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The following 5 postings comprise the 13th posting of the Alternate History
List. It includes 772 published English-language stories and books, plus 7
whose publication is expected.
A major restructuring of the list has been made since last posting. The
division into vanilla alternate history, crosstime tales and change-the-past
stories has been dropped.
Also included is an appendix listing 88 Alternate Histories in non-English
languages. This appendix is an experiment and will be included in future
postings only if there is favorable feedback, and hopefully contributions.
Added to the English-language list or published since last posting were:
Aiken's DIDO AND PA
Aldiss' "What You Get for Your Dollar"
KJ Anderson's "Music Played on the Strings of Time"
Attanasio's IN OTHER WORLDS
Bohme et al's "Alternatives in Science"
Borden & Graham's essays
Bova's TRIUMPH (prev listed as APRIL 1945)
Bowes' WARCHILD and GOBLIN MARKET
Capek's "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
Chamberlin's THE IFS OF HISTORY
Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED
Di Filippo's "Mairzy Doats"
Dick's THE CRACK IN SPACE
Disraeli's "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened"
Drake's FORTRESS
Erickson's TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK
Farren's NECROM
Ferguson's "The Monroe Doctrine"
Fleming's OPERATION SEA LION
Flynn's IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
Friesner's "Jane's Fighting Ships"
Gluckman & Guthridge's THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT
Hamilton's "What If--?"
Jackson's VALLEY MEN
Jacobson's THE GOD-FEARER
Jeschke's THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
Koning's "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur"
Levine's WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT?
Livy's AB URBE CONDITA
Lupoff's "At Vega's Taqueria"
Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS
Murrin's "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations"
Pierce's "On the Edge"
Pignotti's THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
Reilly's "What If? Short By a Nose"
Rutman's CLASH OF EAGLES
Smith's BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR and TAFLAK LYSANDRA
Toynbee's "If Alexander the Great had Lived On"
Toynbee's "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On"
Turtledove's "Down in the Bottomlands"
Vanauken's "The World After the South Won"
Waldron's "If Lincoln had Yielded"
Wodhams' "Try Again"
Womack's ELVISSEY
Deleted were:
Bisson's TALKING MAN
Bretnor's "Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All"
Cook's A MATTER OF TIME
Dick's "Jon's World"
Nolan's "Death Double"
Dozois and Dann's "Playing the Game"
Heinlein's THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS
Reed's DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY
Stevens' HEADS OF CERBERUS
Thanks to Alan Beale, Thomas Cron, Beth Friedman, Evelyn Leeper, Andreas Morlok
and Harry Turtledove for recent contributions.
Enjoy,
rbs
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Robert B. Schmunk <schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu>
SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA
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[He] turned back to the window and the opaque Houston sky. "You know, there
isn't anything wrong with this town that a couple of really good hurricanes
couldn't fix." --Peter Gent, THE FRANCHISE
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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 13 - 12 Jan 1993
Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
InterNet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu
USPS: 1648 W Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006
"...I've come to the conclusion that the stupidest
words in the language are 'What if?'"
--'William Faulkner', in
William Sanders' THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY
"What's past is past...and cannot be changed."
--'Robert E. Lee', in
Harry Turtledove's THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH
This is an annotated list of stories involving Alternate Histories (aka What-
Ifs, Allohistory or Counterfactuals), stories in which a past event has been
altered and its effect on later history described. The list is occasionally
posted to the UseNet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written and most of its contents
were contributed by readers of that newsgroup. Much has been extracted from:
Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds
Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86};
Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS {George
Prior/G.K. Hall 78};
-----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977-
1983 {G.K. Hall 84}.
Alternate history (abbrev. "AH" below) criteria are generally the same as in:
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}.
Thus, alterations affect 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 for new entries are always appreciated, as
are corrections to the old.
Entries have been separated into three categories:
Anthologies -- collections of genre short stories and/or essays, each of which
is also listed separately;
Alternate Histories -- what-if stories, essays and novels;
Reference Materials -- discussions of the genre and/or specific stories.
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 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 you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author
to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.
References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.
Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here,
and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited.
Where the latter occurs, "etc" appears at the end of the book list. If you need
more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above.
Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
<#AW> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim [& Saha]) {DAW #}
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}
<AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) {Baen 89}
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
<AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) {Tor 93}
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) {NAL/Signet
87}
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) {Pocket 76}
<f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) {Baen 91}
<GS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) {DAW 86, 88-91}
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
<IAsfm> = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine]
<IHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) {Rowman &
Littlefield 79}
<IHO,X> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver X (ed Squire); ver A {Longmans,
Green 31}; ver B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev Viking 31; Kennikat 64};
ver C {exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74}
<SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) {Heath 77}
<WIA> = WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) {M.E.
Sharpe 92}
<WIE> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) {Lewis 82}
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed Silverberg) {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
<WM#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Bantam 89-92}
<YB#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois)
{Blue Jay 85; St. Martin's 87-92}
This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing
help of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Will
Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and the numerous readers of
rec.arts.sf.written who have made submissions.
And now, the list:
Anthologies:
Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 89}
New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and
Turtledove.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT
ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 87}
Reprints of by Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and
Piper.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch,
Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K Roberts and Shippey.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES {Bantam 89}
New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
Niven, Pohl, Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 90}
New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison &
Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz,
Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, WJ Williams and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 91}
New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P Anderson,
Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M Resnick,
Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {Bantam 92}
Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' first voyage by
Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent,
Silverberg, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
{Heath 77}
Twelve essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
Chamberlin, J.E., THE IFS OF HISTORY {Atheneum 08}
22 short essays.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 29}
Nineteen essays.
Levine, Herbert M. (ed), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE
DIFFERENT? {M.E. Sharpe 92}
Essays on the effect of different US political structures (with minimal
historical development) by Cohen, Esberey, Ferrell, Gentry, Jeansonne,
Levine and Pitney.
Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 76}
New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson,
Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, W Moore, Orgill, Percy,
D Thompson and Zebrowski.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
{Lewis 82}
Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long,
Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and
PM Williams.
Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {Tor 92}
New stories. AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold,
Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr
and Von Rospach.
------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 92}
New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J Carr, Chalker, G
Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, King, Kube-
McDowell, Malzberg, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R
Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans.
------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS {Tor 93, not yet published}
New stories.
Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
{Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven.
Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman &
Littlefield 79}
Corrections of decisions by 10 historical figures by Allen, Blakemore,
Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R Thompson, Windsor and Wright.
Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
HISTORY {Longmans, Green 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74};
rev as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking 31; Kennikat 64}
The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps
Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan.
Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 86}
Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin, Hale,
Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference material
by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.
Alternate Histories:
Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 79; Signet 82}
W: Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451.
S: Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in
which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England.
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 85}
The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high
seas and to Ireland.
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS {Signet 86}
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS {Signet 87}
-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS {Signet 88}
S:
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 62; Doubleday 63;
Hutchinson 75; Dell 81}
W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess.
C: Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA {Doubleday 64; Cape 65; Dell 69}
Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 66; Dell 69}
A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at St.
James' Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 81; Delacorte 81}
A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 69}
The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 71; Doubleday 71}
Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
-----------, DIDO AND PA {Delacorte 86}
Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA {Random
House 83; Vintage 84}; orig OSTROV KRYM
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 76}
W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
S:
Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct
62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS {Faber 66; Gregg 81},
NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 69, xx}, THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc
In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
Aldiss, Brian W., "What You Get for Your Dollar", in THE NEW IMPROVED SUN
(ed Disch) {Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76}
W: The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in
1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai.
S: A man from our world, beset by an energy crisis, visits the utopian Sinai
of another and describes its history.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 87; St. Martin's
88}
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: The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's
gains without forcing a war with the United States.
C: Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect
MacArthur in 44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes.
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 76; Viking 76; Panther 78}
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, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93
W: Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths.
S: A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers
comes across an album with his name on it.
Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 91}
W: US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
theirs.
S: 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 <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
{Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81}, <WoM>, <AH>, <GS17>, THE TIME PATROL {Tor
91}, etc
W: The Scipios were killed at Ticinus and Hannibal later captured and
destroyed Rome.
S: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME {Tor 90}
S: Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
Rignano (1137).
C: Non-AH entries in 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 {Tor 91} and elsewhere.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) {Doubleday 67;
NAL 75}; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) {Fawcett
73} and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS {Berkley 81}
W: Alexander lived longer *or* Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
Magyar attacks.
S: A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
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 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/
Futura 75}
W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
S: In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince
searches for Prospero's isle.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 71; Lancer xx; Berkley 78; Baen
xx}; rev of stories in <f&sf> 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, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 61; Avon xx; Berkley
78; Ace 84}
A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
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 started in the 15th century, the result of a
man's being saved from drowning.
S: Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid
adherence to the scientific method.
Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 43}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
S: How the invasion was defeated.
Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
W: Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
S: Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY {J. CUrley 81}; rev of "The End of
Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 86; NAL/Roc xx}
W: Enrico Fermi had not become involved in atomic research.
S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
C: Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in *far*
future.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78,
3 BY ASIMOV {Targ 81} and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES {Doubleday
83}
W: Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
S: A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes
it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 57,
Abelard-Schuman 76}, <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) {Rinehart
74}, THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH {Doubleday 79}, etc
Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS {Morrow 84; Bantam 85}
W: WW1 led to a world gov't.
S:
Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 92 and <WM4>
W: North America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists.
S: A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter
on its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
government? (1977)", in <WIE>
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
OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Compact 65}, SF12 (ed Merrill) {Delacorte 68},
THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Panther 74} and <HV>
W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 91}
A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS {DAW 80}
>------------<, + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 72}; orig L'EMPIRE
DU BAPHOMET
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.
>------------<, + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE {only Engl.-language
publ. is in omnibus volume}; orig CROISADE STELLAIRE
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
SILENCE {Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70}, MAURICE BARING
RESTORED {Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70} and TRAVELERS IN TIME
(ed Stern) {Doubleday 47}
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.
Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 71}
During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton
Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 68}; orig. WENN
DAS DER FUHRER WUSST
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 85}
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 88}
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 78; Popular
Library 79}, <79AW> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN {Arkham House 83}
A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and THERE WILL BE WAR 8:
ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when
asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason
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 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin
Library 82}; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) {Doubleday 42} (aka GREAT TALES
OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 54}); <AH>; etc
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 <IAsfm> 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, TIMESCAPE {Simon & Schuster 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92}; rev
of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH
(eds Silverberg & Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}
A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he
tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal.
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.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WM1>
W: Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the
1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
S: After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... {Bobbs-Merrill 78; Ace 79}
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 88}
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.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO {Ace 86}
C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
W: The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
assassinated in Jul 44.
S: A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another.
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
S:
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>; orig "Tijdstorm"
A man caught in timestorm discovers humanoid aliens tinkering with the human
past, encouraging the spread of war.
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58, THE DARK
SIDE OF THE EARTH {Signet 64}, COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart
& Winston 74}, THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds
Silverberg & Greenberg) {Arbor House 83}, THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Hartwell) {Little, Brown 89}, etc
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.
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 64}
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 87; Tor 89}
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 88}
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.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) {Fredrick Fell 55}, SPACE BY THE TAIL
{Ballantine 64} and <BAW>
W: Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
S: A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
must be returned to save the universe.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IHB>
W: Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
disorder.
C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
right-wing takeover.
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60
S:
Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr),
"Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8; orig
"Alternativen in der Wissenschaft"
C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
the beginning of the scientific revolution.
Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in <SAH>
W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe to end the French and Indian War.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in
<SAH>
W:
C:
Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in
<SAH>
W: The Constitution was rejected.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in
<SAH>
W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson
when breaking the Electoral College tie.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in
<SAH>
W: Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
at a more opportune time.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
<SAH>
W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the COmpromise of 1850 to fail and
the Civil War to start a decade earlier.
C:
Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH {Tor 93}
W: Churchill arranged for Stalin's assassination, and the Nazis won WW2.
S:
Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD {Warner 86}
--------------, GOBLIN MARKET {Warner 88}
Crosstime stories in worlds of a French Canada and a stalemated WW2.
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley 69; Penguin 78}
W: Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
S: 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
with a Poet.
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP {Ace 86}
W: Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
S: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
oversize racoons.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN {Doubleday
53}, R IS FOR ROCKET {Doubleday 62; Bantam 65}, THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY
{Knopf 80}, CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) {Farrar, Straus &
Giroux 83}, <GS14>, etc
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 not really
AH since the only result shown is futureward (?) of the writing.
Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 91}
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.
Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
TIME {Bantam 87} 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, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 49; Bantam 50]
A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which match the stories
his magazine has been publishing.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 69; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Times
Without Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 62}; rev of stories in Science
Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
W: The Armada conquered England.
S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-
travel.
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor
91}
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.
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.
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81}
W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
out by natives.
S:
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed Wilson) {Signet 73}
Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working
their way back from event to event.
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAsfm> 16 Feb 81
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 81
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 American
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 77; Dell 77}
W: The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
S: An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <AP> and
<YB9>
W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
the 68 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK>
W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up
going into politics.
S: In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
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.
Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
APROCRYPHAL STORIES {Penguin 75}; orig "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 87}; exp of "Hatrack River", in <IAsfm>
Aug 86, <YB4> and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR
(ed Carr) {Tor 87}
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 William Blake.
-----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 88}
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 89}; rev of "Prentice Alvin and the
No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR {Tor 90}
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.
Carr, John F., & 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 N American plains east into
Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr
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.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
Del Rey) {Ballantine 81}
W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 *or* Watergate was never
discovered.
S: Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third
trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
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.
Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne
Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER {Ballantine 79}
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 <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AW>,
ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial
78} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE
TITANIC
Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
Maine and Nova Scotia.
Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 85}
A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
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.
Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 85}
A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and
eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia.
Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81
------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81
W: Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management
techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts.
S: A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project
managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next.
Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR
{Coward-McCann 69}
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 & Ward 50}
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, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26
(ed Morrow) {HBJ 92}
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.
Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS {Popular Library 76}
W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated.
S:
Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 81; Tempo 84}
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 83}
The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers
and Aztecs.
-----------------, DRAGON DANCE {Dutton 86}
The boys travel on to California.
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.
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 75}
W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment
goes awry.
Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 69}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE
OLD WORLD {Cape 69}
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.
Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME {World 62}
W:
S:
Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Judicial Review?", in <WIA>
W:
C:
Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Written Constitution and Bill of
Rights?", in <WIA>
W: The US had an unwritten constitution, much like Britain's.
C: An essay on how the US gov't would be more authoritarian, with minority
opinions having less weight and no judicial review.
Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME
(ed Moorcock) {Rapp & Whiting 68}
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
empire.
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.
Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
W:
S:
Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ
83}
W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
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.
Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett
Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William
Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 90}
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 91}
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.
--------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE {NAL/Roc 92}
More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor.
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
Vikings and English pirates.
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 N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <f&sf> 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.
C: May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the
Japanese defeat the US in the future.
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, 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.
Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION {Thornton Cox 74; Presidio 77}
W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, invading England on 22 Sep
1940.
S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure.
C: Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German
officers.
Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY {Doubleday 90} and <YB7>
W: Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society
to preserve and extend the British Empire.
S: Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he
can rethink his will.
Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale &
LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90}
W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army.
C: Borderline AH-secret history.
Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
W: Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit
more tenacious.
S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in <IAsfm> Jul 92
W: AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society.
S: People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and
one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out.
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.
Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson
Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II (eds Pournelle & Baen)
{Baen 85} 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, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR
DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES {Doubleday 63}, <BAW>, MODERN CLASSICS
OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {St. Martin's 92, 93}, etc
W: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science.
S: 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 49; Pyramid 63;
Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83}; 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.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute
over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF
{Shasta 48}, <AH> and Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
W: Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of
Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours.
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".
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Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> 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.
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
S:
Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79;
Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92}
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.
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66}
Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States.
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 N America 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 26}
W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
S:
Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92
W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided
to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada.
S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence,
Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into.
Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL {Popular Library 86, 0-445-20306-4}
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.
Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in
THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) {Citadel 91}
In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
in <WIE>
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.
Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92
W: Anne Frank was sent to America in 1939
S: Anne Frank goes to Hollywood and replaces Judy Garland (who died in a car
crash) in THE WIZARD OF OZ
Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91
W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics,
and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace.
S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is
recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
S:
Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo
Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE {Ace 66}
W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates.
S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve
overpopulation problems.
Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley
74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92}
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.
Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH {Arbor House 85; Avon 87}
W:
S:
Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder &
Stoughton 76; Avon 77}
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike
90}
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.
Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
W: The Nazis conquered Britain.
S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure.
Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) {Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne &
Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864}
Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development.
d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf 74};
orig LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE
W: Eurasia was united under a single empire.
S:
Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
English Library 79; St. Martin's 80}
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.
Drake, David, FORTRESS {Tor 87, 88}
W: JFK escaped assassination and gave further impetus to the US space
program.
S: Outer space saga in 1985.
Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92
W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering
Europe before the US could enter the war.
S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe
tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans.
Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 87}
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: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his
2nd term as British Prime Minister.
C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land
Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest.
Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 81}
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.
Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY {Axolotl 90}
W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War.
S:
Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK>
W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including
JFK's son Patrick.
S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his
numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics.
Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL {Harper & Row 73; Dell 76}; exp of
"The City on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON
RISING (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 73}
One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
which Germany won WW1.
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>, <YB6>
and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) {Arbor House 88}
An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) {Harper & Row 76} 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.
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 79}
A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE {DAW 74}
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, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WM4>
W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed
knowledge of Columbus' voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas.
S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic
murder of a babe near Seattle.
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> 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.
Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 75}
A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
involves re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
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.
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 73}
W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970,
thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history.
S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing
Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation.
Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK {Poseidon 89; Avon 89}
W: The Nazis won WW2.
S:
Esberey, Joy E., "What If There Were a Parliamentary System?", in <WIA>
W: The US adopted a parliamentary form of government after the revolution.
C:
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> 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, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>,
THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79}, A TREASURY OF
MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) {Avon 81}, <GS14>, etc
W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological
principles.
S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth.
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 79}; rev of THE GATE OF TIME
{Belmont 70}
American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war.
Farren, Mick, NECROM {Ballantine 91, 0-345-36185-7}
Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec dominated modern Earth.
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.
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed
Campbell) {Doubleday 63}, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74};
POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) {Prentice-Hall 74},
<BAW> and <GS23>
W: Napoleon conquered Britain.
S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its
defenders behave like 20th-century liberals.
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 90}; exp of "The World Next Door",
<IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s.
S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world
full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone 6 and INTERZONE: THE
FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) {J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85}
W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president.
S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal
diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev.
Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal
System?", in <WIA>
W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more
centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797.
C: Description of a US government and political parties under a system in
which states are little more than geographic regions.
Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WM4>
W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the
Pacific Coast.
S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their
colonization of California.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB {Bantam 85}
Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
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.
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 68}; rev of "The
Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and
ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 86}; incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc
Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31,
<IHO,ABC> and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69}
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?
Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN
1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES
{Simon & Schuster 57; Ace xx; Greenwood 77}; as INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF
THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Hart-Davis 57; Pan
75}
W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at
all.
C: Mostly background material but chapter 20 discusses events which could
not have occurred if either supposition were true.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87
W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States
fighting constant border wars.
S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania
is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York.
Flynn, Michael F., IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND {Baen 90}
W: Babbage perfected the Difference Engine.
S: A secret society uses the machine to rule the world.
C: Borderline secret history.
Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89
W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success.
S: A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters
the Inca Empire before civil war broke out.
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster 83;
Avon 85}
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.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka
ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION)
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 <IAsfm> 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 <IAsfm> 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 <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail xxx,
Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 70;
Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
S:
Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics
90}
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> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
{Ballantine 77}
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.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women
began to fight back against degradation.
S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can
take her to a more equable world.
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 86}
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 89}
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 90}
An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIE>
W: Nazi Germany developed atomic bombs 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 88}
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 find a stolen
grimoire on which rests her authority.
Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW>
S:
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK>
W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted
the power of making anything true merely by saying so.
S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in
Berlin has disastrous effects.
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF!
{Donning 80}
W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY {Doubleday/SFBC 83}
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 {Ace 79}
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed
Santesson) {Pocket 65} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
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 and ANALOG 4 (ed
Campbell) {Doubleday 66}
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) {Random House 70}
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) {Doubleday 73}
A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace xx};
serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a
sorcerers' convention in London.
>--------------<, LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES {Ace 81}
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED
HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) {Davis/Dial 83}
A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
laboratory.
>>------------<<, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76
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 and 13 CRIMES OF
SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 79}
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 <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S
SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 79}
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 <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S
SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC
ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan)
{Davis/Dial 82}
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) {Ace 79} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
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.
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.
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54}
W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
rule.
S:
Gentry, Judith F., "What If the 1787 Constitution Had Provided for Equal
Rights?", in <WIA>
W:
C:
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
winning the election of 1952.
S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK>
W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married
Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business.
S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi
features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise.
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 73; Faber 73;
Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; Bantam 91}
S:
Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr)
{Doubleday 81; Zebra 81}; BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 86; Ace 87} and
MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) {Arbor House 86; Ace 88}
A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91}
W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected
his analytical engine so that 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.
Gluckman & Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT {St.
Martins}
W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar.
S:
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91}
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.
Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and
LAUGHING SPACE (ed Asimov & Jeppson) {Houghton Mifflin 82}
W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay.
S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company.
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
Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in
<SAH>
W:
C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained
Neutral?", in <SAH>
W: The United States was not drawn into WW1.
C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without
Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH>
W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands
of Zangara the next spring.
C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--
What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH>
W: FDR enjoyed better health.
C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH>
C:
Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 77; Sphere 79}
W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665.
S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo
at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war.
Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al)
{Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
W: The American Revolution failed.
S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on
St. Helena, but is he Napoleon?
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.
Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 85}
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 THERE WILL BE
WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill & Wang 80}
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.
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92}
At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
again and again.
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 <IAsfm> 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.
Guthridge: see Gluckman & Guthridge
Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 73}, collected from Int'l
Federation of Wargamers newsletter
W: The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory
at Stalingrad.
S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
Europe and Africa.
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Doubleday 71}
W:
S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The
Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow)
{HBJ 92}
A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Bova) {Omni 80} and DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 85}
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.
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; HANDS OFF {J.S.
Smith 1895}; ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds
Asimov et al) {Beufort 82}; <AH>; etc
W: Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches
the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean.
Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 {Dial 64}
W: William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was
averted.
S: Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France
or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation.
Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS {Avon 90}
W: Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia,
and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg.
S: Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen
Poe's life turned to literature.
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
S:
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 90}
W: Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans *or* Cleopatra murdered
Octavian.
S: Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save
the her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present.
Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 92; Thorndike 92}
W: Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering
that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west.
S: A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds
himself unwrapping a 20-year-old conspiracy.
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME {Tor 83}
A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War;
a black soldier follows in order to defeat him.
Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood)
{Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}, CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) {Fawcett
81} and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}
A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go
nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run N America.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English
Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 72,
Berkley 72}; 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 the reference entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 84}
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 86}
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 88, 89}
W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg)
{Doubleday 71; Avon 73}, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed
Del Rey) {Dutton 72}; and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON {Signet 76}
A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
Harrison, Harry, & 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.
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 84}
A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
has it in for them.
Henry, O., "Roads of Destiny", in ROADS OF DESTINY {Doubleday, Doran 09;
Doubleday, Page 17} and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY {Doubleday 53}
S: Three possible futures for a French shepherd/poet who comes to a
crossroads.
C: Not really AH since all characters are fictional, but an early statement
of the theme of alternate choices leading to alternate futures.
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90}
W: Warlord-run 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.
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.
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 85}
W: The Nazis remained an obscure political party *or* Churchill did not
return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
S: Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back to stiffen Britain's spine and
promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past.
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 82}
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.
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 77; Ace 82}
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 77; Ace 82}
S:
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 78; Ace 82}
S:
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed
Conklin) {Grayson 55}
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.
Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing
Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87
and <YB5>
An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins
as he visits various worlds.
Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION
OF 1807 {Tickner & Fields 83}
W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled.
S:
Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
SEASON" {Crown 83}
S:
Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER {Bloomsbury 92}
Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect.
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 70}
S:
Jeansonne, Glen, "What If There Had Been No Slavery?", in <WIA>
W: African-Americans voluntarily emigrated to America rather than be
transported as slaves.
C: Various effects on American society, including a shrunken plantation
culture in a more industrialized but less cohesive South.
Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray
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.
Jeschke, Wolfgang, & Gertrud Mander, THE LAST DAY OF CREATION {St. Martin's
82; Century 82}; orig DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG
W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
success in WW2.
S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
trouble vs. people from other timelines.
Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66}
C:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
Watergate? (1973)", in <WIE>
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
76; Warner 77}
W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
wiped out 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 80}
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 88}
S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
great mage Chrestomanci.
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77}
S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 82}
S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
orphans.
Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
W: Minor 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
<WIE>
W: Richard Nixon was not 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 61}; 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 the South Had Won the Civil War?"
Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in <AK>
W: JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year.
S: A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at
the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST {Simon &
Schuster 60}; orig TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
W: Jesus fled his doom.
S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC {Ballantine 87}
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 {Ballantine 88}
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 87}
Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
alternate Earths along the way.
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.
Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND
SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) {Doubleday 60} (aka FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND
OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER {Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem xx}
A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the
events that caused them.
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.
Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90
Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of
Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
{Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77}, <HV>, <GS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed
McSherry) {Baen 90}, etc
W: The US did not develop the atomic bomb.
S: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a
glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAsfm> 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.
Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn,
+ E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
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., ALTERNITIES {Ace 88}
W: Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and
Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression.
S: A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war
grows closer.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight 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.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in <AK>
W: It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having
an affair with a suspected Nazi spy.
S: Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from
under his father's control.
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE {Signet 89}
W: Columbus' first voyage had a fourth ship *or* the Americas were invaded
by Europeans c 1000 BC *or* Germany won an early WW1.
S: An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip
between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her.
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY {Ace 89}
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS {Ace 88}
C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL {Pyramid 69}
Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 75}
Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
Constitution.
Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/
Critic's Choice 85}
W: The Watergate break-ins went undetected.
S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup.
C: Borderline AH, as names have been changed.
Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis
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., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed Knight)
{Putnam's 70; Berkley 70}, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72} and THE GOLDEN
ROAD (ed Knight) {Simon & Schuster 74}
A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes' world-map goes sailing
and lands on the Africa of our world.
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70;
Berkley 71}, CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES
{Ace 84}, <AH>, etc
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., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72},
AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) {Fawcett 79}, <GS23>, etc
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., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
(ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78}
W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
principles.
S: A review of some early television programs.
Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
{Pinnacle 77}
W:
S: In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces
comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own.
Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67, WORLD'S
BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 68}, NINE HUNDRED
GRANDMOTHERS {Ace 70}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) {Prentice-
Hall 74}, etc
Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their
past without realizing it.
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.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
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.
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Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
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 48}
S:
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor
83}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
Adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium centered in
London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle/Tor 81}
>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72};
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 68; Dobson 72}
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 90}
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.
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 71; R. Bentley 82}
A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
advantage of it.
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 19}
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 19}
W: Germany won WW1.
S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91}; 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, THE SECRET SONGS {Rupert
Hart-Davis 68}, THE CHANGE WAR {Gregg 78}, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
(eds Pohl et al) {Harper & Row 80} and CHANGEWAR {Ace 83}
The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of
MacBeth before Elizabeth I.
-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75; <76AW>; THE WORLDS
OF FRITZ LEIBER {Ace 76; Gregg 79}; NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin)
{Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78}; THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov)
{Doubleday 85}; THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) {Tor 89}; etc
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 series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the
Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
ventures.
Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE
FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) {Gnome 52} and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) {Dell 78}
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 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Conklin) {Dell 54} and <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, SIDEWAYS IN TIME
{Shasta 50}, <WoM>, BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 74}, THE
BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {Ballantine 78; Garland 83} and THE TIME TRAVELERS
(eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Donald I Fine 85}
On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 64}
W: Napoleon established a permanent dynasty.
S: Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical
memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804.
Lem, Stanislaw, + Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (trs), "The
Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ 82}
Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Were No Television?", in <WIA>
W:
C:
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Had Been No Cold War?", in <WIA>
W:
C:
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 51}; incl. in A
TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) {Doubleday 59}
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 88}; exp of "Moon of Ice", in
Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
W: FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44
to win the war in Europe.
S: The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and
an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare.
Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA {Harvard Univ/
Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82}
W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work suggests that the Romans
would have beaten him.
C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
BC-14 AD).
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Wollheim) {McBride 53} (aka PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME)
W: Hitler were killed during an Allied bombing raid.
S: Change the past tale.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WIE>
W: Napoleon did not immediately sell 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 N America in Canada.
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74;
Arrow 75}
W: Nazi Germany invaded England.
S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program.
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.
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 & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
S: The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his
worst excesses.
C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?" synopses of other AHs.
Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90
A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet causes a man to doubt his
sanity until he discovers that he is shifting from one timeline to another.
Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85}
W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center.
S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side.
--------------- A., COUNTERSOLAR! {Arbor House 87; Ace 89}
S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth.
Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 70}
W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S
LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) {Davis/Dial 82, 83}
--------------, "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).
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
{Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80}
W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
S: A campaign history of July 1940, when 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., CHORALE {Doubleday 78}
S:
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., "In the Stone House", in <AK>
W: Joe Kennedy survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952.
S: Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy
and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's for betraying the family.
Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM
QUARTER {Doubleday 76} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
(eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
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 85}; exp of
"Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson)
{Doubleday 80}
W:
S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated
aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in Omni Apr 92 and <WM4>
W: Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first
voyage.
S: Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile,
over on the Santa Maria, Torquemada plots.
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 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE {Bantam 92}
------------------------, WILD CARDS XIII: CARD SHARKS {not yet published}
-------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
{Bantam xx}
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: Also in series are Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's
WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS.
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD {Avon 85}
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.
------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD {Avon 88}
S:
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 71}
Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet.
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WIE>
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 73}
W: By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George
McGovern was elected president in 1972.
S: An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass
is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted.
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.
McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in Interzone Apr 92
W: James Joyce took up another occupation than writing.
S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he
pursued other paths.
McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92
W: Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam
engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC.
S: Aborigines decide to stop Columbus' expedition to order to save the world
from Europeans.
Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy
79}
An agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed
American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 766; Playboy 79}
Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 78; Playboy 79}
And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 76}
W: Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871.
S: A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history
in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago.
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52;
Modern Literary Editions xx}; 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 55}; exp of
"Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
Rome.
Miesel, Sandra, DREAMRIDER {Ace 82}; as SHAMAN {Baen 89}
S:
Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS {Bantam 93}
C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller
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.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
accident (1847)", in <WIE>
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, NEVER THE TWAIN {Ace 87}
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.
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 84}
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 86}
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 89}
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.
Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92
W:
S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of
a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out.
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAsfm> 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.
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 77}
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.
Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illustrated
[Classic] Fall 91
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 78; Fontana 78; Avon 79; Warner/Popular Library 86}
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.
Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC xx}
>---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 71; Ace 71;
rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81}
Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
has maintained European imperialism.
>---------------<, THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE {Doubleday
74; Quartet 74; DAW 76}
Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did
the world no good.
>---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 82}
Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN {DC Comics xx}; reprints 12-issue comic
book series {DC Comics 86-87}
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, C.L.: see Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE {Farrar, Straus & Young 53; Ballantine 53;
Avon 72}; exp of "Bring the Jubilee", in <f&sf> Nov 52 and <FCW>
W: Confederates occupied the Round Tops during the first day of Gettysburg,
leading to victory in the battle and Confederate independence.
S: An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and
the Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
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.
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 88}
In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out
to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
W: Adenauer did not ignore Stalin's proposal for German re-unification.
C: His five reasons for exploring the idea, plus some commentary about the
all-German election of 1954.
Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66
W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England.
S: Foiling the invasion.
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WM2> and <90AW>
W: Lincoln made peace with the Confederacy in 1863.
S: Through time travel, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
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.
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL {Simon & Schuster 75; Macmillan
75}
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
<WIE>
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.
Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual
Speculations", in Reviews in American History Jun 83
W: Three men who powered the American Great Awakening did not do so.
C: Scholarly rgument that minus the evangelical movement, the revolution
would still occur and independence probably gained, but no Civil War.
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 69; McGraw-
Hill 86; Vintage 90}
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.
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 75}
William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things
turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians.
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 80}
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, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal
Jul/Aug 91
W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated at a labor
strike before the inauguration.
S: The US gov't takes harsher actions against labor organizers, etc,
thereby provoking a revolution. Meanwhile, Mexico retakes much of Texas.
Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE
WANDERING JEW (ed Stableford) {Daedalus 91}
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.
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, ALL THE MYRIAD
WAYS {Ballantine 71}, GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FICTION
(eds Pohl et al) {Playboy 80; Wideview 81}, N-SPACE {Tor 90}, etc
W: The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange.
S: A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime
Corporation.
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <f&sf> Oct 70, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE
FICTION: 71 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 71} and THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE
{Ballantine 73}
Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}
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
90}
W: SF author Robert Heinlein did not resign from the navy.
S: Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from becoming
a writer.
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <f&sf> Jun 71, THE
FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}, ZOO 2000 (ed Yolen) {Seabury 73} 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 {Pocket 74} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds
Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan
missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster.
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 73}
W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME {Ace 56; Gregg 78}
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 65; Ace 65}; as CROSSTIME AGENT
{Gollancz 75}
Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and
Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME {Atheneum 76; Fawcett Crest xx; Tor 92}
Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never got
started.
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN {Paperback Library 67}
Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another
universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter.
Nurse, Patricia, "One Rejection Too Many", <IAsfm> Jul-Aug 78
A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to <IAsfm> gets
upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes.
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 and <WM4>
W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and N 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 80}
W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America.
S: Thirty years later, the American resistance develops the atomic bomb.
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47, TOMORROW
AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN {Gnome 51} and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
{Consul 51}
S:
Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES, in Ace Double D-69
{Ace 54}; 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.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
W: Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the
Franco-Prussian War began.
C: Thiers' diary demonstrates how he used his position to prevent French
aggressive action which would provoke a German unification.
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED {Tor 87}
W: The Ottomans invaded Russia c 1697, preventing its rise to power and
leaving it helpless before Napoleon a century later.
C: Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
Napoleon's European takeover.
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT> and VISIONS FROM THE EDGE (ed
Bell) {Pottersfield 81}
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, "Details", in <IAsfm> Apr 91
A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts.
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 50}
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.
Pignotti, Lorenzo, + John Browning (tr), THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY {Black,
Young & Young 1823}; orig STORIA DELLA TOSCANA
W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die 1492.
S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59 and THE
WORLDS OF H. BEAM PIPER {Ace 83}
W: George Washington died at Germantown.
S: TV execs discuss an AH TV series, not realizing one participant is from a
different timeline.
Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN {Ace 65; Garland 75}; as GUNPOWDER
GOD {Sphere 1978}; rev of "Gunpowder God", in Analog Nov 64 and TIME WARS
(eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}, and "Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 65 and
ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF SOLDIERS (eds Adams et al) {Signet 88}
W: Bronze Age Indo-Aryans crossed the Bering straight to colonize America.
S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a N America where priests of
Styphon exert political control through their monopoly on gunpowder.
C: Sequels are Green & Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos"
and Carr & Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker".
Piper, H. Beam, PARATIME {Ace 81}
>------------<, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, THE
GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Amis) {Hutchinson 81; Penguin 83}, <GS10>,
SPACE MAIL (eds Asimov et al), <AH>, etc
W: Burgoyne won at Saratoga, forestalling American independence and the Age
of Revolution.
S: 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) {Cleveland 56}, ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed anon.) and
THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING (ed Lewis) {Baronet 78}
>------------<, "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
(ed Campbell) {Simon & Schuster 52} 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.
Pirie-Gordon, C.H.: see Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Had Been No Welfare State?", in <WIA>
W:
C:
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?", in <WIA>
W: FDR was killed in 1933, and when Jack Garner instituted no New Deal,
Huey Long ran for president in 36 as a Populist.
C: The many ways in which presidential elections could get hung up in the
Electoral College or Congress if there were three equi-strength parties.
Pohl, Frederick, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS {Bantam 86}
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.
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62,
DAY MILLION {Ballantine 70}, 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
(eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}, etc
S: A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a
population explosion.
C: Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL.
Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49, ALTERNATING
CURRENTS {Ballantine 56} and BEYOND THE END OF TIME {Doubleday 52;
PermaBooks 52}
Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into
the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered.
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55 and ALTERNATING CURRENTS
{Ballantine 56}
Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed
Greenberg) {Tor 89} and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick)
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, Frederick, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAsfm> 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 <WIE>
W: As the title says.
C: Speculation on the success of a Humphrey-Kennedy Democrat ticket.
Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT {Avon 81}
W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg,
leading to British recognition of the CSA and Confederate independence.
S: 120 years later, both Confederacy and Underground Railroad plan to hijack
a Union nuclear artillery shell being shipped past Hampton Roads.
Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR {Atheneum 79}
W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier.
S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911.
Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR {Ballantine 69; Ballantine 75}; rev of "The
Blue Star", in WITCHES THREE {Twayne 52}
W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works.
S:
Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
-------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
-------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
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.
Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose", in Sports Illustrated [Classic]
Fall 1992
W: A sneeze by Jerry Kramer resulted in the Dallas Cowboys winning the 1967
NFL championship rather than the Green Bay Packers.
S: The decisive play of the game, plus comments on the futures of Kramer,
the Packers and the Cowboys.
Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory", in <AK>
W: The Cuban missile crisis blew up.
S: Centuries after Armageddon, legends of the two Camelots become entwined.
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 <IAsfm> 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 <IAsfm> Sep 91, BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
#33) {Tor 91}, BULLY! (Axolotl 90) and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE
PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
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 "Lady in Waiting", in <AK>
W: Marilyn Monroe did not become an actress.
S: Washington, DC, waitress Norma Jean gets picked up by the president for
a one-night stand and futilely dreams of becoming first lady.
Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch", in <IAsfm> Jul
92 and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN?
{Tor 92}
W: Alice Roosevelt did not die on 14 Feb 1884.
S: To protect his wife's fragile health, husband Teddy lives a quiet life as
a naturalist, but dreams of greater accomplishments.
Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in <IAsfm> Apr 91, <WM3> and WILL THE LAST
PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
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.
Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME {Simon & Schuster 84; Baen 84}
An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
Reynolds, Mack: see also Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds
Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO {Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 70}
Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
advance of technology.
Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <f&sf> Dec 65
S:
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 <WIE>
W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts 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 83; Tor 86}
W: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in N America.
S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol
conquest of Mexico.
Roberts, Keith, PAVANE {Doubleday 68; Ace 68; Berkley 76}
>------------<, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66, ANOTHER WORLD (ed Dozois)
{Follett 77} and THE BEST OF BRITISH SF 2 (ed Ashley) {Futura 77}
>------------<, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
A DAY IN THE LIFE (ed Dozois) {Harper & Row 72}, <AH> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF
SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE
FICTION {St. Martin's 92, 93})
>------------<, "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 and THE GRAIN KINGS
{Hutchinson 76}
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, "Weihnacht[s]abend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed
Moorcock) {Berkley 72}, THE GRAIN KINGS {Hutchinson 76}, THE PASSING OF
DRAGONS, <HV> and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Hartwell)
{Little, Brown 89}
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.
Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75, <76AW>, THE BEST FROM
GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF
THE YEAR, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Del Rey) {Dutton 76}
A "man" sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later but it isn't
the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr)
{Doubleday 84}, <YB2>, NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}, <AH>, THE
PLANET ON THE TABLE {Tor 87}, THERE WON'T BE WAR (eds Harrison & McAllister)
{Tor 91}, etc
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.
----------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91} and Author's Choice Monthly #xx
C: An essay on quantum physics and AH, with various possible outcomes of the
bombing of Hiroshima described.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAsfm> Mar 89, <WM1> and
REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91}
W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded.
S: A lunar film company remakes the DeNiro classic ESCAPE FROM TEHERAN and
discusses Great Men and Women.
Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C.
{Cassell 35; Arno 78}
W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
overthrow his uncle.
Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE {Walker 72; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 72}
Astral projection to Muslim- and Nazi-dominated Earths.
Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
VIRGINIA {Morrow 90}
In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe set out for the S Pole to
locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior.
Rucker, Rudy, & 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, "The Best and the Brightest", in <AK>
W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1964.
S: A black reporter faces a personal crisis when he is given evidence that
Kennedy ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN {Bantam 75; Gregg 77; Beacon 86}
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.
Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES {Ballantine 90}
W: The Nazis enjoyed enough success in Europe that they could invade the US.
S:
Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40
A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY {Bantam 87}
W:
S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS {Tor 83}
A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN {Ace 79; Tor 87}
Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time periods to
stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
Marshall (1803)", in <WIE>
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 {Warner/Questar 8x}
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 N America 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 91}
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 52; Ballantine 60}
A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a world
where Germany won WW2.
Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
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
& Utley) {Heidelberg 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH
ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois) {Dutton 77; Ace 78}
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.
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 77}
Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the
composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy.
Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE {Doubleday 72; Popular Library 72}; exp of
"Artery of Fire", in Original Science Fiction Stories Mar 60
S:
Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES {Baen 86}
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, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT {Baen 88}
W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens.
S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect
James VI/I from magical attacks.
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Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <f&sf> Apr 63
W: Lenin did not return to Russia from Switzerland.
S: A time traveler destroys Lenin's train, but returns to his home time to
find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington had been Captured by General Howe:
Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WIE>
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.
Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38 and SCIENCE FICTION
ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and
discover that they have changed the present.
C: 1st known story to theorize that changing the past will alter the time-
traveler's home time. However, little historical development.
Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER {Random House 86}
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 {Ace 68}
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.
Shaw, Bob, "What Time Do You Call This?", in TOMORROW LIES IN AMBUSH
{Gollancz 73; Ace 73}
Bank robber tries to use machine to travel between universes to escape after
a heist.
Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF
INFINITY {Bantam 60}
Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable
choices.
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.
Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 1st series, 12-issue
comic book series {Steeldragon 86-87}; 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 but he is
unhappy being ordered about in an apartheid-ridden country.
C: Letters to editor often more interesting than the story.
------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 2nd series, 4-issue
comic book series {Epic Comics 91-92}
S: Super-heroes from 8 N America 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 & McCarthy) {Bantam 88}
W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
S: Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the
conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam.
Shiner, Lewis: see also Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner
Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our
timeline.
Shippey, Tom: see also Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey
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.
Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IHB>
W: Kerensky did not stop Kornilov's occupation of Petrograd.
C: Kerensky decides that Kornilov's aid is the only way to alleviate civil
unrest and prevent a Bolshevik takeover.
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.
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 67; Methuen
80; Tor 84}
W: The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it
defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec N America.
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAsfm> Oct 90 and BEYOND
THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 91}
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, "Looking for the Fountain", in <IAsfm> May 92 and <WM4>
W: A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida.
S: While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of
Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem.
Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89, <WM2> and
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92}
W: Genghis Khan was abducted at age 11, and after being sold into slavery
became a prince's guard in Constantinople.
S: Modern scientists in our timeline somehow communicate with a palace guard
in old Constantinople, and one reminds him of sense of destiny.
Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land", in <WM1> and THE COLLECTED
STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92}
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: 4000 years after the failed Exodus, the few remaining Hebrews in Egypt
plan a new Exodus, to space, and recruit an historian to write their tale.
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAsfm> 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 <f&sf> 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.
Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59, TRANSFORMATION
II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74}, <WOM> and THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY
{Macmillan 76}
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 (eds Ferman & Malzberg)
{Charterhouse 74; Penguin 75}; exp in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS {Scribner's 75;
Berkley 75}, THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG VOLUME 2 {Gregg 78} and LOST
WORLDS, UNKNOWN HORIZONS {Thomas Nelson 78}
A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where
Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2.
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE {Ballantine 69}
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.
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN {Ballantine 78}
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, RING AROUND THE SUN {Musson 1953; SFBC 1953; Ace 54; World
60; Avon 67; Four Square 67; New English Library 77; Carroll & Graf 92}
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 82}
Six people from different timelines join together on a quest.
Simak, Clifford, WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS {Ballantine 82}
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 88}
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.
Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67; BEST SF: 1967 (eds
Harrison & Aldiss) {Berkley 68} and THE STEAM-DRIVEN BUS {Panther 73} (incl.
in THE BEST OF JOHN SLADEK {Pocket 81})
An inventor from the US of Columbia in 1878 sets out for 1937, where he
encounters a man who can change history with the stroke of a pen.
Smith, George Henry, "Take Me to Your Leader", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds
Asimov et al) {Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
W: The South won the Civil War.
S: A scientist from another Earth warns of Russian attack, but the narrator
lives in a world where Jeff Davis VI is hereditary president of the CSA.
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 86; Tor 89}
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, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH {Ballantine 80}
W: The Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and the US Constitution was revoked.
S: In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder crosses
timelines and finds himself in a Libertarian utopia.
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime
machine.
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR {Ballantine 83}
In 1993, ...
--------------, THE VENUS BELT {Ballantine 81}
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 85}
In 2119, ...
--------------, BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR {Avon 88}
S:
--------------, TAFLAK LYSANDRA {Avon 88}
S:
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 70; Leisure 81}
W: N American 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 89}
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., WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE {Bantam 92}
C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
{Macmillan 73}
W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion collapsed.
S: Dual history text of the Confederation of N America and the US of Mexico,
from 1775 to 1971.
C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?"
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Ballantine 83}; rev
of stories in <IAsfm> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82 and Amazing Jan 83 and May 83
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE {Ballantine 88}
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX {Ballantine 89}
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 Summer 77 and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK
SEA {Donning 83}
W:
S: Aztecs depopulate 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.
Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain", in <AK>
W: Instead of a lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy received an experimental
operation that turned her into a genius.
S: Rosemary discusses her plans for her future with her godfather.
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 72; Gregg 77; Jove/HBJ 78; Pocket 82;
Bantam 86}
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 80}
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 London Mercury Jan
31, <IHO,ABC> and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33; Books for Libraries 71}
W: As the title says.
S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33;
Books for Libraries 71}
W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
S:
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 91}; exp of "The Man
who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <f&sf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
control.
S: 1200 years later, a human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of
immortality.
Stafford, Terry: see Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford
Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed Bulmer) {Sidgwick
& Jackson 75; Corgi 76}
With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai
invasion, then industrializes.
Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING {Oswald Train 79}
An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world
where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination.
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 70; Berkley 71}
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.
Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD {Ballantine 86}
A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where
magic works and northern Europe and most of Britain are covered with ice.
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAsfm> 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 <IAsfm> 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.
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS {Futura 79; rev Dell 80}
Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's
dealing with the Danes.
Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in Omni Sep 85,
MIRRORSHADES {Arbor House 86; Ace 88} and THE SEVENTH OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Datlow)
Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another timeline
hungry for oil, but resistance forms.
Sterling, Bruce: see also Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling
Stervermer, Caroline: see Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA {Baen 88}
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 89}
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 90}
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 info in appendices.
Stone, Vince: see Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see Somtow, S.P.
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds Aronica
et al) {Doubleday 89}, <YB7> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed
Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION {St. Martin's
92, 93})
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 Concert", <IAsfm> Sep 92
W: Rock & roll got started decades earlier, and had the power to shape
history.
S: An American attends the final performance of Lenin, "The Boss", hearing
such standards as "The Workers Control the Means of Production".
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 85}; exp of "Mummer Kiss", in UNIVERSE
11 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 81}, and "Marrow Death", in <IAsfm> Dec 84
W: Three Mile Island melted down, irradiating eastern Pennsylvania.
S: Life in Philadelphia and the adjacent Drift, 100 years later, and the
conflict for power.
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
converted to Islam.
S: Describes the event, but no follow through.
Tarr, Judith, "Them Old Hyannis Blues", in <AK>
W: The Kennedy brothers went into music.
S: After switching from big band music to rock 'n roll, the Kennedys play at
President Presley's inaugural ball, and foil an assassination attempt.
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in SHOT IN THE DARK (ed Merrill) {Bantam
50}, VOYAGERS IN TIME (ed Silverberg) {Meredith 67}, THE WOODEN STAR
{Ballantine 68}, THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79},
<GS10>, etc
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.
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
Martin's 90}
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 74}
W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, with the Stuart restoration in
Virginia following Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for an
invention, yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich.
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
W: The Earl of Sherburne was placed in charge of peace negotiations with
France after the 7 Year War, and then became Treasury Minister.
C: The earl contemplates returning Canada to the French and avoiding taxes
on the 13 colonies, actions which would prevent the American Revolution.
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 THURBER CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 45; Harper 53}, <f&sf> Feb 52,
VINTAGE THURBER {Hamish Hamilton 63}, etc
W: As the title says.
S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <f&sf> Oct/Nov 91 and <YB9>
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.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western
Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
W: The Synod of Whitby (664) adopted the teachings of Colman, and Charles
Martel lost at Tours.
C: How European Christianity would have divided between the Celts of the
North and the Roman-Orthodox of the South and East, with France Muslim.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian
Civilization", A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
W: The Vikings captured Constantinople in 860, established stronger colonies
in N America, harassed the Muslims in the Caspian, etc.
C: How more aggressive expansion would have resulted in Viking control of N
America, Europe and northern Asia by 1400.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern
Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
W: The Umayyads did not press on after their defeat at the Kish-Samarkand
pass in 731.
C: How Nestorian Christianity could have spread into Asia, later leading to
Moslem destruction at the hands of Christianized Seljuks and Mongols.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Alexander the Great had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS
IN GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
W: Alexander of Macedon listened to his physicians' advice in 323 BC, and
later returned to the Mediterranean.
S: How Alexander made the Pheonicians his Navy, conquered Carthage, allied
with Rome, conquered India and Ch'in and finally died in 287 BC.
C: Synopsis in Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS IN
GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
W: Artaxerxes III Ochus did not die in 338 BC and Philip II of Macedon did
not die in 336 BC.
S: Surviving an assassination attempt, Philip ends up killing son Alexander,
conquers Rome and pushes Ochus' Persia back to the Euphrates.
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 13; Longmans, Green 30; Books
for Libraries 68} 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 Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?"
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 72} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 81; Ballantine
82}
W: Ambassador Hurley relayed Mao and Chou En-lai's request for a meeting
with FDR in 1945.
C: Primarily a discussion of why it made no difference, but a few brief
comments on how it might have averted the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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 <IAsfm> Jan 89 and <WM2>
W: Mohammad became a Christian. The 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 87; Worldwide 88}
>---------------<, "The Eyes of Argos" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing
Jan 86
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 <IAsfm>
Aug 86
S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing Jul
85
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 <IAsfm> Mar 87
S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAsfm> Apr 87
and HIGH ADVENTURE (eds Manson & Ardai)
S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAsfm> 15 Dec 89
S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 88}
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 {Ballantine 90} and TERRY
CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed Carr) {Tor 87}
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, "Down in the Bottomlands", in Analog Jan 93
W: The Mediterranean basin never opened to the ocean.
S: In modern days, a murder during a tour of the Bottomlands Trench reveals
a plot to destroy the "Gibraltar" mountains with a nuclear weapon.
Turtledove, Harry, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR
{Ballantine 92}; excerpt publ. as "The Long Drum Roll", in <FCW>
W: The Confederacy obtained advanced weaponry just before the Wilderness.
S: Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s, etc, leading to
Confederate victory in the Civil War, but strings are attached to the gift.
Turtledove, Harry, "Hindsight", Analog mid-Dec 84 and KALEIDOSCOPE
{Ballantine 90}
A woman from 1988 goes back 40 years and sells SF stories written in between
plus accounts of famous events, such as "Neutron Star" and "Watergate".
Turtledove, Harry, IN THE BALANCE {not yet published}
W: Space aliens arrived on Earth in 1942.
S:
Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAsfm> 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 88
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 <f&sf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and THE
FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen 90}
W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
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.
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, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life",
in UNIVERSE 10 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 80} and <WM4>
W: Columbus' proposed voyage was subject to an environmental impact study.
S: The text of the report, suggesting that Columbus be turned down.
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 90}
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 <f&sf> 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, Steven, & Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed
Carr) {Doubleday 76; Popular Library 77}; THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE
YEAR #6 (ed Carr) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 77}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z (eds
Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin 82}; <AH>; etc
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 Arnam, Dave: see White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam
van den Daele, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, &
Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
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 78}
W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, but was found in the 1970s.
S: An internat'l tribunal considers his fate.
Vanauken, Sheldon, "The World After the South Won", in Southern Partisan
Spring 84
W: Britain recognized the Confederacy in Dec 1862, and her contribution of
troops tipped the scales at Gettysburg.
S: The story of the intervention, and some of the later effects of the
British-Confederate alliance.
Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part", in <AK>
W: Marilyn Monroe was caught sneaking out of the White House in the middle
of a 1962 night.
S: After her suicide, Monroe's ghost haunts JFK, urging him to find a way
to be with her.
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 Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?"
Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded", in Century Magazine Jun 26
W: Lincoln withdrew Major Anderson et al from Fort Sumter.
S: In 1926, an Englishman discusses society, literature and politics with
three Northerners variously happy and unhappy with the events of 1861.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation", in Omni Jun 92
W: On the brink of defeat, Nazi Germany employed nuclear-tipped rockets to
win WW2.
S: 15 years later, a Nazi secret policeman attends "The Three Stooges Space
Opera" at a Zurich cafe run by the widow of Berthold Brecht.
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
and <IAsfm> 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 & LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90} and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
{Ursus/Ziesing 90}
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 90}
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, THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF
SCIENCE FICTION (ed Datlow) {Zebra 83}, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday 86} and
STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 90}
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 87}, <87AW>, STRANGE THINGS IN
CLOSE-UP {Legend 89} and STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ace 91}
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, THEM BONES {Ace 84; Ziesing 89}
Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right
time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa.
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
{Doubleday 86} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 89}
W: Phlogiston exists.
S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
apocalyptic results.
Waldrop, Howard: see also Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop
Wall, John W.: see Sarban
Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY {Carroll & Graf 89, 91}
Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead
describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
{Ballantine 92}
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 <IAsfm> Jan 92 and CROSSTIME
TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates,
and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP> and
CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
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.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in <IAsfm>
xxx xx; THE NEW HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed Asimov) and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
{Ballantine 92}
--------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in <IAsfm> Aug
91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
S: A West Virginia diner caters to late-night customers from parallel
Earths.
C: Except for short comments on possibilities, neither story is particularly
AH.
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 76}
W:
S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
W: Marco Polo discovered America.
S: An English merchant and wives in Chinese America is mysteriously
transported crosstime to the Lone Star State, where he meets a traffic cop.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 05; Univ Nebraska 67}; incl. in
WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 25}
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: The American Revolution never occurred.
S: Musings on life in idyllic, non-nationalist N America, but without any
detail.
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME {Avalon 63}
Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER: A NOVEL {Little Brown 71}; as
DOWNFALL {Bantam 72}
W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 91}
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, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN {Belmont 67}
S:
White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 68}
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 <WIE>
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: A NOVEL {Heinemann 80; Viking 81; Magnum 82}
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.
C: Basis for the non-AH movie KING RALPH.
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
(1963)", in <WIE>
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 <IAsfm> Nov 89, <WM2> and
FACETS {Tor 90}
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.
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME {Bluejay 85}
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.
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES {Doubleday 89}
S:
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
W: Dubcek retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
Wodhams, Jack, "Try Again", in Amazing Nov 68
W: Germany pursued a more rational course in WW2, avoiding the invasion of
Russia til 44 and tipping the US off to Japanese plans in the Pacific.
S: A man gets the chance to relive his life, and the Nazis hear about the
amazing boy with prophetic powers. Detailed history of a different WW2.
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
Invasion", in Analog May 73, THE BEST OF ANALOG (ed Bova) {Baronet 78; Ace
xx} and GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS {Doubleday 81}; incl in CASTLE OF DAYS
{Tor 92}
W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
the 1930s and 40s. Also, Churchill returned to journalism after WW1.
S: A retired US Army officer from Abilene KS invents a game called World
War, and participates in a race between German and British compact cars.
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE: A NOVEL {Tor 90}
W: Lincoln was murdered in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration, and
Teddy Roosevelt freed the slaves in 1907. Later, Zangara killed FDR.
S: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in 1939
New York of a different past.
------------, ELVISSEY {Tor 93}
S: In a future with religions based on Elvis Presley, two people plan a trip
to an alternate past and bring back Elvis.
C: Non-AH entries in series are AMBIENT and HEATHERN.
Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA {Ace 89}
W: Magic works, in Regency London.
S:
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
<IHB>
W: Franklin returned to America in 1775 with evidence of a softening British
attitude towards dealings with the colonies.
C: Franklin contemplates the troubles, and then describes the appointment of
Washington as governor of Vandalia (Ohio) and other compromises.
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS {M. Joseph 61;
Penguin 65}, THE INFINITE MOMENT {Ballantine 61}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY
(ed Sullivan) {Prentice-Hall 74}, etc
W: The League of Nations prevented WW2.
S: A man searches for the analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a
parallel world.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
RENAISSANCE {Pocket 80}
W: The Medicis brought together Italia Federata in 1515.
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 91}
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 82}
W:
S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
south.
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING: A NOVEL {St. Martin's/Marek 84; Tor 85}
W: Hitler died in 1913 while still a starving artist.
S: A woman is mystified by a strange book entitled the TIME-LIFE HISTORY OF
WW2 and by her grandmother's murder of an obscure Viennese artist.
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75, <BT> and THE
MONADIC UNIVERSE {Ace 77}
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 92 and <WM4>
Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by the
techonologically sophisticated descendants of refugees from Carthage.
Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations", in LIGHT YEARS AND DARK (ed
Bishop) {Berkley 84} and NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}
W: WW2 ended with Japan surrendering after the Allies dropped nuclear
weapons on Germany in 1946.
S: Adolf Eichmann, captured by the Israelis in 1961, is executed 6e6 times.
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in Amazing Mar 90 and <WM2>
W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS {Bantam 91}; 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.
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75, THE BEST
FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76}, THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT
{Pocket 80; Underwood/Miller 81; Avon 88}, etc
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 79}
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 77; Pan 78}
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
68; Doubleday 68}
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 Fate Changer: Human Destiny and the Time Machine", in
THE CREATION OF TOMORROW {Columbia Univ 77}
Includes short discussion of some Change the Past stories (e.g. Moore's
BRING THE JUBILEE and Ryan's "The Mosaic").
---------------, "The Phantom Dictator: Science Fiction Discovers Hitler", in
THE CREATION OF TOMORROW {Columbia Univ 77}
Includes short discussion of some WW2-related AH stories (e.g. Dick's THE
MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE and Mullally's HITLER HAS WON).
Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in <AH>
Discussion of what AH is and isn't.
Demandt, Alexander, + Colin. D. Thompson (tr), HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A
TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF--? {McFarland 93};
orig UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS WARE
GESCHEHEN, WENN--?
Commentary on various possibilities, plus a synopsis of Toynbee's "If
Alexander the Great had Lived On".
Fadness, Fern Bryant, "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?", in THE
PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
Synopsis of Waldman's "If Booth had Missed Lincoln".
--------------------, "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?", in THE
PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
Synopsis of Trevelyan's "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo".
--------------------, "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?",
in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam
78}
Synopsis of Sobel's FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA.
--------------------, "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?", in THE
PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
Synopsis of Kantor's IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR.
Hacker, Barton C., & 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 76; Harper & Row 76}
On writing AH and the reasoning behind A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH!
McHale, Brian, POSTMODERNIST FICTION {Methuen 87}
Includes 3-page discussion of "apocryphal history" and 2 pages on related
"creative anachronisms".
Pierce, John J., "On the Edge", in GREAT THEMES OF SCIENCE FICTION: A STUDY
IN IMAGINATION AND EVOLUTION {Greenwood 87}
Subchapter "The Possibility Binders" discusses time travel, parallel worlds
and AH stories, including some French and Japanese tales.
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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
Version 13 - 12 Jan 1993
APPENDIX - NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
This appendix lists Alternate Histories published in languages other than
English. The bulk of this data is taken from the Hacker & Chamberlain
bibliography (described above) but some was also provided by Andreas Morlok.
Each entry contains an "E:" or "ELE:" line. The former indicates a translation
of the story's title; the latter is the title of an English-language edition of
the entry, details about which may be found in the main list.
In Czech:
Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU {Borovy 45}
ELE: "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
In Dutch:
Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ {De
Bezige Bij 72}
E: YESTERDAY'S FUTURE: OUTLINE OF A WORK
W: Hitler was assassinated in 1944.
S: Discussion of a possible novel about the assassination, the SS
countercoup and German victory in WW2.
In Esperanto:
Capek, Karel, + Josef Vondrousek (tr), title unknown, in LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ
{Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 70}; orig "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
ELE: "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"
S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
In French:
Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST
ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU {Denoel 84}
E: "The Anniversary of the Thousand-Year Reich"
W:
S: Nazi power lasts *exactly* 1000 years.
Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur
Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN
SU {Denoel 84}
E: "What Was He Doing, Young Dr. Frankenstein, in May 1981 and May 1968?"
W: Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s.
S: A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and
Vian to see how they would have affected later French history.
Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? {Gallimard 54}
E: MUST JOAN BURN?
W: Joan of Arc was rescued.
S: God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment.
Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO {Andre Sabatier 37; Plon 64; Rombaldi 76,
2-231-00191-8}
E: VICTORY AT WATERLOO
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates.
Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? {Le Monde 80}; serial in Le Monde Jun-Sep 80
E: HAVE YOU SEEN MONTEZUMA?
S:
Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 {Fleuve
Noir 84}
E: CARTHAGE WILL BE DESTROYED: TIME INVESTIGATOR SETNI, 2
W: Hannibal captured Rome.
S: A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a
Carthaginian colony in Quebec.
Barbet, Pierre, L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET {Fleuve Noir 72}
ELE: BAPHOMET'S METEOR
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.
--------------, CROISADE STELLAIRE {Fleuve Noir 74}
ELE: STELLAR CRUSADE
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
Barbet, Pierre, LIANE DE NOLDAZ {Fleuve Noir 73}
ELE: THE JOAN-OF-ARC REPLAY
S:
Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES {Libraire Francais 70}
E: IF NAPOLEON HAD TAKEN LONDON
S:
Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE {G
Bailliere 1872}
E: ETERNITY THROUGH THE STARS: AN ASTRONOMICAL HYPOTHESIS
S:
Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed Sadoul)
{J'ai Lu 76}
E: "Children of Ibn Khaldun"
W: The Arabs won at Tours.
S: Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the
north.
Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION {Opta 84}
E: "Summer"
S:
Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE
POLITIQUE {Pauvert 68}
E: IF MAY HAD SUCCEEDED: A POLITICAL PLEASANTRY
W: The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a
conservative backlash.
S:
Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE {vol 1, Gallimard 38; vol 2-4 Editions du
Dialogue 41-44; complete Gallimard 49}
E: LIFE'S CONJUNCTIONS
W: The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution.
S: A detailed history text.
Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier
Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT {Gallimard 61}
E: PONTIUS PILATE: A STORY
W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
S: Christianity is aborted.
Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN {Lattes 80}
E: THE APPEAL OF JUNE 17: A NOVEL
S:
Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE {xxx 1791}
E: MY REPUBLIC
C: A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate
French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI.
d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE {Gallimard 71}
ELE: THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE
S:
Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF {Calmann-Levy 80}
E: THE EGG PRINCIPLE
S:
Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE {xxx 56}
E: UNHAPPY ULYSSES
W: Louis XVI escaped arrest.
S: In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX.
Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP {Denoel 71, 81}
W: Constantine suppressed Christianity.
S: Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world.
Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL {Nouvelle-Optique 79}
E: A HAITIAN AMBASSADOR AT MONTREAL
W: Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970.
S: Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois
separatists.
Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-
1823: HISTOIRE DE LAN MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE {Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851;
Tallandier 83}; as NAPOLEON APOCRYPHYE {Paulin 1841; Librairie Illustree
1896}
E: NAPOLEON AND THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD, 1812-1823: HISTORY OF THE
UNIVERSAL MONARCHY or THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON
W: Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in
Moscow.
S: Napoleon keeps on going.
C: Believed to be the first AH written in novel length.
Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE {Belfond 84}
E: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FRANCE
S:
Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE {Plon 49}
E: FIGUREHEADS
S:
Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS
{Le Jour 66}
E: "Lepic and hypothetical history"
W: Montcalm beat Wolfe at the battle of Montreal.
S: 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation.
Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne
Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE
{Tallandier 29}
E: IF, ON 27 JULY 1794...: AN HISTORICAL HYPOTHESIS
W: Robespierre escaped the guillotine.
S:
Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen
age", in Imagine Autumn 82
E: "The Chansons de Geste: the Temptation of Allohistory in the Middle Ages"
C:
Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE
BEAUCHENE {Ganeau 1732; Dufour & Roux 1780}
E: THE ADVENTURES OF M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, AKA DE BEAUCHENE
W: AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa.
C: Borderline AH, but a very early publication.
Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE {Fleuve Noir 84}
E: HISTORY SIDETRACKED
W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
S: WW3 in 1989 against Japan.
Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in France Observateur 28
Dec 61
E: "The Comrade-God: a Christmas Story"
W: Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961.
S: Reactions from elsewhere.
Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES
E: TRAVELER THROUGH THE CENTURIES
S:
Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE {Presses de la Renaissance
83}
E: THE TRUE HISTORY OF FRANCE
S:
Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE {Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876; Alcan
01}
E: UCHRONIA or ALLOHISTORY
W: Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress
the Christians and avert the Dark Ages.
S:
C: Reputedly the origin of the word "uchronie".
Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS {Fleuve Noir 51}
E: CRUISE IN TIME
W: Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610.
S: France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and
civilization collapses in the 20th century.
Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in Litterature Mar 21 and PAPIERS
POSTHUMES {Sans Pareil 34}
E: "A Brilliant Subject"
S: A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc.
Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU {Editions de la Tour du Guet
50}
E: IF GERMANY HAD WON
W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
S: A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost.
Schuiten, Francois, & Benoit Peeters, LES MURAILLES DE SAMARIS {Casterman 83}
E: THE WALLS OF SAMARIS
S:
Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS {Nouvelle France 45; La Renaissance du Livre
62; Jacques Antoine 86}
E: REPULSE IN TIME
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: Time travelers reverse the event.
Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE {Champs-Elysee 76}
W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
S: Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe.
Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE
S:
Reference Materials:
Angenot, Marc, Farko Suvin, & Jean-Marc Gouanvic, "L'uchronie, histoire
alternative et science-fiction", in Imagine Autumn 82
E: "Allohistory, alternative history and science fiction"
C:
Boireau, Jacques, "La machine a ralentir le temps"
E: "The time-slowdown machine"
C: Contrasts utopian French AHs with distopian American AHs.
Brie, Marc-Andre, "Quelques reperes pour une bibliographie de l'uchronie"
E: "Some Benchmarks for a Bibliography of Allohistory"
C: A bibliography of AH.
Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Pourquoi un 'Special Uchronie'", in Imagine Autumn 82
E: Why an "Allohistory Special"
C: Discussion of AH in conjunction with a special issue of Imagine.
Herp, Jacques van, "Dans les corridors de l'espace-temps", in PANORAMA DE LA
SCIENCE-FICTION {Gerard 73; Marabout 75}
E: "In the Halls of Space-Time"
C: Includes discussion of AH.
Leccia, Pierre, "Uchronie: l'histoire detournee", in POLITIQUE/FICTION (ed
Riche)
E: "Allohistory: History Sidetracked"
C: Brief discussion and bibliography of AH.
In German:
"Das Wort "Wenn" ist das deutscheste aller deutschen Worter."
<<The word "if" is the most German of all German words.>>
--'Friedrich Hebbel', in
Alexander Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE
Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK {Nymphenburger 79; Heyne 83}
E: AT THE LIGHTS OF THE LEYERMARK or BY LEYERMARK CAMPFIRES
W: Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used
to subjugate Prussia.
S: Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important
European player.
Amery, Carl, DAS KONIGSPROJEKT {Piper 74; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 78;
Heyne 84}
E: THE KING-PROJECT or PROJECT ROYALTY
S: The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a
Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation.
Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE {Molden 66}
ELE: TWILIGHT MAN
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in Tempo Jun 92
E: "And if he didn't die..."
W: Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982.
S: He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring
Robert DeNiro.
Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA {A. Kraft 60}
E: IMPERIAL SAGA: AN AUSTRIAN UTOPIA
W: Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan.
S: Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above.
Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in
der Wissenschaft", in Zeitschrift fur Soziolofie 1
ELE: "Alternatives in Science"
C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
the beginning of the scientific revolution.
Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von
Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG {Nymphenburger 81; Heyne 85}
ELE: THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
success in WW2.
S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
trouble vs. people from other timelines.
Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT {Terra 61}
E: MAN BETWEEN TIME
S: Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with
dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation.
Mahr, Kurt, 2 * PROFESSOR MANSTEIN {Terra 61}
S: A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien
invasion.
Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl
Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 {Heyne 80}
W: The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and
technology, but become divided.
S: People from our world encounter a fight between Arabic nations fighting
for control of powerlines from hydroelectric power plants in Europe.
Tucholsky, Kurt, "Was ware, wenn...?", in GESAMMELTE WERKE (ed Gerold-
Tucholsky & Raddatz) {Rowohlt 60-62}
E: "What if...?"
C: Series of political commentaries on use of AH for political satire.
van den Daele: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT {Ullstein 84}; exp of "Die stimmen
der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed Gorden) {Bastei-Lubbe 83}
E: VOICES OF THE NIGHT
W: FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to
force a German surrender.
S: Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a
nuclear war in 1984.
Reference Materials:
Demandt, Alexander, UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS
WARE GESCHEHEN, WENN--? {Vandenheock & Ruprecht 84, 86}
ELE: HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD
HAVE HAPPENED IF--?
C: Commentary on various possibilities, plus a synopsis of Toynbee's "If
Alexander the Great had Lived On".
In Greek:
Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
ELE: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
W: Jesus fled his doom.
S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
In Italian:
Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICCHINGA {Frasinelli 84}
E: VIKING AMERICA
S:
Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI {Frasinelli 84}
E: 1938: THE DESTRUCTION OF PARIS
W: Petain led a successful French coup in 1934.
S:
Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO {xxx 27}
E: THE UNDERSEA TUNNEL
W: A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s.
S:
Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA {Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821}
ELE: THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492.
S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
In Japanese:
Hanmura Ryo, SENGOKU JIEITAI {Hayakawa Shobo 71}
E: THE WARRING STATES SELF DEFENSE FORCE
S:
C: Basis of the Kadokawa movie TIME SLIP.
Hirose Tadashi, EROSU {Hayakawa Shobu 71}
E: EROS
S:
Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in SF Magajin xxx 61
E: "Peace on Earth"
W: The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2.
S:
Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU {Hayakawa Shobu 75}
E: HEADQUARTERS OF THE FAR EAST
W: Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War.
S:
Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
E: AFTERGLOW OF THE MONGOLS
W: The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century.
S: Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time
machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance.
Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
E: THE TIME SLIP WAR
S:
In Latin:
Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA
ELE: AB URBE CONDITA
W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work suggests that the Romans
would have beaten him.
C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
BC-14 AD).
In Polish:
Lem, Stanislaw, title unkown, in DZIENNIKI GWIAZDOWE
ELE: "The Eighteenth Voyage"
S: Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA
E: A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP
S:
Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII {Instytut
Wydawniczy Pax 79}
E: STRANGE EVEN AMONG THE MIGHTY
S:
Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY {xxx 70}
E: THE MUSE OF DISTANT JOURNEYS
W: The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising.
S:
Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTASTYCZYNA W
TRSECH CZESCIACH {Pax 76}
E: I SHALL LEAVE DEFENSELESS
W: Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383.
S:
Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY {xxx 43}
E: THE SILVER EAGLES
W: A Polish state was created in the 10th century.
S:
In Portugese:
Gibson, William, + Eduardo Salo (tr), title unknown, in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO
{Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}; orig "The Gernsback Continuum"
A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, + Eduardo Salo (tr), title unknown, in
REFLEXOS DO FUTURO {Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}; orig "Mozart in
Mirrorshades"
Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another timeline
hungry for oil, but resistance forms.
In Russian:
Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM {Ardis 81}
ELE: THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
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.
In Spanish:
Borges, Jorge Luis, "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"
E: "The Garden of Forking Paths"
S:
Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA
(ed Goligorsky) {Flor 68}
E: "Napoleon's Victory"
S: Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but
they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe, etc.
Lindo, Hugo, "Espejos paralelos"
E: "Parallel Mirrors"
S:
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Robert B. Schmunk <schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu>
SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA
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[He] turned back to the window and the opaque Houston sky. "You know, there
isn't anything wrong with this town that a couple of really good hurricanes
couldn't fix." --Peter Gent, THE FRANCHISE