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| | Alternative history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s. | | | Secret history, which gives an account of history at odds with our general understanding, presenting its own account as having been lost or forgotten, is not alternate history. | | | The earliest alternative history published as a complete work, rather than an aside or digression in a longer work, is believed to be Louis Napoléon Geoffroy-Château's French nationalist tale, Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823 (1836) – in English "Napoleon and the conquest of the world". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction)
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| | Alternity: The Alternate History Star Trek E-mail List |
| | Alternate histories are nothing new; they've long fascinated both historians, novelists, and readers. | | | Playing alternate history with past events is common--one need only look at the popularity of books such as Robert Harris' Fatherland, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, or the work of Harry Turtledove. | | | Michael Okuda wrote his version in A History of the Future, published by Pocket Books and now in a second edition. |
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http://www.allyngibson.net/altern.html
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| | Histalt - Alternate History |
| | Detailed descriptions of the way in which the alternate earths came into existence will given when the nexus of 2000 has been described in detail. | | | Major authors such as C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra) have explored a specific histalt or alternate history, in his case those rooted in the fall of humankind from grace. | | | (Volume 5, The Nexus) How many earths there are, and where some of the alternate earths are "located" in the timestream becomes a puzzle the characters must solve, for good and evil clash on all the worlds, a very old wickedness indeed lurks in the timestream, and not everyone is who they seem to be. |
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http://www.arjaybooks.com/Fiction/AHF
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| | Uchronia: The Alternate History List |
| | A limit must be drawn or else this bibliography would have the impossible goal of including a significant fraction of the books and stories that have ever been published, and potentially the majority of all science fiction. | | | This is not alternate history as discussed here. | | | As at new book stores, you may have more luck in the science fiction and/or fantasy sections, although more "serious" works may be over in the history section. |
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| | Considerations on Alternate History |
| | One curious side-effect of this is that Alternate Histories which at first to be fantasy such as the excellent 'Trolley-World' actually can be explained by a divergent scientific over-view. | | | The authors either fail to understand the chaotic and random nature of personal relations, or ignore it in the interests of producing something amusing - comedy not alternate history. | | | Maybe a Lion or Ajax would emerge from a similiar venture we have never heard of, either because it never happened or because it was in our reality still-born. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/business/lauder/1644/altyhist.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century - Harry Turtledove - Paperback |
| | The latest anthology centers on alternate history and like the other collections includes a wonderful spread of tales covering a what if scenario on a wide range of eras and events written by mostly famous authors. | | | Also included are Ward Moore's famous Civil War tale, Bring the Jubilee; Larry Niven's brilliant tale of murder in alternate universes, All the Myriad Ways; William Sanders's The Undiscovered, in which Shakespeare is shipwrecked in darkest North America; and Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner's improbably cyberpunk Mozart in Mirrorshades. | | | He has published a translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly articles. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=a11KULYArG&isbn=0345439902&itm=1
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Gettysburg: An Alternate History |
| | Written with close heed to the actual events, Gettysburg: An Alternate History is a fascinating "what-if" journey of speculative fancy, often told through the eyes of soldiers struggling to survive the bloody battlefield. | | | Tsouras follows in the footsteps of legendary Gettysburg park historian Harry Pfanz and elects to describe the movements, attacks and retreats of virtually every regiment in the battle. | | | Sedgwick's Union VI Corps movements, which cause Longstreet's flanking attack to unravel, are not even depicted. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853672653
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| | Stephen's Alternate History Site |
| | Alternate Histories in SF - A very good introduction to the Alternate History genre in science fiction writing by sci-fi author Stephen Baxter. | | | We must remember that a true Alternate History story, to be meticulously argued and "fleshed out", would take a book. | | | - An elaborate alternate history in which Germania falls to the Roman Empire, which never falls. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
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| | Today In Alternate History |
| | As your humble alternate historian enters the downhill slope of the 40's, he still has his birthday wish - a contract with a publishing company like Workman Publishing to produce a page-a-day calendar of TIAH. |
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| | Boing Boing: Alternate history tubemap |
| | This tubemap with station-names translated into German is really disorienting and, as Teresa points out, evokes an alternate history of WWII. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/29/alternate_history_tu.html
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| | Alternate History |
| | Alternate history is the literature of what might have been. | | | It reads more like a history textbook than a novel, and the historical characters fail to come to life. | | | Want to look for other titles of interest? |
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http://leighkimmel.freeservers.com/reading/althist.html
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| | Alternate History |
| | The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." | | | Home > History & Historians > 1848 > Alternate History | | | that a consideration the Unfolding of History can yield important clues to as "what man is" through an appreciation of "what man has done"!!! |
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http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/alternate_history.html
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| | Alternative History as Novel |
| | alternate history, the reviewer noted that he thought _The Man in the | | | Okay, Brazil isn't really alternate history (or a book for that matter) | | | The book as a whole is very good and offers up some very plausible alternate |
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http://ag.arizona.edu/futures/sce/ahnovel.html
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| | Alternate History: Works |
| | Card's The Tales of the Alvin Maker is an alternate history series set in a world where natural magic exists. | | | He spent most of 1997, 1998, and most of 1999 writing the first four books in the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, Destiny's Shield, and Fortune's Stroke). | | | In addition, the puritan revolution succeeded, altering the rest of colonization. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate/works.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books / Subjects / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Alternate History |
| | A spirited and terrifying alternate history, and a telling insight into the dramatic... | | | The second edition is updated to incorporate worldwide political events that occurred just after the book was first published in 1989. | | | I picked this book up, and having read the jacket, subsequently expected an interesting alternate history. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/278471
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| | The Tony Jones Alternate History Page |
| | Puritan World : An alternate history where the powers of Europe are threatened by the totalitarian and theocratic Puritan New Commonwealth of the Americas. | | | Wolfworld : An alternate history where the last ice age never ended. | | | Alternative history is a sub-genre of science fiction that has interested me for quite some time. |
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http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/alternate_history_top.html
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| | Alternative History |
| | Now that it's "history," I want to explain why I still think it was wrong. | | | We're here to give you a working tour of the places on the Internet where people try to understand the histories that didn't happen. | | | Attempting to make this site a little more interactive, Bucky dives headfirst into the readers' mailbag and explains just what the heck he's doing here, jacking around with poor old history, who never done him a lick of harm. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/alternative_history
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| | Alternate History: Home |
| | For all intents and purposes, the author is telling a history, but a history changed from normality. | | | It takes a period in history and applies to it people, places and events that did not necessarily happen. | | | Though usually scientific in its extrapolations, there are many works that can also contain the elements of the fantastic. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Free eBooks, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac |
| | With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. | | | Now, with Colonization: Second Contact, Turtledove expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s--when humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. | | | Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] by Harry Turtledove [Alternate History/Science Fiction] |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/AlternateHistoryEbooks.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Alternative History |
| | Uchronia: The Alternate History List - An annotated bibliography of novels, stories, essays and other material involving the 'what ifs' of history. | | | Decades of Darkness - History of an evil USA dominated by slave owners. | | | Alternate History Travel Guides - Over 25 Travel Guides, one pocket guide, and one Interdimensional Brewpub Tour, four worlds and counting. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/Alternative_History
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| | Alternate History Newsletters |
| | I think the author had to do that in order to make the stories work, and they do work very well. | | | This is actually a series of 4 juvenile books written in 1916. | | | This is an enormous, well organized list of nearly every Alternate History book, short story, or essay ever published. |
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http://members.aol.com/dalecoz/dale2.htm
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| | J.T.'s Alternate History Site |
| | Alternate History, or Counterfactual History, tries to answer the great questions of "What if so and so happened or didn't happened?". | | | See how history might have been different if the Jacobites had succeeded. | | | From Conquered to Conqueror: A History of England in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by J.T. Tate - This is an essay describing an England where the Norman invasion of Duke William failed, and the subsequent time of strengthening under continued Saxon rule. |
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http://tateville.com/althistory
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| | Rooftop Sessions: Alternate History |
| | A good example of this is the Philip K. Dick classic, The Man in the High Castle, where Dick concentrated on what life in Axis-occupied San Francisco was like as the characters experienced it between hits of dope and readings of the I-Ching. | | | And as the historians chosen here are good writers, the work as a whole is quite readable. | | | Other than mentioning his point of divergence, FDR's assassination in 1932, he presents only those elements in his alternate 1962 that would be experienced and dealt with by his characters; because he didn't have to re-fight the entirety of the war for his novel, such details were not essential for him to work on. |
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http://www.rooftopsessions.com/AltHis.htm
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| | IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
| | In fact, Mr.Locke has opened a new vein, as original, as curious, as beautiful, as any of the greatest geniuses who ever wrote. | | | David Hartwell [Age of Wonders, New York: Walker, 1984, p.14] summarizes this genre as "Tolkienesque fantasy, in the manner of Lord of the Rings -- carefully constructed worlds as the setting for a heroic quest." Here we mean tales of a world sufficient unto itself, with its own history, geography, cultures, races, and nonhuman beings. | | | Edmund Lawrence may have invented the modern form of this genre in 1899 with his novel "It May Happen Yet", where Napoleon invaded Great Britain. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/thisthat.html
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| | AlternateHistory.com |
| | Alternate history, sometimes called counterfactual history (though mainly by historians), is the exercise of looking at the past and asking "what if"? | | | Alternate history is a small but fairly popular literary genre that has been around for some time. | | | This site is intended to be your guide to alternate history on the Internet. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com
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| | The IAFA Newsletter: September 05, 2004 Archives |
| | Papers will fit into one of four broad sections: history and terminology; text, writer, reader; forms and genres; and community. | | | Possible topics might include partnership versus enemy romance; the notion of slash as an idealized relationship; and challenge fics. | | | Treated in the essays are alternate history novels and tales from the time of Chesterton and Murray Leinster to the late 20th century, and including discussions of Ward Moore, Philip K. Dick, Kingsley Amis, Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg and others. |
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http://www.ebbs.english.vt.edu/mt3/IAFA.News/archives/2004/09/05/index.html
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| | Entertainment & Arts, Humanities, History, |
| | This ring is for sites with Historical and Folklore themes. | | | This ring may include sites on Pre-1840 Buckskinning/Rendezvous, Mountain Man, Am. | | | Anyone who is interested in the history of the Philippine independence struggle, the life and work of Rizal and his friends is welcome to join the ring. |
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http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Entertainment___Arts/Humanities/History
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| | The Path Not Taken - Alternate History - Title page |
| | New (a short fragment from a larger work): "Djangonomics" by Ray Adam Smith Latiolais | | | The Path Not Taken - Alternate History - Title page | | | This Web site is dedicated to proposing, describing, and discussing "alternate history" - sometimes known as "alt-hist" or "AH" for short. |
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http://www.wodarczak.net/althist
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| | GURPS Alternate Earths |
| | Complete histories, including timelines, for each Alternate Earth. | | | And if you like this book, check out GURPS Alternate Earths 2 by the same authors! | | | GURPS Alternate Earths Designer's Notes (from Pyramid #21) |
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http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/AltEarths
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| | Alternate History |
| | There is, however, one area in which our own Earth can provide a most interesting backdrop. | | | We can make all kinds of speculation as to where history would have gone had this one event taken place. | | | If anything had been invented sooner or later or not at all or in a different way, we would not be the same. |
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http://www.myshelf.com/beyondthewords/03/alternatehistory.htm
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| | Alternate History / Mythical Wars Series |
| | Games such as the Trojan War, where the many Greek heroes are represented, or Pantheons with the gods of each pantheon, including such myths as the Four Horsemen and more. | | | The first are set in historical periods that have been altered from our own. | | | Games based losely on mythology from our history, incorporating fantasy, religious and other myths. |
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http://www.guildofblades.com/empires/alt.html
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| | Main Page - Alternative History |
| | Should you have suggestions or material you'd wish to add to an existing alt-history, please contact the author to discuss integration, or propose it on the discussion pages. | | | While at this time we are only exhibiting pages relating to our Alternate histories, we aren't ruling out the possibilites of discussion, or description pages to help would-be alt-historians get off to a good start. | | | Conculture group, which itself is an outgrowth of the Brown University Conlang mailing list. |
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http://althistory.wikicities.com
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| | Shades of History |
| | This is an alternate evolution discussion list, where the worlds and animals described are visited by hunters or explorers from the Gentleman's Club, and inter-timeline organization of Victorian Hunters, Roman Werewolves, and more! | | | A new alternate history discussion list that will focus on some of the more science fiction like aspects of counter factuals (that's another name for alternate histories). | | | Remus is the world that I have designed in the Gentleman's Club, home of these 'Roman Werewolves.' |
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http://spiritualist.alternatehistory.com
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| | Alternate History |
| | Annotated bibliography of alternate history books and stories. | | | Alternate history scenarios, an alternate history newsletter, book reviews, and links. | | | A bimonthly participatory discussion forum on alternate history ideas and concepts and a workshop for AH writers. |
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http://www.joeant.com/DIR/cat/11165
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| | Instapundit.com - |
| | His most recent book, Dies the Fire, isn't exactly alternate history, but it's good. | | | I also liked his Conquistador, and his The Peshawar Lancers is pretty good, though a bit too British-Empire-revivalist for my taste. | | | As I mentioned before, I liked John Birmingham's Weapons of Choice, and look forward to the sequel. |
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http://instapundit.com/archives/019801.php
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | The story has a superficial resemblance to a Stephen Baxter alternate-space race-history story. | | | Essays in alternate history have long been a favorite game among historians, but as respectable intellectuals the historians have been timid in their ventures. | | | Alternate histories fit into the science fiction field because their history connects back to some moment of our past. |
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http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/157
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| | Black Shuck's Alternate History Page |
| | Hello, my name is Richard Brown and I graduated with a degree in history from the University of Huddersfield in northern England only just over three years ago. | | | Alternate Fourth Crusade The Fourth Crusade attacks Venice not Constantinople | | | I first became really interested in alternate history when I started to read the World War and Great War/American Empire novels of Harry Turtledove. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/althistx
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| | Alternate History List |
| | Buy the best alternate history books at Amazon.Com | | | Wendy Pendleton - A research geologist, she dreamed of being the first woman to walk on the Moon. | | | That question is answered in a novel by the co-author of Nocturne. |
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http://4dw.net/aerden/marksbooks/althist.html
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| | Alternative history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The academic extrapolation of alternate outcomes of historical events: see virtual history (also known as counterfactual history). | | | A history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history
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| | Peter G. Tsouras: Gettysburg: An Alternate History |
| | Although interesting in concept and scope, this is a book which will appeal to Civil War fans more than the general run of alternate history fans. | | | A more detailed analysis of the results of the Battle of Gettysburg in his alternate world would have added more depth to the work. | | | A reader who is not an expert on Gettysburg, therefore, may be induced to discover what really happened to the men who fought in Pennsylvania. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/tsouras.html
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| | David Bofinger's Alternate History Page |
| | This Alternate History Webring site is owned by | | | Hopefully this will some day be fodder for an alternate history. | | | This page is hosted by GeoCities, in return for carrying their advertising they will give you a free home page much like mine. |
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http://www.geocities.com/davidbofinger/ah.htm
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| | CALL FOR AUTHORS: Alternate History Book Series |
| | The Alternate History series uses what-if scenarios (a.k.a., counter-factual history) to attract, intrigue, and stimulate interest in all facets of historical thinking and discussion among students. | | | The Alternate History series is being published by ABC-CLIO and is a production of Golson Books, Ltd. Rodney P. Carlisle, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Rutgers, serves as General Editor, reviewing all submissions for historical accuracy and acceptability. | | | Constructed to complement the existing high-school curriculum, chapters are being assigned for the first two titles in the series at this time. |
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| | Alternate History is history that was possible even likely, but didn't occur. | | | These are a few alternate history scenarios as time permits I will write some more. | | | In essence Alternate History is composed of "WHAT IF'S". |
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http://www.geocities.com/david_kohlhoff/h
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| | Alternate History & Fictional Countries |
| | For those who have a penchant for "alternate history," fictional countries as well as satire on political and historical subjects you may wish to look into the following examples of this unusual genre: | | | The following information has been compiled for our own ready-reference and for anyone else who may chance to stumble upon it. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~egl2r/alt/althist.htm
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| | alternate history fiction @ www.ezboard.com |
| | This discussion forum is for scenarios or stories which are not strictly Alternate History, relying rather on 'Alien Space Bats' intervention. | | | To post details of useful and interesting books - History, military, Alternate History etc | | | This forum is for the posting of alternate history fiction or for well-developed timelines. |
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http://p209.ezboard.com/balternatehistoryfictory
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| | CNN - Cold War Experience: Technology |
| | You may find some parts plausible, others absurd. | | | In each section, compare the "alternate history" to historic fact by clicking on the "reality check" button. | | | (Editor's Note: Cold War Technology Senior Editor Dave Rickett has developed three "what if" scenarios -- an exercise known by its devotees as "alternate history" -- which challenge you to consider the potential outcomes had history been different. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/technology/life.without
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| | Alternate History Fiction |
| | Re: Anna and the - alternate history fiction - 9/10/05 22:21 | | | Re: Anna and the - alternate history fiction - 9/10/05 23:01 | | | A Journey Through Europe - 1924 (Part 2) - alternate history fiction - 2/10/05 19:11 |
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http://p209.ezboard.com/falternatehistoryfictoryfrm7
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| | Examples of Alternate History Scenarios |
| | Hugenburg was ousted from the cabinet on June 26, 1933 and his DNVP was dissolved the following day."- from "The History of Fascism, 1914-1945". | | | I invite you to think about significant events in history, and how, if they would have unfolded differently, would have affected history today. | | | Some go on to compose novels from the Timelines, but on the Internet, Timelines are the most common form of Alternate History speculation. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AHscenarios.htm
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