Post by El Borak on Feb 26, 2022 19:31:01 GMT -5
I ran across this and knowing that TPD is a big fan of Alternate History under whatever name it presents itself, I thought I would share some links.
The Alternate History List
The Alternate History List
This is a list of (nominally) SF stories involving Alternate Histories, also known as What If? stories, Allohistory and Counterfactuals. Most of the information comes from the many submitters (listed at the end of this posting) and the poster's own memory, but a great deal has been cribbed from:
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (ed. Waugh and Greenberg)
Hacker, Barton C., and Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (ed. Waugh and Greenberg)
In order to keep the length of the list down, only English-language stories have been included. Even so, the list is incomplete.
Despite blurring of boundaries, an attempt has been made to separate stories into the following categories:
Alternate Histories: Story essentially limited to one alternate history. Some multiple timeline stories are included as long as crosstime travel/ communication is not involved.
Future Glimpses: Character is given a glimpse of how history might unfold depending on his/her actions/decisions. The future seen is not the history we know.
Crosstime Stories: Story involves more than one potential history, with sideways time travel often the major feature. Such stories may also include "vertical" time travel and "different" worlds.
Changing the Past: Story involves someone changing the course of history, either accidentally or deliberately, often after time travel into the past. Time travel stories in which history is *not* changed are excluded.
World is "Different": Alternate world/history has different physical laws from ours, a common theme being "magic works". The alternate world must still be recognizably "Earth".
Alternate Histories: Story essentially limited to one alternate history. Some multiple timeline stories are included as long as crosstime travel/ communication is not involved.
Future Glimpses: Character is given a glimpse of how history might unfold depending on his/her actions/decisions. The future seen is not the history we know.
Crosstime Stories: Story involves more than one potential history, with sideways time travel often the major feature. Such stories may also include "vertical" time travel and "different" worlds.
Changing the Past: Story involves someone changing the course of history, either accidentally or deliberately, often after time travel into the past. Time travel stories in which history is *not* changed are excluded.
World is "Different": Alternate world/history has different physical laws from ours, a common theme being "magic works". The alternate world must still be recognizably "Earth".
