Often described as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history is a genre of fiction wherein the author speculates upon how the course of … See more

1983 is set on a world where the Iron Curtain never fell and the Cold War continues until the present (2003).
An Englishman's Castle tells the story of the writer of a soap … See more

In Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and Galician, the words uchronie, ucronia, and ucronía are native versions of alternate history, from which comes the English loanword uchronia. The English term uchronia is a neologism that is sometimes used in … See more

• Chapman, Edgar L., and Carl B. Yoke (eds.). Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction. Mellen, 2003.
• Collins, … See more

Antiquity and medieval
The earliest example of alternate (or counterfactual) history is found in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri (book IX, sections 17–19). Livy … See more

Fans of alternate history have made use of the internet from a very early point to showcase their own works and provide useful tools for … See more

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