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| | soc.history.what-if FAQ (April 2004) |
 | | This book discusses and defends alternative history as a tool for understanding real history; it is not interested in alternative history as a genre of fiction. | | | Alternative history fiction, on the other hand, requires that the world described be visibly the same as ours up to some specific point in history, after which things begin to get different. | | | The other Usenet newsgroups with some level of official interest in alternative history are alt.tv.sliders (about the alternative-worlds TV show), rec.arts.sf.written (the correct venue for discussion of the plot, characters, or literary merit of most published alternative histories), and the specialty group alt.books.harry-turtledove. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/history/what-if
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| | Encyclopedia: Alternative history (fiction) |
| | 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) â in English "Napoleon and the conquest of the world". | | | Beam Piper and Andre Norton wrote alternative history stories and novels, usually in a "cross-time"/"many universes" variant in which all alternative histories are co-existent in a multiverse and travel among them is possible. | | | For a variety of reasons, alternate history is generally classified as a subcategory of speculative fiction. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Alternative-history-(fiction)
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| | Talk: Alternative history (fiction) - Open Encyclopedia |
| | You can find many books with the phrase "Alternate History" on the spine (as you would find "science fiction," "mystery," "fiction," etc.) but you won't find any with the more grammatically correct "alternative history." - shsilver | | | The phrase ought to be 'alternative history', surely! | | | In addition, the newsgroup soc.history.what-if is mainly composed of serious counterfactual history discussion - in fact its own FAQ states that discussion of published alternate-history fiction should be done on rec.arts.sf.written only. |
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http://talk.open-encyclopedia.com/Alternate_history
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| | Uchronia: The Alternate History List |
| | Also, the term "alternative history" may be used in non-fiction to describe a work which provides a different interpretation (or "spin") of actual events than is commonly understood. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.uchronia.net/intro.html
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| | Alternative History Links |
| | As always this cyberrag of "historical science fiction" is a free, classy venue for people who like their history with a twist. | | | The fun part of alternative history is, of course, duh-uh, how interactive it is. For you netizens out there (and you know who you are!) that means on-line discussion groups. | | | This history goes all the way up to the early 22nd Century. |
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http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/6234
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| | AlternateHistory.com Web Guide |
| | This is a good place to look for decent alternate history fiction. | | | It is mainly used for general alternate history related discussion. | | | This is a single-scenario site dedicated to Manichaeanism, a religion which did not become popular in our history. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com/webguide.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. | | | Colonials Return - A future history scenario (which could have occured in the past, as well) in which Africa's political and social structures collapes completely, causing the rest of the world to "recolonize" the continent, bringing aid and relief to the suffering population who remain. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
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| | Alternate History: Home |
| | Alternative history occupies a special place in fiction in that it attempts to be both history and conjecture. | | | 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. | | | Alternate history, in its most simple form, is the exposition of a fictional past. |
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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. | | | It reads more like a history textbook than a novel, and the historical characters fail to come to life. | | | Harry Turtledove is one of the best-known writers of alternate history. |
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http://leighkimmel.freeservers.com/reading/althist.html
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| | Sci-fi in Islam: Alternative History |
| | Of course Arthur C. Clarke's "Foundations of Paradise" is not a Science fiction story about Islam or even one that has Muslim Characters but there is an interesting excerpt from the book which qualifies as alternative history speculation: | | | This is a quite well known book which is actually a colection of short alternative history stories. | | | This section contains alternative history stories and novels where the setting is Islamic, Muslims are main or even minor characters or in some cases sources wherever Islam or Muslims arer mentioned in this particular sci-fi genre. |
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http://www.cs.rit.edu/~maa2454/SCIFI/alt_history.html
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| | Sci-fi - Alternative History Genre |
| | Alternative History: The Development of a Literary Genre. | | | Alternate History is science fiction that asks what if a familiar fact from the past is not as we know it. | | | It is not necessary to re-invent the wheel here, since an extensive bibliography of books on Alternate History exists thanks to Robert B. Schmunk. |
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http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/eloisa.borah/egbscifi.htm
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| | American Alternative Journalism |
| | A Brief History of American Alternative Journalism in the Twentieth Century | | | The biggest trend in alternative journalism was ``New Journalism,'' the combination of non-fiction reporting with literary techniques associated with fiction writing. | | | This is a brief history of the genre and the people that shaped it in this century. |
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http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/history.html
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| | Timelines - This Day in Alternate History |
| | "Alternate history is a type of science fiction in which the basic premise is that some specific historical event never happened, or happened differently " | | | Othertimelines.com puts YOU in control of Alternate History! |
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http://www.othertimelines.com
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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. | | | 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". | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction)
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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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| | 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. | | | Alternative history occupies a special place in fiction in that it attempts to be both history and conjecture. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate
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| | Fantasy, Faith and History: A Book Review of: |
| | Brown's alternative views of Christian history include his opinion that Jesus Christ was supposedly married to Mary Magdalene and propagated a family, which, according to the story line, continues to survive in Europe and England. | | | More damaging than his misuse of history is Brown's slurs concerning the Knights Templars' method of worship. | | | Brown has merged a fiction of the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene with a nineteenth century fiction that pagan goddess worship was a continuing, but underground system in Europe during the middle ages and even into contemporary times. |
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http://www.naminggrace.org/id65.htm
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| | W. Warren Wagar- Governing the Future |
| | Because sf is a body of fiction about the whole gamut of human doings in alternative pasts and futures, it is necessarily also a body of political fiction. | | | Hassler and Wilcox, in their Introduction, divide the contributions into two broad sections, one centered on theory, the other on the relevance of sf texts to specific events or issues in recent and contemporary political history. | | | In Political Science Fiction, a symposium that grew from the Fall 1993 issue of Extrapolation, Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox have collected 14 essays on one of the softest of sf themes. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/wagar73.htm
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
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| | The Tony Jones Alternate History Page |
| | Alternative history is a sub-genre of science fiction that has interested me for quite some time. | | | 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. |
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http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/alternate_history_top.html
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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] | | | Harry Turtledove has been producing an alternative history of the twentieth century for a number of years now, and he is just reaching a major turning point, the outbreak of World War II. | | | 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. |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/AlternateHistoryEbooks.htm
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| | Alternative history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | The academic extrapolation of alternate outcomes of historical events: see virtual history (also known as counterfactual history). |
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| | Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Alternative History |
| | Alternative History at Suite 101 - A guide for histories that never were, including articles, original fiction, site reviews, and discussion board. | | | 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. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/Alternative_History
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| | The SF Site: SF Masterworks Reviews Archive |
| | In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didn't win the war. | | | The vision of gigantic Overlord space ships appearing over every major Earth city is so phenomenally powerful that it has been recreated and honoured in countless science fiction films. | | | The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/lists/orion04.htm
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. | | | The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style. | | | A science fiction story may be very realistic, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. |
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| | Article Abstracts: #63 |
| | In these science fictions Robinson writes utopia not so much as an alternative social structure but as an alternative historical process that emerges from the intersecting histories of subjects. | | | All good fiction in any of the sf subgenres will be careful partially to defamiliarize the landscape; but visionary sf goes further, insisting upon the utterly inexplicable or singular nature of the hero's experience (his/her narrative "place"). | | | Such post-utopian heroes as Paul and Virginia in Smith's "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard"--a story set at a point in Smith's future history where "eutopia" has been achieved but rejected--test the limits of the rational and discover its tragic insufficiency. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a63.htm
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| | Chronicles of Earth |
| | Alternative histories are those histories which challenge the authorities, the party line, the mainstream, and then attempt -- hopefully -- to research and present history in terms of what actually transpired, and not necessarily what might make someone or something look good. | | | Any investigation into ancient, early, recent or current history, one must always bear in mind that anything written in the past is just as likely to be a history written by the victors (as the modern day “spins” of current events). | | | Sumerian history is emphasized, inasmuch as it was the earliest well-recorded history of civilization. |
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward006.htm
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| | science fiction - encyclopedia article about science fiction. |
| | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction Speculative fiction is an all-encompassing term which includes science fiction, alternative history (fiction), horror and fantasy. | | | Sometimes, utopic and dystopic literature is regarded as science fiction (accurate insofar as sociology is science); however, dystopic literature sometimes falls under the cyber punk genre. | | | The premiere literary awards of science fiction, the Hugo Awards, are awarded by members of the annual Worldcon, which is almost entirely run by fan volunteers; the other major science fiction literary award is the Nebula. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/science+fiction
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