky Strike", "Der Flug de Lucky Strike" ----------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in Interzone #49 (Jul 91), REMAKING HISTORY (Tor 91) and Author's Choice Monthly #20 C: An essay on quantum physics and AH, with various possible outcomes of the bombing of Hiroshima described. Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAsfm> Mar 89, <WMHB1> and REMAKING HISTORY (Tor 91) W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded. S: A lunar film company remakes the DeNiro classic ESCAPE FROM TEHERAN and discusses Great Men and Women. Rochelle, Warren G., "A Peaceful Heart", in Aboriginal May/Jun 89 W: The Confederacy gained independence. 100 years later, civilization along the eastern seaboard has fallen apart due to biological warfare. S: In 1978, a man raising two orphan boys on a N Carolina island must cope with the eldest's desire to find out what's happening on the mainland. Rodgers, Alan, & James D. MacDonald, "Souvenirs", in <AO> S: Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C. (Cassell 35; Arno 78) W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John. S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to overthrow his uncle. Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE (Walker 72; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 72) W: The Qarmatian Muslims enjoyed further victories after Basra *or* Great Britain capitulated to the Nazis. S: An astral disarmamament inspector discovers a crosstime Nazi plot to destroy his timeline, Time One. Roy, Archie, ALL EVIL SHED AWAY (John Long 70; Apogee 86) W: Churchill was assassinated in June 1940 and an armistice followed, then invasion and occupation. S: In our 1945, two officers find a manuscript written by a time traveler from occupied Britain 1970 who decided to set things right. Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF VIRGINIA (Morrow 90) S: In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe set out for the S Pole to locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior. Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WMHB2> W: Members of the Beat Generation decided to disrupt an H-bomb test. S: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and John von Neumann intersect at White Sands. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Arrival of Truth", in <AW> W: Sojourner Truth marched through the South telling the slaves to take what is theirs. S: Slaves at a Virginia plantation await Truth's coming Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Best and the Brightest", in <AK> W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1964. S: A black reporter faces a personal crisis when he is given evidence that RFK ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Common Sense", in <AO> S: Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob", in <AP> W: Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette was elected US president in 1924, but died in 1925 during a stalemate with Congress. S: Six years later, family, friends and enemies of La Follette meet to argue over the Wisconsin Senate race, breaking open old wounds. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Sinner-Saints", in <f&sf> May 93 and <BAOF> W: Lillian Hellman joined a third party movement and ran for the US Senate, losing lover Dashiell Hammett as a consequence. S: 15 years later, in the midst of the Communist witch hunts, Sen. Hellman must decide how much to admit regarding her relationship with Hammett. Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN (Bantam 75; Gregg 77; Beacon 86); incl in RADICAL UTOPIAS (Book-of-the-Month Club 90) S: Interaction of a woman from a future where a plague killed all men, a 1960s woman from a timeline where WW2 didn't happen, and the author. T: German PLANET DER FRAUEN Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES (Ballantine 90) W: The Nazis enjoyed enough success in Europe that they could invade the US. S: Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40 S: A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours. Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS (Tor 83) S: A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines. Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN (Ace 79; Tor 87) W: The Inca rebellion against Spanish domination succeeded. S: A man from our world gets involved in a time war between Inca and Aztec timelines, seeing action in old Cuzco. Sagara, Michelle, "For Love of God", in <AW> W: Thomas a Becket did not return after fleeing England because of his dispute with Henry II. S: Armies representing the two sides meet on a French battlefield, and Becket remembers the history of his relationship with Henry. Sagara, Michelle, "What She Won't Remember", in <AO> S: Salisbury, Robert H., "What If Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John Marshall (1803)", in <WIESSF> W: Congress impeached and removed Chief Justice Marshall from office. C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the US Supreme Court, ending in impeachment of thre justices who supported abortion in 1973. Salomon, Warren, "Time on My Hands", in <IAsfm> Oct 82 W: Alexander the Great besieged Jerusalem. S: Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG (Warner/Questar 8x) W: The Mongols sacked Europe from Moscow to Cordova, leaving the Moors and Chinese to discover the New World during the 16th century. S: In the late 1600s, an Irish rogue adrift in N America sets his sights on Chinese California but must first cope with a Cossack army loose in the SW. Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY (Warner/Questar 91) W: With British help, the Confederacy won the Civil War. S: The sole member of the Cherokee air force is attached to a Confederate squadron fighting in France in 1916. Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN (Davies 52; Ballantine 60) S: A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a world where Germany won WW2. T: Spanish EL CUERNO DE CAZA Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WMHB4> W: The Mongols conquered mainland Europe and crossed the Atlantic. S: Led by the son of the khan of France, the Iriquois federation moves to drive the English out of New England. Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age", in LONE STAR UNIVERSE (eds Proctor & Utley) (Heidelberg 76) and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois) (Dutton 77; Ace 78) W: Disaster at Oak Ridge scrapped the Manhattan Project, and the US decided not to invade Japan. S: In 1954, random bombers fly over the bombed-out Japanese islands, eliminating any signs of human activity they happen to find. Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in Astounding Dec 33 S: Schimel, Lawrence, "Taking Action", in <AW> W: Precognition of what might be, including the Rodney King beating, pushed Martin Luther King, Jr. away from the path of non-violence. S: The civil right movement follows a more violent route, leading to a duel between King and George Wallace. Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 77) S: Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy. Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE (Doubleday 72; Popular Library 72); exp of "Artery of Fire", in Original Science Fiction Stories Mar 60 S: An attempt to transmit "Black Field" power from Pluto to Earth has disastrous crosstime potential, heading directly for Hiroshima 1945. Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES (Baen 86) W: After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to quell a rebellion of League cities. S: His return and dealings with early Rome. Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT (Baen 88) W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens. S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect James VI/I from magical attacks. Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <f&sf> Apr 63 W: Lenin did not return to Russia from Switzerland. S: A time traveler destroys Lenin's train, but returns to his home time to find Washington DC occupied by Germans. Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington Had Been Captured by General Howe: Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WIESSF> W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill was fought persuaded Howe to forget refreshment and pursue Washington. C: Memoir of an historian who discovers Mrs. Murray's diary and who shows it to Howe's biographer while at the Royal New York Historical Society Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38 and SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) (Vanguard 53) S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and discover that they have changed the present. C: 1st known story to theorize that changing the past will alter the time- traveler's home time. However, little historical development. Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER (Random House 86) S: To prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels back to 1963 Dallas, but an altered history may also need correction. C: Basis for the 1990 movie RUNNING AGAINST TIME. Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS (Ace 68) S: A man goes back in time to save his wife from a killer, creating a world in which the wife didn't die and another version of himself exists. Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette, "The Infinite Man", in Gene Day's Black Zeppelin (Renegade) W: Britain and Russia fought a war in the 1880s. S: Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF INFINITY (Bantam 60) S: Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable choices. Sheckley, Robert, "Disquisitions on the Dinosaur", in DINOSAUR FANTASTIC (eds Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 93; SFBC 94) S: Time travelers bring dinosaurs forward to ancient Rome, and various invading (in our timeline) armies decide not to invade. Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in <AP> S: In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history. Sheckley, Robert, "Miranda", in <AO> S: Shelley, Rick, "The Worlds I Used to Know", in Analog Jan 88 S: Shepard, Lucius, "A Spanish Lesson", in <f&sf> Dec 85 and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #15 (ed Carr) (Tor 86) S: Sherman, Josepha, "Monsieur Verne and the Martian Invasion", in <AW> S: In a steampunk 19th century, the great inventor Jules Verne discovers and fights a creature from outer space. Shetterly, Will, "Hero Worship: Public Faces and Private Dreams", in Captain Confederacy (vol 2) #2 W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862. S: An autobiographical sketch of a reporter, born to Union parents but working in the CSA. ---------------, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 1) #1-12, comic book series (Steeldragon 86-87); issue #1 rev as Captain Confederacy Special Edition S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s but he is unhappy being ordered about in an apartheid-ridden country. C: Letters to editor often more interesting than the story. ------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 2) #1-4, comic book series (Epic Comics 91-92) S: Super-heroes from 8 N America nations, Germany and Japan, meet in New Orleans, where the representative from Texas is murdered for his weaponry. Shiner, Lewis, "Oz", in FULL SPECTRUM (eds Aronica & McCarthy) (Bantam 88) W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered. S: Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam. Shiner, Lewis, "Twilight Time", in <IAsfm> Apr 84 W: Aliens secretly invaded in the 1950s, using subliminal TV, drugged food, etc, in an attempt to establish a police state. S: A political prisoner is sent back into 1961 in a time travel project to remove alien influence. T: German "Zeit des Zwielichts" Shiner, Lewis, "Voodoo Child", in <IAsfm> Jul 93; excerpted from GLIMPSES (Morrow 93) W: Jimi Hendrix did not accidentally overdose on sleeping pills. S: A man from 1989 tries to keep Hendrix alive so that he may produce "Last Rays of the Rising Sun". C: Although this segment seems AH, when taken within the context of the whole novel it is not. Shiner, Lewis, "White City", in <IAsfm> Jun 90 and <YBSF8> S: Tesla conducts an experiment with atmospheric electricity at the Chicago World's Fair with results unanticipated by his backers. Shiner, Lewis: see also Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV> S: Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our timeline. Shippey, Tom: see also Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61 S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might have kept are included. Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IIHB> W: Kerensky did not stop Kornilov's occupation of Petrograd. C: Kerensky decides that Kornilov's aid is the only way to alleviate civil unrest and prevent a Bolshevik takeover. Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN W: Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and moved the Roman capital to the east. Also, magic works. S: --------------, THE WOMAN OF FLOWERS (Warner/Popular Library 87) --------------, QUEENSBLADE (... 87) S: Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in <Alt> W: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann. S: An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath. Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in <WMHB2> W: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his 1935 motorcycle accident. S: In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to N Africa, where he meets Rommel. Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace...", in <AP> W: Due to the increasing count of body bags returning from Vietnam, George McGovern was elected US president in 1972. S: Not waiting for the promised US withdrawal, N Vietnamese continue marching on Saigon. An Ohio family worries about its soldier son. Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 67; Methuen 80; Tor 84) W: The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks. S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec N America. T: German AUF ZU HESPERIDEN! ------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAsfm> Oct 90, LION TIME IN TIMBUCTOO (Axolotl 90) and BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor 91) S: Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying. C: See also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation of Spiders". Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain", in <IAsfm> May 92 and <WMHB4> W: A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida. S: While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem. Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89, <WMHB2> and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92) W: Genghis Khan was abducted at age 11, and after being sold into slavery became a prince's guard in Constantinople. S: Modern scientists in our timeline somehow communicate with a palace guard in old Constantinople, and one reminds him of sense of destiny. Silverberg, Robert, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAsfm> Nov 91 W: The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea, preventing the rise of Christianity and its inclement effect on the Roman empire. S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western (Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires. ------------------, "Via Roma", in <IAsfm> Apr 94 S: A Britannic visitor to Rome finds himself among the political "jet set" and sees from the sidelines the bloody creation of the 2nd Roman Republic. ------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <f&sf> Oct 89 and <YBSF7> S: Early during the 2nd Republic, two children meet a mysterious old man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces. ------------------, "To the Promised Land", in <WMHB1> and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92) S: 4000 years after the failed Exodus, the few remaining Hebrews in Egypt plan a new Exodus, to space, and recruit an historian to write their tale. Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) (Fawcett 74), <WOM> and THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY (Macmillan 76) S: An alien returns to Earth after tampering with history in 1914, finds things are askew and decides that he has shifted onto a parallel by mistake. Silverberg, Robert, "Trips", in FINAL STAGE (eds Ferman & Malzberg) (Charterhouse 74; Penguin 75); exp in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS (Scribner's 75; Berkley 75), THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG VOLUME 2 (Gregg 78) and LOST WORLDS, UNKNOWN HORIZONS (Thomas Nelson 78) S: A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2. Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE (Ballantine 69, 73) S: A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble. C: Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is briefly described. C: Follow-ups include Baron's GLORY'S END, Kingston CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS, MacDonald & Doyle's TIMECRIME, INC., and Wu's THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH. T: Czech <title unknown> Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN (Ballantine 78) W: A series of "blights" periodically prevented Europe from advancing beyond the Dark Ages. Also, magic works. S: A young man accompanies a woman and her griffin on a quest to retrieve a talisman to fight the blight. Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN (Musson 1953; SFBC 1953; Ace 54; World 60; Avon 67; Four Square 67; New English Library 77; Carroll & Graf 92) S: A whole series of parallel Earths (uninhabited) can be reached by mental means. Emphasis on the mutants and androids than on crosstime aspect. Simak, Clifford, SPECIAL DELIVERANCE (Ballantine 82) S: Six people from different timelines join together on a quest. -- R.B. 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