THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
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THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 10 - 27 Apr 1992
Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
(InterNet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu)
This is a list of (nominally) SF stories involving Alternate Histories, aka
What-Ifs, Allohistory and Counterfactuals. Most of the info comes from readers
of the UseNet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written, but much was extracted from:
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II:
A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
(eds. Waugh and Greenberg) {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8659-7}.
Criteria for inclusion are generally the same as described in:
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
HISTORIES (eds. Waugh and Greenberg) {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8659-7}.
Thus, the alteration affects more than fictional individuals, and the story is
not secret history, does not rely on events entirely futureward of when the
author wrote the story, etc. Submissions of new entries are always appreciated,
as are corrections to old. And don't hesitate to complain if you disagree with
the inclusion/removal of a story. The poster has not read all the entries and
is reliant upon submitters' advice.
Entries have been separated into the following categories:
Anthologies: are books composed mostly/entirely of genre short stories and/or
essays, each of which is also described separately.
Alternate Histories: include the effect[s] of changing the outcome of an event
such that the flow of history is noticeably altered. In some, the divergence
may be the existence of magic.
Future Glimpses: include a character who "sees" how history might unfold
depending on his actions/decisions.
Crosstime Stories: feature travel/communication between alternate timelines,
such activity often the major feature of the story.
Changing the Past: involve the changing of the outcome of a past event,
accidentally or deliberately, but usually through time travel.
Reference Materials: discuss the genre and/or specific books/stories. This
does not include literary criticism.
In the entries, please 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:". If none of these is
present, "C:" or "S:" is assumed.
If an author's name is replaced by a group of dashes, the entry is a sequel to
or in the same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within
arrows, it is part of a series collected within the previous book entry.
Double arrows indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.
If a story in a series seems to fit a different category than the series as a
whole, it is still listed with the series.
If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the same
author to see if it has been retitled, revised or expanded.
References to books containing a short story include an author/editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.
Where known, publication info for books is listed in the form {publisher year,
ISBN}. Original copyright date is usually the same as the first publication
date listed. Where a book has been revised or expanded for a later edition,
the abbreviation rev. or exp. appears before the publisher name.
Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
<#AW) = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Wollheim and Saha); 72 {DAW 1972};
76 {DAW 1976, no ISBN}; 89 {DAW 1989}
<100> = 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds. Asimov et al)
{Doubleday 1978, 0-385-13044-9; Avon 1978, 0-380-50773-0}
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds. Waugh and Greenberg)
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds. Adams and Adams)
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed. Resnick)
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds. Adams et al)
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed. Ley)
<fsf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. McSherry) {Baen 1991, 0-671-72063-5}
<GS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds. Asimov and Greenberg); vol 14 {DAW 19xx};
vol 17 {DAW 19xx}; vol 20 {DAW 1990, 0-88677-405-5}; vol 23 {DAW 1991,
0-88677-478-0}
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
<IAs> = Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
<IHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed. Snowman)
<IHO,X> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, edition X (ed. Squire); edition A
(Longmans, Green 1931); edition B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev. Viking
1931; Kennikat 1964}; edition C {exp. Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's
1974}
<MCS> = MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Dozois) {St. Martin's 1992,
0-312-07238-4}
<SFD> = SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed. Conklin)
<TW8> = THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds. Pournelle and Carr)
<WI> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Polsby)
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed. Silverberg)
<WM#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
<YB#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Dozois);
vol 2 {Bluejay 1985, 0-312-94485-3, 0-312-94484-5}; vol 4 {St. Martin's
1987}; vol 5 {St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-01854-1}; vol 6 {St. Martin's 1989,
0-312-03009-6, 0-312-03008-8}; vol 7 {St. Martin's 1990, 0-312-04451-8,
0-312-04452-6}; vol 8 {St. Martin's 1991, 0-312-06009-2, 0-312-06008-4}
This list would not have been possible without the help of Evelyn C. Leeper.
Significant contributions were also made by Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor.
Also contributing were Vincent Archer, A.M. Barbanson, Paul Boyer, Stan Brown,
Glen Cox, Daniel DanehyOakes, Calle Dybedahl, Richard K. Fox, Dorian Gray, Guy
Harris, Kenneth Hite, Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, Bill Johnston, Crawford Kilian,
Mark Krenitsky, Janet Lafler, Jim Love, Michael A. Patton, Dave Schaumann,
Gareth Suddes, William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore and Matthew P.
Wiener.
And now, the list:
Anthologies:
Adams, Robert, and Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 1989,
0-671-69818-4}
Six new stories.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg and Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ROBERT
ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 1987, 0-451-14894-0}
Nine reprints.
Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8658-9}
Reprints and new stories.
Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES {Bantam 1989}
Eleven new stories.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 1990, 0-553-28279-4}
Fifteen new stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 1991, 0-553-29008-8}
Eleven new stories and a reprint of Churchill, mostly involving alternate
outcomes of battles/wars.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {not yet published}
Stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' first voyage.
Borden, Morton, and Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
{Heath 1977, 0-669-0048-X}
Twelve essays on American AHs.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 1929}
Nineteen essays.
Ley, Sandra (ed.), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 1976}
Nineteen new stories.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed.), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
{Lewis 1982, 0-86616-018-3}
Stories/essays about AHs, most of which are scholarly in tone.
Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {not yet published}
New stories.
-------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 1992, 0-812-51192-1}
28 new stories.
Silverberg, Robert (ed.), WORLDS OF MAYBE {Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974}
Seven reprints, most of which are AH classics.
Snowman, Daniel (ed.), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman &
Littlefield 1979, 0-8476-6136-9}
Historians correct the decisions of 10 historical figures.
Squire, J.C. (ed.), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
HISTORY {Longmans, Green 1931, no ISBN; exp. Sidgwick & Jackson 1972,
0-283-97821-X; St. Martin's 1974}; rev. as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking
1931; Kennikat 1964}
The classic AH book, with a story by Winston Churchill.
Waugh, Charles, G., and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 1986,
0-8240-8659-7}
Reprints and new stories. Includes 61-page bibliography of AHs.
Alternate Histories:
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 1962; Doubleday 1963,
no ISBN; Hutchinson 1975; Dell 1981}
W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess. Except for wolves
besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA {Doubleday 1964; Cape 1965; Dell 1969}
S: Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 1966; Dell 1969}
S: A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at
St. James' Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 1981; Delacorte 1981, 0-440-08317-6}
S: A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 1969}
S: The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 1971, 0-224-00514-6; Doubleday 1971}
S: Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
Aksyonov, Vassily, and Michael Henry Heim (tr.), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
{Random House 1983, 0-394-52431-4; Vintage 1984, 0-394-72765-7}; orig.
OSTROV KRYM {Ardis 1981, 0-88233-744-0, 0-88233-745-9}
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.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY {Cape 1976, 0-224-01269-X}
W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
S:
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 1987,
0-531-15040-2; St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-91112-2}
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 <IHB>
W:
C:
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 1976, 0-224-01305-X; Viking 1976,
0-670-11522-3; Panther 1978}
W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king 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.
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WM1>
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 1974, 0-385-05505-6;
Ballantine 1975}
W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
S: Adventures of Prince Rupert in the English Civil War.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 1971; Berkley 1978}; rev. of
"Operation Afreet", "Operation Salamander", "Operation Incubus" and
"Operation Changeling" in <fsf> 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, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WM3>
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.
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
W: The scientific revolution arrived early, apparently the result of a 15th-
century man's salvation from drowning.
S: The discovery of the Americas is sidetracked by a NASA-like project,
while Mexicans plan an expedition of discovery east across the Atlantic.
Armstrong, Anthony, and Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 1943}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
S: How the invasion was defeated.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
government? (1977)", in <WI>
W: Itzhak Rabin was Israeli PM in early 1977 and while visiting Romania 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
FROM NEW WORLDS (ed. Moorcock) and <HV>
W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS {DAW 1980}
>------------<, and Bernard Kay (tr.), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 1972}; orig.
L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET {Fleuve Noir 1972}
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.
>------------<, and C.J. Cherryh (tr.), STELLAR CRUSADE {only Engl.-language
publ. is within omnibus volume}; orig. CROISADE STELLAIRE {Fleuve Noir 1974}
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
SILENCE {Heinemann 1925; Doubleday 1925; Books for Libraries 1970,
0-8369-3376-1}, MAURICE BARING RESTORED {Heinemann 1970, 0-434-34790-6;
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1970, 0-374-20448-9} and TRAVELERS IN TIME (ed.
Stern) {Doubleday 1947}
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.
Basil, Otto, and Thomas Weyr (tr., abr.), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 1968};
orig. WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE {Fritz Molden 1966}
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IHO,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 1971; Books for Libraries 1971,
0-8369-3793-7}; SELECTED WORKS, II: PROSE {Farrar & Rinehart 1942}; 25
SHORT STORIES {Sun Dial 1943}; THE STEPHEN VINCENT BENET POCKET BOOK
{Pocket 1946}; MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (ed. Stern) {Doubleday 1942} {aka GREAT
TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 1954}} and <AH>
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 <IAs> Oct 91 and <WM3>
W: Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
S: Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WM1>
W: US presidential elections of the 1950s occurred a little differently.
S: A congressman disliked by a new authoritarian regime is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... {Bobbs-Merrill 1978, 0-672-52078-8; Ace
1979}
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.
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP {Warner 1988, 0-446-51453-5}
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.
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 1964}
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, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and <YB5>
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 1987, 0-312-93031-3}
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 1988, 1-55710-014-4}
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.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Brennert, Alan, and Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 1991,
1-56389-018-6}
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.
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <fsf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
TIME 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, Douglas and Christopher Serpell, LOSS OF EDEN
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor
1991, 0-812-55444-2}
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.
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1981, 0-03-053976-5, 0-03-058998-3}
W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
out by natives.
S:
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WM3>
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
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 1977; Dell 1977}
W: France and Britain started the Chunnel decades ago.
S: Terrorists strike the nearly complete Channel Tunnel in 1973.
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <AP>
W: 1960s civil rights and campus protests met with harsh government
reaction. Also, Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan's assassination attempt.
S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IHB>
W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
executed.
C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 1987, 0-312-93019-4}; exp. of "Hatrack
River", in <IAs> Aug 86 and <YB4>
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 Willam Blake.
-----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 1988, 0-312-93043-7}
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 1989, 0-312-93141-7}; rev. of
"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A
MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD {Tor 1990, 0-312-85047-6}
S: Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
"mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
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.
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.
Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WM2>
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.
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
commence in New England.
Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, and Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE
WAR {Coward-McCann 1969}
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 <IHO,ABC> and THE COMMON MAN {Sheed and Ward 1950}
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 and <YB8>
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.
Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
Scribner's Dec 30, <IHO,ABC> and <WM3>
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.
Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 1969}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE
OLD WORLD {Cape 1969}
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.
Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
empire.
Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ
1983, 0-15-114978-X}
W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
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.
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.
Corvo, Baron: see Frederick William Rolfe
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 NA of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <fsf> 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.
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, Richard (ed.), OPERATION SEA LION {Thornton Cox 1974, 0-902726-17-X;
Presidio 1977, 0-89141-015-5}
W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, invading England on 22 Sep
1940.
S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure. (Based on a war
game played out in 1974 by British and West German officers.)
Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds. Lansdale and
LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 1989, 0-913165-49-2}
W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army (borderline secret history).
Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
W: Pickett's Charge had succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg had been a
bit more tenacious.
S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
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.
Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II (eds. Pournelle and
Baen) {Baen 1985} 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.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarian", in Amazing Jan 92
W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in NA, and a dispute over a
Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <fsf> 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.
Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 1978, 0-224-01606-7;
G.K. Hall 1979, 0-8161-6748-6; Knopf 1979, 0-394-50409-7; Ballantine 1980;
Curley 1992, 0-7927-1324-9, 0-7927-1323-0}
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.
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.
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 NA 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 1926}
W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
S:
Denton, Brad, WRACK & ROLL
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.
Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism
might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones.
Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 1962; Penguin 1965,
no ISBN; Berkley Medallion 1974, 0-425-03908-0; Gollancz 1975,
0-575-01958-1; Gregg 1979, 0-8398-2476-9; Vintage 1992, 0-679-74067-8}
W: Before his 1933 inaugural, 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.
Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 1976, 0-394-40603-6; G.K. Hall
1976, 0-8161-6434-7; Hodder and Stoughton 1976, 0-340-20700-0; Avon 1977}
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 1989, 0-370-31355-0;
Pantheon 1989, 0-394-58002-8; Thorndike 1990, 1-56054-004-4}
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.
Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
Enlish Library 1979, 0-450-03946-3; St. Martin's 1980, 0-312-54891-5}
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.
Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 1987, 0-531-15053-4}
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.
Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
<IHB>
W:
C:
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed. Silverberg) {Harper & Row 1976,
0-06-013864-5} 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.
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <fsf> 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.
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.
Elliott, George P., "Sandra", in <fsf> Oct 57
W: Multi-racial slavery was legal in the US.
S: A man falls in love with household slave. He frees her, finds she is no
longer as considerate and re-enslaves here, but her attitude is changed.
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 1973, 0-671-21474-8}
W: One key creditor did not help out a failing stockbroker, thereby
provoking a Wall Street crash in 1970.
S:
Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, A
CENTURY OF SF (ed. Knight), <WoM> and <GS14>
W: The world were flat.
S: Columbus sails off the edge of an Earth in which Bacon developed a radio
from theological principles.
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.
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WM2>
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' 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.
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in <IHO,ABC>,
Scribner's Jan 31 and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 1939; Books for
Libraries 1969}
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?
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster
1983, 0-671-47552-5; Avon 1985}
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.
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in Saturday Evening Post
16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 1970; Pinnacle 1976}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
S:
Fortier, Ron, BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics 1990}
W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century.
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT>
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.
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WI>
W: Nazi Germany developed an atomic bomb by early 1944, dropping them on
London and Leningrad in May.
C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a
bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich.
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 1988, 0-451-15408-8}
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 retrieve a stolen
grimoire which is the source of her authority.
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <fsf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
S: As the Catholics lay siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55
W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY
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
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64
S: A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator
is the last thing the murdered man saw.
>>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64
S: The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is
found dead near its harbor.
>>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
WONDER (ed. McComas)
S: Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his 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)
S: A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 1967; Gregg 1978,
0-8398-2497-1}; 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
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74
S: A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
laboratory.
>>------------<<, "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
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 <IAs> Apr 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 <IAs> Sep-Oct 78 and THE BEST OF
RANDALL GARRETT (ed. Silverberg)
S: A drink of 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)
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.
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 1954}
W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
rule.
S:
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
winning the election of of 1952.
S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 1991,
0-553-07028-2}
W: Babbage perfected his analytical engine and 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.
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 1991, 0-930773-13-6, 0-930773-14-4}
W:
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.
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
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate
his hold on the crown of France.
S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in
France.
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill and Wang 1980,
0-8090-7377-3}
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.
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada.
Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAs> Dec 91 and <AP>
W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the
election of Barry Goldwater as president.
S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky
Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years.
Gygax, E. Gary, and Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 1973}, collected from Int'l
Federation of Wargamers newsletter
W: The Axis had adopted a coherent grand strategy.
S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
Europe and Africa.
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Ballantine 1971;
Doubleday 1981, 0-385-17137-4}
W:
S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
Harrison, Harry, and Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WM2>
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.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber and Faber 1972,
0-571-09996-3; New English Library 1976; Berkley Medallion 1974; Tor 1981,
0-812-51591-1}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 1972, 0-399-10918-8};
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 Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 1984, 0-553-24935-5}
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 1986, 0-553-05163-6}
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 1988, 0-553-05315-9}
W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
Heinlein, Robert A., "Magic Inc.", in WALDO & MAGIC, INC. {Pan 1969,
0-330-02352-7; Gregg 1979, 0-8398-2507-2; Ballantine 1986, 0-345-33015-3}
W: Magic works.
S: Protagonists battle a scheme by Satan's minions to take control of magic
in America.
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 1965; Bantam 1966; Vintage 1990,
0-679-72750-9}
W: 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.
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 1982, 0-688-00776-7}
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.
Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in
Amazing Jul 91
W:
S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside
down.
Johnson, Robert B., and Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 1966}
W:
S:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
Watergate? (1973)", in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in
Washington, but little else changes.
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's
1976, 0-684-14738-6; Warner 1977}
W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
decimated on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn.
S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for
disobeying orders and negligence.
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 1980,
0-688-80283-4, 0-688-84283-6}
W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works.
S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform
magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter.
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 1988,
0-688-07806-0}
S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
great mage Chrestomanci.
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 1977, 0-688-80138-2; Macmillan
1977, 0-333-21426-9}
S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 1982, 0-688-01534-4}
S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
orphans.
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
W: Minor-party 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, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in
<WI>
W: Richard Nixon had not been forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas
for chief justice of the Supreme Court.
C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court
would have had.
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 1961, no
ISBN}; 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' "What If...?".
King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP>
W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his
effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877.
S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and
how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party.
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IHO,AC>
W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike.
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., "I Shall Have a Fight to Glory", in <AP>
W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned
the tables on James Garfield in 1880.
S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince
Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system.
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS
C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
Kurland, Michael, and S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 1980,
0-688-03610-4}
W: The Watergate break-ins had gone undetected.
S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
camps, canceled elections, etc.) provoke a military coup.
Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
<WM2>
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.
Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became
independent Appalachia.
S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia.
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed. Knight) and <AH>
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., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
(ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1978, 0-385-12475-1; Popular Library 1978}
W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
principles.
S: A review of some early television programs.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 1989, 0-380-71205-9}
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.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon
1989, 0-380-71205-9}
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 1948}
W:
S:
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 1919, no ISBN}
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 1919, no ISBN}
W: Germany won WW1.
S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 1951}; incl. in A
TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION, VOL. 2 (ed. Boucher) {Doubleday 1959}
W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular
second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction.
S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency
and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869.
Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT>
W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped
back to Switzerland.
S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian
republic.
Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 1988, 0-87795-945-5}; exp. of
"Moon of Ice", in Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
W: Nazi Germany developed nuclear weapons.
S: Goebbel's 1960s diaries reexamine what happened.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WI>
W: Napoleon had not immediately sold Louisiana to the US in 1803.
C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after
the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of NA in Canada.
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 1972, 0-563-12226-9;
Stein & Day 1974, 0-8128-1669-2; Arrow 1975, 0-09-909900-4}
W: Nazi Germany had invaded England.
S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
C: Retells story originally presented as a BBC TV program.
Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser
lasted longer than 91 days.
S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while
Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S
ALMANAC #2 (eds. Wallechinsky and Wallace) {Morrow 1978, 0-688-03372-5}
W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
S:
C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?", synopses of other AHs.
Lupoff, Richard, CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 1984, 0-671-49941-6}
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!
S:
Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 1970}
W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
{Macmillan 1980, 0-02-578030-1; Arms and Armour 1980, 0-85368-324-7}
W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
S: A "campaign history" of how Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded England
and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic.
Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WM1>
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., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WM2>
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., "Heavy Metal", in <AP>
W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential
election campaign of 1960.
S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's
self-destructive activities.
Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75 and <100>
W: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series
of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP>
W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president
in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president.
S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then
how they dealt with Hitler.
Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD {Ballantine 1985}; exp. of
"Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed. Torgeson)
W: Emily Dickinson was not an introvert.
S: She becomes involved with Freud and Mark Twain.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WM3>
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.
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
worlds wars.
Martin, George R.R. (ed.), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 1987, 0-553-26190-8}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam 19xx}
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: See also Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE.
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, FIRE SWORD {Avon 1985}
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.
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WI>
W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808.
C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success
later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies.
Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister.
S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM {Doubleday 1973,
0-385-04212-4}
W: George McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
S: McGovern gets us out of Vietnam, but himself into trouble with Congress.
McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WM3>
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.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
accident (1847)", in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe
would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts.
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 1984}
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 19xx}
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 1989, 0-441-12389-9}
W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by
Christianity.
S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes
Caesar.
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAs> 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.
Montville, Leigh, "Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illus Fall 91 (75/18)
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 1978, 0-85031-237-X; Fontana 1978; Avon 1979; Warner/
Popular Library 1986, 0-445-20271-8}
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.
Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN {DC Comics 19xx, 0-930289-23-4};
reprints 12-issue comic book series {DC Comics 1986-1987}
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, 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.
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66
W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England.
S: Foiling the invasion.
Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in Amazing Jul 91 and <WM3>
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 <WM1>
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.
Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON {Simon & Schuster 1975, 0-671-22074-8;
Macmillan 1975, 0-333-18428-9}
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
<WI>
W: God re-ran history, with Pope Pius XII changed to have St. Peter's moral
fiber.
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.
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 1969, no
ISBN; McGraw-Hill 1986, 0-07-045777-8i; Vintage 1990, 0-679-72522-9}
W:
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.
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 1980, 0-937740-01-2}
W: The CSA won the battle.
S: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter speculates on
possible historical impact.
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and <YB6>
W: H.G. Wells' book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction.
S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood.
Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal
Jul/Aug 91
W:
S:
Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE
WANDERING JEW (ed. Stableford) {Daedalus 1991, 0-946626-71-5}
W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, creating a
world in which Jews gained the power Christians had in our world.
S: In the year 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew is present at the great
battle pitting the Jews against the Muslims and Zoroastrians.
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <IHO,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.
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 1973}
W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME {Atheneum 1976, 0-689-50057-2; Fawcett Crest
19xx}
W: Islam never got started. Also, magic works.
S: Intrigue and magic in an African empire.
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
W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and NA 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 1980}
W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America.
S: Thirty years later, the NA resistance develops the atomic bomb.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT>
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, "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 1950}
and <IHO,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.
Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed.
Greenberg) {Tor 1989, 0-312-93174-3}
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, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAs> Aug 88, <89AW> and
<WM1>
W: Jeshua of Nazareth 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 <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: Speculation on the success of a Humphrey-Kennedy Democrat ticket.
Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT {Avon 1981}
W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg.
S: Confederates plot to steal a nuclear-tipped cannon shell from the US,
causing revolts by right-wing and pro-Negro extremists.
Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR {Atheneum 1979, 0-689-11009-X}
W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier.
S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911.
Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR {Ballantine 1969}; rev. of "The Blue Star", in
WITCHES THREE {Twayne 1952}
W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works.
S:
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.
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 <IAs> 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 <IAs> Sep 91 and BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
#33) {Tor 1991, 0-812-51246-4}
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, "Over There", in <IAs> Apr 91 and <WM3>
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.
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.
Riker, William H., "What if Elbridge Gerry had been more rational and less
patriotic? (1787)", in <WI>
W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts had voted "no" on a motion,
causing the US constitutional convention in 1787 to fail.
C: Speculation on the consequences, including the breakup of the US into a
number of warring "states" and the non-existence of Canada (map included).
Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD {Doubleday 1983, 0-385-17584-1}
W: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in NA.
S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern NA takes part in the Mongol conquest
of Mexico.
Roberts, Keith, PAVANE {Doubleday 1968; Ace 19xx; Berkley Medallion 1976}
>------------<, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66
>------------<, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
<AH> and <MCS>
>------------<, "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
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.
Roberts, Keith, "Weibnachtsabend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed.
Moorcock) {Berkley Medallion 1972}, THE PASSING OF DRAGONS and <HV>
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.
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.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed. Carr)
{Doubleday 1984}, <YB2> and <AH>
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.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAs> Mar 89, <WM1> and
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 1991, 0-312-85126-x}
W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded.
S: A film company makes a movie about the successful rescue.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 1991, 0-312-85126-X}
W:
C:
Rolfe, Frederick William, and C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C.
{Cassell 1935; Arno 1978, 0-405-11005-7}
W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
overthrow his uncle.
Rucker, Rudy, and Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WM2>
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, "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.
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY
W:
S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
Marshall (1803)", in <WI>
W: Congress impeached and removed Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall from
office.
C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the American legal
system, ending in impeachment of justices who supported abortion in 1973.
Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG
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 NA 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 1991,
0-446-36142-9}
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 1952; Ballantine 1960}
W: Hitler decided to finish off Russia first, invading England in 1945.
S: A look at year 102 of the 1000-Year Reich.
Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92
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
and Utley) {Heidelberg 1976, 0-913206-08-3}
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.
Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES
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, and Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT {Baen 1988,
0-671-69783-8}
W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived the battle of
Zutphens.
S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to
protect James VI/I from magical attacks.
Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington had been Captured by General Howe:
Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WI>
W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill (New York City) was
fought persuaded British redcoats to pursue and capture Washington.
C: 150 years later, the Royal New York Historical Society finds a memoir
describing the event and the later celebration of Liberation Day.
Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IHB>
W:
C:
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:
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 <WM2>
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.
Shetterly, Will, and Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 12-issue comic book
series {Steeldragon 1986-1987}; issue #1 rev. as CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY SPECIAL
EDITION
W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862.
S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s.
Letters to editor often more interesting than the storyline.
--------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 4-issue comic book
series {Epic Comics 1991-1992}
S: Super-heroes from 8 NA 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 et al)
W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
S: Some nasty hints about JFK's assassination are aired.
Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
W:
S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might
have kept are included.
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1967;
Methuen 1980, 0-417-04710-X}
W: Europe was decimated by the Black Plague in 1348, leaving it defenseless
before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec NA.
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAs> Oct 90 and BEYOND
THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 1991, 0-812-55444-2}
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, "To the Promised Land", in <WM1>
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: The second Hebrew attempt at leaving Egypt.
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAs> Nov 91
S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western
(Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires.
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <fsf> Oct 89 and <YB7>
S: Early during the 2nd Roman Republic, two children meet a mysterious old
man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces.
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN {Ballantine 1978,
0-345-27751-1}
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 D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS {Ballantine 1982, 0-345-30770-4}
W: Dragons, fairies, etc., are real.
S: The appearance of "The Evil" from over the river provides incentive to
hold the Roman Empire together in a time of schism (c. 1400).
Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY {St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-01374-4}
W: Joe Johnston retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so long
that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election.
S: In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg, John
Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection.
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 1986, 0-312-94070-X; Tor
1989, 0-812-55425-6}
W: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden
rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
S: In 2042, a Helvetic North-American escorts a mission from the Saracen
Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire.
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 1970; Leisure 1981}
W: NA Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread,
resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
S: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during
20th-century white vs. red tensions.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED {Warner/Popular Library 1989,
0-445-20767-1}
W: Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil.
S: William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in
Paris, eventually invading France in 1672.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., and George R.R. Martin (ed.), WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE
SOLITAIRE {Bantam 1992, 0-553-29493-8}
C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
S:
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
{Macmillan 1973}
W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion
collapsed by 1778.
S: Dual history text of the Confederation of NA and the US of Mexico, from
1775 to 1971.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Pocket 1983}; rev. of
"Aquila" and "Aquila the God", in <IAs> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82, and "Aquila
Meets Bigfoot" and "Aquila: The Final Conflict", in Amazing Jan 83 and May
83
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX
W: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
S: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and
his entanglements with time guardians.
Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in UNEARTH {1977} and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK SEA
{Donning/Starblaze 1983, 0-89865-252-9}
W:
S: Aztecs depopoulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs.
Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in <AP>
W: William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve
only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president.
S: In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is
sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach.
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 1972, 0-380-00200-0; Gregg 1977,
0-8398-2361-4; Jove/HBJ 1978; Pocket 1982}
W: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a
commercial artist turned to writing SF.
S: The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed. Frenkel)
{Dell 1980}
W: JFK wasn't assassinated.
S: A man tries to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l
corporations.
Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write
Shakespeare" (aka "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in <IHO,ABC>, London
Mercury Jan 31 and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 1933}
W: As the title says.
S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 1933}
W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
S:
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 1991, 0-88184-742-9};
exp. of "The Man who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <fsf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
control.
S: A human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of immortality.
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 1970, no ISBN;
Berkley Medallion 1971}
W: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed
to go in peace.
S: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and
decides that assassination is the only solution.
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <WM3>
W: Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US
started a crash rocket development program, headed by Robert Goddard.
S: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis;
concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976.
-------------, "John Harper Wilson", in <IAs> Jun 89
S: The US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 1989, 0-671-69843-5}
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 1990, 0-671-72009-0}
W: American Tories colonized S Africa (Drakeland) after the revolution.
S: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and
only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental in the appendices.
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see S.P. Somtow
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds. Aronica
et al) {Doubleday 1989, 0-385-26019-9}, <YB7> and <MCS>
W: Earth has an edge.
S: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East
climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 1985}; exp. of "Mummer Kiss", in
UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1981}; and "Marrow Death", in <IAs> Dec
84
W: Three Mile Island melted down.
S: Life in Pennsylvania, 100 years later.
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
converts to Islam.
S: Describes the event.
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
Martin's 1990, 0-312-04148-9}
W: Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of
Britain on 28 May 1942.
S: The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion
and its commander violates the articles of war in order to save London.
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF {Macmillan 1974, 0-333-15042-2}
W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, as the Stuart restoration in
Virginia follows Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail", in <AP>
W: Even after being fired by the Washington post, Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
S: Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder
of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972.
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker 6
Dec 30, THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE {Harper 1935}, THE THURBER
CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 1945; Harper 1953}, <fsf> Feb 52 and VINTAGE THURBER
{Hamish Hamilton 1963}
W: As the title says.
S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <fsf> Oct/Nov 91
W: Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South,
suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting.
S: The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword
written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade.
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 1913, 1930} and <IHO,C>
W: Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean".
S: Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing
armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 1972} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 1981}
W: Ambassador Hurley did not prevent Mao and Chou En-lai from meeting FDR
in 1945.
S:
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WM1>
W: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
S: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
Greek situation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in <IAs> Jan 89 and <WM2>
W: Mohammad became a Christian. Thus, lack of Moslem pressure meant
Byzantium never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
S: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a
Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM {Congdon & Weed 1987, 0-86553-183-8;
Worldwide 1988}
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing Jul
85
S: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been
invented in the steppes north of the Danube.
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in <IAs>
Aug 86
S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
>---------------<, ? (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing Jul 86
S: Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite.
>---------------<, "Archetypes" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in Amazing Nov 85
S: Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing
near the Persian frontier.
>---------------<, "Images" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in <IAs> Mar 87
S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAs> Apr 87
S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAs> 15 Dec 89
S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 1988, 0-86553-198-6}
W: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-skinned
men when they reached the New World.
>---------------<, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85
S: In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father
ventures into the wilderness to save her.
>---------------<, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE
S: In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
contemplates the origins of species.
>---------------<, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86
S: In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his
sim assistant will think of rescuing him.
>---------------<, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86
S: In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of
the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace.
>---------------<, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86
S: In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway
Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner.
>---------------<, "Trapping Run"
S: In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back
to health by sims.
>---------------<, "Freedom"
S: In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims
kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor.
Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAs> Jan 92
W: Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany
and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia.
S: Even in a 2010 Berlin at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany,
the Jews will still survive.
Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
W: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the 8th
century AD.
S: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in New Destinies Winter 1988
W: Cocaine were legal and caffeine illegal.
S: A day in the life of a policeman fighting "caffeine addiction", who
orders "coke" the next day at a MacDonald's.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <fsf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and
THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed. McSherry)
W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in <WM3>
W: Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in
retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets.
S: In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan
seeking weapons.
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 1990, 0-345-36076-1}
W: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining
a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
S: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of
"Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in <fsf> Feb 92
W: Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and
carried the Civil War north to Ohio.
S: After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue
its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south.
Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed.
Carr) {Doubleday 1976; Popular Library 1977}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z: A
DICTIONARY OF THE GREAT SF THEMES (eds. Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin
1982, 0-395-31285-X}; BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, 6TH ANNUAL
COLLECTION (ed. Dozois) and <AH>
W: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War
was fought with mechanized transport.
S: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and
later flew at the Little Big Horn.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IHO,B>
W:
S: Manhattan remains a tolerant enclave until the 19th century, and its
persisting laws have curious effects on Prohibition.
Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER {Summit 1978, 0-671-40028-2}
W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, hiding out until 1970.
S: An int'l tribunal considers his fate.
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in Scribner's Nov 30 and
<IHO,ABC>
W: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
S: Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes
on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 1990,
0-942681-05-3} and <IAs> Mid-Dec
91
W: The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered
stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport.
S: In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to
make a movie about the Dreyfus affair.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds.
Lansdale and LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 1989, 0-913165-49-2} and NIGHT OF THE
COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0-942681-05-3}
W: Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the
film industry set up in Boise.
S: Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time
fascination with cloudbusters.
Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in Omni Oct 88 and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
{Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0-942681-05-3}
W: Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
S: Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio
Agency, which also gives TV an early push.
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in Omni Jun 82, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday
1986, 0-385-19708-X} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP
W: Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he
could learn to play jazz clarinet.
S: In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when
President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in Omni Aug 86, ALL ABOUT
STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ursus Imprints 1987, 0-942681-00-2},
STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 1989} and STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT
PAST {Ace 1991, 0-441-16069-7}
W: Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported
to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide.
S: In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading
a history of the fall of European power.
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
{Doubleday 1986, 0-385-19708-X} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 1989}
W: Phlogiston existed.
S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
apocalyptic results.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP>
W: Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-
Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2.
S: 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he
can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government.
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 1976}
W:
S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
Weinbaum, Stanley G., "The Worlds of If", in Wonder Stories Aug 35 and THE
BEST OF STANLEY G. WEINBAUM {Ballantine 1974, 0-345-23890-7}
W:
S: A young man uses machine to find out what would have happened if he
hadn't missed a flight to Europe which later crashed in the Atlantic.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 1905; Univ Nebraska 1967}; incl.
in WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 1925}
W: The Dark Ages never happened.
S: A look at a Utopian 20th century.
C: Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is
"beyond Sirius".
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
23-30 Jun 76
W:
S:
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER {Little Brown 1971, no ISBN}; as
DOWNFALL {Bantam 1972}
W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 1991, 0-345-37110-0}
W: C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for
Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early.
S: In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her
outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard.
White, Ted, and Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 1968}
W: Alien intervention averted WW2.
S: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels."
Wildavsky, Aaron, "What if the U.S. had had one law for its allies and another
for its adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in <WI>
W: The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war.
C: Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier
relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs.
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG {Heinemann 1980, 0-434-86605-9; Viking 1981,
0-670-36439-8; Magnum 1982}
W: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it
took 5 weeks to locate an heir.
S: A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the
limits on royal power in the 1900s.
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
(1963)", in <WI>
W: The British Labor party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963.
C: A more moderate Labor party and movement results, with general economic
success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans.
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAs> Nov 89, <WM2> and
FACETS {Tor 1990, 0-512-50181-0}
W: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate
general.
S: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle
of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
W: Dubcek had retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
Invasion", in Analog May 73
W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
the 1930s and 40s.
S: A US Army colonel returns to his hometown of Abilene KS, opens a Buick
dealership, and devises a WW2 wargame.
Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA
W: Magic works, in Regency London.
S:
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
<IHB>
W:
C:
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
RENAISSANCE {Pocket 1980}
W: The Medicis brought together Italia Federata, c. 1500.
S: A court poet to Il Primario is involved in intrigues to hold Italy
together, but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
WORLDS {Tor 1991, 0-812-55444-2}
C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
S: The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca
of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING {Cheap Street 1982}
W:
S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
south.
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in <WM2> and Amazing Mar 90
W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
Future Glimpses:
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>,
<YB6> and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed. Bishop) {Arbor House 1988}
An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; OUR CHRISTMAS IN A
PALACE; HANDS OFF {J.S. Smith 1895}; WORKS, VOL. 2 and <AH>
A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he sees what
would happen if Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, and P.A. Bien (tr.), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
{Simon & Schuster 1960}; orig. HO TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
Jesus dreams of what would happen if he fled his fate.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH,
WHAT IF? VOLUME 1 (ed. Lupoff), <HV>, <GS20> and THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR
II (ed. McSherry)
A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the atomic bomb is given a
glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WM2>
While trying to decide whether to make peace with the Confederacy in 1863,
Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
Crosstime Stories:
Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 1979, 0-915442-96-5; Signet 1982}
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 1985}
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS
Tourists trapped in a remote villa are dropped into a 17th-century Earth in
which Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 431.
Aldiss, Brian, "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct 62
and NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 1969, no ISBN}
In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed. Ellison) {Doubleday
1967; NAL 1975}
An explorer from an advanced Alexandrine world violates a taboo while
visiting a backward NA dominated by Norse and Magyar colonies.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 1961}
A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 1957,
Abelard-Schuman 1976, 0-200-72378-2} and <WoM>
Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 1991}
A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 1971}
During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
where NA was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 1985, 0-312-94144-7}
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 1988, 0-446-51402-0}
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 1978,
0-385-12475-1; Popular Library 1978}
A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
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.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BIOFAB WAR
-------------------, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
Space opera, crosstime travel, teleportation, malevolent AIs, and other
subplots swirl around a timeline where Germany won WW2.
Bisson, Terry, TALKING MAN {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-813-0; Avon 1987}
Main characters find the world is changing around them as a wizard/witch
fight for control of the universe.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54 and <BAW>
A physics experiment accidentally knocks a passerby into a similar timeline,
and he must be returned to save the universe.
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP
A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world where
racoons rather than primates evolved intelligence.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 1949; Bantam 1950}
A pulp editor finds himself in parallel universe which matches the stories
his magazine has published.
Brunner, John, THE INFINITIVE OF GO
A teleporter not only transmits sideways in space but also in time.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
but that doesn't solve his problems.
Busby, F.M., ALL THESE EARTHS
An FTL space drive at high "skip" factors may place the ship in an alternate
universe.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Carr, John F., and 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 NA plains east into Kalvan's
territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR SCIENCE-
FICTION STORIES #7 (ed. Del Rey) {Ballantine 1981}
Two people from different timelines end up at the same jewelry store in a
third trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Cartur, Peter, "The Mist", in <SFD>
A traveler needs help to get back to his own world.
Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER
A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel
an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth.
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAs> Jul 78
Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
Maine and Nova Scotia.
Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 1985}
A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 1981, 0-525-29738-3; Tempo 1984}
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 1983, 0-525-44049-6}
The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and
Aztecs.
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 1975}
When a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry, a man finds himself in a world
where Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men
enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
Vikings and English pirates.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, <AH> and Tor SF
Double #20 {Tor 1990}
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".
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <fsf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
S:
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966}
S:
Derleth, August, and Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time",
in THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed. Wolfe)
In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
S:
Dick, Philip K., "The Trouble with Bubbles", in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
PHILIP K. DICK, VOLUME TWO
Bubbles, personal alternative pseudo-worlds, as a too real fad.
Dozois, Gardner, and Jack Dann, "Playing the Game", in Twilight Zone Feb 82
A boy travels from one parallel world to another, trying to get "home."
Effinger, Geo. Alec, RELATIVES {Harper & Row 1973, 0-06-011149-6; Dell 1976};
exp. of "The City on the Sand", in <fsf> Apr 73; and "Relatives", in BAD
MOON RISING (ed. Disch) {Harper & Row 1973}
One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
which Germany won WW1.
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 1979}
A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAs> Aug 80
A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 1979, 0-441-83365-9}; rev. of
THE GATE OF TIME {Belmont 1970}
American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is at war.
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, POLITICAL SCIENCE
FICTION: AN INTRODUCTORY READER (eds. Greenberg and Warrick) {Prentice-Hall
1974, 0-13-655404-4, 0-13-685396-X}, <BAW> and <GS23>
A Britisher goes back in time to the Alamo, but its defenders behave like
20th-century liberals. Also mentions differing Napoleonic events.
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 1990, 0-812-53795-5}; exp. of "The
World Next Door", <IAs> Sep 87 and <TW8>
In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of a 60s nuclear war have strange dreams of
a world full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB
Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
Finney, Jack, "I'm Scared", in THE THIRD LEVEL and ABOUT TIME {Simon &
Schuster 1986, 0-671-62887-9}
A retired cop discovers a disturbing series of anachronisms, including a man
who disappeared in 1876 and reappeared in 1955.
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 1968}; rev. of "The
Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60, I
LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRING {Simon & Schuster 1963; Eyre & Spottiswoode
1975} and ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 1986, 0-671-62887-9}; incl. in THREE
BY FINNEY
Crosstime adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time"
A man lost between universes has an adventure in an alternate US.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAs> Oct 79
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 <IAs> Jul 80
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 <IAs> Nov 80 and <FCW>
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 <IAs> 26 Oct 81
An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
A man gets a look at what his life would have been like if he'd been born a
woman.
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr)
{Doubleday 1981}, BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-780-0} and
MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (ed. Sterling) {Arbor House 1986,
0-87795-868-8; Ace 1988, 0-441-53382-5}
A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture,
transportation, etc. are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 1977, 0-465-01763-1; Sphere 1979}
Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle of Mbwila (1665), one
post-nuclear war and one with the Congo at the heart of Christianity.
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 1985}
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 <TW8>
C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAs> Nov 91
A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 1990, 0-688-09024-9; Avon
1991, 0-380-70800-0}; exp. of "The Hemingway Hoax", in <IAs> Apr 90 and
<YB8>
A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Harrison: Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds. Silverberg and Elwood)
{Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0-399-11460-2}
A man from our world aids others from timelines where the sun is about to
go nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run NA.
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed. Silverberg)
{Doubleday 1971}
A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 1984,
0-345-31357-7, 0-345-32060-3}
A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
has it in for them.
Heinlein, Robert A., THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST {Fawcett Columbine 1980}
A mad scientist, his beautiful daughter, a clear-eyed hero and a lusty
friend explore the 6**6**6 possible realities.
-------------------, THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS {Putnam 1985}
S:
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 1985, 0-553-05095-8}
Beleaguered Americans of the 1970s try to reverse Britain's defeat in WW2,
unfortunately it's not their own past.
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 1977; Ace 1982}
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 1977; Ace 1982}
S:
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 1978; Ace 1982}
S:
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAs> Aug 87
and <YB5>
A crosstime worldmaker runs for his life in one of his worlds.
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC
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
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 1978}
Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
alternate Earths along the way.
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <fsf> Feb 59
A traveler finds a timeline where Jesus never existed.
Kube-McDowell, Michael M., ALTERNITIES
The US seeks a bolthole for its leaders in case of nuclear war.
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE
People can travel between parallel worlds, some of which seem to have
fantasy elements.
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL
Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 1975}
Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
Constitution.
Kuttner, Henry: see Lewis Padgett
Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed. Knight)
{Putnam's 1970; Berkley Medallion 1970}
A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes world-map goes sailing and
lands on the Africa of our world.
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 1962; Berkley Medallion
1977; exp. Tor 1983}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
Crosstime adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium
centered in London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle 1981}
>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley Medallion 1965; Walker 1971;
Signet 1972}; serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65
Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at
Brussels in 1814.
>-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley Medallion 1968; Dobson 1972,
0-234-77632-3}
Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle
at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
-------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 1990}
S:
Leiber, Fritz, Jr., "Business of Killing", in <SFD>
A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
ventures.
Leiber, Fritz, DESTINY TIMES THREE
In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real
all the possible outcomes from various choices.
Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in <BAW>
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, BEFORE THE GOLDEN
AGE (ed. Asimov) and <WoM>
On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70
--------------, "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
A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really
coherent reason).
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 1971}
Exiles from different NAs of 1965 meet.
Meredith, R.C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 1973; Berkley Medallion 1975;
rev. Playboy 1979}
Crosstime agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain
suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
--------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 1976, 0-3851-11109-6; rev.
Playboy 1979}
Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
--------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 1978; rev. Playboy 1979}
And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 1951; Galaxy SF Novel 12
1952; Modern Literary Editions 19xx}; exp. of "The House of Many Worlds", in
Startling Stories Sep 51
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 #xx {Ace 1955}; exp. of
"Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
Rome.
Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC 19xx}
>---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 1971; Ace
1971; rev. Quartet 1978; DAW 1978; Granada 1981}
Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
has maintained European imperialism.
>---------------<, THE LAND LEVIATHAN {Doubleday 1974; Quartet 1974; DAW
1976}
Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did
the world no good.
>---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 1982}
Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, APPROACHES TO
SCIENCE FICTION {ed. Levine) {Houghton Mifflin 1978, 0-395-25496-5} and
N-SPACE {Tor 1990, 0-312-85089-1}
In a timeline where the Cuban Missile Crisis blew up, a detective
investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime Corporation.
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <fsf> ??? 71 and <BAW>
A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants
developed from wolves instead of hominids.
Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71, ALIEN
HORIZONS and <100>
In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan
missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster.
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME {Ace 1956; Gregg 1978, 0-8398-2418-1}
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 1965; Ace 1965}; as CROSSTIME AGENT
{Gollancz 1975}
Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and
Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN
Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another
universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter.
O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr., "Future's Puppet", in Analog Sep 89
A man from the future meets a woman from another timeline in 1995, and ends
up being hunted by extremist conservative-liberal terrorists.
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47 and
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN {Gnome 1951}
S:
Padgett, Lewis, and C.L. Moore, "Beyond Heaven's Gates", in Ace Double D-69
{Ace 1954}; exp. of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in Startling
Stories Sep 49
A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests,
who believe our New York is Paradise.
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED
Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
Napoleon's European takeover.
Person, Lawrence, "Details", in <IAs> Apr 91
A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts.
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59
In a US where Washington died at Germantown and Benedict Arnold became
president, a man discussing alternate timelines is from one.
Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN {Ace 1965; Garland 1975,
0-8240-1420-X}; as GUNPOWDER GOD {Sphere 1978}; rev. of "Gunpowder God" and
"Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 64 and Nov 65
S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a NA, settled by Indo-Aryans
during the Bronze Age, where only priests of Styphon can make gunpowder.
C: Sequels are Green and Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-
Hostigos" and Carr and Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker".
--------------, PARATIME {Ace 1981}
>------------<, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, ASPECTS
OF SF (ed. Doherty) and <AH>
Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying
documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon.
>------------<, "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed.
Norton) and ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. anon.)
>------------<, "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
(ed. Campbell) and <BAW>
>------------<, "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51
>------------<, "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55
Tales of the Paratime Police guarding the crosstime byways. All Earths shown
are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours.
Pohl, Frederik, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS
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.
Reed, Robert, DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY {Bantam 1991, 0-553-28923-3}
Infinity of alternate Earths, with alternate human races of good and evil.
Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO {Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 1970}
Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
advance of technology.
Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75
A man sent to fight aliens returns to Earth after a few centuries but it
isn't the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace.
Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE {Walker 1972, 0-8027-5554-2; Fitzhenry &
Whiteside 1972}
Astral projection to Muslim- and Nazi-dominated Earths.
Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
VIRGINIA {Morrow 1990, 0-688-09413-9}
In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe, set out for the S Pole to
locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior.
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN {Bantam 1975; Gregg 1977, 0-8398-2351-7; Beacon
1986, 0-8070-6313-4}
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.
Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS {Tor 1983}
A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN {Ace 1979; Tor 1987}
Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time periods to
stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE {Doubleday 1972, 0-385-08659-8; Popular
Library 19xx};
exp. of "Artery of Fire", in Science Fiction Stories Mar 60
S:
Shaw, Bob, "What Time Do You Call This?", in TOMORROW LIES IN AMBUSH
Bank robber tries to use machine to travel between universes to escape after
a heist.
Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our
timeline.
Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89 and <WM2>
Scientists somehow communicate with a palace guard in old Constantinople, a
Mongol known in our timeline as Genghis Khan.
Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59 and <WoM>
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: THE ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION
ANTHOLOGY (eds. Ferman and Malzberg) {Charterhouse 1974, 0-88327-035-8;
Penguin 1975}; exp. in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS {Scribner's 1975; Berkley
1975}
A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where
Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2.
Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN
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 1982}
Six people from different timelines join together on a quest.
Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67
An inventor exits the US of Columbia in 1878 on a crosstime adventure.
Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH {Ballantine 1980}
In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder ends up in a world
where the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and US Constitution was revoked.
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime
machine.
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
In 1993, ...
--------------, THE VENUS BELT {Ballantine 1981}
In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear is off
to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot.
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE {Ballantine 1985}
In 2119, ...
Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING
An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world
where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination.
Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD
A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where
magic works and northern Europe and most of Britain is covered with ice.
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS {Futura 1979; rev. Dell 1980}
Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's
dealing with the Danes.
Sterling, Bruce, and Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in Omni Sep 85
and MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-868-8;
Ace 1988, 0-441-53382-5}
The future of one timeline is dominating the past of another.
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for a device,
yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20 {Tor
1990}
C: Sequel to de Camp's "The Wheels of If".
S: The former New York DA and New Belfast bishop, now a judge, is sent to S
America to adjudicate a complex religio-political dispute.
Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES {Ace 1984; Ziesing 1989, 0-929480-04-X,
0-929480-05-8}
Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right
time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in <IAs> Dec 91
Crosstime traveler offers to sell the secret to parallel worlds, and finds
one with faster-than-light travel. Both sides fear the other.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Storm Trooper", in <IAs> Jan 92
Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates,
and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in THE NEW
HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed. Asimov)
A West Virginia teen-ager gets a job working the graveyard shift at a burger
joint, and discovers just how varied the clientele really is.
--------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in <IAs>
Aug 91
A visitor from a parallel world is temporarily stranded in ours.
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
A merchant from Chinese America, discovered by Marco Polo, gets into
crosstime trouble.
White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN {Belmont 1967; rev. Donning 19xx}
S:
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES {Doubleday 1989, 0-385-24933-0}
S:
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE {Tor 1990, 0-812-50623-5}
S: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in 1939
New York of a world in which Lincoln was assassinated in 1861.
C: Non-AH entries in this series include AMBIENT, HEATHERN and ELVISEY.
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS {Michael Joseph 1961;
Penguin 1965} and THE INFINITE MOMENT {Ballantine 1961}
In a world where the League of Nations prevented WW2, a man searches for the
analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a parallel world.
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING {St. Martin's/Marek 1984, 0-312-24369-3}
A copy of Time-Life's HISTORY OF WW2 causes chaos when it ends up in a world
where the Weimar republic survived.
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75 and <BT>
A machine lets historians study AHs, with looks at D-Day and Thermopylae.
-----------------, "The Number of the Sand", in Amazing Aug 91 and <WM3>
A cliometrician examines the possible lives of Hannibal and their effect on
the 2nd Punic War.
-----------------, "Let Time Shape", in Amazing Mar 91
Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by
refugees from Carthage.
Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS {Bantam 1991, 0-553-29175-0}; rev. of
"Stranger Suns", serial in Amazing Jan and Mar 91
An alien ship found in Antarctica includes portals to alternate Earths, but
those who explore them can never return to their home lines.
Changing the Past:
Anderson, Kevin J., and Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 1991,
0-553-29426-3}
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 <fsf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
{Ballantine 1960; Pinnacle 1981}, ANNALS OF THE TIME PATROL {Doubleday
19xx}, THE TIME PATROL {Tor 1991, 0-312-85231-2}, <WoM>, <GS17>, <AH> and
THE ETERNAL CITY (ed. Drake)
Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York" and it's up to Time Patrolman
Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME {Tor 1990, 0-312-85088-3}
S: Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
Rignano (1137).
C: Non-AH entries in this 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 and elsewhere.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY; rev. of "The End of Eternity", in THE
ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 1986, 0-385-19874-5}
A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78
An time travel attempt to obtain a Gilbert & Sullivan score goes awry.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and <TW8>
Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a woman when asking
for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Benford, Greg, TIMESCAPE {Pocket 1981, 0-671-50632-3}; rev. of "3:02 P.M.,
Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH (eds. Silverberg
and Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0-399-11460-2}
A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he
tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal.
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <fsf> Oct 58, STARLIGHT,
COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed. Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1974,
0-03-006931-9} and THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES
(eds. Silverberg and Greenberg) {Arbor House 1983, 0-87795-445-3}
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.
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley Medallion 1969; Penguin
1978, 0-14-004875-8}
On an Earth where Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to 70, a
Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping with a Poet.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in R IS FOR ROCKET and <GS14>
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 borderline
AH since the only result shown is futureward of the writing.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 1969}; exp. of "Times Without
Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 1962}; rev. of "Spoil of Yesterday", "The
Word Not Written" and "The Fullness of Time", in Science Fiction Adventures
Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
In 1988, 400 years after the Armada conquered England, a plot is afoot to
destroy the Spanish empire via time-travel.
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed. Wilson) {Signet 1973}
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAs> 16 Feb 81
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAs> 21 Dec 81
S:
Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 1985}
A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and
eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia.
Cook, Glen, A MATTER OF TIME
A detective tries to solve the mystery of the still-warm corpse of a man
dead 50 years while temporal agents try to preserve their present.
Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 1990, 0-451-45041-8}
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 {NAL/Roc 1991, 0-451-45128-7}
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.
Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY and <YB7>
S:
de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, ANALOG:
WRITERS' CHOICE (ed. Schmidt), <BAW> and <MCS>
Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead
overawes and sours him on scientific research.
de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL {Ballantine 1949}; exp. of "Lest
Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec 39
Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a
few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
Dick, Philip K., "Jon's World", in TIMES TO COME (ed. Derleth) and THE
COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK, VOLUME TWO
While Jon hallucinates a world of peace, his father goes back in time to
learn the secret of machine intelligence.
Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 1981}
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 <WM1>
An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a
Civil War different from the one we remember.
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE
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, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 1975, 0-373-72006-8}
A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
involving re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE RADIANT KNIGHT {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 1990, 0-345-36849-5}
An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
in <BT>
Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence
of Henry Ford.
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 1973, 0-394-47922-X;
Faber 1973, 0-571-10477-0; Popular Library 1974; Aeonian 1976,
0-88411-191-1}
S:
Goldstone, Cynthia, and Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <fsf> Aug 70
A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and the Mormons from the
Great Salt Lake to San Francisco Bay.
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-781-9; Thorndike 1986,
0-89621-805-8}
At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
again and again.
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 1985,
0-670-80635-8}
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.
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
S:
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 1990, 0-441-75398-1}
Part near future, part time travel to change the past to save the son of
Cleopatra.
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME
White supremacist goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War; a
black goes back to defeat him.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92
A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because
everything gets worse, but she has been visited before.
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in <SFD>
A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that
had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost.
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 1970}
S:
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <WM3)
22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four
historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn.
Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61 and <GS23>
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., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67
Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their
past without realizing it.
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 1971, 0-684-12529-3,
R. Bentley 1982, 0-8376-0464-8}
A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
advantage of it.
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 1961, no ISBN; Gregg 1976, 0-8398-2334-7;
Macmillan 1991, 0-02-069841-0}; serial in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
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
S:
-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <fsf> Mar 75; <76AW>; NEBULA
AWARDS 11 (ed. ?); THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed. Asimov) {Doubleday
1985, 0-385-18934-6} and THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed. Bova) {Tor 1989,
0-312-93175-1}
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 this series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change
the Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 1964}
S:
Lem, Stanislaw, "The Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ
1982, o-15-158856-2}
Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52
S:
Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
SCHENECTADY
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.
MacCreigh, James, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49,
ALTERNATING CURRENTS (ed. Pohl) and BEYOND THE END OF TIME (ed. Pohl)
Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into
the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered.
Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE {Doubleday 1978, 0-385-13138-0}
S:
Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 1976,
0-345-25066-4}
A time-hopper recuperates in Chicago of Oct 1871 after fleeing an American
religious dictatorship in a history where Germany nuked Chicago.
Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91
A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent
alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history.
Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN
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.
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 1977}
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.
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE {Farrar, Straus & Young 1953; Ballantine 1953;
Avon 1972, 0-380-02440-075?}; exp. of "Bring the Jubilee", in <fsf> Nov 52
and <FCW>
An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and Germanic
Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 1988, 0-553-27115-6}
In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out
to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 1975}
William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things
turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians.
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <fsf> Oct 70
Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 1973}
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 <WM1> and N-SPACE {Tor
1990, 0-312-85089-1}
Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Robert Heinlein from
becoming an SF writer.
O'Farrell, William, TURN BACK THE CLOCK
A woman who just shot her husband gets a chance to relive the previous year
of her life.
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62
and <100>
A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a
population explosion. (Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL (qv).)
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55
Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
---------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
---------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
S:
Reynolds, Mack, and Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME {Simon & Schuster 1984}
An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <fsf> Dec 65
S:
Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40
Time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in Astounding Dec 33
S:
Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1977, 0-385-11414-1}
Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the
composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy.
Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <fsf> Apr 63
A time traveler destroys the train returning Lenin to Russia, but returns to
his home time to find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38
S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and
discover that they have changed the present.
C: First known published story to theorize that changing the past will alter
the time-traveler's home time.
Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER {Random House 1986, 0-394-55031-5}
In order to prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels to the
Dallas of 1963, but an altered history may also need correction.
Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS
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.
Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF
INFINITY
Scientists who change the past to produce a better future come up against
their most difficult challenge. Three possible histories shown.
Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in <AP>
In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is
revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history.
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE {Ballantine 1969, 0-345-32585-0}
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.
Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed. Bulmer)
{Sidgwick & Jackson 1975; Corgi 1976}
With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai
invasion, then industrializes.
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in 17*INFINITY (ed. Conklin)
Scientists send a sphere back in time, claiming it has no effect. Each time
it comes back, things change but they just don't notice.
Turtledove, Harry, THE LONG DRUM ROLL {not yet published}, excerpt in <FCW>
Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s and other advanced
weapons, leading to Confederate victory in the Civil War.
Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY {Carroll & Graf 1989, 0-88184-523-X}
Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead
describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site.
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME {Avalon 1963}
Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME {Bluejay 1985}
Hero from 1930s is shown two possible futures which hinge on whether or not
a particular event happens; future woman tries to affect what happens.
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75
Two aliens play at changing events in our past to compete in achieving their
individual goals (success or failure for humanity).
Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS {Ballantine 1979, 0-345-28530-1}
On a strange road that reaches from past to future, a man fights assassins
and attempts to prevent a Greek defeat at Marathon.
Reference Materials:
Ash, Brian (ed.), THE VISUAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION {Harmony 1977, Pan
1978}
Includes discussion of AH (pp 116, 121-123) and parallel worlds (142-144),
with bibliographies.
Brownlow, Kevin, HOW IT HAPPENED HERE: THE MAKING OF A FILM {Secker & Warburg
1968, 0-436-09864-4; Doubleday 1968}
Description of the making of IT HAPPENED HERE, a movie directed by Brownlow
and Andrew Mollo, about a nurse in Nazi-occupied Britain.
Carter, Paul A., THE CREATION OF TOMORROW: FIFTY YEARS OF MAGAZINE SCIENCE
FICTION {Columbia Univ 1977, 0-231-04210-8}
Discussions of AH on pp 109-113, 132-138.
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in <AH>
Discussion of what AH is and isn't.
Fadness, Fawn Brawley, "What If...?", in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds.
Wallechinsky and Wallace) {Morrow 1978, 0-688-03372-5}
Extensive synopses of stories by Kantor, Sobel, Trevelyan and Waldman (qv).
Accompanied by original premise by Lukacs (qv).
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been,
II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in <AH>
61-page listing of AHs published before 1986, with short synopses and
publication histories.
Harrison, Harry, "Worlds Beside Worlds", in SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE (ed.
Nicholls) {Gollancz 1976, 0-575-02178-0; Harper & Row 1976, 0-06-013198-5}
On writing AH and the reasoning behind A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! (qv).
McHale, Brian, POSTMODERNIST FICTION {Methuen 1987, 0-416-36390-3,
0-416-36400-4}
Includes 3-page discussion of "apocryphal history" and 2 pages on related
"creative anachronisms".
Not Yet Classified:
Asimov, Isaac, THE GODS THEMSELVES {Doubleday 1972}; exp. of stories in
Galaxy Mar and May 72 and If Apr 72
Baron, Nick, GLORY'S END
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>
Bova, Ben, APRIL 1945 {not yet published}
Cassutt, Michael, DRAGON SEASON {not yet published}
Chesney, George, "Battle of Dorking", in BEFORE ARMAGEDDON: AN ANTHOLOGY OF
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN IMAGINATIVE FICTION PUBLISHED BEFORE 1914 (ed.
Moorcock) {W.H. Allen 1975, 0-491-01794-4}
Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS
Clarke, Comer, ENGLAND UNDER HITLER
Coover, Robert, A POLITICAL FABLE {Viking 1980, 0-670-56309-9}
Coover, Robert, THE PUBLIC BURNING {Viking 1977, 0-670-58200-X}
Cowper, Richard, BREAKTHROUGH {Dobson 1967}
Cummings, Ray, THE SHADOW GIRL
Daniels, David R., "The Branches of Time", in Wonder Stories Aug 35
Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
Dickson, Gordon, THE DRAGON AND THE GEORGE {Ballantine 1976; Doubleday 1976}
---------------, THE DRAGON KNIGHT {Tor 1990, 0-312-93129-8}
---------------, THE DRAGON ON THE BORDER, {Ace 1992, 0-441-34233-7}
d'Ormesson, Jean, and Barbara Bray (tr.), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf
1974, 0-394-48121-6}, orig. LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE {Gallimard 1971}
Dunn, Walter S., SECOND FRONT NOW: 1943 {Univ Alabama 1980, 0-8173-0008-2}
Egan, Greg, "The Infinite Assassin", in Interzone Jun 91
Flynn, Michael, "On the Wings of a Butterfly"
Haiblum, Isidore, TRANSFER TO YESTERDAY {Doubleday 1981, 0-385-17136-6}
Hamley, Dennis, PAGEANTS OF DESPAIR {S.G. Phillips 1974, 0-87599-205-6}
Hogan, James P., ENTOVERSE {Ballantine 1991, 0-345-36030-3}
Holderness, Graham, SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY {Gill and Macmillan/St. Martin's
1985, 0-312-71581-1}
Jacobs, Will, and Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
SEASON {Crown 1983, 0-517-54991-3}
Kingston, Jeremy, CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS
Lafferty, R.A., "The Hole on the Corner", in NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS
Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
Linaweaver, Brad, "Destination Indies", in <WM4> {not yet published}
MacDonald, John D., and Debra Doyle, TIMECRIME, INC.
Moorcock, Michael, THE ADVENTURES OF UNA PERSSON AND CATHERINE CORNELIUS IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A ROMANCE {Quartet 1976, 0-7043-2121-1}
-----------------, THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES {Avon 1977, 0-380-00878-5}
>---------------<, THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN: A ROMANCE OF ENTROPY {Allison &
Busby 1972, 0-85031-043-1; Harper & Row 1972, 0-06-013003-2}
>---------------<, THE CONDITION OF MUZAK {Allison & Busby 1977,
0-85031-044-X; Gregg 1978, 0-8398-2434-3}
Parker, Richard, A TIME TO CHOOSE: A STORY OF SUSPENSE {Hutchinson 1973,
0-09-117570-4; Harper & Row 1974, 0-06-024678-2, 0-06-024679-0}
Silverberg, Robert, "The Asenion Solution", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed.
Greenberg) {Tor 1989, 0-312-93174-3}
Stevens, Francis, HEADS OF CERBERUS
Thompson, W. R., "Oracle"
Wolf, Gary K., WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT? {St. Martin's 1981, 0-312-87001-9}
-------------, WHO P-P-PLUGGED ROGER RABBIT? {Villard 1991, 0-679-40094-X}
Wu, William, THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH
THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 10 - 27 Apr 1992
ADDENDUM - DATE OF APPARENT DIVERGENCE
By Evelyn C. Leeper and R.B. Schmunk
The various entries in the Alternate History List are listed here by date of
apparent divergence from history as we know it. To save space, descriptions are
not included; consult the main list for that info. In some cases the divergence
date is so vague that the story has been omitted from this list. Similarly,
crosstime stories involving multiple possible divergences have generally been
left out. Where the date assignment required some guesswork, the latest
possible date has usually been assigned. Many such entries have a question mark
following the date. Other symbols which may appear after the date are: ")"
indicates a Change the Past story; "}" indicates a Future Glimpse story; and
">" indicates a Crosstime story. As benchmarks, dates of some notable events
are included. Please e-mail corrections, etc. to schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu.
Note: all dates AD/CE. Negative numbers indicate BC/BCE.
-100,000,000,000) Lem, Stanislaw, "The Eighteenth Voyage"
-4,500,000,000 Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
-65,000,000 Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY
-65,000,000 Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN
-65,000,000) Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder"
-40,000,000) MacCreigh, James, "Let the Ants Try"
-20,000,000> Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP
-20,000,000> Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine"
-5,000,000 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"
-15,000 Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF
-12,000 *-----------------------------------migrations across Bering land bridge
-12,000> Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR
Carr, John F., and Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker"
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos"
-10,000 Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night"
-1400?} Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off"
-1250 Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE
-1250 Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman"
-1230 *--------------------------------------------------------------the Exodus
-1230 Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant"
-1230 Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land"
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire"
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods"
-490 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Marathon
-490) Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS
-480 Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds"
-343) deCamp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun"
-330 *-------------------------------------------death of Alexander of Macedon
-330 Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES
-323> Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia"
-218) Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est"
-202 *-------------------------------------------------end of Second Punic War
-202? Zebrowski, George, "Let Time Shape"
-200 *--------------------------------------------------------Hero's aeolipile
-200 Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again"
-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
-200 White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY
-200?> Zebrowski, George, "The Number of the Sand"
-165 Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows"
-146? Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage"
-45) Kingston, Jeremy, CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS
-44) West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME
-30 *--------------------------------------------------------battle of Actium
-30) Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN
-30) Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS
-30 Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
-4> Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN
-4 Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs"
-4 Fortier, Ron, BOSTON BOMBERS
-4> Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast"
1) Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass"
8) Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE
30 *------------------------------------------execution of Jesus of Nazareth
30) Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH
30} Kazantzakis, Nikos, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
30 Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches"
30 Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC
30 Pohl, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians"
30?> Padgett, Lewis, and C.L. Moore, "Beyond Heaven's Gates"
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"
100?> Christopher, John, FIREBALL
312 McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb"
312 Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian"
325) Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA
330 *--------------------------Constantinople becomes eastern capital of Rome
331 Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY
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
450? Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR
453 *---------------------------------------------------------death of Attila
500? Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN
500? Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA
527) deCamp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL
542? *----------------------------------------------death of Arthur of Britain
542? Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore"
610) Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"
610 Turtledove, Harry, "Departures"
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity"
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions"
>---------------<, ?
>---------------<, "Archetypes"
>---------------<, "Images"
>---------------<, "Superwine"
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire"
622 *------------------------------------------------------Hegira of Mohammed
664> deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If"
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker"
732 *-------------------------------------------------Arab defeat at Poitiers
732 Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun"
732) Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic"
750? Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea"
778 Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles"
778) Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"
878 Harrison, Harry, and Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope"
886> Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS
984 *--------------------------------------------Norse discovery of Greenland
1000 Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER
1004> Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME
1004> Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight"
1004 Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD
1004?> Christopher, John, NEW FOUND LAND
1066 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Hastings
1118 Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC'S CRUSADERS
>------------<, BAPHOMET'S METEOR
>------------<, STELLAR CRUSADE
1137) Anderson, Poul, THE SHIELD OF TIME
1189 Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, FIRE SWORD
1189) Wu, William, THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH
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
1199? Rolfe, Frederick William, and C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR
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 KNIGHT
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY
1241 Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG
1241 Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent"
1268 Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS
1290 Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On"
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
1400 Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS
1422 Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans"
1450) Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy"
1450? Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains"
1485> Norton, Andre, QUEST CROSSTIME
1491 Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won"
1492 *--------------------------------------------------Columbus' first voyage
1492 Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!"
1492 deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarian"
1492 Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal"
1500 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN
ALTERNATIVE RENAISSANCE
1500? Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST
1502 Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION
1517> Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee"
1520 *----------------------------------------------------sack of Tenochtitlan
1520 Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert"
1520) Reynolds, Mack, and Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME
1531> Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN
1536) Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold"
1560? Roberts, Keith, PAVANE
>------------<, "The Signaller"
>------------<, "The Lady Anne"
>------------<, "Brother John"
>------------<, "Lords and Ladies"
>------------<, "Corfe Gate"
>------------<, "The White Boat"
1586 Scott, Melissa, and Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT
1587 Leiber, Fritz, "No Great Magic"
1588 *---------------------------------------destruction of the Spanish Armada
1588) Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER
1588> Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH
1606 Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
------------------, CHARMED LIFE
------------------, WITCH WEEK
1626> Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?"
1626 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam"
1658 *------------------------------------------------death of Oliver Cromwell
1658 Brennert, Alan, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (DC graphic novel)
1660 Card, Orson Scott, 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
1666 Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note"
1670 Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED
1710 Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT
1737 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls"
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
1750? Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump"
1759 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Montreal
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"
1771? Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s"
1772? Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise"
1775? Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted"
1776 Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME
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> 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
1780 Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes"
1781 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Yorktown
1781? Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle"
1782> Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR
1783 Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE
---------------, THE STONE DOGS
1784 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative"
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)"
1789 *------------------------------------------------storming of the Bastille
1789 Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country"
1793 Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck"
1794> Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways"
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
--------------, THE VENUS BELT
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE
1795 Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain"
1795> Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED
1797 Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand"
1800? Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON
1801 Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07"
1801?> Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS
1803 Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana"
1803 Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of
John Marshall (1803)"
1805 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
ENGLAND
1805 Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea"
1808 Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)"
1813 Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians"
1813> Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!"
1814> Laumer, Keith, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME
1815 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Waterloo
1815 Collyn, George, "Unification Day"
1815 Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America"
1815 Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars"
1815 Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo"
1819 Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy"
1824 Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny"
1824 Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece"
1827) Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other
Lost Songs"
1828 Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave"
1833 Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE
1836 Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory"
1836) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
1836> Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS
OF VIRGINIA
1846) Goldstone, Cynthia, and 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? Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD
1850? Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western"
1850?> Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE
1856 Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night"
1857 *-------------------------------------------------------John Brown's raid
1857 Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
1860 Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge"
1860) Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD
1861) Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor"
1861) Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME
1861) Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME
1861 Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION
1861> Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE
1861?> Ford, John M., "Slowly By, Lorena"
1861? Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY
1861?) Turtledove, Harry, THE LONG DRUM ROLL
1862 Shetterly, Will, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY
---------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (second series)
1862 Utley, Steven, "Look Away"
1863 *----------------------------------siege of Memphis, battle of Gettysburg
1863) Baron, Nick, GLORY'S END
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) Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE
1863} Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's"
1863 Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG
1863 Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT
1863) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
1864 Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY
1864 Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace"
1865 Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel"
1865 Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS
1865 Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox"
1865 Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln"
1867 Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867"
1870 Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies"
1870 Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870"
1871 *-----------------------------------------------------------Paris Commune
1871) Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM!
1872 Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused"
1876> Finney, Jack, "I'm Scared"
1876 Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
1876) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
1877 King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream"
1880) Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY
1880 Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Fight to Glory"
1880? Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't"
1887 Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING
1888 Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880"
1888 Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood"
1888 Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer"
1890) Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY
1896) Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand"
1896 Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare"
1896? Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen"
1898 Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters"
1900) Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It"
1900) Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN
1900? Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C"
1900? Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR
1905) Pohl, Frederick, "Target One"
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"
1912 Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay"
1914> Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error"
1917 *----------------------------------------------------Bolshevik Revolution
1917 Aksyonov, Vassily, THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
1917> Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM
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"
1918 Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America"
1918 Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won"
1918> Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING
1919 Montville, Leigh, "Bubbles and the Babe"
1919 Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM
1919 Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened"
1920 Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat"
1924 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob"
1925 Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference"
1926> Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX
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"
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
1930? Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the
German Invasion"
1931? Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang"
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? White, Ted, and Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP
1935 Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish"
1935 Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon"
1935 Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG
1936? Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-
Door Hardtop"
1939 Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons"
1939> Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION
1939 Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbon, WATCHMEN
1939 Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High"
1940 *-------------------------------------------------------battle of Britain
1940 Armstrong, Anthony, and Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG
1940 Cox, Richard (ed.), OPERATION SEA LION
1940 Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941
1940 Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England"
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, "Weibnachtsabend"
1940> Silverberg, Robert, "Trips"
1940 Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article"
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 Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR
1941 Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace"
1941 Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON
1941> Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME
1941 Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
1941 Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND
1941 Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
1941? Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY
1941?> Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space"
1941? Basil, Otto, TWILIGHT MAN
1941?) Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither"
1941?> Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BIOFAB WAR
-------------------, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
1941? Brown, Douglas and Christopher Serpell, LOSS OF EDEN
1941?> Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again"
1941? Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
1941? Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs"
1941? Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics"
1941? Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?"
1941? Gygax, E. Gary, and Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II
1941?) Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed"
1941? Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE
1941? Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT
1941?> Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions"
1941? Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II"
1941? Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People"
-------------, "John Harper Wilson"
1942 Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear"
1943 *---------------------------------------------end of battle of Stalingrad
1943) Anderson, Kevin J., and Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX
1943 Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America"
1943 Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY
1943 Murphy, Walter F., "What if Peter had been Pope During World War II?"
1943 Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland"
1943? Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)"
1944 Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice"
1944> Ford, John M., "Intersections"
1945 *--------------------------------------------------Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945> Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla"
1945 Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED
1945 Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN
1945} Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms"
1945 Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived"
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 Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington"
1945 Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER
1946 Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son"
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
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE
Snodgrass, Melinda M., and George R.R. Martin (ed.), WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE
SOLITAIRE
1946? Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT
1947 Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator"
1948 Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change..."
1950? Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS
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, and Paul Di Filippo, "Instability"
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 Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal"
1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975"
1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins"
1962 *----------------------------------------------------Cuban missile crisis
1962) Benford, Greg, TIMESCAPE
1962> Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR
1962) Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES
1962> Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways"
1962) Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage"
1963 Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP
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 Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
FANTASY
1963 Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
(1963)"
1964 Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans"
1967 Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, and Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST
THE WAR
1968 Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution"
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"
1969 Kagan, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)"
1970 Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH
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 Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM
1972 Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace..."
1972 Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail"
1973 Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief"
1973 Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
Watergate? (1973)"
1973 Kurland, Michael, and S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT
1973 Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER
1974 Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran"
1976 Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY
1977 Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
government? (1977)"
1979 Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT
1980 Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History"
1984 Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses"
1988) Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens"
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THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 10 - 27 Apr 1992
Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
(InterNet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu)
This is a list of (nominally) SF stories involving Alternate Histories, aka
What-Ifs, Allohistory and Counterfactuals. Most of the info comes from readers
of the UseNet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written, but much was extracted from:
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II:
A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
(eds. Waugh and Greenberg) {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8659-7}.
Criteria for inclusion are generally the same as described in:
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
HISTORIES (eds. Waugh and Greenberg) {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8659-7}.
Thus, the alteration affects more than fictional individuals, and the story is
not secret history, does not rely on events entirely futureward of when the
author wrote the story, etc. Submissions of new entries are always appreciated,
as are corrections to old. And don't hesitate to complain if you disagree with
the inclusion/removal of a story. The poster has not read all the entries and
is reliant upon submitters' advice.
Entries have been separated into the following categories:
Anthologies: are books composed mostly/entirely of genre short stories and/or
essays, each of which is also described separately.
Alternate Histories: include the effect[s] of changing the outcome of an event
such that the flow of history is noticeably altered. In some, the divergence
may be the existence of magic.
Future Glimpses: include a character who "sees" how history might unfold
depending on his actions/decisions.
Crosstime Stories: feature travel/communication between alternate timelines,
such activity often the major feature of the story.
Changing the Past: involve the changing of the outcome of a past event,
accidentally or deliberately, but usually through time travel.
Reference Materials: discuss the genre and/or specific books/stories. This
does not include literary criticism.
In the entries, please 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:". If none of these is
present, "C:" or "S:" is assumed.
If an author's name is replaced by a group of dashes, the entry is a sequel to
or in the same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within
arrows, it is part of a series collected within the previous book entry.
Double arrows indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.
If a story in a series seems to fit a different category than the series as a
whole, it is still listed with the series.
If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the same
author to see if it has been retitled, revised or expanded.
References to books containing a short story include an author/editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.
Where known, publication info for books is listed in the form {publisher year,
ISBN}. Original copyright date is usually the same as the first publication
date listed. Where a book has been revised or expanded for a later edition,
the abbreviation rev. or exp. appears before the publisher name.
Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
<#AW) = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Wollheim and Saha); 72 {DAW 1972};
76 {DAW 1976, no ISBN}; 89 {DAW 1989}
<100> = 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds. Asimov et al)
{Doubleday 1978, 0-385-13044-9; Avon 1978, 0-380-50773-0}
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds. Waugh and Greenberg)
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds. Adams and Adams)
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed. Resnick)
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds. Adams et al)
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed. Ley)
<fsf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. McSherry) {Baen 1991, 0-671-72063-5}
<GS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds. Asimov and Greenberg); vol 14 {DAW 19xx};
vol 17 {DAW 19xx}; vol 20 {DAW 1990, 0-88677-405-5}; vol 23 {DAW 1991,
0-88677-478-0}
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
<IAs> = Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
<IHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed. Snowman)
<IHO,X> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, edition X (ed. Squire); edition A
(Longmans, Green 1931); edition B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev. Viking
1931; Kennikat 1964}; edition C {exp. Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's
1974}
<MCS> = MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Dozois) {St. Martin's 1992,
0-312-07238-4}
<SFD> = SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed. Conklin)
<TW8> = THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds. Pournelle and Carr)
<WI> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Polsby)
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed. Silverberg)
<WM#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds. Benford and Greenberg)
<YB#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Dozois);
vol 2 {Bluejay 1985, 0-312-94485-3, 0-312-94484-5}; vol 4 {St. Martin's
1987}; vol 5 {St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-01854-1}; vol 6 {St. Martin's 1989,
0-312-03009-6, 0-312-03008-8}; vol 7 {St. Martin's 1990, 0-312-04451-8,
0-312-04452-6}; vol 8 {St. Martin's 1991, 0-312-06009-2, 0-312-06008-4}
This list would not have been possible without the help of Evelyn C. Leeper.
Significant contributions were also made by Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor.
Also contributing were Vincent Archer, A.M. Barbanson, Paul Boyer, Stan Brown,
Glen Cox, Daniel DanehyOakes, Calle Dybedahl, Richard K. Fox, Dorian Gray, Guy
Harris, Kenneth Hite, Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, Bill Johnston, Crawford Kilian,
Mark Krenitsky, Janet Lafler, Jim Love, Michael A. Patton, Dave Schaumann,
Gareth Suddes, William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore and Matthew P.
Wiener.
And now, the list:
Anthologies:
Adams, Robert, and Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 1989,
0-671-69818-4}
Six new stories.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg and Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ROBERT
ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 1987, 0-451-14894-0}
Nine reprints.
Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 1986, 0-8240-8658-9}
Reprints and new stories.
Benford, Greg, and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES {Bantam 1989}
Eleven new stories.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 1990, 0-553-28279-4}
Fifteen new stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 1991, 0-553-29008-8}
Eleven new stories and a reprint of Churchill, mostly involving alternate
outcomes of battles/wars.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {not yet published}
Stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' first voyage.
Borden, Morton, and Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
{Heath 1977, 0-669-0048-X}
Twelve essays on American AHs.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 1929}
Nineteen essays.
Ley, Sandra (ed.), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 1976}
Nineteen new stories.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed.), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
{Lewis 1982, 0-86616-018-3}
Stories/essays about AHs, most of which are scholarly in tone.
Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {not yet published}
New stories.
-------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 1992, 0-812-51192-1}
28 new stories.
Silverberg, Robert (ed.), WORLDS OF MAYBE {Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974}
Seven reprints, most of which are AH classics.
Snowman, Daniel (ed.), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman &
Littlefield 1979, 0-8476-6136-9}
Historians correct the decisions of 10 historical figures.
Squire, J.C. (ed.), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
HISTORY {Longmans, Green 1931, no ISBN; exp. Sidgwick & Jackson 1972,
0-283-97821-X; St. Martin's 1974}; rev. as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking
1931; Kennikat 1964}
The classic AH book, with a story by Winston Churchill.
Waugh, Charles, G., and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 1986,
0-8240-8659-7}
Reprints and new stories. Includes 61-page bibliography of AHs.
Alternate Histories:
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 1962; Doubleday 1963,
no ISBN; Hutchinson 1975; Dell 1981}
W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess. Except for wolves
besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA {Doubleday 1964; Cape 1965; Dell 1969}
S: Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 1966; Dell 1969}
S: A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at
St. James' Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 1981; Delacorte 1981, 0-440-08317-6}
S: A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 1969}
S: The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 1971, 0-224-00514-6; Doubleday 1971}
S: Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
Aksyonov, Vassily, and Michael Henry Heim (tr.), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
{Random House 1983, 0-394-52431-4; Vintage 1984, 0-394-72765-7}; orig.
OSTROV KRYM {Ardis 1981, 0-88233-744-0, 0-88233-745-9}
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.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY {Cape 1976, 0-224-01269-X}
W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
S:
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 1987,
0-531-15040-2; St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-91112-2}
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 <IHB>
W:
C:
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 1976, 0-224-01305-X; Viking 1976,
0-670-11522-3; Panther 1978}
W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king 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.
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WM1>
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 1974, 0-385-05505-6;
Ballantine 1975}
W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
S: Adventures of Prince Rupert in the English Civil War.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 1971; Berkley 1978}; rev. of
"Operation Afreet", "Operation Salamander", "Operation Incubus" and
"Operation Changeling" in <fsf> 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, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WM3>
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.
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
W: The scientific revolution arrived early, apparently the result of a 15th-
century man's salvation from drowning.
S: The discovery of the Americas is sidetracked by a NASA-like project,
while Mexicans plan an expedition of discovery east across the Atlantic.
Armstrong, Anthony, and Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 1943}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
S: How the invasion was defeated.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
government? (1977)", in <WI>
W: Itzhak Rabin was Israeli PM in early 1977 and while visiting Romania 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
FROM NEW WORLDS (ed. Moorcock) and <HV>
W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS {DAW 1980}
>------------<, and Bernard Kay (tr.), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 1972}; orig.
L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET {Fleuve Noir 1972}
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.
>------------<, and C.J. Cherryh (tr.), STELLAR CRUSADE {only Engl.-language
publ. is within omnibus volume}; orig. CROISADE STELLAIRE {Fleuve Noir 1974}
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
SILENCE {Heinemann 1925; Doubleday 1925; Books for Libraries 1970,
0-8369-3376-1}, MAURICE BARING RESTORED {Heinemann 1970, 0-434-34790-6;
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1970, 0-374-20448-9} and TRAVELERS IN TIME (ed.
Stern) {Doubleday 1947}
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.
Basil, Otto, and Thomas Weyr (tr., abr.), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 1968};
orig. WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE {Fritz Molden 1966}
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IHO,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 1971; Books for Libraries 1971,
0-8369-3793-7}; SELECTED WORKS, II: PROSE {Farrar & Rinehart 1942}; 25
SHORT STORIES {Sun Dial 1943}; THE STEPHEN VINCENT BENET POCKET BOOK
{Pocket 1946}; MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (ed. Stern) {Doubleday 1942} {aka GREAT
TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 1954}} and <AH>
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 <IAs> Oct 91 and <WM3>
W: Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
S: Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WM1>
W: US presidential elections of the 1950s occurred a little differently.
S: A congressman disliked by a new authoritarian regime is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... {Bobbs-Merrill 1978, 0-672-52078-8; Ace
1979}
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.
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP {Warner 1988, 0-446-51453-5}
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.
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 1964}
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, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and <YB5>
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 1987, 0-312-93031-3}
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 1988, 1-55710-014-4}
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.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Brennert, Alan, and Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 1991,
1-56389-018-6}
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.
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <fsf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
TIME 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, Douglas and Christopher Serpell, LOSS OF EDEN
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor
1991, 0-812-55444-2}
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.
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1981, 0-03-053976-5, 0-03-058998-3}
W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
out by natives.
S:
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WM3>
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
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 1977; Dell 1977}
W: France and Britain started the Chunnel decades ago.
S: Terrorists strike the nearly complete Channel Tunnel in 1973.
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <AP>
W: 1960s civil rights and campus protests met with harsh government
reaction. Also, Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan's assassination attempt.
S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IHB>
W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
executed.
C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 1987, 0-312-93019-4}; exp. of "Hatrack
River", in <IAs> Aug 86 and <YB4>
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 Willam Blake.
-----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 1988, 0-312-93043-7}
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 1989, 0-312-93141-7}; rev. of
"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A
MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD {Tor 1990, 0-312-85047-6}
S: Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
"mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
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.
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.
Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WM2>
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.
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
commence in New England.
Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, and Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE
WAR {Coward-McCann 1969}
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 <IHO,ABC> and THE COMMON MAN {Sheed and Ward 1950}
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 and <YB8>
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.
Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
Scribner's Dec 30, <IHO,ABC> and <WM3>
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.
Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 1969}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE
OLD WORLD {Cape 1969}
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.
Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
empire.
Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ
1983, 0-15-114978-X}
W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
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.
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.
Corvo, Baron: see Frederick William Rolfe
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 NA of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <fsf> 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.
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, Richard (ed.), OPERATION SEA LION {Thornton Cox 1974, 0-902726-17-X;
Presidio 1977, 0-89141-015-5}
W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, invading England on 22 Sep
1940.
S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure. (Based on a war
game played out in 1974 by British and West German officers.)
Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds. Lansdale and
LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 1989, 0-913165-49-2}
W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army (borderline secret history).
Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
W: Pickett's Charge had succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg had been a
bit more tenacious.
S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
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.
Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II (eds. Pournelle and
Baen) {Baen 1985} 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.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarian", in Amazing Jan 92
W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in NA, and a dispute over a
Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <fsf> 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.
Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 1978, 0-224-01606-7;
G.K. Hall 1979, 0-8161-6748-6; Knopf 1979, 0-394-50409-7; Ballantine 1980;
Curley 1992, 0-7927-1324-9, 0-7927-1323-0}
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.
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.
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 NA 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 1926}
W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
S:
Denton, Brad, WRACK & ROLL
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.
Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism
might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones.
Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 1962; Penguin 1965,
no ISBN; Berkley Medallion 1974, 0-425-03908-0; Gollancz 1975,
0-575-01958-1; Gregg 1979, 0-8398-2476-9; Vintage 1992, 0-679-74067-8}
W: Before his 1933 inaugural, 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.
Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 1976, 0-394-40603-6; G.K. Hall
1976, 0-8161-6434-7; Hodder and Stoughton 1976, 0-340-20700-0; Avon 1977}
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 1989, 0-370-31355-0;
Pantheon 1989, 0-394-58002-8; Thorndike 1990, 1-56054-004-4}
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.
Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
Enlish Library 1979, 0-450-03946-3; St. Martin's 1980, 0-312-54891-5}
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.
Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 1987, 0-531-15053-4}
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.
Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
<IHB>
W:
C:
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed. Silverberg) {Harper & Row 1976,
0-06-013864-5} 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.
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <fsf> 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.
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.
Elliott, George P., "Sandra", in <fsf> Oct 57
W: Multi-racial slavery was legal in the US.
S: A man falls in love with household slave. He frees her, finds she is no
longer as considerate and re-enslaves here, but her attitude is changed.
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 1973, 0-671-21474-8}
W: One key creditor did not help out a failing stockbroker, thereby
provoking a Wall Street crash in 1970.
S:
Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, A
CENTURY OF SF (ed. Knight), <WoM> and <GS14>
W: The world were flat.
S: Columbus sails off the edge of an Earth in which Bacon developed a radio
from theological principles.
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.
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WM2>
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' 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.
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in <IHO,ABC>,
Scribner's Jan 31 and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 1939; Books for
Libraries 1969}
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?
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster
1983, 0-671-47552-5; Avon 1985}
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.
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in Saturday Evening Post
16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 1970; Pinnacle 1976}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
S:
Fortier, Ron, BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics 1990}
W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century.
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT>
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.
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WI>
W: Nazi Germany developed an atomic bomb by early 1944, dropping them on
London and Leningrad in May.
C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a
bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich.
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 1988, 0-451-15408-8}
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 retrieve a stolen
grimoire which is the source of her authority.
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <fsf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
S: As the Catholics lay siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55
W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY
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
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64
S: A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator
is the last thing the murdered man saw.
>>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64
S: The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is
found dead near its harbor.
>>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
WONDER (ed. McComas)
S: Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his 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)
S: A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 1967; Gregg 1978,
0-8398-2497-1}; 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
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74
S: A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
laboratory.
>>------------<<, "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
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 <IAs> Apr 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 <IAs> Sep-Oct 78 and THE BEST OF
RANDALL GARRETT (ed. Silverberg)
S: A drink of 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)
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.
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 1954}
W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
rule.
S:
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
winning the election of of 1952.
S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 1991,
0-553-07028-2}
W: Babbage perfected his analytical engine and 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.
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 1991, 0-930773-13-6, 0-930773-14-4}
W:
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.
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
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate
his hold on the crown of France.
S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in
France.
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill and Wang 1980,
0-8090-7377-3}
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.
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada.
Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAs> Dec 91 and <AP>
W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the
election of Barry Goldwater as president.
S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky
Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years.
Gygax, E. Gary, and Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 1973}, collected from Int'l
Federation of Wargamers newsletter
W: The Axis had adopted a coherent grand strategy.
S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
Europe and Africa.
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Ballantine 1971;
Doubleday 1981, 0-385-17137-4}
W:
S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
Harrison, Harry, and Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WM2>
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.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber and Faber 1972,
0-571-09996-3; New English Library 1976; Berkley Medallion 1974; Tor 1981,
0-812-51591-1}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 1972, 0-399-10918-8};
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 Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 1984, 0-553-24935-5}
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 1986, 0-553-05163-6}
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 1988, 0-553-05315-9}
W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
Heinlein, Robert A., "Magic Inc.", in WALDO & MAGIC, INC. {Pan 1969,
0-330-02352-7; Gregg 1979, 0-8398-2507-2; Ballantine 1986, 0-345-33015-3}
W: Magic works.
S: Protagonists battle a scheme by Satan's minions to take control of magic
in America.
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 1965; Bantam 1966; Vintage 1990,
0-679-72750-9}
W: 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.
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 1982, 0-688-00776-7}
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.
Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in
Amazing Jul 91
W:
S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside
down.
Johnson, Robert B., and Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 1966}
W:
S:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
Watergate? (1973)", in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in
Washington, but little else changes.
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's
1976, 0-684-14738-6; Warner 1977}
W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
decimated on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn.
S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for
disobeying orders and negligence.
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 1980,
0-688-80283-4, 0-688-84283-6}
W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works.
S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform
magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter.
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 1988,
0-688-07806-0}
S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
great mage Chrestomanci.
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 1977, 0-688-80138-2; Macmillan
1977, 0-333-21426-9}
S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 1982, 0-688-01534-4}
S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
orphans.
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
W: Minor-party 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, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in
<WI>
W: Richard Nixon had not been forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas
for chief justice of the Supreme Court.
C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court
would have had.
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 1961, no
ISBN}; 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' "What If...?".
King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP>
W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his
effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877.
S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and
how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party.
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IHO,AC>
W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike.
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., "I Shall Have a Fight to Glory", in <AP>
W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned
the tables on James Garfield in 1880.
S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince
Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system.
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS
C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
Kurland, Michael, and S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 1980,
0-688-03610-4}
W: The Watergate break-ins had gone undetected.
S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
camps, canceled elections, etc.) provoke a military coup.
Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
<WM2>
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.
Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became
independent Appalachia.
S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia.
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed. Knight) and <AH>
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., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
(ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1978, 0-385-12475-1; Popular Library 1978}
W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
principles.
S: A review of some early television programs.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 1989, 0-380-71205-9}
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.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon
1989, 0-380-71205-9}
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 1948}
W:
S:
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 1919, no ISBN}
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 1919, no ISBN}
W: Germany won WW1.
S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 1951}; incl. in A
TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION, VOL. 2 (ed. Boucher) {Doubleday 1959}
W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular
second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction.
S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency
and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869.
Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT>
W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped
back to Switzerland.
S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian
republic.
Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 1988, 0-87795-945-5}; exp. of
"Moon of Ice", in Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
W: Nazi Germany developed nuclear weapons.
S: Goebbel's 1960s diaries reexamine what happened.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WI>
W: Napoleon had not immediately sold Louisiana to the US in 1803.
C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after
the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of NA in Canada.
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 1972, 0-563-12226-9;
Stein & Day 1974, 0-8128-1669-2; Arrow 1975, 0-09-909900-4}
W: Nazi Germany had invaded England.
S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
C: Retells story originally presented as a BBC TV program.
Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser
lasted longer than 91 days.
S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while
Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S
ALMANAC #2 (eds. Wallechinsky and Wallace) {Morrow 1978, 0-688-03372-5}
W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
S:
C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?", synopses of other AHs.
Lupoff, Richard, CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 1984, 0-671-49941-6}
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!
S:
Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 1970}
W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
{Macmillan 1980, 0-02-578030-1; Arms and Armour 1980, 0-85368-324-7}
W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
S: A "campaign history" of how Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded England
and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic.
Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WM1>
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., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WM2>
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., "Heavy Metal", in <AP>
W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential
election campaign of 1960.
S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's
self-destructive activities.
Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75 and <100>
W: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series
of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP>
W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president
in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president.
S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then
how they dealt with Hitler.
Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD {Ballantine 1985}; exp. of
"Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed. Torgeson)
W: Emily Dickinson was not an introvert.
S: She becomes involved with Freud and Mark Twain.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WM3>
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.
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
worlds wars.
Martin, George R.R. (ed.), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 1987, 0-553-26190-8}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam 19xx}
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam 19xx}
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: See also Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE.
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, FIRE SWORD {Avon 1985}
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.
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WI>
W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808.
C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success
later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies.
Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IHO,ABC>
W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister.
S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM {Doubleday 1973,
0-385-04212-4}
W: George McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
S: McGovern gets us out of Vietnam, but himself into trouble with Congress.
McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WM3>
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.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
accident (1847)", in <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe
would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts.
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 1984}
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 19xx}
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 1989, 0-441-12389-9}
W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by
Christianity.
S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes
Caesar.
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAs> 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.
Montville, Leigh, "Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illus Fall 91 (75/18)
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 1978, 0-85031-237-X; Fontana 1978; Avon 1979; Warner/
Popular Library 1986, 0-445-20271-8}
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.
Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN {DC Comics 19xx, 0-930289-23-4};
reprints 12-issue comic book series {DC Comics 1986-1987}
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, 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.
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66
W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England.
S: Foiling the invasion.
Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in Amazing Jul 91 and <WM3>
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 <WM1>
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.
Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT
W: Hitler won WW2.
S:
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON {Simon & Schuster 1975, 0-671-22074-8;
Macmillan 1975, 0-333-18428-9}
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
<WI>
W: God re-ran history, with Pope Pius XII changed to have St. Peter's moral
fiber.
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.
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 1969, no
ISBN; McGraw-Hill 1986, 0-07-045777-8i; Vintage 1990, 0-679-72522-9}
W:
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.
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 1980, 0-937740-01-2}
W: The CSA won the battle.
S: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter speculates on
possible historical impact.
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and <YB6>
W: H.G. Wells' book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction.
S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood.
Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal
Jul/Aug 91
W:
S:
Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE
WANDERING JEW (ed. Stableford) {Daedalus 1991, 0-946626-71-5}
W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, creating a
world in which Jews gained the power Christians had in our world.
S: In the year 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew is present at the great
battle pitting the Jews against the Muslims and Zoroastrians.
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <IHO,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.
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 1973}
W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME {Atheneum 1976, 0-689-50057-2; Fawcett Crest
19xx}
W: Islam never got started. Also, magic works.
S: Intrigue and magic in an African empire.
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
W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and NA 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 1980}
W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America.
S: Thirty years later, the NA resistance develops the atomic bomb.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT>
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, "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 1950}
and <IHO,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.
Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed.
Greenberg) {Tor 1989, 0-312-93174-3}
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, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAs> Aug 88, <89AW> and
<WM1>
W: Jeshua of Nazareth 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 <WI>
W: As the title says.
C: Speculation on the success of a Humphrey-Kennedy Democrat ticket.
Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT {Avon 1981}
W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg.
S: Confederates plot to steal a nuclear-tipped cannon shell from the US,
causing revolts by right-wing and pro-Negro extremists.
Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR {Atheneum 1979, 0-689-11009-X}
W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier.
S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911.
Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR {Ballantine 1969}; rev. of "The Blue Star", in
WITCHES THREE {Twayne 1952}
W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works.
S:
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.
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 <IAs> 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 <IAs> Sep 91 and BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
#33) {Tor 1991, 0-812-51246-4}
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, "Over There", in <IAs> Apr 91 and <WM3>
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.
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.
Riker, William H., "What if Elbridge Gerry had been more rational and less
patriotic? (1787)", in <WI>
W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts had voted "no" on a motion,
causing the US constitutional convention in 1787 to fail.
C: Speculation on the consequences, including the breakup of the US into a
number of warring "states" and the non-existence of Canada (map included).
Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD {Doubleday 1983, 0-385-17584-1}
W: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in NA.
S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern NA takes part in the Mongol conquest
of Mexico.
Roberts, Keith, PAVANE {Doubleday 1968; Ace 19xx; Berkley Medallion 1976}
>------------<, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66
>------------<, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
<AH> and <MCS>
>------------<, "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
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.
Roberts, Keith, "Weibnachtsabend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed.
Moorcock) {Berkley Medallion 1972}, THE PASSING OF DRAGONS and <HV>
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.
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.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed. Carr)
{Doubleday 1984}, <YB2> and <AH>
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.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAs> Mar 89, <WM1> and
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 1991, 0-312-85126-x}
W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded.
S: A film company makes a movie about the successful rescue.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 1991, 0-312-85126-X}
W:
C:
Rolfe, Frederick William, and C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C.
{Cassell 1935; Arno 1978, 0-405-11005-7}
W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
overthrow his uncle.
Rucker, Rudy, and Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WM2>
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, "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.
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY
W:
S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
Marshall (1803)", in <WI>
W: Congress impeached and removed Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall from
office.
C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the American legal
system, ending in impeachment of justices who supported abortion in 1973.
Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG
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 NA 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 1991,
0-446-36142-9}
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 1952; Ballantine 1960}
W: Hitler decided to finish off Russia first, invading England in 1945.
S: A look at year 102 of the 1000-Year Reich.
Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92
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
and Utley) {Heidelberg 1976, 0-913206-08-3}
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.
Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES
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, and Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT {Baen 1988,
0-671-69783-8}
W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived the battle of
Zutphens.
S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to
protect James VI/I from magical attacks.
Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington had been Captured by General Howe:
Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WI>
W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill (New York City) was
fought persuaded British redcoats to pursue and capture Washington.
C: 150 years later, the Royal New York Historical Society finds a memoir
describing the event and the later celebration of Liberation Day.
Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IHB>
W:
C:
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:
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 <WM2>
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.
Shetterly, Will, and Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 12-issue comic book
series {Steeldragon 1986-1987}; issue #1 rev. as CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY SPECIAL
EDITION
W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862.
S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s.
Letters to editor often more interesting than the storyline.
--------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 4-issue comic book
series {Epic Comics 1991-1992}
S: Super-heroes from 8 NA 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 et al)
W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
S: Some nasty hints about JFK's assassination are aired.
Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
W:
S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might
have kept are included.
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1967;
Methuen 1980, 0-417-04710-X}
W: Europe was decimated by the Black Plague in 1348, leaving it defenseless
before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec NA.
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAs> Oct 90 and BEYOND
THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 1991, 0-812-55444-2}
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, "To the Promised Land", in <WM1>
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: The second Hebrew attempt at leaving Egypt.
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAs> Nov 91
S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western
(Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires.
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <fsf> Oct 89 and <YB7>
S: Early during the 2nd Roman Republic, two children meet a mysterious old
man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces.
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN {Ballantine 1978,
0-345-27751-1}
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 D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS {Ballantine 1982, 0-345-30770-4}
W: Dragons, fairies, etc., are real.
S: The appearance of "The Evil" from over the river provides incentive to
hold the Roman Empire together in a time of schism (c. 1400).
Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY {St. Martin's 1988, 0-312-01374-4}
W: Joe Johnston retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so long
that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election.
S: In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg, John
Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection.
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 1986, 0-312-94070-X; Tor
1989, 0-812-55425-6}
W: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden
rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
S: In 2042, a Helvetic North-American escorts a mission from the Saracen
Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire.
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 1970; Leisure 1981}
W: NA Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread,
resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
S: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during
20th-century white vs. red tensions.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED {Warner/Popular Library 1989,
0-445-20767-1}
W: Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil.
S: William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in
Paris, eventually invading France in 1672.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., and George R.R. Martin (ed.), WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE
SOLITAIRE {Bantam 1992, 0-553-29493-8}
C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
S:
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
{Macmillan 1973}
W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion
collapsed by 1778.
S: Dual history text of the Confederation of NA and the US of Mexico, from
1775 to 1971.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Pocket 1983}; rev. of
"Aquila" and "Aquila the God", in <IAs> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82, and "Aquila
Meets Bigfoot" and "Aquila: The Final Conflict", in Amazing Jan 83 and May
83
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX
W: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
S: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and
his entanglements with time guardians.
Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in UNEARTH {1977} and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK SEA
{Donning/Starblaze 1983, 0-89865-252-9}
W:
S: Aztecs depopoulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs.
Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in <AP>
W: William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve
only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president.
S: In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is
sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach.
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 1972, 0-380-00200-0; Gregg 1977,
0-8398-2361-4; Jove/HBJ 1978; Pocket 1982}
W: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a
commercial artist turned to writing SF.
S: The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed. Frenkel)
{Dell 1980}
W: JFK wasn't assassinated.
S: A man tries to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l
corporations.
Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write
Shakespeare" (aka "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in <IHO,ABC>, London
Mercury Jan 31 and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 1933}
W: As the title says.
S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 1933}
W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
S:
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 1991, 0-88184-742-9};
exp. of "The Man who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <fsf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
control.
S: A human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of immortality.
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 1970, no ISBN;
Berkley Medallion 1971}
W: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed
to go in peace.
S: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and
decides that assassination is the only solution.
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <WM3>
W: Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US
started a crash rocket development program, headed by Robert Goddard.
S: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis;
concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976.
-------------, "John Harper Wilson", in <IAs> Jun 89
S: The US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 1989, 0-671-69843-5}
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 1990, 0-671-72009-0}
W: American Tories colonized S Africa (Drakeland) after the revolution.
S: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and
only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental in the appendices.
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see S.P. Somtow
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds. Aronica
et al) {Doubleday 1989, 0-385-26019-9}, <YB7> and <MCS>
W: Earth has an edge.
S: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East
climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 1985}; exp. of "Mummer Kiss", in
UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1981}; and "Marrow Death", in <IAs> Dec
84
W: Three Mile Island melted down.
S: Life in Pennsylvania, 100 years later.
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
converts to Islam.
S: Describes the event.
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
Martin's 1990, 0-312-04148-9}
W: Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of
Britain on 28 May 1942.
S: The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion
and its commander violates the articles of war in order to save London.
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF {Macmillan 1974, 0-333-15042-2}
W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, as the Stuart restoration in
Virginia follows Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
W:
C:
Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail", in <AP>
W: Even after being fired by the Washington post, Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
S: Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder
of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972.
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker 6
Dec 30, THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE {Harper 1935}, THE THURBER
CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 1945; Harper 1953}, <fsf> Feb 52 and VINTAGE THURBER
{Hamish Hamilton 1963}
W: As the title says.
S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <fsf> Oct/Nov 91
W: Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South,
suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting.
S: The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword
written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade.
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 1913, 1930} and <IHO,C>
W: Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean".
S: Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing
armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 1972} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 1981}
W: Ambassador Hurley did not prevent Mao and Chou En-lai from meeting FDR
in 1945.
S:
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WM1>
W: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
S: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
Greek situation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in <IAs> Jan 89 and <WM2>
W: Mohammad became a Christian. Thus, lack of Moslem pressure meant
Byzantium never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
S: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a
Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM {Congdon & Weed 1987, 0-86553-183-8;
Worldwide 1988}
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing Jul
85
S: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been
invented in the steppes north of the Danube.
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in <IAs>
Aug 86
S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
>---------------<, ? (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing Jul 86
S: Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite.
>---------------<, "Archetypes" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in Amazing Nov 85
S: Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing
near the Persian frontier.
>---------------<, "Images" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in <IAs> Mar 87
S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAs> Apr 87
S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAs> 15 Dec 89
S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 1988, 0-86553-198-6}
W: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-skinned
men when they reached the New World.
>---------------<, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85
S: In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father
ventures into the wilderness to save her.
>---------------<, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE
S: In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
contemplates the origins of species.
>---------------<, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86
S: In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his
sim assistant will think of rescuing him.
>---------------<, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86
S: In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of
the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace.
>---------------<, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86
S: In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway
Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner.
>---------------<, "Trapping Run"
S: In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back
to health by sims.
>---------------<, "Freedom"
S: In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims
kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor.
Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAs> Jan 92
W: Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany
and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia.
S: Even in a 2010 Berlin at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany,
the Jews will still survive.
Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
W: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the 8th
century AD.
S: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in New Destinies Winter 1988
W: Cocaine were legal and caffeine illegal.
S: A day in the life of a policeman fighting "caffeine addiction", who
orders "coke" the next day at a MacDonald's.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <fsf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and
THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed. McSherry)
W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in <WM3>
W: Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in
retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets.
S: In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan
seeking weapons.
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 1990, 0-345-36076-1}
W: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining
a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
S: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of
"Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in <fsf> Feb 92
W: Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and
carried the Civil War north to Ohio.
S: After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue
its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south.
Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed.
Carr) {Doubleday 1976; Popular Library 1977}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z: A
DICTIONARY OF THE GREAT SF THEMES (eds. Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin
1982, 0-395-31285-X}; BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, 6TH ANNUAL
COLLECTION (ed. Dozois) and <AH>
W: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War
was fought with mechanized transport.
S: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and
later flew at the Little Big Horn.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IHO,B>
W:
S: Manhattan remains a tolerant enclave until the 19th century, and its
persisting laws have curious effects on Prohibition.
Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER {Summit 1978, 0-671-40028-2}
W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, hiding out until 1970.
S: An int'l tribunal considers his fate.
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in Scribner's Nov 30 and
<IHO,ABC>
W: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
S: Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes
on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If...?".
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 1990,
0-942681-05-3} and <IAs> Mid-Dec
91
W: The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered
stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport.
S: In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to
make a movie about the Dreyfus affair.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds.
Lansdale and LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 1989, 0-913165-49-2} and NIGHT OF THE
COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0-942681-05-3}
W: Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the
film industry set up in Boise.
S: Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time
fascination with cloudbusters.
Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in Omni Oct 88 and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
{Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0-942681-05-3}
W: Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
S: Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio
Agency, which also gives TV an early push.
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in Omni Jun 82, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday
1986, 0-385-19708-X} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP
W: Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he
could learn to play jazz clarinet.
S: In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when
President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in Omni Aug 86, ALL ABOUT
STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ursus Imprints 1987, 0-942681-00-2},
STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 1989} and STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT
PAST {Ace 1991, 0-441-16069-7}
W: Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported
to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide.
S: In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading
a history of the fall of European power.
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
{Doubleday 1986, 0-385-19708-X} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 1989}
W: Phlogiston existed.
S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
apocalyptic results.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP>
W: Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-
Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2.
S: 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he
can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government.
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 1976}
W:
S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
Weinbaum, Stanley G., "The Worlds of If", in Wonder Stories Aug 35 and THE
BEST OF STANLEY G. WEINBAUM {Ballantine 1974, 0-345-23890-7}
W:
S: A young man uses machine to find out what would have happened if he
hadn't missed a flight to Europe which later crashed in the Atlantic.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 1905; Univ Nebraska 1967}; incl.
in WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 1925}
W: The Dark Ages never happened.
S: A look at a Utopian 20th century.
C: Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is
"beyond Sirius".
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
23-30 Jun 76
W:
S:
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER {Little Brown 1971, no ISBN}; as
DOWNFALL {Bantam 1972}
W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 1991, 0-345-37110-0}
W: C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for
Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early.
S: In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her
outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard.
White, Ted, and Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 1968}
W: Alien intervention averted WW2.
S: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels."
Wildavsky, Aaron, "What if the U.S. had had one law for its allies and another
for its adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in <WI>
W: The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war.
C: Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier
relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs.
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG {Heinemann 1980, 0-434-86605-9; Viking 1981,
0-670-36439-8; Magnum 1982}
W: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it
took 5 weeks to locate an heir.
S: A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the
limits on royal power in the 1900s.
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
(1963)", in <WI>
W: The British Labor party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963.
C: A more moderate Labor party and movement results, with general economic
success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans.
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAs> Nov 89, <WM2> and
FACETS {Tor 1990, 0-512-50181-0}
W: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate
general.
S: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle
of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
W: Dubcek had retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
Invasion", in Analog May 73
W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
the 1930s and 40s.
S: A US Army colonel returns to his hometown of Abilene KS, opens a Buick
dealership, and devises a WW2 wargame.
Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA
W: Magic works, in Regency London.
S:
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
<IHB>
W:
C:
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
RENAISSANCE {Pocket 1980}
W: The Medicis brought together Italia Federata, c. 1500.
S: A court poet to Il Primario is involved in intrigues to hold Italy
together, but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
WORLDS {Tor 1991, 0-812-55444-2}
C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
S: The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca
of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING {Cheap Street 1982}
W:
S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
south.
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in <WM2> and Amazing Mar 90
W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
Future Glimpses:
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>,
<YB6> and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed. Bishop) {Arbor House 1988}
An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; OUR CHRISTMAS IN A
PALACE; HANDS OFF {J.S. Smith 1895}; WORKS, VOL. 2 and <AH>
A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he sees what
would happen if Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, and P.A. Bien (tr.), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
{Simon & Schuster 1960}; orig. HO TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
Jesus dreams of what would happen if he fled his fate.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH,
WHAT IF? VOLUME 1 (ed. Lupoff), <HV>, <GS20> and THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR
II (ed. McSherry)
A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the atomic bomb is given a
glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WM2>
While trying to decide whether to make peace with the Confederacy in 1863,
Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
Crosstime Stories:
Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 1979, 0-915442-96-5; Signet 1982}
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 1985}
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS
Tourists trapped in a remote villa are dropped into a 17th-century Earth in
which Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 431.
Aldiss, Brian, "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct 62
and NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 1969, no ISBN}
In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed. Ellison) {Doubleday
1967; NAL 1975}
An explorer from an advanced Alexandrine world violates a taboo while
visiting a backward NA dominated by Norse and Magyar colonies.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 1961}
A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 1957,
Abelard-Schuman 1976, 0-200-72378-2} and <WoM>
Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 1991}
A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 1971}
During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
where NA was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 1985, 0-312-94144-7}
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 1988, 0-446-51402-0}
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 1978,
0-385-12475-1; Popular Library 1978}
A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
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.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BIOFAB WAR
-------------------, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
Space opera, crosstime travel, teleportation, malevolent AIs, and other
subplots swirl around a timeline where Germany won WW2.
Bisson, Terry, TALKING MAN {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-813-0; Avon 1987}
Main characters find the world is changing around them as a wizard/witch
fight for control of the universe.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54 and <BAW>
A physics experiment accidentally knocks a passerby into a similar timeline,
and he must be returned to save the universe.
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP
A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world where
racoons rather than primates evolved intelligence.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 1949; Bantam 1950}
A pulp editor finds himself in parallel universe which matches the stories
his magazine has published.
Brunner, John, THE INFINITIVE OF GO
A teleporter not only transmits sideways in space but also in time.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
but that doesn't solve his problems.
Busby, F.M., ALL THESE EARTHS
An FTL space drive at high "skip" factors may place the ship in an alternate
universe.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Carr, John F., and 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 NA plains east into Kalvan's
territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR SCIENCE-
FICTION STORIES #7 (ed. Del Rey) {Ballantine 1981}
Two people from different timelines end up at the same jewelry store in a
third trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Cartur, Peter, "The Mist", in <SFD>
A traveler needs help to get back to his own world.
Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER
A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel
an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth.
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAs> Jul 78
Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
Maine and Nova Scotia.
Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 1985}
A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 1981, 0-525-29738-3; Tempo 1984}
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 1983, 0-525-44049-6}
The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and
Aztecs.
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 1975}
When a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry, a man finds himself in a world
where Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men
enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
Vikings and English pirates.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, <AH> and Tor SF
Double #20 {Tor 1990}
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".
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <fsf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
S:
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966}
S:
Derleth, August, and Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time",
in THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed. Wolfe)
In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
S:
Dick, Philip K., "The Trouble with Bubbles", in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
PHILIP K. DICK, VOLUME TWO
Bubbles, personal alternative pseudo-worlds, as a too real fad.
Dozois, Gardner, and Jack Dann, "Playing the Game", in Twilight Zone Feb 82
A boy travels from one parallel world to another, trying to get "home."
Effinger, Geo. Alec, RELATIVES {Harper & Row 1973, 0-06-011149-6; Dell 1976};
exp. of "The City on the Sand", in <fsf> Apr 73; and "Relatives", in BAD
MOON RISING (ed. Disch) {Harper & Row 1973}
One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
which Germany won WW1.
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 1979}
A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAs> Aug 80
A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 1979, 0-441-83365-9}; rev. of
THE GATE OF TIME {Belmont 1970}
American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is at war.
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, POLITICAL SCIENCE
FICTION: AN INTRODUCTORY READER (eds. Greenberg and Warrick) {Prentice-Hall
1974, 0-13-655404-4, 0-13-685396-X}, <BAW> and <GS23>
A Britisher goes back in time to the Alamo, but its defenders behave like
20th-century liberals. Also mentions differing Napoleonic events.
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 1990, 0-812-53795-5}; exp. of "The
World Next Door", <IAs> Sep 87 and <TW8>
In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of a 60s nuclear war have strange dreams of
a world full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB
Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
Finney, Jack, "I'm Scared", in THE THIRD LEVEL and ABOUT TIME {Simon &
Schuster 1986, 0-671-62887-9}
A retired cop discovers a disturbing series of anachronisms, including a man
who disappeared in 1876 and reappeared in 1955.
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 1968}; rev. of "The
Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60, I
LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRING {Simon & Schuster 1963; Eyre & Spottiswoode
1975} and ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 1986, 0-671-62887-9}; incl. in THREE
BY FINNEY
Crosstime adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time"
A man lost between universes has an adventure in an alternate US.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAs> Oct 79
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 <IAs> Jul 80
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 <IAs> Nov 80 and <FCW>
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 <IAs> 26 Oct 81
An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
A man gets a look at what his life would have been like if he'd been born a
woman.
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Carr)
{Doubleday 1981}, BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-780-0} and
MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (ed. Sterling) {Arbor House 1986,
0-87795-868-8; Ace 1988, 0-441-53382-5}
A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture,
transportation, etc. are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 1977, 0-465-01763-1; Sphere 1979}
Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle of Mbwila (1665), one
post-nuclear war and one with the Congo at the heart of Christianity.
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 1985}
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 <TW8>
C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAs> Nov 91
A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 1990, 0-688-09024-9; Avon
1991, 0-380-70800-0}; exp. of "The Hemingway Hoax", in <IAs> Apr 90 and
<YB8>
A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Harrison: Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds. Silverberg and Elwood)
{Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0-399-11460-2}
A man from our world aids others from timelines where the sun is about to
go nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run NA.
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed. Silverberg)
{Doubleday 1971}
A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 1984,
0-345-31357-7, 0-345-32060-3}
A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
has it in for them.
Heinlein, Robert A., THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST {Fawcett Columbine 1980}
A mad scientist, his beautiful daughter, a clear-eyed hero and a lusty
friend explore the 6**6**6 possible realities.
-------------------, THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS {Putnam 1985}
S:
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 1985, 0-553-05095-8}
Beleaguered Americans of the 1970s try to reverse Britain's defeat in WW2,
unfortunately it's not their own past.
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 1977; Ace 1982}
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 1977; Ace 1982}
S:
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 1978; Ace 1982}
S:
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAs> Aug 87
and <YB5>
A crosstime worldmaker runs for his life in one of his worlds.
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC
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
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 1978}
Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
alternate Earths along the way.
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <fsf> Feb 59
A traveler finds a timeline where Jesus never existed.
Kube-McDowell, Michael M., ALTERNITIES
The US seeks a bolthole for its leaders in case of nuclear war.
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE
People can travel between parallel worlds, some of which seem to have
fantasy elements.
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL
Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 1975}
Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
Constitution.
Kuttner, Henry: see Lewis Padgett
Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed. Knight)
{Putnam's 1970; Berkley Medallion 1970}
A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes world-map goes sailing and
lands on the Africa of our world.
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 1962; Berkley Medallion
1977; exp. Tor 1983}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
Crosstime adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium
centered in London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle 1981}
>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley Medallion 1965; Walker 1971;
Signet 1972}; serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65
Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at
Brussels in 1814.
>-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley Medallion 1968; Dobson 1972,
0-234-77632-3}
Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle
at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
-------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 1990}
S:
Leiber, Fritz, Jr., "Business of Killing", in <SFD>
A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
ventures.
Leiber, Fritz, DESTINY TIMES THREE
In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real
all the possible outcomes from various choices.
Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in <BAW>
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, BEFORE THE GOLDEN
AGE (ed. Asimov) and <WoM>
On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70
--------------, "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
A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really
coherent reason).
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 1971}
Exiles from different NAs of 1965 meet.
Meredith, R.C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 1973; Berkley Medallion 1975;
rev. Playboy 1979}
Crosstime agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain
suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
--------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 1976, 0-3851-11109-6; rev.
Playboy 1979}
Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
--------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 1978; rev. Playboy 1979}
And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 1951; Galaxy SF Novel 12
1952; Modern Literary Editions 19xx}; exp. of "The House of Many Worlds", in
Startling Stories Sep 51
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 #xx {Ace 1955}; exp. of
"Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
Rome.
Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC 19xx}
>---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 1971; Ace
1971; rev. Quartet 1978; DAW 1978; Granada 1981}
Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
has maintained European imperialism.
>---------------<, THE LAND LEVIATHAN {Doubleday 1974; Quartet 1974; DAW
1976}
Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did
the world no good.
>---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 1982}
Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, APPROACHES TO
SCIENCE FICTION {ed. Levine) {Houghton Mifflin 1978, 0-395-25496-5} and
N-SPACE {Tor 1990, 0-312-85089-1}
In a timeline where the Cuban Missile Crisis blew up, a detective
investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime Corporation.
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <fsf> ??? 71 and <BAW>
A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants
developed from wolves instead of hominids.
Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71, ALIEN
HORIZONS and <100>
In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan
missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster.
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME {Ace 1956; Gregg 1978, 0-8398-2418-1}
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 1965; Ace 1965}; as CROSSTIME AGENT
{Gollancz 1975}
Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and
Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN
Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another
universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter.
O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr., "Future's Puppet", in Analog Sep 89
A man from the future meets a woman from another timeline in 1995, and ends
up being hunted by extremist conservative-liberal terrorists.
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47 and
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN {Gnome 1951}
S:
Padgett, Lewis, and C.L. Moore, "Beyond Heaven's Gates", in Ace Double D-69
{Ace 1954}; exp. of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in Startling
Stories Sep 49
A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests,
who believe our New York is Paradise.
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED
Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
Napoleon's European takeover.
Person, Lawrence, "Details", in <IAs> Apr 91
A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts.
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59
In a US where Washington died at Germantown and Benedict Arnold became
president, a man discussing alternate timelines is from one.
Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN {Ace 1965; Garland 1975,
0-8240-1420-X}; as GUNPOWDER GOD {Sphere 1978}; rev. of "Gunpowder God" and
"Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 64 and Nov 65
S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a NA, settled by Indo-Aryans
during the Bronze Age, where only priests of Styphon can make gunpowder.
C: Sequels are Green and Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-
Hostigos" and Carr and Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker".
--------------, PARATIME {Ace 1981}
>------------<, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, ASPECTS
OF SF (ed. Doherty) and <AH>
Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying
documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon.
>------------<, "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed.
Norton) and ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. anon.)
>------------<, "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
(ed. Campbell) and <BAW>
>------------<, "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51
>------------<, "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55
Tales of the Paratime Police guarding the crosstime byways. All Earths shown
are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours.
Pohl, Frederik, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS
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.
Reed, Robert, DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY {Bantam 1991, 0-553-28923-3}
Infinity of alternate Earths, with alternate human races of good and evil.
Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO {Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 1970}
Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
advance of technology.
Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75
A man sent to fight aliens returns to Earth after a few centuries but it
isn't the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace.
Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE {Walker 1972, 0-8027-5554-2; Fitzhenry &
Whiteside 1972}
Astral projection to Muslim- and Nazi-dominated Earths.
Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
VIRGINIA {Morrow 1990, 0-688-09413-9}
In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe, set out for the S Pole to
locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior.
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN {Bantam 1975; Gregg 1977, 0-8398-2351-7; Beacon
1986, 0-8070-6313-4}
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.
Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS {Tor 1983}
A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN {Ace 1979; Tor 1987}
Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time periods to
stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE {Doubleday 1972, 0-385-08659-8; Popular
Library 19xx};
exp. of "Artery of Fire", in Science Fiction Stories Mar 60
S:
Shaw, Bob, "What Time Do You Call This?", in TOMORROW LIES IN AMBUSH
Bank robber tries to use machine to travel between universes to escape after
a heist.
Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our
timeline.
Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89 and <WM2>
Scientists somehow communicate with a palace guard in old Constantinople, a
Mongol known in our timeline as Genghis Khan.
Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59 and <WoM>
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: THE ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION
ANTHOLOGY (eds. Ferman and Malzberg) {Charterhouse 1974, 0-88327-035-8;
Penguin 1975}; exp. in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS {Scribner's 1975; Berkley
1975}
A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where
Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2.
Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN
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 1982}
Six people from different timelines join together on a quest.
Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67
An inventor exits the US of Columbia in 1878 on a crosstime adventure.
Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH {Ballantine 1980}
In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder ends up in a world
where the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and US Constitution was revoked.
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime
machine.
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
In 1993, ...
--------------, THE VENUS BELT {Ballantine 1981}
In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear is off
to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot.
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE {Ballantine 1985}
In 2119, ...
Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING
An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world
where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination.
Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD
A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where
magic works and northern Europe and most of Britain is covered with ice.
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS {Futura 1979; rev. Dell 1980}
Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's
dealing with the Danes.
Sterling, Bruce, and Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in Omni Sep 85
and MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-868-8;
Ace 1988, 0-441-53382-5}
The future of one timeline is dominating the past of another.
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for a device,
yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20 {Tor
1990}
C: Sequel to de Camp's "The Wheels of If".
S: The former New York DA and New Belfast bishop, now a judge, is sent to S
America to adjudicate a complex religio-political dispute.
Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES {Ace 1984; Ziesing 1989, 0-929480-04-X,
0-929480-05-8}
Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right
time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in <IAs> Dec 91
Crosstime traveler offers to sell the secret to parallel worlds, and finds
one with faster-than-light travel. Both sides fear the other.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Storm Trooper", in <IAs> Jan 92
Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates,
and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in THE NEW
HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed. Asimov)
A West Virginia teen-ager gets a job working the graveyard shift at a burger
joint, and discovers just how varied the clientele really is.
--------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in <IAs>
Aug 91
A visitor from a parallel world is temporarily stranded in ours.
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
A merchant from Chinese America, discovered by Marco Polo, gets into
crosstime trouble.
White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN {Belmont 1967; rev. Donning 19xx}
S:
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES {Doubleday 1989, 0-385-24933-0}
S:
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE {Tor 1990, 0-812-50623-5}
S: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in 1939
New York of a world in which Lincoln was assassinated in 1861.
C: Non-AH entries in this series include AMBIENT, HEATHERN and ELVISEY.
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS {Michael Joseph 1961;
Penguin 1965} and THE INFINITE MOMENT {Ballantine 1961}
In a world where the League of Nations prevented WW2, a man searches for the
analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a parallel world.
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING {St. Martin's/Marek 1984, 0-312-24369-3}
A copy of Time-Life's HISTORY OF WW2 causes chaos when it ends up in a world
where the Weimar republic survived.
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75 and <BT>
A machine lets historians study AHs, with looks at D-Day and Thermopylae.
-----------------, "The Number of the Sand", in Amazing Aug 91 and <WM3>
A cliometrician examines the possible lives of Hannibal and their effect on
the 2nd Punic War.
-----------------, "Let Time Shape", in Amazing Mar 91
Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by
refugees from Carthage.
Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS {Bantam 1991, 0-553-29175-0}; rev. of
"Stranger Suns", serial in Amazing Jan and Mar 91
An alien ship found in Antarctica includes portals to alternate Earths, but
those who explore them can never return to their home lines.
Changing the Past:
Anderson, Kevin J., and Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 1991,
0-553-29426-3}
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 <fsf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
{Ballantine 1960; Pinnacle 1981}, ANNALS OF THE TIME PATROL {Doubleday
19xx}, THE TIME PATROL {Tor 1991, 0-312-85231-2}, <WoM>, <GS17>, <AH> and
THE ETERNAL CITY (ed. Drake)
Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York" and it's up to Time Patrolman
Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME {Tor 1990, 0-312-85088-3}
S: Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
Rignano (1137).
C: Non-AH entries in this 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 and elsewhere.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY; rev. of "The End of Eternity", in THE
ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 1986, 0-385-19874-5}
A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78
An time travel attempt to obtain a Gilbert & Sullivan score goes awry.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and <TW8>
Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a woman when asking
for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Benford, Greg, TIMESCAPE {Pocket 1981, 0-671-50632-3}; rev. of "3:02 P.M.,
Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH (eds. Silverberg
and Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0-399-11460-2}
A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he
tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal.
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <fsf> Oct 58, STARLIGHT,
COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed. Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1974,
0-03-006931-9} and THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES
(eds. Silverberg and Greenberg) {Arbor House 1983, 0-87795-445-3}
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.
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley Medallion 1969; Penguin
1978, 0-14-004875-8}
On an Earth where Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to 70, a
Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping with a Poet.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in R IS FOR ROCKET and <GS14>
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 borderline
AH since the only result shown is futureward of the writing.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 1969}; exp. of "Times Without
Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 1962}; rev. of "Spoil of Yesterday", "The
Word Not Written" and "The Fullness of Time", in Science Fiction Adventures
Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
In 1988, 400 years after the Armada conquered England, a plot is afoot to
destroy the Spanish empire via time-travel.
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed. Wilson) {Signet 1973}
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAs> 16 Feb 81
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAs> 21 Dec 81
S:
Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 1985}
A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and
eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia.
Cook, Glen, A MATTER OF TIME
A detective tries to solve the mystery of the still-warm corpse of a man
dead 50 years while temporal agents try to preserve their present.
Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 1990, 0-451-45041-8}
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 {NAL/Roc 1991, 0-451-45128-7}
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.
Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY and <YB7>
S:
de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, ANALOG:
WRITERS' CHOICE (ed. Schmidt), <BAW> and <MCS>
Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead
overawes and sours him on scientific research.
de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL {Ballantine 1949}; exp. of "Lest
Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec 39
Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a
few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
Dick, Philip K., "Jon's World", in TIMES TO COME (ed. Derleth) and THE
COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK, VOLUME TWO
While Jon hallucinates a world of peace, his father goes back in time to
learn the secret of machine intelligence.
Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 1981}
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 <WM1>
An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a
Civil War different from the one we remember.
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE
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, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 1975, 0-373-72006-8}
A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
involving re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE RADIANT KNIGHT {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 19xx}
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 1990, 0-345-36849-5}
An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
in <BT>
Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence
of Henry Ford.
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 1973, 0-394-47922-X;
Faber 1973, 0-571-10477-0; Popular Library 1974; Aeonian 1976,
0-88411-191-1}
S:
Goldstone, Cynthia, and Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <fsf> Aug 70
A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and the Mormons from the
Great Salt Lake to San Francisco Bay.
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 1986, 0-87795-781-9; Thorndike 1986,
0-89621-805-8}
At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
again and again.
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 1985,
0-670-80635-8}
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.
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
S:
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 1990, 0-441-75398-1}
Part near future, part time travel to change the past to save the son of
Cleopatra.
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME
White supremacist goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War; a
black goes back to defeat him.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92
A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because
everything gets worse, but she has been visited before.
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in <SFD>
A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that
had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost.
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 1970}
S:
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAs> Jul 91 and <WM3)
22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four
historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn.
Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61 and <GS23>
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., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67
Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their
past without realizing it.
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 1971, 0-684-12529-3,
R. Bentley 1982, 0-8376-0464-8}
A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
advantage of it.
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 1961, no ISBN; Gregg 1976, 0-8398-2334-7;
Macmillan 1991, 0-02-069841-0}; serial in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
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
S:
-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <fsf> Mar 75; <76AW>; NEBULA
AWARDS 11 (ed. ?); THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed. Asimov) {Doubleday
1985, 0-385-18934-6} and THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed. Bova) {Tor 1989,
0-312-93175-1}
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 this series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change
the Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 1964}
S:
Lem, Stanislaw, "The Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ
1982, o-15-158856-2}
Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52
S:
Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
SCHENECTADY
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.
MacCreigh, James, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49,
ALTERNATING CURRENTS (ed. Pohl) and BEYOND THE END OF TIME (ed. Pohl)
Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into
the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered.
Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE {Doubleday 1978, 0-385-13138-0}
S:
Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 1976,
0-345-25066-4}
A time-hopper recuperates in Chicago of Oct 1871 after fleeing an American
religious dictatorship in a history where Germany nuked Chicago.
Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91
A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent
alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history.
Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN
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.
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 1977}
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.
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE {Farrar, Straus & Young 1953; Ballantine 1953;
Avon 1972, 0-380-02440-075?}; exp. of "Bring the Jubilee", in <fsf> Nov 52
and <FCW>
An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and Germanic
Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 1988, 0-553-27115-6}
In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out
to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 1975}
William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things
turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians.
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <fsf> Oct 70
Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 1973}
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 <WM1> and N-SPACE {Tor
1990, 0-312-85089-1}
Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Robert Heinlein from
becoming an SF writer.
O'Farrell, William, TURN BACK THE CLOCK
A woman who just shot her husband gets a chance to relive the previous year
of her life.
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62
and <100>
A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a
population explosion. (Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL (qv).)
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55
Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
---------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
---------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
S:
Reynolds, Mack, and Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME {Simon & Schuster 1984}
An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <fsf> Dec 65
S:
Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40
Time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in Astounding Dec 33
S:
Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed. Carr) {Doubleday 1977, 0-385-11414-1}
Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the
composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy.
Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <fsf> Apr 63
A time traveler destroys the train returning Lenin to Russia, but returns to
his home time to find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38
S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and
discover that they have changed the present.
C: First known published story to theorize that changing the past will alter
the time-traveler's home time.
Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER {Random House 1986, 0-394-55031-5}
In order to prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels to the
Dallas of 1963, but an altered history may also need correction.
Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS
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.
Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF
INFINITY
Scientists who change the past to produce a better future come up against
their most difficult challenge. Three possible histories shown.
Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in <AP>
In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is
revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history.
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE {Ballantine 1969, 0-345-32585-0}
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.
Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed. Bulmer)
{Sidgwick & Jackson 1975; Corgi 1976}
With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai
invasion, then industrializes.
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in 17*INFINITY (ed. Conklin)
Scientists send a sphere back in time, claiming it has no effect. Each time
it comes back, things change but they just don't notice.
Turtledove, Harry, THE LONG DRUM ROLL {not yet published}, excerpt in <FCW>
Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s and other advanced
weapons, leading to Confederate victory in the Civil War.
Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY {Carroll & Graf 1989, 0-88184-523-X}
Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead
describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site.
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME {Avalon 1963}
Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME {Bluejay 1985}
Hero from 1930s is shown two possible futures which hinge on whether or not
a particular event happens; future woman tries to affect what happens.
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75
Two aliens play at changing events in our past to compete in achieving their
individual goals (success or failure for humanity).
Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS {Ballantine 1979, 0-345-28530-1}
On a strange road that reaches from past to future, a man fights assassins
and attempts to prevent a Greek defeat at Marathon.
Reference Materials:
Ash, Brian (ed.), THE VISUAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION {Harmony 1977, Pan
1978}
Includes discussion of AH (pp 116, 121-123) and parallel worlds (142-144),
with bibliographies.
Brownlow, Kevin, HOW IT HAPPENED HERE: THE MAKING OF A FILM {Secker & Warburg
1968, 0-436-09864-4; Doubleday 1968}
Description of the making of IT HAPPENED HERE, a movie directed by Brownlow
and Andrew Mollo, about a nurse in Nazi-occupied Britain.
Carter, Paul A., THE CREATION OF TOMORROW: FIFTY YEARS OF MAGAZINE SCIENCE
FICTION {Columbia Univ 1977, 0-231-04210-8}
Discussions of AH on pp 109-113, 132-138.
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in <AH>
Discussion of what AH is and isn't.
Fadness, Fawn Brawley, "What If...?", in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds.
Wallechinsky and Wallace) {Morrow 1978, 0-688-03372-5}
Extensive synopses of stories by Kantor, Sobel, Trevelyan and Waldman (qv).
Accompanied by original premise by Lukacs (qv).
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been,
II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in <AH>
61-page listing of AHs published before 1986, with short synopses and
publication histories.
Harrison, Harry, "Worlds Beside Worlds", in SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE (ed.
Nicholls) {Gollancz 1976, 0-575-02178-0; Harper & Row 1976, 0-06-013198-5}
On writing AH and the reasoning behind A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! (qv).
McHale, Brian, POSTMODERNIST FICTION {Methuen 1987, 0-416-36390-3,
0-416-36400-4}
Includes 3-page discussion of "apocryphal history" and 2 pages on related
"creative anachronisms".
Not Yet Classified:
Asimov, Isaac, THE GODS THEMSELVES {Doubleday 1972}; exp. of stories in
Galaxy Mar and May 72 and If Apr 72
Baron, Nick, GLORY'S END
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>
Bova, Ben, APRIL 1945 {not yet published}
Cassutt, Michael, DRAGON SEASON {not yet published}
Chesney, George, "Battle of Dorking", in BEFORE ARMAGEDDON: AN ANTHOLOGY OF
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN IMAGINATIVE FICTION PUBLISHED BEFORE 1914 (ed.
Moorcock) {W.H. Allen 1975, 0-491-01794-4}
Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS
Clarke, Comer, ENGLAND UNDER HITLER
Coover, Robert, A POLITICAL FABLE {Viking 1980, 0-670-56309-9}
Coover, Robert, THE PUBLIC BURNING {Viking 1977, 0-670-58200-X}
Cowper, Richard, BREAKTHROUGH {Dobson 1967}
Cummings, Ray, THE SHADOW GIRL
Daniels, David R., "The Branches of Time", in Wonder Stories Aug 35
Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
Dickson, Gordon, THE DRAGON AND THE GEORGE {Ballantine 1976; Doubleday 1976}
---------------, THE DRAGON KNIGHT {Tor 1990, 0-312-93129-8}
---------------, THE DRAGON ON THE BORDER, {Ace 1992, 0-441-34233-7}
d'Ormesson, Jean, and Barbara Bray (tr.), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf
1974, 0-394-48121-6}, orig. LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE {Gallimard 1971}
Dunn, Walter S., SECOND FRONT NOW: 1943 {Univ Alabama 1980, 0-8173-0008-2}
Egan, Greg, "The Infinite Assassin", in Interzone Jun 91
Flynn, Michael, "On the Wings of a Butterfly"
Haiblum, Isidore, TRANSFER TO YESTERDAY {Doubleday 1981, 0-385-17136-6}
Hamley, Dennis, PAGEANTS OF DESPAIR {S.G. Phillips 1974, 0-87599-205-6}
Hogan, James P., ENTOVERSE {Ballantine 1991, 0-345-36030-3}
Holderness, Graham, SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY {Gill and Macmillan/St. Martin's
1985, 0-312-71581-1}
Jacobs, Will, and Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
SEASON {Crown 1983, 0-517-54991-3}
Kingston, Jeremy, CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS
Lafferty, R.A., "The Hole on the Corner", in NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS
Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
Linaweaver, Brad, "Destination Indies", in <WM4> {not yet published}
MacDonald, John D., and Debra Doyle, TIMECRIME, INC.
Moorcock, Michael, THE ADVENTURES OF UNA PERSSON AND CATHERINE CORNELIUS IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A ROMANCE {Quartet 1976, 0-7043-2121-1}
-----------------, THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES {Avon 1977, 0-380-00878-5}
>---------------<, THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN: A ROMANCE OF ENTROPY {Allison &
Busby 1972, 0-85031-043-1; Harper & Row 1972, 0-06-013003-2}
>---------------<, THE CONDITION OF MUZAK {Allison & Busby 1977,
0-85031-044-X; Gregg 1978, 0-8398-2434-3}
Parker, Richard, A TIME TO CHOOSE: A STORY OF SUSPENSE {Hutchinson 1973,
0-09-117570-4; Harper & Row 1974, 0-06-024678-2, 0-06-024679-0}
Silverberg, Robert, "The Asenion Solution", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed.
Greenberg) {Tor 1989, 0-312-93174-3}
Stevens, Francis, HEADS OF CERBERUS
Thompson, W. R., "Oracle"
Wolf, Gary K., WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT? {St. Martin's 1981, 0-312-87001-9}
-------------, WHO P-P-PLUGGED ROGER RABBIT? {Villard 1991, 0-679-40094-X}
Wu, William, THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH
THE ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 10 - 27 Apr 1992
ADDENDUM - DATE OF APPARENT DIVERGENCE
By Evelyn C. Leeper and R.B. Schmunk
The various entries in the Alternate History List are listed here by date of
apparent divergence from history as we know it. To save space, descriptions are
not included; consult the main list for that info. In some cases the divergence
date is so vague that the story has been omitted from this list. Similarly,
crosstime stories involving multiple possible divergences have generally been
left out. Where the date assignment required some guesswork, the latest
possible date has usually been assigned. Many such entries have a question mark
following the date. Other symbols which may appear after the date are: ")"
indicates a Change the Past story; "}" indicates a Future Glimpse story; and
">" indicates a Crosstime story. As benchmarks, dates of some notable events
are included. Please e-mail corrections, etc. to schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu.
Note: all dates AD/CE. Negative numbers indicate BC/BCE.
-100,000,000,000) Lem, Stanislaw, "The Eighteenth Voyage"
-4,500,000,000 Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
-65,000,000 Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY
-65,000,000 Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN
-65,000,000) Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder"
-40,000,000) MacCreigh, James, "Let the Ants Try"
-20,000,000> Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP
-20,000,000> Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine"
-5,000,000 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"
-15,000 Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF
-12,000 *-----------------------------------migrations across Bering land bridge
-12,000> Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR
Carr, John F., and Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker"
Green, Roland J., and John F. Carr, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos"
-10,000 Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night"
-1400?} Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off"
-1250 Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE
-1250 Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman"
-1230 *--------------------------------------------------------------the Exodus
-1230 Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant"
-1230 Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land"
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire"
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods"
-490 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Marathon
-490) Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS
-480 Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds"
-343) deCamp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun"
-330 *-------------------------------------------death of Alexander of Macedon
-330 Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES
-323> Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia"
-218) Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est"
-202 *-------------------------------------------------end of Second Punic War
-202? Zebrowski, George, "Let Time Shape"
-200 *--------------------------------------------------------Hero's aeolipile
-200 Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again"
-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
-200 White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY
-200?> Zebrowski, George, "The Number of the Sand"
-165 Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows"
-146? Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage"
-45) Kingston, Jeremy, CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS
-44) West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME
-30 *--------------------------------------------------------battle of Actium
-30) Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN
-30) Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS
-30 Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
-4> Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN
-4 Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs"
-4 Fortier, Ron, BOSTON BOMBERS
-4> Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast"
1) Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass"
8) Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE
30 *------------------------------------------execution of Jesus of Nazareth
30) Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH
30} Kazantzakis, Nikos, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
30 Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches"
30 Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC
30 Pohl, Frederik, "Waiting for the Olympians"
30?> Padgett, Lewis, and C.L. Moore, "Beyond Heaven's Gates"
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"
100?> Christopher, John, FIREBALL
312 McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb"
312 Newman, Kim, and Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian"
325) Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA
330 *--------------------------Constantinople becomes eastern capital of Rome
331 Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY
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
450? Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR
453 *---------------------------------------------------------death of Attila
500? Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN
500? Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA
527) deCamp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL
542? *----------------------------------------------death of Arthur of Britain
542? Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore"
610) Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"
610 Turtledove, Harry, "Departures"
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity"
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions"
>---------------<, ?
>---------------<, "Archetypes"
>---------------<, "Images"
>---------------<, "Superwine"
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire"
622 *------------------------------------------------------Hegira of Mohammed
664> deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If"
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker"
732 *-------------------------------------------------Arab defeat at Poitiers
732 Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun"
732) Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic"
750? Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea"
778 Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles"
778) Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"
878 Harrison, Harry, and Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope"
886> Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS
984 *--------------------------------------------Norse discovery of Greenland
1000 Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER
1004> Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME
1004> Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight"
1004 Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD
1004?> Christopher, John, NEW FOUND LAND
1066 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Hastings
1118 Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC'S CRUSADERS
>------------<, BAPHOMET'S METEOR
>------------<, STELLAR CRUSADE
1137) Anderson, Poul, THE SHIELD OF TIME
1189 Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, FIRE SWORD
1189) Wu, William, THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH
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
1199? Rolfe, Frederick William, and C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR
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 KNIGHT
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY
1241 Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG
1241 Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent"
1268 Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS
1290 Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On"
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
1400 Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS
1422 Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans"
1450) Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy"
1450? Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains"
1485> Norton, Andre, QUEST CROSSTIME
1491 Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won"
1492 *--------------------------------------------------Columbus' first voyage
1492 Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!"
1492 deCamp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarian"
1492 Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal"
1500 Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN
ALTERNATIVE RENAISSANCE
1500? Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST
1502 Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION
1517> Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee"
1520 *----------------------------------------------------sack of Tenochtitlan
1520 Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert"
1520) Reynolds, Mack, and Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME
1531> Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN
1536) Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold"
1560? Roberts, Keith, PAVANE
>------------<, "The Signaller"
>------------<, "The Lady Anne"
>------------<, "Brother John"
>------------<, "Lords and Ladies"
>------------<, "Corfe Gate"
>------------<, "The White Boat"
1586 Scott, Melissa, and Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT
1587 Leiber, Fritz, "No Great Magic"
1588 *---------------------------------------destruction of the Spanish Armada
1588) Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER
1588> Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH
1606 Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
------------------, CHARMED LIFE
------------------, WITCH WEEK
1626> Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?"
1626 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam"
1658 *------------------------------------------------death of Oliver Cromwell
1658 Brennert, Alan, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (DC graphic novel)
1660 Card, Orson Scott, 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
1666 Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note"
1670 Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED
1710 Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT
1737 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls"
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
1750? Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump"
1759 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Montreal
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"
1771? Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s"
1772? Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise"
1775? Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted"
1776 Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME
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> 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
1780 Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes"
1781 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Yorktown
1781? Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle"
1782> Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR
1783 Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE
---------------, THE STONE DOGS
1784 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative"
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)"
1789 *------------------------------------------------storming of the Bastille
1789 Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country"
1793 Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck"
1794> Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways"
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
--------------, THE VENUS BELT
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE
1795 Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain"
1795> Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED
1797 Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand"
1800? Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON
1801 Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07"
1801?> Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS
1803 Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana"
1803 Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of
John Marshall (1803)"
1805 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
ENGLAND
1805 Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea"
1808 Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)"
1813 Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians"
1813> Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!"
1814> Laumer, Keith, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME
1815 *------------------------------------------------------battle of Waterloo
1815 Collyn, George, "Unification Day"
1815 Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America"
1815 Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars"
1815 Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo"
1819 Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy"
1824 Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny"
1824 Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece"
1827) Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other
Lost Songs"
1828 Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave"
1833 Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE
1836 Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory"
1836) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
1836> Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS
OF VIRGINIA
1846) Goldstone, Cynthia, and 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? Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD
1850? Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western"
1850?> Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE
1856 Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night"
1857 *-------------------------------------------------------John Brown's raid
1857 Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
1860 Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge"
1860) Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD
1861) Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor"
1861) Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME
1861) Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME
1861 Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION
1861> Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE
1861?> Ford, John M., "Slowly By, Lorena"
1861? Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY
1861?) Turtledove, Harry, THE LONG DRUM ROLL
1862 Shetterly, Will, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY
---------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (second series)
1862 Utley, Steven, "Look Away"
1863 *----------------------------------siege of Memphis, battle of Gettysburg
1863) Baron, Nick, GLORY'S END
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) Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE
1863} Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's"
1863 Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG
1863 Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT
1863) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
1864 Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY
1864 Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace"
1865 Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel"
1865 Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS
1865 Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox"
1865 Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln"
1867 Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867"
1870 Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies"
1870 Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870"
1871 *-----------------------------------------------------------Paris Commune
1871) Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM!
1872 Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused"
1876> Finney, Jack, "I'm Scared"
1876 Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
1876) Randle, Kevin, and Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
1877 King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream"
1880) Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY
1880 Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Fight to Glory"
1880? Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't"
1887 Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING
1888 Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880"
1888 Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood"
1888 Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer"
1890) Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY
1896) Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand"
1896 Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare"
1896? Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen"
1898 Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters"
1900) Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It"
1900) Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN
1900? Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C"
1900? Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR
1905) Pohl, Frederick, "Target One"
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"
1912 Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay"
1914> Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error"
1917 *----------------------------------------------------Bolshevik Revolution
1917 Aksyonov, Vassily, THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
1917> Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM
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"
1918 Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America"
1918 Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won"
1918> Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING
1919 Montville, Leigh, "Bubbles and the Babe"
1919 Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM
1919 Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened"
1920 Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat"
1924 Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob"
1925 Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference"
1926> Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX
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"
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
1930? Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the
German Invasion"
1931? Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang"
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? White, Ted, and Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP
1935 Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish"
1935 Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon"
1935 Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG
1936? Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-
Door Hardtop"
1939 Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons"
1939> Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION
1939 Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbon, WATCHMEN
1939 Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High"
1940 *-------------------------------------------------------battle of Britain
1940 Armstrong, Anthony, and Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG
1940 Cox, Richard (ed.), OPERATION SEA LION
1940 Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941
1940 Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England"
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, "Weibnachtsabend"
1940> Silverberg, Robert, "Trips"
1940 Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article"
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 Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR
1941 Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace"
1941 Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON
1941> Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME
1941 Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
1941 Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND
1941 Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
1941? Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY
1941?> Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space"
1941? Basil, Otto, TWILIGHT MAN
1941?) Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither"
1941?> Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BIOFAB WAR
-------------------, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
1941? Brown, Douglas and Christopher Serpell, LOSS OF EDEN
1941?> Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again"
1941? Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
1941? Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs"
1941? Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics"
1941? Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?"
1941? Gygax, E. Gary, and Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II
1941?) Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed"
1941? Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE
1941? Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT
1941?> Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions"
1941? Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II"
1941? Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People"
-------------, "John Harper Wilson"
1942 Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear"
1943 *---------------------------------------------end of battle of Stalingrad
1943) Anderson, Kevin J., and Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX
1943 Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America"
1943 Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY
1943 Murphy, Walter F., "What if Peter had been Pope During World War II?"
1943 Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland"
1943? Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)"
1944 Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice"
1944> Ford, John M., "Intersections"
1945 *--------------------------------------------------Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945> Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla"
1945 Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED
1945 Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN
1945} Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms"
1945 Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived"
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 Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington"
1945 Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER
1946 Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son"
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
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
-------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS
-------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE
Snodgrass, Melinda M., and George R.R. Martin (ed.), WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE
SOLITAIRE
1946? Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT
1947 Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator"
1948 Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change..."
1950? Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS
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, and Paul Di Filippo, "Instability"
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 Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal"
1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975"
1960 Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins"
1962 *----------------------------------------------------Cuban missile crisis
1962) Benford, Greg, TIMESCAPE
1962> Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR
1962) Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES
1962> Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways"
1962) Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage"
1963 Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP
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 Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
FANTASY
1963 Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
(1963)"
1964 Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans"
1967 Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, and Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST
THE WAR
1968 Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution"
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"
1969 Kagan, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)"
1970 Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH
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 Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM
1972 Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace..."
1972 Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail"
1973 Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief"
1973 Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
Watergate? (1973)"
1973 Kurland, Michael, and S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT
1973 Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER
1974 Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran"
1976 Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY
1977 Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
government? (1977)"
1979 Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT
1980 Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History"
1984 Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses"
1988) Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens"
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Robert B. Schmunk <Internet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu -- SPAN: rice::schmunk>
SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA -- (713) 527-4939
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