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| | Alternative history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For a variety of reasons, alternate history is generally classified as a subcategory of speculative fiction. | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction)
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| | Histalt - Alternate History |
| | Rick Sutcliffe's alternate history fiction takes place on several such worlds joined via a medium called the Timestream, each alternate earth distinguished from the others by a decision or group of decisions (nexus triggers) that radically altered subsequent history. | | | Because science, technology, and Christian ethics are an integral part of the scene and plot of this alternate history fiction, this can also be termed Christian science fiction. | | | 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. |
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http://www.arjaybooks.com/Fiction/AHF
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| | Uchronia: The Alternate History List |
| | Alternate history fiction is also often confused with "secret history" or "hidden history", in which something we think we know about the past is revealed to be incorrect. | | | Also akin to alternate histories are what are sometimes called "personal alternate histories", stories in which fictional characters get a chance to see how their lives might otherwise have occurred. | | | 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. |
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http://www.uchronia.net/intro.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century - Harry Turtledove - Paperback |
| | Turtledove is the best-known author of alternate history fiction currently writing, and he has selected a superb group of stories for this anthology. | | | Whether called alternate, alternative, or counterfactual history, fiction set in worlds in which Rome never fell or Nazi Germany won World War II long has been popular with both science fiction writers and readers. | | | 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. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=a11KULYArG&isbn=0345439902&itm=1
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| | Alternity: The Alternate History Star Trek E-mail List |
| | 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. | | | While putting "alternate history" in the description of the list may seem limiting, we discuss the whole of history in Star Trek assuming there is a consistent flow to the historical patterns of that universe thus exploring that flow by positing changes in the history. | | | Just as children in history classes today write timelines of everything from the American Civil War to the Space Age, science fiction authors were writing timelines of events that hadn't yet happened, events that might never happen. |
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http://www.allyngibson.net/altern.html
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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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| | Alternate History: Home |
| | Alternate history, in its most simple form, is the exposition of a fictional past. | | | As a genre, alternate history lies in the muddled water in which fantasy, and science fiction meet. | | | According to Uchronia, other names that can be associated with alternate history include alternative histories, allohistories, counterfactuals, counterfeit worlds, if worlds, negative histories, and uchronias. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate
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| | Alternate History |
| | Alternate history is the literature of what might have been. | | | Harry Turtledove is one of the best-known writers of alternate history. | | | It is a subset of science fiction that seeks to imagine how the world would have turned out had things transpired differently. |
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http://leighkimmel.freeservers.com/reading/althist.html
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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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| | Alternate History Newsletters |
| | There are over a dozen stand-alone Alternate History scenarios, along with over a dozen of my Alternate History Newsletters, each filled with Alternate History scenarios, fiction, and book reviews. | | | This is an enormous, well organized list of nearly every Alternate History book, short story, or essay ever published. | | | Alternate History can be about wars, but it can also be about many other things. |
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http://members.aol.com/dalecoz/dale2.htm
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Free eBooks, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac |
| | Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] by Harry Turtledove [Alternate History/Science Fiction] | | | 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. | | | At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination. |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/AlternateHistoryEbooks.htm
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| | Rooftop Sessions: Alternate History |
| | Alternate history, also know as counterfactual history, is a fiction that imagines that the past is not the one we remember, although it's one that could have happened. | | | When last I wrote here, I had presented the steps a writer had to take to craft a well thought out re-creation of a historical period in any fiction written by that person. | | | 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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| | 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. | | | Alternate History Travel Guides - Over 25 Travel Guides, one pocket guide, and one Interdimensional Brewpub Tour, four worlds and counting. | | | Alternate History Discussion - The largest alternate history discussion forum on the web, plus a directory of individual scenarios sorted by era. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/Alternative_History
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| | IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
| | history might have happened differently The "Alternate History" or "Allohistory" novels are those in which some one moment in time produced an event different from what we know in our history, and things went off in a different track ever since. | | | For that time in fan history, it was an impressive effort." Some antigravity theories (in science and fiction) relate to FASTER THAN LIGHT. | | | 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. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/thisthat.html
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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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| | AlternateHistory.com |
| | At the moment, Harry Turtledove is the best selling author of Alternate History novels, which are generally categorized as a type of science fiction. | | | 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. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com
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| | The IAFA Newsletter: September 05, 2004 Archives |
| | 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. | | | Factual accounts of history and terminology should be tempered with analysis, perhaps indicating shifts as time passes and as fan fiction moves from hard copy to cyberspace. | | | Papers will fit into one of four broad sections: history and terminology; text, writer, reader; forms and genres; and community. |
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http://www.ebbs.english.vt.edu/mt3/IAFA.News/archives/2004/09/05/index.html
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| | L.A.con III Convention Report |
| | Keyes is an anthropologist working on an alternate history fantasy of Isaac Newton and theology. | | | There was a discussion of alternate histories written as history books (e.g., Invasion: The German Invasion of England, July 1940 by Kenneth Macksey, For Want of a Nail by Robert Sobel) which readers think are real history. | | | Someone said that history was not always written by the victors; for example, early European history was written by the conquered people, who were the ones who had the writing. |
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http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/LA_Con/w96-rpt.html
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| | Entertainment & Arts, Humanities, History, |
| | Sites featuring speculative fiction, reviews of novels and other works on the subject of possible alternate histories, articles, and other discussion of "what might have been" will be welcome here. | | | 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. | | | The History Resource Webring is intended for academic history websites that cater to students and teachers in the public school system (K-12) and undergraduate level college students. |
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http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Entertainment___Arts/Humanities/History
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| | Alternate History |
| | Still, alternate history is a fascinating area of speculative fiction that begs to be explored. | | | That is in the area of alternate history. | | | We can make all kinds of speculation as to where history would have gone had this one event taken place. |
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http://www.myshelf.com/beyondthewords/03/alternatehistory.htm
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| | Shades of History |
| | 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). | | | Switching the votes in several states, this alternate history looks at the changes caused by having President Hubert Humphrey elected instead of Nixon in 1968. | | | 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! |
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http://spiritualist.alternatehistory.com
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | Alternate histories fit into the science fiction field because their history connects back to some moment of our past. | | | 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. |
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http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/157
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| | Locus Online: SF News August 1998 |
| | Winners of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History were announced Friday, August 7th, at Bucconner, the World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. | | | Winners of the 13th annual Chesley Awards were presented by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists on Thursday, August 6th, at Bucconeer, the World Science Fiction Convention in progress this weekend in Baltimore, Maryland. | | | The 1998 Hugo Awards were presented Friday, August 7th, at Bucconeer, the World Science Fiction in Baltimore, Maryland, along with the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/1998/News/News08.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 genre of speculative fiction: see Alternative history (fiction) and uchronia. | | | A history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history
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| | Sci-Fi Site of the Week: AwardWeb |
| | From the general-purpose Hugos to the Sidewise Award for alternate history, every year literally dozens of awards are given out in the science fiction and fantasy field. | | | cience fiction devotees love to show their appreciation for authors and other SF creators, and over the years a great number of awards have been founded to recognize excellence in every aspect of the genre. | | | One of the site's nicest features is the "Hugo/Nebula/Locus Multiple Award Winners List," which is a table of every piece of fiction that has won at least two of those three awards -- a kind of cream of the crop list. |
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http://pages.scifi.com/sfw/issue44/site.html
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| | Roberson's Interminable Ramble: Sidewise Awards |
| | His story “O One,” which appeared in Live Without A Net (Roc, 2003), won the 2003 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History, was listed as an Honorable Mention in the 21st Annual Year's Best Science Fiction, and was nominated for the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. | | | Plokta News Network has just announced the nominees for this year's Sidewise Award for Alternate History. | | | Chris Roberson's short fiction can be found in the anthologies Live Without a Net (Roc, 2003), The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Ace, 2004), Tales of the Shadowmen (Black Coat Press, 2005), and FutureShocks (Roc, 2006), and in the pages of Asimov's, RevolutionSF, and Fantastic Metropolis. |
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http://www.chrisroberson.net/2005/05/sidewise-awards.html
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| | Fictionwise eBook: Author List |
| | Robert Silverberg (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alternate History, General Nonfiction, Technology/Science, Historical Fiction, Erotica) | | | Rafael Sabatini (Romance, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, History) | | | Rex Stout (Mystery/Crime, Suspense/Thriller, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature) |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/authorlist_S.htm
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| | Paul McAuley : Paul J. McCauley |
| | By training a biologist, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality[?], and space travel. | | | McAuley won the first Sidewise Award for Alternate History for the novel Pasquale's Angel. | | | Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form.) |
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| | Science Fiction Weekly Interview |
| | What alternate history does is change the more distant past and look at the more recent past. | | | I met my wife when I was teaching history at UCLA. | | | You mentioned Lest Darkness Fall [1939], in which L. Sprague de Camp's hero is thrown back to sixth-century Italy and has a chance to remake history. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue298/interview.html
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